Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 28, 1897, Page 7

Horticulture, vulture. ARM AND GARDEN. WATTERS OF INTEREST TO y AGRICULTURISTS. * Some Up-to-Date Hints About Cultiva- tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof— Viticulture and Flori- ‘ Grass Question in South Dakota. se om | HE natural advan- 5 tages of the state YG of South Dakota as a stock country have long been re- cognized. Our range beef and mutton is regarded as second to none in its class. Our wool has earned an enviable reputation in all of the wool centers of America. And last in or- der of development, but by no means least in importance, our dairy products have established a name for themselves among the very best on this continent. All of these achieve- ments have been won almost entirely out the aid of cultivated grains and grasses, Our native prairie grasses have, in nearly all cases. been the prin- cipal, and in many instances, the only food of our stock, In some parts of our state the system which has produced such satisfactory results in the past can be continued for a considerable time to come, with but slight modifications, while in other por- tions, particularly in the older and more thickly sectled districts, condi- so changed, and are still a very different system ually be instituted. In these localities our native grasses, which have been the basis of nearly all of our success in the past, are fast disap- pearing and being replaced by inferior introduced grasses and worthless weeds, The causes which have brought about this undesirable, but inevitable result are not hard to discover. Over- stocking and tramping, which seem al- most unavoida during some portions of the season, if enough stock be kept to utilize the feed during flush times, is one of the most potent, and also the most diffeult, to avoid. For if only such ar amount of stock is kept during flush feed as can subsist upon the pas- ture, without overstocking during the 2 season, the grass will meke such a rank growth during the spring and carly summer that stock wil! not eat 11 during the dry per‘ods. Another, only s'ightly less potent, but more universa! factor, and one still less amenable to any known methods of prevention, is the gradual migration of hardy, woilhjess, weedy grasses and plants from tke older to the newer set- tled portions of the country. It is true that e of our farmers claim that pur ive grasses are so much sup? gior to the cultivated grasses of the © os that we can successfully compete w eastern dairymen without the aid of forage, roots or silage. And these claims are not without foundation. It s a well known fact that our native grasses cure upon the ground as soon as the dry weather of August and Sep- \ tember set in, and before they have been injured by frosts; and that a fine quality of well cured hay, superior to the average meadow hay of eastern states, can be cut upon our prairies at any time after August before the ground is covered with snow. As it frequently happens that we do nut have enough snow at any one time during the winter to prevent stock from grazing, it ought not to be diffi- cult to understand why we can truth- fully say that “our stock can range the year round and we car cut hay upon our prairies from August until March.” There are, however, some years, andl especially this year, when this state- ment cannot be substantiated. While it is unquestionably true that we have the edvantage of our eastern competi tors in the quality of our native grasse: wt is also true that they have the ad vantage of us in the length of tim during which stock can obtain succu lent food. Such being the case, it seems that it is even more important that we should supply forage, roots and si. lage for the late summer, fall and win- ter feeding, than it is for the eastern dairyman or stockman to make a sim- ilar provision.—E. C. Chilcott, must ev dry parts of # Model Strawberry Bed, The last week in November, 1896, 1 planted what I call a “model” straw- berry bed, writes F. W. Corliss in Strawberry Culturist. The ground was carefully plowed in October, turning in two loads of well rotted stable manure, then left to remain a month; then har- rowed down smooth, when two more loads of well pulverized manure were carefully scattered over it and well plowed in. I then harrowed it down smooth and firm and marked off my rows for planting four feet apart. In- stead of cutting a trench with my plow I threw two furrows together, forming a ridge sixteen inches wide. I raked these ridges with a steel garden rake until they were as fine and mellow as ashes. Then taking a garden hoe I cut a ail three inches deep in the center of eweh ridge and filled nearly full witb pu’ zed manure and wood ashes. Then scattering a little fine mold over this, forming a center ridge, which 1 converted into little cones with naked hands, making a perfect bed for the roots of the plants. My rows were four « feet apart and I set my plants twetve inches apart in the row. This spring I plowed small furrows to the rows, thus giving each row a bed thirty inches wide, And today (July 1st) these thirty inch beds are nearly covered with new and nicely growing plants. As fast as they reach the proper limit (24 inches) J cut the runners back with a sharp hoe. “It could not be any prettier,” remarked a gentleman while looking at it this week. And he knew wherefore he spoke, having been born and reared on the Eastern Shore, one of the finest #rencking belts on earth. The size of my bed, from the center of the furrow ; (they call them water furrows here) is 140 feet by 20 feet, and the bed proper is 16 feet by 136 feet. Does Germless Fruit Mature ? At a meeting of the California Hor. ticultural Society, held in Sacramento on the 8th of May, the question of frost damage to fruit was discussed at con- siderable length. Several. leading growers persistently held that young peaches, which had been subject to the action of frost, sufficiently hard to turpD the pit black, would fail to mature and would fall from the trees. One grower present reported that his peaches were showing a black pit, but that they were not dropping, and continued to grow. A prominent grower, whose peaches had been subject to the action of frost, took much interest in the discussion, and concluded to watch his peaches closely, with a view of testing the different opinions held by the growers. On cutting them he noticed the pits were black, but they did not drop from the trees, but continued to grow, and finally fully matured. Upon examination the pit was found to be perfect, so far as appearance was Con- cerned, being hard and firm. Upor cracking it, the germ within was found to be shriveled and dried up, until no! thicker than a heavy piece of paper In fact, the covering or skin of the germ contained nothing within it, the substance and the vitality both hav- ing departed. This opens up a wide field for speculation. Were there spe- cial soil or climatic conditions existing, where these peaches were grown? Would they have dropped, under other conditions, either of soil or climate? Will peaches in which the germ is de- stroyed ordinarily develop into large, choice fruit, as did the Visalia fruit? The precesses of nature are very mys- terious, but few of them are entirely past finding out, and we look for fur- ther discussion on this subject. About Growing Corn. A speaker at a famous institute said In raising a crop of corn, it is, as @ rule, economical to use three horses abreast to the plow, even with a twelve- inch plow, for one man will drive them as easily as he will two, and they will do one-third more work to the hand, ¢ matter of no small importance in the outcome. ‘The same may be said oj harrowing. If the ground is not trashy, requiring the harrow to be constantly lifted, three or four horses abreast attached to double harrows, will save nearly balf the manual labor in har- rowing. If the ground is reasonably clean and correctly check-rowed, the crops may be harrowed twice—once. preferably, just as the corn ‘is fairly sprouting, and again the other way just as if it is fairly out of the ground so the 1ows may be seen. If it gets higher, a hand’should follow each har- row with a narrow garden rake to un- cover any upon which clods may have fallen. In cultivating, a good hand w: cover but little corn, and this he w: uncover with the toe of the boot, and generally without stopping the team covering the corn. The later cultivation when the soil becomes pretty well filled with roots, need only be shallow. Bui here, again, the operator must be guid- ed by circumstances. As a rule early planting gives the best crop, but a good crop need not be expected if the land is either plowed, planted or worked when wet. It sometimes requires con- siderable courage to decide to wait when weeds are pressing. When it is a question of having the crops smoth- ered by weeds or of waiting, we should take the chances, on wet land, rather than to wait. Origin of Potato Bugs.—The Colora- do potato béetle receives its common name from the fact that its native home was at the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, where it fed upon a species of wild potato quite common to this region, kaown as the Sand-bur (Solanum rostratum). It was collected there and described by Thomas Say in 1824. It was first mentioned as an in- jurious insect in 1859 when some of the early settlers of western Nebraska reported it feeding in large numbers upon the Irish potato. We thus see that the species changed its food from a wild to a cultivated plant, as has been the case with many of our in- jurious insects.—Ex. Improving a Run-Down Farm.—At the Michigan Farmers’ Institute E. A. Croman said: “I have brought up a farm from a run-down condition until to-day it bears fine crops of clover, al- most exclusively by green manuring. I began by sowing rye and plowing it under, gradually introducing other crops for this purpose, until to-day it bears, as 1 have said, good crops of clover. The ground should be kept covered. After oats sow rye, working the ground with a spring tooth harrow, then the next spring plow the rye un- der and sow clover or plant corn, If you can’t grow clover for plowing un- der then try peas. Killing Potato Bugs.—As both the mature insects and the larvae feed up- on’ the potato leaves, they are easily killed by the application of any pui- son, and as the leaves are rather rough anything applied to them is retained much longer than upon leaves having a smooth surface. Of the many sub- stances used for the destruction of these insects, Paris green in some form is the standard, It may be ap- plied in the form of a spray by mix- ing with water at the rate of a tea- spoonful of the green to a bucket of water, or in a dry form mixed with flour or lime.—Ex. Do not be in a hurry to buy newfan- gled machinery. Wait till you find out just how it works. Take no agent’s or salesman’s word for it. Watch it care- fully yourself under all test conditions, time or labor, or both, or will turn out Then, if it is just right, and will save a better quality of dairy goods, wait not. but buy-at once, - Horseback Riding. Horseback riding is a lost art In the average well-to-do country neighbor- hood, even with the sterner sex, and a side saddle in the country, not moldy, rat gnawed and “skirt curled,” would be almost as great a curiosity as a horseless carriage, says the Western Horseman. The buggy craze struck the country during the flush days of a doz- en years ago, every one discarding horseback riding as the poor man’s mode of travel, and every farmer, his sons and hired hands all buying bug- gies and throwing their saddles in the “hen houses,” where many of them still repose. Even if the family doctor is to be hastily called, the average farmer’s son or hired man would deem it a hardship if he were compelled to carry the message of mercy on horse- back. Twenty or thirty years ago the proudest day of a country boy or rural maiden was the one on which the in- dulgent (very often disgruntled indul- gence) parent returned from town with a new saddle. In those days the coun- try young folks would canter away over the hills, through the silvery brook valleys or across the breeze- fanned prairies, for miles away, to church, Sunday school, “apple cutting” or “cousin’s wedding,” full of health, happiness and human vigor. But not so now. A country young man on horseback, going to church or a party, would feel humiliated, while a country maiden would feel positively disgraced if her “feller” should presume to have her ride a “horrid horse’—and furnish it herself—to Sunday school or a cir- cus, or even on a neighborhood jaunt. Nay, verily, the saddle, both side and astride, has emigrated to the city, where cultured people by the thousands recognize the respectability and health- fulness of horseback riding, and ea- gerly take up the lost art of their coun- try cousins, spending vast sums of money for that which the country folk can as well have for nothing—the health and happiness-giving concomi- tants of horseback riding. The Oxford Down. About the year 1833 some prominent and skillful breeders in Oxfordshire, England, undertook the formation of a new breed of sheep which would combine the weight of the long wool with the quality of the Down. They did not establish a scale of points that was not fashionable then, but they said: “A real Oxfordshire Down shall have a nice, dark color, the poll well cover- ed with wool, and adorned with a top- not on the forehead, a good fleece of wool, thick on the skin, not too curly, a well formed barrel on short legs (not gray or spotted) with a good, firm mut- ton.” They stuck to the test. They kept pegging away. Free wool had no sting, single standard no terror for them. On a double standard platform (wool and mutton), with two breeds to draw (Cotswold and Hampshire) with- out waiting for the aid or consent of any other breeder, they fought the bat- Patents Issued. List of patents issued last week ‘to Northwestern inventors: Py Joute L. Bouna, Wanari, S. D., horse detacher; Albert W. Brash, Newark, S. D., elevator backet; Frank Carlson, Duluth, Minn., pan or plate lifter; Cornwell P. Chase, Minneapolis, Minn., permutation padlock; Henry Grey, Du- Juth, Minn., apparatus for rolling met- nllic beams, columns, girders, etc.; Thomas D, and A. S$. McCall, Minne- apolis, Minn., bicycle; Jens C. Nielson, Viborg, S. D., liquid sterilizer; -Henry FE. Townsend, Gettysburg, 8. D., bridge for musical instruments; Nelson Witts, Alma City, Minn., rotary engine. T. D. Merwin, Patent Laywer, 910 Pioneer Press Building, St. Paul, Minn. The Yachting Craze. “Darling is an experienced yachts- man, isn’t he?” “I should say so! You ought to see his collection of champagne corks.”— Chicago Journal. Confinement and Hard Work Indoors, particularly in the sitting pos- ture, are far more prejudicial to health than excessive muscular exertion in the open air. Hard sedentary workers are far too weary after office hours to take much needful exercise in the open air They often need a tonic. Where can they seek invigoration ‘more certainly and agreeably than from Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a renovant particularly adapted to recruit the exhausted force of nature. Use also for dyspepsia, kidney, liver and rheumatic ailments. * Just the Opposite. Kilduff—I hear that Tenspot is eulti- vating his garden religiously this year. Mullins—The- report is wrong. I heard him swear while weeding the ether day.—New York World. Read the Advertisements. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get into the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford a most interesting study and will put you in the way of getting some excellent bargains. Our adver- tisers are reliable; they send what they advertise. Literally Defined. Examiner—What is meant, Mr. TFledgeling, by the term “landed es- tate?” Fledgeling—It means, sir, an estate which has landed in the hands of a lawyer.—Boston Courier. Don’tTobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away, ‘To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag- netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Bac, ‘the wonder-worker that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or $1. Cure guaran- teed. Bocklet aud sample free. Address Ster- Mng Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. Gibral to St. Petersburg. Europe will soon have an overland express, which, while not traveling quite as long a distance as some trains in America, will nevertheless cover quite a good stretch of road. The Southern express, which runs twice a week between Paris and Madrid, and, upon two other days, from Paris to Lisbon, will be made a daily train and, running through Madrid, will continue on to Gibraltar. The distance from Berlin to Gibraltar, a little over 2,000 miles, will then be covered in sevénty hours. It is now proposed to connect the so-called Northerfi express, which travels hcuwéth Paris and St. Peters- tle. The English people are open to| pifrg, With the Southern train, so that conviction, but the most conclusive ev- idence is required to convince them. The pioneers found no little difficulty in securing public recognition for their breed. But they were paticnt, per- sistent and determined. And in 1862, when the Oxford Down was given a separate class at the Royal show, the glorious victory was won. The ideal sheep is the one that will produce the most mutton, wool and lambs, all of the best quality and at the least expense, To its near approach to this ideal may be attributed the phenomenal success of the Oxford Down breed in England and America.—W. A. Shafor in “Sheep in America.” Breaking a Colt. In breaking a colt to harness, we always prefer to give him his first few lessons double, along with a free, sen- sible, fast-walking horse. A light front bobsleigh answers well for several les- sons. As soon as the colt has become used to’ harness, the bit, ete., and has ceased to be afraid of the driver or vehicle, and has learned to go along with his mate like a horse should, we feel no hesitation in hitching him sing- ly toa cart. It is safe for the first few times to use a_ kicking strap, says Farmers’ Advocate, being careful that it is properly adjusted about half way between the roots of the tail and coup- ling, and fastened in the proper posi- tion to prevent slipping either way, then buckle loosely to the shafts. It is not well to take long drives at first; in fact, the colt should be returned to the stable feeling fresh rather than weary. Two short drives in a day are much to be preferred to a long, weari- some trip. It is always bad policy to drive away a distance and then turn around and return by the same road. It is much better to go around a block, a different one at each time, however, so far as practicable, so that he will not acquire notions of his own as to where he should go or turn. Beef Bulls.—The Live Stock Indica- tor says that “the demand for improy- ed bulls of the beef breeds has been very large in Texas and is a very con- siderable factor in causing’ the scarcity of good beef bulls, which is coming to be felt throughout the entire country. ‘The Texas cattleman does not hesitate to pay good prices and he is satisfied only with the best; indeed, he wants no other, for he is beginning to realize how wide is the distance between the range steer and the high grade native, and he is learning by experience the difference in the profitableness of the two. Extent of Roots——The extent of roots is greater than supposed, e. g. the aggregate length of roots of a hill of corn is one and one-tenth miles, A stalk of corn gathers from soil about three pounds of water. The leaves ex- hale water as a vapor, but the roots absorb water as a liquid. As water is so needful for growth of plunt, we see the advantage. of having cynditions of soil that favor extensive range of roots.—Ex. there will be an uninterrupted over- land line from Gibraltar to St. Peters- burg, 2 distance of more than 3,000 miles, which it is proposed to cover in less than four days. This would be the first attempt to rival the great American transcontinental lines in Europe.—Philadelphia Record. Boycotted. Grocer—No, sir; we cannot give you eredit. This is a strictly cash store, and we don’t give trust to anyone. Customer (drawing himself up proud- ly)—Then, sir, you cannot have my trade, for I never have cash to pay to anybody.—Somerville Journal. Would Not Refuse a Higher Salary. Friend—That article of yours in y terday’s paper was great, old man. I read it with the keenest interest. Rteporter—Thank you. Would you mind ing that, now, to the business manager?—Somerville Journal. 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It was a strange coinci- dence, and as these deaths occurred quickly one after the other, I ceased to wish I had been its possessor.—Gen. | Sir Hugh Goff, in Old Memories. Up-to. “Safe at last!” ‘The-electricity-working-up-to-date-’97- model-burglar smiled, and sighed a big sigh of relief. “It was a close shaye——” He wiped his forehead wearily. “but at last the reporters have dropped the case and the police have taken it up. Now I can rest easy.”— Cincinnati Commercial-Times. e Burglar. Cycling War in Chicago. “Who is the kid on the other wheel? Your golf boy?’ “Golf boy, nothing! I take him along Friend, No remedy has a better right to that title than Kickapoo Indian Oil. It is good for internal and external use, and it is pains’ most powerful panacea. 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