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Show FARM GARDEN. AND TO OF INTEREST MATTERS AGRICULTURISTS. , these we are enabled to irrigate by ditches. We were at first greatly puzzled to know how to get over the rav ines and ditches in the field, for we could not be all the time moving that heavy Iron pipe. We finally hit on a plan to make water run up- hill. We did that by means of a big home-mad- e hose constructed of duck. We put this duck hose on the end of an iron pipe and lead the water where we want it It is so constructed that we can couple It quickly. We have about 300 feet of this;-hosin use, and it answers the purpose very well, but of course wih not stand much pressure. We haEYe had little experience in trying this on bearing fruit trees. We tried it on 400 peach trees, and those trees bore fruit much more heavily than usual. We .also watered an orchard of cherry and plum trees with strawberries between the rows. The strawberry plants were about ruined when we began the watering, but they revived at once. Most of our irrigating this last year has been on young growing trees and on common field crops, such as peas, beans and potatoes. We now have our machinery! and fields ready to begin operations the coming year. While we realize that some of our work is yet in ths experimental stage, yet we are not discouraged for the future. We believe that if the profit to our young trees could be shown, it would be seen that water ing them was very profitable. Q. How do you Irrigate corn? ' A. We run the water along the rows of corn and can thus water about four acres per day. In watering trees, we can water about qight to ten acres per day. The cost of running the engine and tank Is $5 tq $6 per day. Q. What is the total cost of a plant like yours with capacity to water twenty - About Cultiva Thereof Yields tion of tho Soil and Some Up-to-Da- XUnts te Viticulture Horticulture, culture. Flori-- i and i I talk of Sj HE second Dr. Kedzie was upon the Simple of the Chemistry - , Farm. Everything in the ear pi is made up of about 65 kinds of matter but 90 to 99 per cent of the mass organic of matter is composed of four i. car- only, e bon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen. Adding silicon, aluminium and calcium, the seven will make up almost all of the mass of the wcirld. In addition we have the various metals, which are of such value in the arts; and potassium, phos-essenphorus and sulphur, which are' life. tial for all animal and vegetable forms In plants we find but thirteen of matter, including sodium, magnesium And chlorine in addition! to those J named above. The first four come almost entirely from the air, while the nine, mineral substances all come from the soil. Not all are of equal value, as many are in great abundance, while others are rare.is Silicon is abundant in plants, but the base of sand, and with' aluminium, which Is not found in agricultural plants, and is common in clay, makes up the great mass of our soils. They form the framework of our soils, and acresj are nearly, if not quite, soluble. They A.-have machinwiy to Irrigate hold the lime, magnesia, potassium, and the coat for engine, acres, eighty phosphorus and sulphur, which are pump and pipes would fall between $900 . more soluble, and enter the plant in and' $1,000 ordinarily, but we got a solution in water. These las ; cannot second-han- d engine. A $l,000-plabe dispensed with, as no plant can grow should irrigate about eighty acres. without them. In Q. at what Upon Thursday morning Drj, Kedzie time of surface irrigation, to best make is it the appliday gave a talk upon Soil Exhaustion. of cation water? In the early days the valley of the A. At any time of day. If we could Mohawk and the James were thought to be inexhaustible, but after croplping for run our plant all night, we would make a number of years the yield Obtained the application during the latter part was so small that the crop was iot prof- of the day. Professor Tracy. I would like to say itable, and when that condit: were exhausted, that It is not so much the contour of the reached they land as it Is the character of the soil are two causes for soil exhaus unsuitable physical conditions, that concerns irrigation. Some people too wet or too dry, too loose or too eom- -. think that because they have a stream pact, so that they are not in condition that is in a good position for irrigating to grow crops, and (2) when plant food therefore they can surely irrigate. Q. Is it possible to irrigate from a is lacking. The soil is not' a inine to be cultivated out. must two or three-inc- h worked be It well, where you have to with reference its continued fertility; to draw the water for seventy. feet? Professor Taft. I think so, and if anything else Is robbery. All soils have a supply of reserve matter In an in- you cant do it with one welt, drive soluble form that will be gradually three or four and have a reservoir. But drafted into service. Potash U de-- that lift is rather a hard questhe tion to consider. rived from the decomposition mineral Ingredients of the soil, Feld- Professor McCleur. There is one spar.one of the constituents of granite place in Illinois where irrigating is becontains over 16 per cent, of potash, ing done, and that is at the insane asyand as it weathers It decomposes and lum at Kankakee. They have there one produces clay, setting' free aj large pump, and they pump water from the amount of potash, of which 13.86 "per river. They have not done any expericent. Is available as plant food. The menting. They got a man from the greatest danger is from the exhaustion West who was perfectly familiar with of the soil nitrogen. While it exists th work of water. I happened to be in immense quantities In the air, it is there this saw and them irrigating fall, In a free state in that form it is of no a field. They were running value to most crops. As a rule about thepabbage water between every two rows, $ pounds of combined nitrogen per each row being forty rods long. The acre are annually brought down in rain waiter must have been' six to eight or snow, but this is insufficient for farm ' Inches in had watered depth. crops. The humus of the soil, aq a re that field from one They to three times, and sult of nitrification, yields up a large said was that they enough. combined They said amount of nitrogen. Njtrates in a was no that general there way out of the soil, but are 'easily washed doubt but that was at least their, crop it can be largely prevented if somjs crop double that of last used so year. as They the is kept upon land, wintef rye, much water each time the that land which will take it up. Fallowj ground was too soft to walk on. One could not develops nitrogen, but a large amount step on it without sinking down some is, washed away. distance. The water ran between the In his fourth lecture Dr. Kedzie gp'oke rows, which were rounded up pretty regarding Manure and Fertilisers. well. They seemed to retain the moist manure as the ure He considered barn-yar- d a for long time. best material for use as a fertilizer, and the pivot of successful farming. By Cost of Handling Ear Corn. .means of charts, the. loss of thej elements when it is exposed to A; gentleman from the country says was shown. weather When the kept that the cost of carrying ear corn one eaves the of a under for year abarn, year, or longer, is probably of the ammonia than many figure It, on account greater more than four-fiftof the and nearly as much of the potash) was shrinkage. For instance, the cost of lost. In the open air, but away from 1,000 bushels of corn at 21 cents is the eaves, the loss was slightly $210; interest at 7 per cent, for a for the $14.70; expense of crib, $20; cost ofyear, but was more than the above elements. Only about corn at the end of one year, $244.70. of the phosphoric acid was lost uinder But it is estimated that the shrinkage either condition. will amount to 20 per cent., or 200 bushWood ashes came next In value as a els; therefore, there will remain but fertilizer; 100 pounds of wood asjies 800 bushels to sell. So $244.70 free from dirt will contain 8 pounds of represents the cost of 800 bushelsactually at the potash and 5.4 pounds oL phosphoric end of one year, or a fraction over acid and will be worth nearly 50 cents 30 cents a bushel, without figuring anyper bushel. As they are seldom pure, thing for Insurance or risk in holding one-ha- lf the above will be a high price. showing that 21 cents now Is equal to Leached ashes have lost partof their about 30 cents a bushel one year from potash, but are generally onethird as now.- - Ex. valuable as the unleached. JThere Is little value in coal ashes. Watcb the Peach Trees. All the remains of vegetables and Those of our readers who have peach especially of animal materials arq of orchards will do well to begin their great value as fertilizing materials, as work5 well as for their physical effect upon during the fair weather of late winter. as the capacity of the soil to Experiments have shown that the soil, to be done is to pick off first the work hold water depends largely upon the amount of vegetable matter it contains. and burn the mummified fruit that may The lack of nitrogen can be helped! by still be found hanging on the trees. growing leguminous crops, such as The reason for this is that the diseases clover and peas, as they have warts or that are likely to affect the peach and tubercles upon their roots which have for which we spray may have a footthe power of utilizing the free nitrogen hold in this old fruit. The leaves are of the air. gone and so will not prove a menace to reReview the new crop. The work is all the special (From Farmers port of South Haven (Michigan) farm- more necessary if the trees were affect-- " ed during the last season. ers institute.) ' We nt -- ' f- ! of 70-fo- , -- , ,4 1 ma-nuri- al hs two-thir- ds one-foiur- th ot WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING. Kafilr Corn. Some of our correspondents are writing to us asking about Kaffir corn. They have seen a great deal about it in the newspapers, and are inclined to look upon it as some wonderful new discovery. We saw an article recently that described it ec having been introduced into this country within ten years. The fact; is, it was introduced from South Africa in 1857, or about 33 years ago. It is one of the varieties of sorghum. It is well known to be a good for the dry climates, where Indian thing corn will not thrive, but for such states as Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, its culture on an extended scale cannot be advised. For those states in the semi-ari- d belt it will prove a valuable plant for forage. As to the states where moisture is sufficient to mature Indian corn, Kaffir corn may be tried in a small way and experimentally, provided the farmer has dry, sandy soil. Our readers will do well to go slow on all plants that are brought forcibly to their attention by puff articles in the newspapers. It frequently happens that some man or company of men get possession of large quantities of seeds and start out to get up a boom, so there will be a demand for them. They get articles published in their interest, and the articles in turn are clipped by inexperienced exchange editors all over the country. The result is that every one begins to talk about the seeds, and a great demand springs up for them. Whether or not this he the case with Kaffir corn we do not know. But we are aware that articles claiming everything for this plant have been going the rounds of the press for several months. We however recognize the fact that many of our readers live in very dry regions where this plant is of value. Hence we will, in a subsequent issue, fully consider the methods to be used in its culture. Dont Starve the Land. There is no economy in withholding manures from the soil. You cannot cheat nature There is just, so much available fertility in the soil and not a Dit more. The plant can only use what it finds, and if the supply is Inadequate it must go without. The farmer must have rich soil and keep it rich. The soil is properly an iinmense storehouse, and the wise cultivator wll see to it that he has large capital of the nature of all elements of plant food in his soil. Buy manures arid fertilize by all means if you do not produce enough, and in fact few farms are there that produce all the manure that could be profitably employed. You must feed the soil right up to the handlq just as surely as you must feed a horse or cow well if It is to e of any real use in the world. Men sow with the vain hope that some luck will grow the crop. There is no luck in farming. There Is a reason for everything. If your crop is poor, the great chance Is that you failed to supply enough available plant food to push it along and develop it in good shape. Better use too much manure thanvtoo little. But th'ere is small danger' that any one will rise to much fertilizer. Many a farmer has economized in the, spring by withholding fertilizers' and in the fall has read his mistake very plainly, for he has perhaps saved $1 in manure and lost $2 on the crop. He who saves manure in the sense of failing to apply it liberally wherever needed is penny wise and pound foolish. W. P. Perkins in Farmers Review. I 4 Early Vegetables in Chicago. . Wilhelmina, the girl queen Of the Netherlands, is one of Queen Victorias most constant correspondents. Miss Bennett given the shair of public speaking in the Boston university, of which Institution she is a graduate. In England there, is a woman auctioneer, who is successful in her chosen business, which she adopted when she was only 16 years of age. Miss Eliza Turner of Clifton Springs, N. Y., has been Invited to becotpe pastor of the Universalist church of Zanesville, O. She is 22 years old, cultured and eloquent. Mrs. Phlneas M. Barber of Philadelphia is about to erect and equip at a cost of about $40,000 a seminary for girls at Anniston, Ala., and give it to the Presbyterian hoard of missions for freed-mehas-bee- The governor of Kentucky has appointed Dr. Catherine Houser, a physician in the state insane asylum at Hopkinsville, in answer to a' petition signed by a great number of women , and men. Miss Sibyl Carter has been teaching lace making to Indian women of the Minnesota reservations. The women are said to be quick to learn this work. They always show skill in basket weaving, and could be Interested in things of more intricate and delicate weaving. Mrs. A. J. Peavy, state superintendent of public instruction in Colorado, is reported as favoring a mixture of men and women teachers in the public schools, instead of the employment of women teachers exclusively. A Pawnee woman, who has graduated from the Pennsylvania Normal school and done west to labor among her people, has chosen for her civilized name that of Charlotte Brontes heroine, Jane Eyre. Mrs. Grant is said to be happier in her new Washington home, with her daughter,, Mrs. Sartoris, and .her children about her, than she has been since the death of Gen. Grant. She is busily occupied with her household duties and with the preparation of a book of remin- - ! j .:h Wholcpah and Lfts, ei Bute err re- - . ! 1 Office, Flret National bulk Bldg- - liiiiii i or fXOVO, ' Lady Henry Somerset has scored one failure in the line. She once tried to form a league for the suppression of foot binding In China. It failed lamentably. 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We are thus reminded that the communication with the South, that great early market garden, Tlie First National Bank, is becoming more perfect every year. But there is one thing that the South NEPHI, UTAH. cannot produce and that is late vegetables, The North will always hold her CAPITAL place there. Thq early trade from the South does not cut much of a figure in . with the later The market. comparison sale of strawberries at half a dollar per box is of necessity limited. vIn the firsts place there are few that can af- GENERAL BANKING ford to purchase them, and in the second place they lack the quality of the In All Its Branches. berries picked nearly ripe from the Geo. C. Whitmore, J. H. Ertcksow, vines. Farmers Review. President.. W. W. Armstrong, Cashier. Snail Coat of During the last year the Delaware experiment station made 4some exhaustive tests as to the cost of spraying trees.. In using the .Bordeaux mixture they sprayed the trees six times, and reckoned in the cost of materials and cost of labor, and found it to be two cents per tree per spraying or 12 cents per tree for the season. The result was that the rot was reduced to d what it was on the unsprayed trees. They found also that four sprayings gave about the same results as six sprayings, and that there was about twice as much rot with two sprayings as with four or six. So we see that four sprayings, or eight cents per tree, is all that it really costs. This emphasizes the reasons we have frequently given for spraying. Mrs. Gadd Oh, Im just dying to get out and tell, Mrs. Gabb all the awful How to Irrigate. Prof. Emery writes: things my upstairs girl has told- - me Sllchlgaa Horticultural Convention. from Farmers Review Much depends on the season at which about the Bliffkins family, where she (Condensed water, should be applied to crops. On used to live. Stenographic Report.) Mr. Williams, of Douglas, continued lands in which clay predominates the Mr. Gadd Well, why dont you go? water should not be used until the grain his remarks as follows: I dont dare to. Mrs. Bliffkins Is In Douglas, my land consists of 0 i3 far enough advanced to shade the trying to coax my cook off, and I know acres, elevated 40 to 45 feet along the ground, otherwise the surface soil will shell run in the first time I leave the river. The country is gently rolling. bake, to the great detriment of the house, and if she gets our cook shell We did not try to use a windmill be- crops, Manifestly where water is used learn all about us. N. Y. Weekly. cause our land is so sandy that an at- on crops, it is desirable to get. the seed Winter dairying requires a great tempt to build1 a reservoir would be a into the ground early, so as to hasten of attention; but properly conductof the deal of 10we development grain, failure. So the period have purchased a it detrican without used be ed, pays better than summer dairyhorsa power engine and 600 feet cf when water for prices are generally better. ing, iron pipe. With the assistance cf ment. Ex. j Samuel a. king. Attorney - at - Law MARTIN; SALT LAKE. t HI one-thir- Deseret, utah, from.Oi Dealer Im- 1 - (On mile 7 E ft cc ang Th SUtlon.) . . . H n; s Hotel Is tlae Only Between ISTepIii and Mllfog: iFirst-olgis- ow, uUj Me "on hie 'er FRUITS, VEGETABLES, BUTTER' Egg. Poultry, Game, Veal Pork an kik Hh RATES III HARMONY WITH THE TIMES. La Beef, Smoked and Fresh Fisk, Flour, Hay and Grain. It 'rill pay you to ship your good to me. I ek&rgn 10 per eenk for handling and remit at soon as good are told. Can give firaWola oonntr.r reference If desired. W. G . M STEWARD, assaver, orncsi We have a well of the famous Deseret Lithia Water on the premises, and which is a guaranteed cure for Brights and all diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder and all other urinal troubles. In order to show our faith in water, we make the following ' r ! $1.00 ... ........ .. L00 1,00 g 00 - , tion to-wl-t: 0 o 3 Bear in mind the JDeteret House is first-eta- s nth this prop If anyone afflicted the troubles above MRS. jJ s in every particular. F. GIBBS, Proprietor. O C; hip; with any of In enumerated are not relieved month and cured In three monjhs, no charge will be made for boa 53 W. 2nd, South, SALT LAKE OITY P. O. BOX &kD Hand Sample! Iron Assay Copper Assay Bottle Sample " . hot 3 r it A |