Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-06-21

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=. When potatos are planted, If fe'
peas be dropped in every other hill
every second row, fine crop Of green pet
No will be produced, supported by the potat
vines.
mr. Slow, gentle farm work is not injuriou
to brood mares up to two or three days a
i. their time. The exercise for them is ia
better than being confined to box sails.
vi At a late meeting of the Menawee
Mich, Farmers Club, Mr.. Abbott sal,
he had field seeded to clover on ligh
,s soil, and about the list of May noticed i
was making poor growth. so he hiret
el some boys to SOW plaster over it, and i
was done boy fashion-msking wedge
Q shaped balks across the field. He could
see these streaks for three years; on them
? the clover was small. but where the plas-
ter was applied the clover WAS large.
In Colorado the cattle men lay priority
siof claim to the range, and sheep men
think they have ~ good right to it as
: |apy body. Violence has been used to scare
sheep men away in many instances, and
outrages committed upon flocks and herd
masters. The two organizations have me.
lin convention and passed resolutions con-
demning rashness and outrage, and mutu.
IslIy agreeing TO prosecute offending par
ties. Still, bad blood exists, and in de-
spite of all concilistory or restraining
measures breaks forth in worse than fiend-
ishness. The most recent We clip from
the Pueblo Chleftain of March 6, 1877
I"$l, 900 BY the Governor of Colorado,
81, 900 BY the Sheep Owners Association
and 81 900 by the Bartels Bros. of Pueb-
10, will be paid upon the arrest and con
|viction Of the person or persons. or for
Information that will effect the arrest of
the person or persons, who killed on the
might of Monday, the Goth instant, on the
north side of the Arkansas River, abou,
six miles below Pueblo, by poisoning and
clubbing, over 800 head IF sheep, the
property of the undersis ned. -BARrELs
Bros"
THE s1ANIsH MERINO.
The Romans wore nothing but wooden
goods. they had no cotton; they had a
little linen, which was worn as material
of luxury; they had no silk. They cult
waited the sheep with great care, and some N
Of their richest possessions were In sheep II
But there was one breed of sheep which It
they cultivated with great care, and BY Ia
hat system of selection which Darwin IL
'peaks of as the source of perfected forms III
If our domestic animals. 1t was called {
rarentine sheep. from Tarentum, city of L
}reek origin, situated at the head If the tt
rarentine gulf. The fleece of this sheep m
vas of exceeding fineness; it was of q
reat dclicacy, and the prices paid tor il N
we're enormous. The sheep were clothed It
cold weather TO Keep them warm; and
ne result was they were very tender, and tn
heir wool Yves very fne. They were q co
roduct of Greek civilization transmitted b,
own to the Romans Columella, the de
reat Roman agriculturist, says that his mi
ncle, residing in Spain, crossed some of 80
lo fine Tarentine sheep with some rams mi
lat had been imported from Africa and SIX
Re consequence was that these animals fiji
I'd the whiteness of fleece of the father de
it'll the f1neness of fleece Of the mother, raj
I'd that race was perpetuated. Here We tut
e an improvement of the stock, an in ira
case of strength and productiyeness in,
ven to the fne-wool sheep of Spain. GU
that time the sheep of SPAN were of an
'Eense value; for StrabO says that sheep ths
ON Spain, In the time of Iiberlus, were mi
rried to Rome. and sold for the price of !
alent Zone thousand dollars head. In me
time OF our Saviour, thousand dol. CHI
g were given in Rome for Spanish thi
eep. When the barbarians inundated we
'ly, these fine wool sheep were all swept fla,
ay; but they remained in Span. They she
re cultivated by the Moors in the noun but
rs OF Spain, which were almost mac it b
slble, and were rot reached by the or t
rides of Huns and other Northern bar. ella,
'lans, which had laid waste the greater mai
'tion OF the Roman possessions. They
'tinued to be nourlshed there bv the A
ors. who were very much advanced in Iges'
}, aud further on were found there as he'll
Spanish MeriEo. Lo that the Spanish Ant
rino which we now have, If not the best
y, 10 at ali events by far the most i'm higl
tant relic that we have 10 dav which Far
come down to Us from Greek and Ro. to c
material civilization. We have here find
irect inheritance from the material up
'lth of the Old World civilization. ht n
sim
The Household. thai
1900. ges'
FASHION NOTES pro,
1any Of the new polonaises and saaues .o o
'e diagonally in front. 10. .ss,
waistcoats are worn With No.;
es' new Breton costumes. &. ,hor
Lemstitchcd hsndkerchiefs, with deep|ten
pred borders, are used for rnonrn,nrlhars