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MORE OF ALFALFA.
Since this most wonderful forage plant
is attracting more and more attention in
the portions of the country where not
heretofore raised, the following extract
from a recent article on "Agriculture in
Colorado," by Prof. A. E. Blount, A. M.,
of the Colorado Agricultural College, will
prove of interest: '
The most important forage crop of
Colorado for stock feeding, the cheapest
and the one out of which the most can be
made, is alfalfa. Nothing excels it in
growth it is exceedingly tenacious, hold
ing on wherever it has root, through hot,
dry weather, glorying in the extremes.
It throws down a strong tap-root, which,
when it finds moisture, has the ability to
withstand the severest drouth. For hay
it is remarkably prolific, making three
and sometimes four cuttings during the
season. The average growth of the first
and second cuttings is about an inch a
day and the yield of hay per acre varies
from one and a half to two tons per cut
ting. . On some land as high as seven tons
per acre have been made in one season,
and seven bushels and a half of seed per
acre the first cutting. As a feed, nothing
in the forage line exceeds it. The amount
of nutritive matter it contains entitles it
to the first place. Cattle, horses, sheep
and hogs, all like and grow fat on it
When fed with roots and grain, no better
beef can be put upon the market. For
milch cows it is the hay of all others. For
sheep pasture it excels. One stockman
claims to have pastured 3,000 sheep the
year round on 300 acres ten sheep per
acre that the sheep sheared from ten to
twelve pounds of wool, Worth twenty
cents. Deducting all expense in herding,
loss of lambs, rent, etc., and addiifg lambs,
each sheep paid a profit of $2.50 per acre,
or $25 for ten. For horses on the farm
alfalfa is the best hay. It produces no
heaves, no derangement of the digestive
organs, and no disease follows when it is
fed as hay. In the alfalfa pasture hogs
do remarkably well. They grow rapidly
and fatten, and when fed grain the pork
is excellent.
PREPARING A COMPOST.
Many years ago, when good Dr. C. "W.
Grant was propagating the Delaware,
Iona, and other new and improved vari
eties of grapes on Iona Island, he prepared
an excellent compost for bringing his
poverty-stricken, gravelly soil, on which
a mullein would hardly grow, into pro
ductive condition. Borrowing all the
cows he could from his mountain neigh
bors on the western shore of the river in
the fall, he placed a layer of muck from
the salt marsh, a foot thick, over the sur
face of his ample barnyard. Twenty-five
or thirty cows were kept trampling over
this day by day. When sufficiently en
riched and beaten down, another layer of
muck was spread over, and so on. By
spring, there would be from eighteen
inches to two feet of solid compost in the
yard. This was carted out, treated with
lime to sweeten it, turned over two or
three tfmes, and when ready for use was
a rich, black, valuable plant food. With
this manure, the soil was quickly brought
into good condition for growin: vines or
any other product. If the yard bad been
covered, it would have been so much the
better for both cattle and manure. Cot
ton Plant
A BLOW AT TRUSTS.
From Chicago Stockman.
Judge Barrett, of the New York Su
preme Court, has struck the sugar trust
and through it all other trusts, a severe
blow right between the eyes. A trust is
a combination of corporations and manu
factures in a certain line, to regulate the
output, control the price and prevent com
petition. This is done by first persuading
all or nearly all the manufacturers in that
special line to join the trust by putting in
their works at a certain valuation, in ex
change for which they receive trust stock.
Manufacturers who object are bull-uozed
and terrorized with threats of ruinous
competition and such other annoyances
which only a trust knows how to'make,
until it is frequently a choice between
joining the trust or ruin. The next step
is to limit the output and raise the price
of the article. When the article thus
monopolized is one of the necessaries of
life, such as coal oil, eo:d or suar, the
public are at the mercy of the trust. The
advanced price of sugar within the Liot
two years, is entirely due to the sugar
trust.
The difference between the price of
sugar now and that paid two years ago,
goes into the pockets of the members of
the trust. Hard coal can be mined and
delivered at Chicago at a reasonable profit
for from $2 to $3 per ton less than our
citizens and all who burn hard .coal are
now paying for it. The managers of the
coal combinations are pocketing the dif
ference. The people are waking up to the danger
of these combinations, and view them as
conspiracies against the public welfare,
and when they begin to speak " The
voice of the people is as the voice of
God." The contest w.ill be intensified by
.the increasing number and rapid growth
of these no better than organized bands
of highway robbers.
The decision of Judge Barrett declaring
that a sugar .refinery incorporated under
the laws of the State of New York, has
forfeited its" charter by selling out to the
trust andclosing its works, will apply to
all corporations in that State who have
.sold. out to tru?ts.J This decision will
also be used as a precedent for other
courts" in other States when the same
question comes before them, as it is sure
to do sooner or later.
Trusts are a comparatively new thing,
however, and it is difficult to reach them
with existing laws. It is a matter with
which Legislatures and Congress should
grapple. Some of our Western legislators
are already moving in the right direction.
A bill declaring trusts and combinations
to be conspiracies, , and providing for
rigorous punishment, has just been intro
duced into the Michigan Legislature. The
Governor of Kansas calls attention to the
way in which its young industries are
being choked by these hydra-headed
monsters, and urges that the most strin
gent and far-reaching laws be at once en
acted to prevent and punish all such com
binations. Other States will undoubtedly
soon take up the fight. The practical
question for each of our readers is, how
can we help in this fight ? In this way.
Write the member of the Legislature and
State Senator, also your Congressman
and Senator, asking them to do something
to relieve the country of trusts.
VEGETATION IN THE AIR.
Travelers and fishermen are allowed
wide privileges in the matter of curious
narratives. For example, a telegraph
wire is the last thing one would expect to
support vegetation of any kind, yet a
traveler in Brazil writes to a German hor
ticultural journal describing a crop of
mistletoe which he found clothing the
wires not far from Bio Janeiro. At a
distance, he says, the wires appeared
fringed with what he supposed were the
leavings of a recent flood. But a percep
tion, of their height soon removed this
idea, and upon examination the fringe
proved to be composed of thousands of
little mistletoes, firmly fixed to the wires
from which they depended. Many species
of this family flourish in Brazil, and some
of them, called "Bird weeds" by the
people, thickly infest fruit trees and other
cultivated plants and bear large berries,
which are greedily devoured by birds.
These seeds are deposited on the tele
graph wires by birds and quickly take
root, and, although the plants perish,
naturally, before very long they are suc
ceeded by others, and the curious mistle
toe fringe is perpetuated. American
Analyst
A CENTIPEDE GOING TO SLEEP.
A centipede is afraid of a tarantula,
and when he lies down to sleep he always
takes the precaution to build a cactus;
fence about him. A tarantula will never
crawl over cactus; and thus, securely
hedged in his own corral, the centipede
knows he may sleep as long as he wants
to, and his enemy can't get at him. It is
laughable 'out on the Mojave Desert to
watch the security of these centipedes as
they lie and sleep, while their arch ene
mies, the tarantulas nose around for hours
before giving it up. But the cactus is a
sure barrier. When once they become
satisfied there is a complete barrier they
go away, and cease to thirst for the gore
of the centipede. The latter, however,
always takes a careful look around before
he removes the cactu3 and ventures forth.
Exchange.
AN EXPERIMENT IN COTTON
PLANTING.
A farmer in Wilson county, Texas, ex
perimented last season by planting cotton
different widths. Most of it was planted
the usual width, but he planted five acres
with the rows eight feet apart, and the
latter did not cease growing the entire
year, the cotton finally meeting in the
middles. II says the cotton planted
with rows eight feet apart made twice as
much to the acre as that planted the usual
width.
HORSES AND MULES FOR SALE.
Kyle, Texas, Jan. 14, 1889.
Col. L. L. Polk, Editor Progressive
FarmerRaleigh, N. C:
Dear Sir and Brother : I write to let
all Alliance men, as well as all other good
men of your State, know that I have for
sale all classes of Texas stock Mules,
Horses and Mares. Will sell mules from
12 to 14 hands high F. O. B. San Antonio
Texas $42 to $48 per head; horses
$32 to $40; mares, $30 to $40, in two
car lots, say from 40 to 50 head in two
car lots. I can send a man with
them at little expense, as he will have no
railway fare to pay. Add eight to ten
dollars per head and you have what the
stock will cost laid down at any depot in
your Statr. Can deliver by the 10th of
February, if I get orders at once.
RefurVto Dr. T. H. Prichard, oft your
State, as to who I am. - ,
Fraternally,
R. J. Sledge,
Kyle, Hayes Co., Texas.
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