The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-11-04
Profit in Home.Brcd Stock.

We have frequently directed atten
ton to the danger of the prevailing
practice among enterprising farmers
and graziers, of buying the stock they
handle. instead of breeding it on the
farm. 1t is agreed, on all hands, that a
calf, Il pig. lamb, or q colt of Il good
form and breeding, will, properly man.
aged, invariably yield moderate profit
to the farmer who rears it. But it is Il
low business; and if we have the means
we prefer to buy stock that we can turn
in few months or Il year. Instead of
rearing five, ten or twenty well-brcd
steer calves, and keeping them on the
farm for thirty months. we fancy it will
pay better to purchase two or three
times the number, though scrubs. or
even Texans, of dealers who have
"bunchcd" them to our hand. In few
months we may double our moncy-the
next lot, and perhaps the next, may lose
us as much or more. But we go ON to
"get even" Again we make, and again
suffer another loss. And so the game
goes on, until the dealer is involved in
hopeless bankruptcy.
And so, in England, it has been found
in regard to epizOotic disease among
cattle; the great danger comes from
this trading and buying and selling
and mixing stock, and therefore, as well
rs because, under present circumstances,
it is the most profitable practice, the
British are advising the farmers to rear
more home-bred stock. Here, although,
we are not to expect large profits from
such u practice, we are assured that we
shall not make losing business of it,
and may reasonably calculate on fair
compensation for our crops and labor.
This is always the safest and most salts
factory practice. while now, with de-
clining markets in all products, it is Oh
vious that all speculative ventures are
dangerous. We are now down to that
"hard-pan" condition of affairs where
only legitimate occupations can prosper.
Profits will be small, and what we real
ize we can earn. 1t is one of the COM
pensating features of this condition,
that the influence and responsibility of
industry and frugality are vastly in
creased by National Lire Stoch Jomr-
nal.
AN English butter-makcr of large cx-
pcriencc, who is now on a visit to this
country for the purpose of looking over
our cheese and butter diaries, gives us
the information concerning method i'll
practice among the best butter-makors
in England for rendering butter firm
and solid during hot weather. Carbon
ate of soda and alum are used for the
purpose, made into powder. For twenty
pounds of butter one teaspoonful of car
Donate of soda and one teaspoonful of
powdered alum are mingled together at
the time of churning, and put into the
cream. The effect of this powder is to
make the butter come firm and solid,
and to give it clean sweet flavor. 1t
does not enter into the butter, but its
action is upon the cream, and it passes
off with the buttcrmilk. The ingredi-
ents of the powder should not be min
gled together until required to be used,
or Mt the time the cream is in the churn
ready for churning.
DEVICE FOR TRANspLANTING TREES
Timothy Carroll, Anaheim. This in
ventiOn relates to novel device for
transplanting fruit trees, and consists
in connecting vertically moving tube
and guide rod or rods with frame,
whereby said tube may be operated for
the purpose of taking up the tree; also,
in lever pivoted to the frame and n
loose ring arranged within the tube
whereby the ball Of earth around the
roots of tree may be forced ont into
the hole prepared for its final reception.
A hinged piece is at the lower end of
the frame, which, during the operation
of taking up the tree, is bolted in line
Herewith, but which, after the tube and
tree have been reset, may be unbolted
and swung out of the way, in order
that the frame may be lowered and the
lever brought down to net on the rods
of the tube so as to raise the same.
GERMINATION FROM SEED Two Thou
SAND YEARS OLD.-A most interesting
observation, referring to the power of
termination in seed which is hundreds
and even thousands of years old, is said
to have been made by Professor Hend-
reich, in Greece. In the silver mines
of Laurium, only the slags left by the
ancient Greeks are at present worked
off, in order to gain, after an improved
modern method, silver still left in that
dross. This refuse ore is probably
about two thousand years old. Among
il, the seed of species of glaucium, or