Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-08-16
Fur72l and Stock.
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ably larger this year than last, when
was about GOO, 900 pounds, netting III
sheep owners $l50,OOO.
Foreign papers say that the limit o
cattle raising has been reached in Europe
and that Great Britain aud the continen
can take two millions of beeves annual,
from the United States.
Prof. Stewart, of Cornell University
has found by actual experiment that on,
quarter OF an acre we'll set in clover j.
sufficient to feed one cow $50 days, if Gu
and fed her, while if allowed to run on 1t
tswould not probably last two weeks.
We never could see what vice or de
formity lay in horses eye that should
make 1t necessary to cover it up and shut
out its owner from at least two thirds of
his rIghtful field of vision. The poets
cay that old age looks backward, but we
never heard of such an idiosyncrasv
charged upon horses. The theory that a
horse is less apt to be frightened when
shut out from every thing behind him we
suspect to be fallacy. else saddle horses
and warehouses would be duly blinded.
Every horse is as familiar with his own
carriage as with his own tall, and as far
% his personal" fortitude is concerned
Is no more disturbed at being pursued by
one than another. As for other scare.
crows that come behind. they are mostly
1amillar 10 the animal, and the more
1uIly the horse can perceive them the
more quietly does he submit to their an
proach. Then it is such pity 10 cover
up one OF the most brilliant features oil
THIS most brilliant creature. The horsel
mas borne such hand in the civilization
OF this ugh-and-tumble world that i'll
seems rot 70 much a cruelty a. a dis.
courtesy, as well as disgrace, to hide his
form with embarrassing toggery. Mol
wonder we estimatethe force in the worldI
Us horse power; no wonder the Romans
AND Germans, each in their own language.
designated their aristocracy as riders, ne
wonder their descendants made chivalrv
. synonym for their highest virtues. Let
the horse be given his due, and unblinded
HARVEST DRlNKs-ENGLIsH GINGER BEER
f0ur four quarts boiling water on one
ounce and half of ginger, one ounce of
cream tartar, one pound broken sugar and
two lemons sliced thin. Put in two eills ,
yeast, let it fermept twenty-four hours
ana bottle IT. This is declared by those
VINO pave used it, to be extra nice.
- Wa GINGER BEER.
Put two gallons of cold water on the fire
ana add two ounces of bruised ginger
root. and two pounds of clean brown
sugar. bet it boil half an hour, then
skim and pour into a jar and add one
sliced lemon and half an ounce of cream
tartar. when nearly cold add a tea cupful|
OF ysaet and after it has '.worked,' for
TWO days. strain it and bottle for use
Care must be taken to tie the corks down.
drmIy. - II
SPRUCE BEER.
Mix thoroughly in pail, three quarts
01 molasses and one ounce of the essence '
OF spruce, to this add one pound of the 10
best ginger, fill the pail with boiling I
water, then pour the mixture into clean '
aalf barrel, and ill it up with cold water
Add Squart of yeast and shake the wholeIv
veil together. After fermerting one or o
NO qays. The bung may be put in, and it .
VII &c nj for boiling or for immediate d
l.