Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-31
Farm and Stock.

Hoe the cabbage while the dew is or
but never hoe beans while they are wet.
1t is estimated that the loss sustained b
Iowa farmers during the past year on az
count of hog cholera will amount t
$500 600.
A herd of 10000 horned cattle, attende,
by 1000 drivers, was not long ago driver
from ranch in Kansas to Texas.
Save the BIRDS" exc'ams the For
Dodge Times. ''Dr. Nicholson informs
US that he shot prairie chicken at sever
O'Clock in the morning that had sixty ON,
grssshoppers in its crop, and also rec
sparrow whose crop contained thirteen
grssshopper eggs.''
Asuecessful experiment in transplant
ing cabbage stalks has been made by Mr.
John Rocbaugh, of Jefferson City. The
stalks or roots which he cut from his cab
bsge last season and kept through the
winter by bedding in the ground, having
been planted about two weeks ago, are
growing nicely. They are coming out in
several proDgs, with leaves from two to
four inches long. Mr.. r intends pruning
them ina few days, leaving the main
stall. and eating the prunings, which
make excellent salad.
There are $500, OOO, 900 invested in cows
In the United States. The estimated value
OF butter that can be produced from a
nrst.class COW is $94; while common COW
will produce $50 to $40 worth.
In Spain, an OK or cow consumes an.
nually sixty pounds of salt, horse thirty
and zig sixteen. The Swiss say 1t is
impossible to have good meat or milk
without salt. The latter is cheaper in
Switzerland than in France, and yet it ia
France supplies the SWISS market with
salt.
ANOTHER BIG FARM.
Mr.. X. Hadwin, of Canada, has brought
"a horses to open a large wheat farm
alongside of the Cass or DalrympIe farm
in Cass county, Dakota, % miles west of
Fargo. He has associated with IL. s.
bsck, ESQ.,, of Fargo, in the purchase of
nearly 6,OV acres of the choice lands on
the Northern Pacific railroad in the Red
RIVER Valley. While Mr.. Back has en-
ergy ard years of experience in Western
farming. 1r. Hadwin has the means and
knn|ledge of farming in all its details
IN! bespeak for this firm success in
the'r 'dertaking. They have rented
1,OOacl for wheat this season and will
bEeak up 200 acres of new land and nut
me 5000 acres into wheat as soon as ,rac-
acabIe. A. party of l6 persons came
with MI. Hadwin to settle in Cass county
and seem to be delighted with the country
although in the winter season it does not
]ook SO favorable as at other seasons of
the year. They say no one in Canada
would believe that this is so fine country
without seeing it, or that there was SO
gsod chance for poor man to get such
good lands for so little money. Each one
OF these men can get 240 acres Of the bestI
lend the sun eyer shone upon for S2S i'll
they cultivate aud live on the land. Wheat
1t Fort Garry is 90 cents per bushel and
q rs q Fargo.
81. niS BUTTER SALT.
The American salt is claimed 20 be the
best in the world, aud we doubt not it is.
ct least, rs good as the best. Some of the
Hsghsh brands also stand very high. but
~ always find this difference, that the
English IS more subject 10 become hard and
Jhmpys apd when this is the case, it does
not, We TIE American, readily pulverize
49, By hide crushing in the hand. |
The English Is much more Troublesome to
unsin the dairy and If our dairywomenl
could o1d become acquainted with our
kmkflcan salt, they would meyer pstronizeli
~ faadNa article afterwards. Nor do
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