Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-11-08
.ArollRd the farm.

Iowa farmers near large towns have
been forced into Il system Of rotation o.
crops by the boys. Last year they cult
waited watermelons. This year they have
principally raised shot-guns.
A Virginia city, Nevada. Chinaman
has invented plan for using old tin cans,
so that these articles need no longer prove
stumbling block for the unwary in the
highway. He has built high fence with
them around his garden patch.
Moving and reaping machines should.
as soon as they are done with in the har-
vest field. be put under shelter immediate
~. The first wet or rainy day afterward
set the boys to work to take the machinery
apart-at least, enough to enable YOU to
get at all the parts readily-and scrape and
clean of all the dirt and gum. using coal
oil to loosen the Latter. Wipe it dry. and
give the part good oiling, not forgetting
the wooden parts.
1T is well enough known that an ami
NAL with quiet temperament grows and
thrlves much better than one that is easily
excited. shy or wild. In the latter the
waste OF material is considerably larger.
therefore, more disposed to disease. Ev-
cry farmer knows that horse, for in
stance. which is quiet and docile needs less
food. keeps better. is able to do more work.
and is usually also healthier. than one that
Is always restless. easily excited or wild.
Still. spirit and strength must not be mista-
ken for an excitable temperament. An an
l'nal may be spirited and be very docile and
quiet.
The Mark Lane Express (England) an
hounces that Great Britain will need all the
wheat the American market can furnish.
wheat is not as high at this time in Liver
pool as it was expected it would be. This
is simply owing to the fact that our shin
pers have ovcrcrOwded the market. The
situation is too favorable to this country
TO be abused either by combinations to
glut the market for the time being. to en-
force eXorbtant prices by Withholding
proper supplies. The true policy is to fur
nlsI Europe with wheat only as RAPIDLY rs
Europe demands it. Under that policy,
lair prices will rule to the end. for nothing
AN now happen mot even the close of the
lurkO-Russian wary which would cut off
lie European demand for American bread
tufts for this year.
Before the drought of 1864 Los Anee-
IS county. Cal, was renowned for the
OF her cattle. They literally COW
req a thousand hills. and it was sometimes
angerous for anybody but vaquero TO
o out OF town any considerable distance.
'uring 1864 hundreds Of thousands of
ldes OF horned cattle were sent out Of the {
ountry. These pelts were stripped from
attic which had died of starvation. and .
hey were called murrain hides. TIE dis
ppearance of these cattle inaugurate,l the :
"a OF farming in Los Angeles. 1t was a
lessing in disguise, and most of the thou
.nd productive farms OF which the coun- :
y now boasts owe their existence to that
rought.
1t is now argued that it is unnecessary
Kill broken-legged horses. and case in
pint is stated: Twelve weeks ago the nigh Z
nd leg of valuable and favOrite mare :,
'ned by Mr.. Williams, of Utica, was /;
oxen by Kick from another horse. The q
actllIe was halfway between the fetlock s,
d the gambrel joint, and was complete. u
veterinary surgeon undertook to set the
:. A canvas sling was arranged. and the
Ne eus pended in It n ~ h way that