Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-02-01
mnst not be permitted under any clrcuii-

must not be permitted under any circum-
stances.
Copperas for sheep.-Mix one pouho u
copperas to five pounds OF salt.
Saltpetre for sheep.-Two pounds 10 ono
mound of salt. 1t regulates the secretlohs'
and gives fine activity to the skin ana KID
neys.
Salts and ashes, given once a week TO
sheep promotes digestion. The appeule VI
sheep so treated will be found strong ana
yoracious.
For lung fever in sheep, use pine Tar III
doses of a spoonful twice a day, II a oau
case. Some keep it in troughs and put salt
on it. 1t IS good, too. for the sniffies.
A citizen of Clark county, KY, recently
killed q pio which had no liver. The anil
NAL was in good condition, and weighed ooo
pounds.
The pig, says DR.. Spalding, in the Popu-
lar Science Monthly, is an animal hat mas
its wits about it, quite as soon after birth as
the chicken.
W.. II. Walkers, of Kentucky, has sold a
two-year-old bay colt to the Messrs. SIM
mons for $4,000. Sire, Geo. Wilkes; dam,
Imperial Glencoe.
Sonoma creek, California, is well stocked
with carp, which have descended from live
of their kind brought from Germany a few
years ago.
Mr.. Joseph Woods, of Moberly, Mo-, sold
l.. Tv...-x o-o,Lo,.o r civ hnrc 1vhich HyaiOhpI
1880 pounds. One of them weighed 800,
and a pair 1000 pounds.
They call Mr.. Hif"O Old K. K. K" (Which
means cattle king of Colorado" He OWNS
5000 head, and for sixty miles along the
Platte, no brand but his is seen.
Several days since Jos. FL. Walters, a not
ed cattle thief, broke out of the Montezuma
Iowa) Jail, and fled to Chicago, where he
was captured and returned to Iowa.
Mr.. Robert Steele, of Philadelphia, Pa,
has sold to a gentleman OF that State, the
five-year-old horse, Milton Medium, by Hap
by Medium, dam by Sackett's Hambleton-
ian, for $4,000.
The period of CESSATION of the ewes is 15l
to 152 days, so that to have the lambs COM
mence coming by the first OF April the
buck should be turned with the ewes by the
first of December.
Vermont Maid, w. III. Gregory's fast
mare that won so many matches during the
last season, is stabbed for the winter at Jer
sey City. Budd Doble will take her to trail
in the spring.
So for this year not less than $4,000 hea(
of beef cattle have been driven from Oregon
and eastern Washington, down toward thu
Pacific railroad, the greater part destined
for San Francisco.
A fat horse is a proportionally veal
horse. The strong, powerful horse is no
made up of fatty substance. He has larg'
bones and large muscles; and in these, an
these alone, consist his superior physics
powers.
After three Of four years of age, when tn
milking habit is formed, calves may be dea
coned with less feeling on the part Of tn
mother. She is used to the hand of man
I and becomes by habit reconciled to her lot
+, The increase of lambs is increase of WOO
and hence, especial attention should be civ
: Ell to the ewes at Landing time, and the nee
essary means employed to have the lamb
to come as early in the season as practicable
Mr.. E. A. Smith, of Norwood stock farm
Lawrence, Kansas, has sold to 4. A. Tan
! ner, of Whitewater, Wis.,, the four-year-ol
bay 1illy Sunshine, by Bourbon Chief, on