Show sorghum sucre indian corn and broom corn the sorghum or chinese sugar cane has been sufficiently tested in this mountainous country to leave no doubt as to its maturing and yield yielding ing profitable returns to the cultivator experience hai has hasi hast I 1 gloved oved that the seed should not be planted too early in the he spring kest lest est it should rot in the ground in ordinary seasons the latter part of june or from first to middle of july is soon goon enough and if the seed should not ripen the yield of syrup will belittle be little if any diminished by thus defer derer deferring deferris rim planting till the settled warm days arid and nights come the plants shoot quick quickly ay from the ground and attains a larger more healthy and prolific growth than when planted too early besides Jf if the seed should not fully ripen it will not deteriorate either the lity or quantity of the fhe j luice juice ulce asto ihie ihle llie the most proper time for cutting the caria cane amon among those who have cultivated and made syrup from it here there is some diversity of opinion but hut it is safe to say from the time the seed begins begina to ripen till it is 19 fully ripe or till frost comes and we question whether there is any material difference in the condition of the stalk within this short period tho thoy probably there might be a very small per cen ced turri more of or saccharine matter in the stalk when fully ripe yet we would recommend the universal practice so far ad it can be adopted of working up or ct crushing shing out the juice from the cane directly as it is cut from the field fiela and we are confidently of opinion that more syrup will be realized by at this than by a particular observance of he sectional rule or notion that it should not be cut cuttill till it is fully ripe we say commence cutting and work up tip your stalks as you cut them from the time the seed begins to get hard if necessary neg essary to carry out this plan till frost cuts short your operation operations i but basure that when the biting frost comeax comes your cane is all cut and ried that is to say aay that your sorghum sucre sacre field is transformed the juice into good syrup for home use we and the leaves put where they will not waste to be cut up and used with a little bran oz or for fall feed of cows or olber other animals tile the sorghum is highly recommended as a for aging crap for milk cows to feed green bua but bu when kept for winter it is rendered rc worthless by acetous fermentation corn stalks when pro parly cured will keep sweet and make excellent feed especially for cowa cows but sorghum will not corn cop stalks we will here add tho thoy rather it will bear repeating are generally thrown out ous to cattle during the winter they eat cat or nibble oven over the leaves and tender part leaving the whole stalks at least three fourths of the fodder and in our opinion the very best portion of it lo 10 be trodden under foot and they do not readily maka even good manure we want to sugg bugg suggest est a much needed improvement lu ira toils this matter take your corn stalks chop them up into small bits wih an ax if you have nothing elsea else eise teli tell a chopping box would be bette belter r then before you feed them oata out ont steam or oak them toem co to as to soften them and aul in 14 somo some meal mid and andi if i you please some chopped straw straw and you yoli will have bave a palatable mess for your cow the benefit of which she will soon manifest by aa an increase in creaso in the quantity and richness of her ber milk which alone will pay you liberally for the little extra trouble occasioned besides rendering available eyen 0 to o the minutest particle all your corn stalks straw ac otherwise chiefly wasted and your manure is not reduced in I 1 quantity but rather increased for if well taken care of and kept under cover it will have in it more strength and be sooner converted into soil but to the sorghum again the seed i said sald to be very rich hoh in starch on the island of martinique it is grown for its seed and forage the seed used by the chinese coolies of that arld alid blaud arid instead of rice As far up as northern wisconsin and as far south as the equator this cane ha cabeen been successfully cultivated it is one of the most hardland hard handy hardy yand and useful varieties of the vegetable kingdom king dim and to the inhabitant of thesa these isol isolated aled mountain valleys it has a more than ordinary value it should be cultivated in large or smail small patches 9 by every man who has a rod of ground gound and a family to support P ort too great care however how evar cannot be taken to prevent its mixing with other plants of the stalk kind broom corn particularly or what is commonly called rice corn tho thol there Is not much grown here but bat tho thoy every man should have a patch of chinese sugar 11 cane it ia Is not necessary that effry man should have a patch of broom corn on his lot on the contrary it will generally prove a waste of labor time and ground the broom corn should be te sown in fields and grown to be most profitable by those who manufacture the brooms however this is not always expedient and farmers would find it a profitable crp crop even at the former price of brooms but while a broom will bring 1 50 in k cash the tha growing of the corn would be extravagantly remunerative the best seed of the sor sorghum hum bum comes from the south sooth ane selection of the best beat and purest seed Is a matter which cannot be too strongly urged we are informed that a considerable quantity of good seed grown in washington county will lii ill be in the market ere ion lon long iong the most approved alved method of p planting la the cane seed is to pit pit each seed one foot apart in rows distant from each other three and a half or four feet it does not require suckering ap tho thol from four to eight tight stalks grow up from a single seed on this account we would prefer to have the rows in good soil four feet apart to give room for a thorough use of the hoe boe the soil set apart for the sorghum to produce apprize article should be of a warm nature rich mellow and sandy or gravelly in if this vicinity the bench or uplands are the most preferable there being more of the saccharine in the juice of that grown on those lands than in that grown in the low lands altho aitho although agh the latter are naturally the richest yet we belieka good cane can be grown with proper cultivation in any part of this territory to improve the growth and quality of that grown in the lower wards of this city we recommend the judicious application of warm manu manures res reg seed potatoes A farmer tell us that a few years ago in this valley when seed potatoes were scarce he obtained I 1 11 I 1 small ones which be he sprouted twice then planting the sprouts 2 in a hill then cut tip up the potatoes in the usual way by which means he realized realized from the 11 small po two and a half bushels of good size another year belig bellg short of seed lie he planted the sprouts spro planting at the same time side by side a few rows of cuts treated them alike and when dug could discern no diffie difference rence in quantity or quality between those grown from sprouts and arld those grown from cu cuis culs Is nonea sonea for trees there is nothing like ilke broken up and decaying bone bones for all sorts of 06 fruit trees they are perhaps best for pear trees next for apples and then for oha cju quinces inces but are good for any kind of fatt unless it be cranberries which seem to live and grow on aigle but air and water they render a tree vigorous and healthy and greatly improve its fruit it is not a bad plan to dig them into the soil about old trees A large calf we are informed by bih bit bishop hop nicholls Nic bolla of brigham city box elder county that a few days since a cow be belonging loning to mr air john IX IL bankhead of that county bad a calf which at ten hours old weighed 93 ibs lbs can any stock raiser in the territory beat gawe dawe wr AGAIN remind you that now is the time to select and secure the seeds you intend to plant and be bure sure to obtain the best beet preparing food for fir animals for a long time the adian adlan advantage tage of ground over un roand grain as food for horses cattle and ho hogs hoga 91 has been conceded one ona point has been gained yet another remains Is there not some method of rendering I 1 even the chopped feed teed more nutritious and causing a given amount to go farther towards fattening hogs bogs by which pork could be raised raped at less expense it is suggested 11 to accomplish this that when wheat whet is chopped for hogs or even mules or other animal animals that it should shoud be ground finer than has been usually done here perhaps as fine as if for family use omitting the bolting process or like what is commonly called graham flour let this feed be steamed or half balf boiled and we nye vesture venture that the result will be highly satisfactory satis satisfactory factor Y an ohio farmer who feeds yearly about one thousand bushels of corn says that when he not only ground it with the cobs but cooked it with an agricultural steamer one half of the tha corn fed ia a this wa way y would put mora flesh upon horn cattle hogs or horses than double the quantity fed in the ear the same rule will apply to other grains when used as feed let those those who are now fattening hogs try the experiment and report to us the results of their experience |