Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-06-28
Farm and Stock.
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!. An English farmer recently washed
pair of his horses with sheep dip, in orde
to clear them of vermin. The horse
licked the poisonous material and die
shortly atterward,
The feeding of sheep on turrips wa
introduced into England as early as tn
year 1884. -
Bot in sheep may be prevented by al
ways keeping lump Of salt in thei
troughs.
Estimating the produce of an acre il
oats at 50 bushels, they will contain As
pounds of f1esh-formlng food and 81
| pounds of fat>formiug food; while thre'
tons of hay off the same acre will carr,
$50 pounds of flesh formers and :, ~
Ipounds Of fat-formers. Hay is STANDARD
food for cattle.
Tie Boston Cuitivator advises farmers
to Try method of forcing cream which il
thus described: Strain the milk into cans
leaving some space in the top; fit on all
tight covers, and pump all the air out Of
the top of the can over the milk with an
pump: this will cause = powerful suction
through the milk, and will aid greatly in
bringing the globules of cream to the
surface.
1t is estimated that in blowing an acre
of ground two horses will make about
$50, 900 foot-marks, and necessarily harden
much of the soil on which they tread.
A horse shoe will hold much longer if
the cIinches are not weakened by the file
in finishing. Insist that the file does not
touch the end of the nail where turned
down.
An officer who commanded artillery
during the late war informs US Of the fol
lowing simple remedy for collie IN horses.
which he has tried with perfect success IN
hundreds of cases; rub the horse well be
tween the fore legs and around the girth
with spirits of turpentine. Immediate re-
lief follows.
They have discovered in Utica, N. Y.
that it is not necessary to kill horse that
breaks its Lex. A valuable mare, kicked
by another horse, had its leg which was
broken between the fetlOck and gambrel
joints mended in seven weeks. She was
slung up and the leg was first set with
splin.s and leather boot. and afterwards
q plaster of Paris bandage Was used.
vERMIN ON CATTLE.
The following good remedies for lice on
cattle appear in the Country Gentlemen i
II once rid my stock, which was badly in
tested with lice, by sitting ground plaster
along the neck and back. Two or three
applications did the work effectually
The plaster should be very fine and dry.
Another method which l have used with
great satisfaction is with carbolic acid
One ounce of carbolic crystals, one pound
IF common bar soap, melted together by
he addition of little water. Let IN
Intmal be washed in strong suds made
With this, aad it is sure death to oil para
'ites, aud will cure all skin diseases.
Both these remedies arc simple. harmless
md effectusi. Lice will live for long
line in the wood work about the barn; it
9 a good plan to whitewash about the
ean-to, and prevent their spreading in
hat way"
THE ORIGIN OF PRAIRIEs. F.,
In paper IN the American Naturalist, ,
Prof. ]. d. Whitney, after showing the
nsufficiency of ordinary theories to ex
'lain why prairies are not encroached up.
N by bordering woods, offers the follow
ng explanation of his own: s
Let us turn atpresent to the geological q
lde of the investigation. The whole OF
New England and New York, and large
art of Ohio and Indiana, together with {
he whole of Michigan and of Northern
Wisconsin, constitute region over which
he northern drift phenomena have been 9
isplayed on a grand scale. Consequently, p
lmost the whole of this area is covered Il
nth heavy deposits of coarse gravel and Q
oulder materials. These deposits, if not o
the surface, are near it, and the finer 8
Materials deposited on them, by alluvial t
other agencies, generally form only a c
hin covering for the coarse deposits be. b
cath. Bu5 as we 60 south and Yves,
-om TIE region indicated above, We fiudI
le underlying rock-the 'ted-rock,' As =,
10 Californian miners would cell it, n
eeply covered with loose materials, it is =
ue but We observe also thst these are
ute different in character from what :,
icy are to the north and east. We come /.
region where The drift agencies have q
cen very limited in their action. The n,
ulk of the superficial detritus has been =
ut little disturbed or moved from its q,
riginal position. If cratic deposits ex o
t, they are usually deeply covered with s.
ner materials derived from close at hand |;
great area exists in Wisconsin and {.
Minnesota over which not . single drift
edible has ever been found, either at the
lrface or at any depth beneath it. The
rata have become chemically Disagree.
ated and dissolved by the percolat;on of
le rain through them, the calccrous mat Il
r has been carried off IN solution, and c
'ere is left behind as residuum the in a
'luble matter which the rock originally @
and which, consisting largelylt
silica and silicate of alumina, forms by
S aggregation q silicious and clayey
cposit Of almost impalpable fireness. I,Ib
this fine material which makes up the