Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-09-14

1T is now time that those of our farmers
who intend sowing fall wheat had their
ground prepared. In fact, wheat sown
week ago would haze been better. There
are great many localities where winter
wheat proves more successful than that
sown in the spring. The chief advantage
our fall wheat has over that sown in the
spring is that it starts as early as the season
will permit and usually is too far advanced
to be destroyed by grass We have no
knowledge of a single instance where a
field of winter wheat has been destroyed by
the 'hoppers. These fields not only get a
start in the spring before the 'hoppers hatch
out, but they mature earlier and are genef-
ally headed out and becoming tough before
the immigrant 'hoppers arrive. 1t is far bet
ter to have a field too far advanced for these
pests, than to spend week in and week out
in war against them. Every farmer who
has land suitable, should at least sow few
acres, in order to be more certain of raising
breadsttlff. ~
The most important TACT for our farmers
to learn during the continuation Of the
grasshopper scourge is to plant a variety Of
crops. 1t is, therefore, very important to
try fall wheat. for the reason that, if it fails,
there is still tho same show to seed the land
again with spring wheat or oats. This year
our winter wheat has yielded well, and
should it escape the 'hoppers another year,
as it did last, provided, they are as nunler-
ous,) it will soon become our principal pro-
duet
WE have waited anxiously from week to
week for a month or more, hoping in each
issue to be able to give our readers some ac-
countof beneficial results from the Sioux
war But nothing has yet occurred to ndi-
cate a speedy termination of hostilities or
an opening Of the country to settlement or
travel.
40 ave nredicted, the troops have won a
victory, or, IN otiier words. Sitting Bull,
having exhausted the grass and game IN the
vicinity Of his old camp near the Big Horn
mountains, has found it necessary to move
to fresh pastures and unexhaHsted hunting
grounds on the Little Missouri, where he
will likely remain as long as grass and game
are plenty.
Having Won. one decided victory, he is not
likely. to risk another engagement until he
sees favorable opportunity for winning
another No Doubt, many of his braves
were wounded in the late battle with Gus
Ter, and the longer an engagement is post
poned, the better he will be able to cope
with the troops. Besides, now, almost in
the face Of winter, he will not care to risk
the probability Of having his army cut to
pieces, even with a fair promise of victory,
as the care of the wounded would impede
his movement. But there is no probability
of his being speedily brought to terms.
A winter campaign is spoken of. This
will be everything for the army contractor.
1t will cost the government an immense
outlay and enable the army contractors to
get in their steals and is looked forward
to, BY them, with great deal Of anxiety.
But to the y. S. soldier, who must march
weary days, through snow drifts, over bleak
plains Wept by boreal winds, and camp
without fuel, miles from tree, it is fraught
with hardship, toll and priyation, and will
snost probably result, as las the summer
campaign, in glorious failure,
There appears to be no disposition on the
part oi the authorities to capture the In
dlans and put an end to their depredations
else they would have placed an army IN tbe
field capable of giving them battle. The
whole thing may be summed up in a very
few words. There is speculation at the bot-
tom OF the whole Indian business. and 90
long as it pourS dollars into the coffare 80