Show InIn I 1 farmers U lers and housekeepers school continued from page three tied fled it if his fruit gets condemned because it is the best thing for him and the other fruit growers also san jose scale is making rapid progress among many of the orchards aids lit in the state but it can bo be kept down if S taken and dealt with summarily some diseases are brought on by over irrigation pear blight being one of 0 these lit in california they irrigate as little as possible to keep down the blight A number ot of questions x acre ere asked and discussed hon C A peach growing san jose scale Is the threatening disease among the peach trees but tile the disease has been successfully handled in weber county by the or chardis chartists ts organizing in order to furnish linie lime sulphur mixture for spraying purposes kettles were brought and the homemade home made material was used with good results peach as well as cherry v land must be well drained brigham Brig hain cites location is ideal tor for under drainage the trees should be headed beaded low speaking mr blicken looper per w opp d t to g eastern cas terii nursery stat 6 that the home nurs nursery ery ia acclimated and the nursery is within easy reach should any bad stock be delivered another thing there is danger of bringing in san jose scale with stock shipped from the east and many times trees are delivered which are not truo true to name I 1 young trees should be headed off I 1 18 or na 24 inches above the ground all sprouts should be cut off and kept oft off that are below the bud in making the tree branch out have two or three leaders that do not start from the same place winter spraying is particularly ticul arly necessary 1 the system tending more to cultivation and retaining the moisture in the ground than irrigation is becoming more prominent and by all means do not be afraid to touch your trees as there is no tree that will respond more rapidly to pruning than the peach and it will stand very severe trimming which Is almost necessary to its best development most people think that a tree properly pruned is ruined picking peaches is quite a science and the retaining of our markets depends greatly on the picking of our huit fruit h uit in p packing ackim the greatest care should be taken to grade the fruit and only the very best boxes should be used our reputation as a fruit rowing growing section is widely known and it it can either cither be added upon or destroyed by the picking grading packing and the kind of boxes we use in baud ling out our fruit W biVES DAY AFTERNOON dr robert stewart brij tn maintenance of soil fertility the question of soil fertility Is fundamental da to all farmers yet few appreciate preci pre clate ate the value of fertilizers old oil lands are arc poorer than new lands and the soils of the older states and 1 it nations are greatly depleted it lias has been customary to leave the bi products as waste aste but slowly the farmer is corn com 0 ng to the knowledge that all i til I pro ducts are re valuable it has been estimated that these products which are wasted every year amount to annually as fertilizers it Is essential that the farmer should know what the soil is composed of in order to be able to supply it with the nourishment which is taken up by the various crops the soil is composed of ten chemical substances and all plants in order to llvy live must have carbon dioxide which is given off by the animals and tab taken en from the air by the plants 50 per cent of the plant is composed of carbon dioxide oxygen nitrogen and hydrogen are arc taken from the air and water and the other six are taken ta from the soil these six elements were in rocks but water frost wind and chemical formations act on the rock pulverizing it and forming soil plants cannot live in material of these six elements without nitrogen As soon as higher forms of life exist their remains are deposited on tile land which helps to make soil all plants take food and material from the soil and when the farm products tie ne sold a certain per cent 0 of tile the material in the soil of the farm Is s sold and every good farmer will see that it is replaced i our soil is rich in fit potassium and what v hat we must look out for is to make it available the fertility bill of tile the east and south last year was in the west it was 11 a year and Brig brigham hain city and dox box 21 elder 1 county contributes it share there Is approximately pounds of nitrogen to the acre now and when a 50 bushel wheat crop takes up 71 pounds the nitrogen will not last long the value of the fertility taken ell out t of an acre of ground planted to wheat is better illustrated as gen 71 pounds worth 1065 phosphorus orus 12 pounds worth 1 H potassium 13 pounds worth 78 cents making a total 1287 worth of food taken front from one acre of 0 soil by a 30 bushel crop of wheat all tile the I 1 forn corn produced in the united states is not as valuable as the bi product j manure and yet one third of that is wasted every year A 20 tons sugar beet crop takes from an acre of ground the following ni trogen pounds worth 1500 phosphorus 18 pounds worth 2 IG potassium pounds worth 1 making a tota of in food material which antis must t be replaced by edg 10 0 O the fertility of our soil is fast going and we need to look about to replace st it business men have become millionaires lion aires by judiciously using their bl bi products why not become business farmers and get rich by using the bl products of the farm barn yard manure is worth about per ton and ewhen when applied to the land its value increases materially in permitting ini 1 manure anure to stand it loses lit in enormously from spring till fall the loss is about one half caused in an two I 1 ways 1 generation or of heat by which fermentation and bacterial an all chemical changes take place and nitrogen and carbon dioxide are given off 2 leeching beeching Lee ching takes place by water running through manure carrying off the fertility constituents DOMESTIC SCIENCE miss love gave a on cereals and bread and how to cook them she stated that many cheap cereals cereal s are made horn peanut shells whir which 11 are roasted and mixed up till with some other preparation time is a big factor in cooking cereals and most housekeepers are guilty of breaking this rule mush Is served for breakfast usually because it can call bo be cooked in a hurry and eaten in a hurry As a matter ol of fact plush mush is very hard to digest unless it is cooked for several houis and Is very objectionable as a breakfast brea kfaFt food it 11 children are fed mush it should not be covered with cicali cicani and su sugar ar use cream alone or else st sugar igar and skim milk as the two together with tile the e properties in tile tho mush work a hardship on oil the achs of the children bread should be ba kneaded for at least ast 20 minutes and the claim of the patent bread mixer that it will do tile the work in 3 minutes is wron wrong the dough should be kneaded until tile the gas bubbles algin to come to the surface butter milk cooked until the whey and curd separates is the best material lor for mixing bread with while sk skim lit milk and alli potato water come next tile the dough should not dot be permitted to raise until it goes hat flat on top but just enough to make a nice avni cap and great care should be taken in ill all mixing xang not to destroy the yeast germs A de demonstration linon was given in making rolls |