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ft SATURDAY,. OCTOBER 3x, igoS. THX DIS1.EIT fAEMlB ft I 1 "Leading Implement Dealers," Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming. Main Offices Salt Lake, Utah I Consoifdaiefl UJap & Hine Go. j Branches: Ogden, Logan, Price Utah Jos. F. Smith, President Mclvin D. Wells, Scc.-Treas. GEO. T ODELL 'Gen Mer. I i Branches: Idaho Falls, Montpelier Idaho W. S. McComick, Vice-Prest. Grant Hampton, Asst. Sec-Trcas. ' ' H F by Professor Zavitz were even more (striking than in the case of grains. Mangels grown from large seed, for instance, yielded thirty-one tons per acre; from medium seed twenty-seven tons per acre, and from small seed eighteen and one-half tons per acre. Large raps seed produced thir- teen tons per acre, while medium seed .produced nine tons and small seed j three tons per acre. Even in the case of potatoes the average for the result ' of planting large potatoes during six yeans was a yield of 338 bushels per acre, while medium sized potatoes produced 274 bushels and small pota toes a yield of 201 bushels per acre. I ... In the results given in the outset, j showing the effect of selecting large, medium and small grain from cereals, i each year's selection was made from S common stock of isccd oats. In other words, the plump grain was not sc- i lectcd from the plump crop the prc- 1 vious year and the medium from the ; medium. This was done, however, in another series of experiments report- ; ed by Professor Zavitz. An cxperi- I ment was carried on during twelve years in which large seed oats were j selected from the product of large j seed the previous year and small seed 1 from the product of small seed pre- viously sown. An equal numiber of grains were weighed out for each 1 plot, thereby eliminating the error 1 that commonly creeps into experi- I ments of this kind. At the end of ) twelve years the heavy grain produced J a yield of sixty-two and one-half I bushels per acre, while the light seed I produced thirty-nine bushels per acre. j We arc selling a great many Stew art Ranges and Heaters these days. We hope these ads arc helping to turn you attention our way.' We want to touch the emotional side of you your hoaTt so stronglythat you cannot and will not be satisfied with any other make of stoves. The product of the heavy grain after twelve years of constant selection weighed thirty-four and one-half pounds per bushel and the light grain twenty-five pounds per bushel. Professor Zavitz's conclusion, from the results obtained by him during fourteen years of experimentation, was that large seeds gave a greater yield than an equal number of small seeds in every caisc in the twelve dif ferent classes of farm crops. We claim that these are the most comprehensive experiments that have ever been conducted for the purpose of settling this much discussed ques tion, and the results as give ..crtainly show strongly in favor of t :c large, heavy seed. In these days when oats arc selling in some markets as high as fifty cents a bushel and land on which they have been produced running in value from $100 up to $150 per acre, it would seem as though it were unnecessary to advance any argument in favor of thoroughly fanning out all the light grain so as to savc only the heavy grain for sowing. The cost of the fanning mill would be covered not only once, but several times over, on a single crop on the average quarter or half section farm. Invite your neighbor to subscribe for the "Deseret Farmer." Every farmer ought to take his home farm paper. It contains valuable matter, week by week, especially adapted to farming In thU region, which no oth er farxn paper can give. See what the "Deseret Farmer" ' offers for juat a little work, page 14. We know you will be satisfiod and contented with a Stewart; you can't help but be. Our prices arc right, our terms arc right, and what's more to the point, the stove itself puts up a far stronger excellency proving talk than wc can make. Do us the kind ness to personally inspect a Stewart. I HORTICULTURE I I This Department is Edited by Prof. R. S. Northrop, A. C. U. IN CATALPA PLANTATIONS. Greater iskill and attention to de tails arc required to grow catalpa profitably than perhaps any other tree. In the first place, the seed of young trees must all be of the par ticular species known as hardly catal pa; the others, for production of wood, arc not worth the planting. The isoil must be rich and rather moist, and must not contain too .much alkali. Whenever the young trees are making a low branching growth so that they will be unsuitcd for posts or poles they should be "cut back," that is, cut off close to the ground, when two or three years old, just as if they were large enough for market. Several; sprouts imme diately spring up from each stump and grow vigorously, and the com petition for sunlight (stimulates height growth and encourages natural prun ing. This enables the tree to form a straightcr stem with fewer branches. At the end of the season the sprout is nearly as tall as the three-year-old tree would have been. The many disappointments in grow ing catalpa arc attributable to unfav orable site and stock of an inferior kind of catalpa. Crooked, limby trees also often result when the trees are not cut back, and where the limbs, after attaining some size, are broken off, decay enters and the heart rot so H injurious to the tree begins. H When trees arc cut back the planta- H lion .must be sprouted, cither by re- H moving the undesirable sprouts while H green, or by cutting them out the fol- H lowing winter with' an ax. All but the H strongest one or two sprouts are re- H moved. H After ten years under best condi- H tions the first crop has gained the H size at which it can be cut most pro- fitaibly for posts. Each tree should H then produce one first-class .post, H worth 12 or 14 cents, one second- H class post worth 8 cents, and two or H three -stays worth 3 cents each. From H the small and crooked! limbs consid- H crablc firewood is secured, which, in H a, large plantation is sawed irto stove H lengths and piled convenient for -ship- H 'ping at the same time that the posts H arc sawed. After all material of value H has been removed, men go through H the plantation with long poles which H are pushed ahead of them under the brush. When a considerable amount H has been collected the pole is tilted upright, forming a neat pile of brush, H for burning. The plantation is thus kept free from obstructions. A vig- H orous root -system has now developed, -H and future crops are grown from H sprouts in 8 years. H In catalpa, hcartwood forms early. H This is in marked contrast with -sonic H woods, black walnut for instance, H which contains but little hc'artv.ood H (Continued on pace 15) B