Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-04-10


of the nitrogen. phosphates. potash and
lime which this amount Of hay con
tanS.
There is no advantage whatever in
the farmers wife making butter when
there is Il creamery within reach. and
this is particularly true when the
home dairy butter has to sell for a
couple Of cents a pound below that
received for the creamery product.
Not long ago in Sutiield. Conn. the
cause Of an epidemic of diphtheria was
traced to used pencils that We're dis
tributed among the pupils daily and
gathered UP each evening. The habit
of putting the pencils in the mouth
furnished ample opportunity for the
spread of the diphtheria germs.
The New York legislature has lately
set aside $4,000 for the establishment
of II horseshoeing department in con
nectiOn with the school Of agriculture
at Cornell university. A graduate Of
the horseshOeing school has been Sc:
cured to take charge of the new de.
partment. The new course ought to
fill a definite and practical want
The Alabama experiment station re-
ports that 175 degrees is the best TEN
perature ut which to scald hogs
Lower than this Is too good. and water
that is hotter tends to set the hair
1t was also found that zero weathe,
was not necessary at killing time. pro-
vided the meat was allowed to cool
thoroughly before being put up.
In all the territory where hog chOl-
era or other swine plaques have ragged
the past season and III many instances
wiped out whole herds brood SOW
will be sort Of gold mine next spring.
It will pay to take mighty good care
Of these sows, both for their own sakes
and for the sakes Of the little ones
which will he putting in an appearance
before a great while.
OF interest to those homesteaders
who may be thinking of homesteading
In the dry farming areas Of the west
and southwest may be mentioned the
fact that as Il result Of surveys and IN
vestigatiOns which have been made by
the department Of agriculture 1875,
600 acres have been classified as non
irrigable. This means that If these
acres produce any more profitable crop
than sagebrush, soap weed and prairie
dogs it will have to be without the aid
Of ditch water.
"SkQokum' is not a particularly
smooth sounding title, but it will new
ertheless be used as the official inter-
community label for the highest grade
Of fruit to be hereafter packed by the
fruit growers associations in the
Rogue and Hood river valleys at Mo-
sier, Ore. and Yakima and Pehastin,
Wash. Under this cooperative method
Of marketing and advertising only
eight standard varieties will be packed,
while only those apples will be allowed
to bear the label that are produced In
the "skookum" way.
There seems to he quite difference
Of opinion among farmers in the mat
ter of allowing hunters to range over
their land. Many warn them of be-
cause hunters. and especially those Of a
youthful type. are likely to be careless.
Now and then farmer takes the posi-
ton of the one who reported to the
writer the other day that he had never
warned hunters of his land. In fact,
he liked to have them hunt on it. for
more than once they had reported to
him cases of animals in distress and
had thus saved him from loss.
The hOrticultur1sts around Berea. O.,
have had their eyes opened as the re-
suit Of the performance last season Of
a forty year-old orchard that in tn