The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-03-07
Kn0sv .AbDat Farming.

\ AYAI24uNiNx 30 WttWts 6diG E1t AOnlTlO-
utor" knows about farming:
Now that winter is approaching. it would
perhaps be as well to discontinue having an
turn your attelftion TO getting in your Ia.l
s~w-loss. No farmer can consider his fall
work complete until he has his cellar well
supplied with saw-logs. Seated around the
blazing hearth of a winters night there is no
fruit more delicious.
A correspondent asks us what we think nf
late plowntg. Flowing should not be con-
tiaucd .ter than 10 or II o'clock at night.
1t gets the horses in the habit Of staying out
late, aud unduly exposes the pillow. We have
know plows to acquire springhalt and infiam-
matory rheumatism from late blowing. Don't
do il.
When you make cider select nothing but
the souIidest gturnips, chop them into sled
length before cradling them. In boiling
your cider use plenty of ice and Fhen boiled
hang it up in the SIM to dry.
A pick axe should never be used in pick.
Ing aprlsa. lit has i tendency II break down
the vines ind damage the hive.
In sowing your winter applejack horse
rake will be found preferable to q step lad
der Step-ladders are liable to freeze up and
are hardIy palatable unless boiled with snear.
III cutting dowil4hemlock trees for canning
select the largest,y Don't throw away the
chips, IS they make FIRE parlor ornaments,
encased in rustic frames Of salt and vinegar.
The coming cold weather would suggest
10 the humane farmer the necessity fora good
caM-sheds The following lie . good receipt
for making good cow-shed g
4 Four paiIful Of boiling hot water on her
back and If that don't make good cow-shed
her hair-we are no prophet to anybody.
Now Is Gle time for planting your winter
hay. The pink-eyed Shutdown is probably
the best variety as it does not need polling
and begins to Law early EscAunge.
HISTs AnogT HoUsEKEEPIs6.--Weg give b.
In efligenee. 10 religion, ID al virtaessathe
honor that belongs to them. And yet it may
be boldly affirmed that economy. taste, skill
and neat..ess IN the Kitchen have great deal
to do with making life happy and prosper
Gus.
Nor is il indispensably necessary that
house should be filled with Injuries. The
qualifications for all good housekeeping can
be displayed as well on small scale as on
large oile.s 9s 81 e
A small house can be more easily kept than
palace. Economy Is most needed In the
absence of abundance.
Taste is y well displayed in placing dishes
on pine Table asinS arranging the fields q q
damask curtain.
Skillful cooking is as readily discovered in
nicely baked potato Or y respectable johnny
cake as nut-brown sirloin Or ! brace OF cam
y ass
I RAIIRoAD PRoGREss.--UpWards of two
hundred men are now at work along the line
of;tlie Raillo cad running from Superior City
to the Junction of the Northern Pacific;
Capt. Starky, the Chief Contractors Office
has been literally beseiged this week By APP
plicants for sub-contracts, several Of which
have been let, among the number being the
Rock Cut near the N, r. Junction, let to D.
Mci .ennan, the same person whose ability IN
excavating the rocks along the line Of the
L. S. q M. r. Il, near st. Louis crossing, sui
koiently attests the wisdom OF the selection.
81. erior Times.
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