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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20
NO. IA. !.

ANY undue chilliness at that period kills the
germ, and the egg becomes what is termed
rotten. Ii the sitter shows the right turn
in her movements and is set in the same
nest wherein she dropped her eggs she will
manage affairs to best suit herself and her
owner. 1t Is not necessary to provide extra
feed for her consumption, or put It in 4
place easy OF access. 1t is sufficient If it be
kept in the old runways; she will find it
when needed. Nature teaches the bird
through the instinct how to take care Of her.
self. Early chicks require more care than
the later ones. The cost of rearing is great
er, but the value also Is increased. The
early chick is apt to receive stunt and be-
come dwarfed, but for exhibition purposes.
when grown without deformity, is valuable
and highly priced Only the early birds
become fully feathered and developed be-
fore the storms come on, and therefore thew
must come from the shell in the early spring
months. N taFss
A sitter should never be given valuable
eggs until she has thoroughly settled down
to business, unless eggs be plenty. Many
have prejudice concerning numbers, pre-
ferring an odd before an even one. A good
sized Brahma will comfortably cover fifteen
eggs; but in cold weather it is better to al
low her but thirteen. The nest should net
be too much followed out, as in that case
the eggs will roll to the center and become
heaped up, one lying OH the top of the
others. The bottom ones consequently do
not receive sufficient degree Of warmth
and do not hatch. The nest should be lined
with fine, soft hay, and secluded from the
approach of all other hens. In twenty-one
days the chicks come forth, and the task OF
rearing commences. Many difficulties at
tend the early chicken that the later broods
escape. They require protection from rats
and other yermin with which buildings are
infested to greater extent at the early sea-
son.--C. B. IN Country Gentleman. s s
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20

THE HOUSEHOLD.

Ginger Pound Cake.-Take cupfuI OF but
ter, cupful of sugar, cnpful of molasses.
> cupflll OF sifted flour, eggs, teaspoon
ful Of cream tartar, small teaspoonful Of
soda dissolved in cupful Of milk. one
Tablespoonful OF ginger, and tablespoon
ful OF cinnamon are very good. IA
Astor House Rolls.-Into two quarts OF
honr put .. piece of butter the size OF an
egg, little salt, ore tablespoonful Of white
sugar, one pint Of milk scaltied and added
while warm; halt emp Of yeast, or one
small cake; when the sponge is light mold
for fifteen minutes let rise again, roll out.
cut into round cakes, when light fatten with
the hand or rolling-pin place piece OF but
ter on top and fold each over itself; when
light bake in quick oven.
Soft Mctasses Cakes. Take pint OF mo-
lasses, half cupful OF butter. a teaspoon
fnl Of salt, q teaspoonfnl Of ground einna-
mon, the same OF cloves, nutmeg, q tea
spoonfuls Of baking soda dissolved in d tea
cnpfnl Of boiling water (cnffee is nicer. il
gives the cake a lovely flavor and richer
COLOR, flour enough to make a batter that
VIII VIII luii iIoIH TIE spoon and not stiff enough
to drop; bake half an hour. ia
Enamel for Shirt Bosonas. Melt together
with gentle heat, one ounce of white wax
and two ounces of spermaceti; prepare In
the usual way sufficient quantity Of starch
for dozen bosoms. put into it piece OF
this enamel the size of hazel nut, and ii,
for larger number. This viii
give clothes beautiful polish.
faney Dssh.-Take half dozen eggs.
make hole at one end and empty the shells:
fill them with blanc mango; when stiff and
cold take off the shells; pare lemon rina
very thin, boil in water till tender. then cut
in thin strips to resemble straw, and preserve
in sugar. fill deep dish half full of jelly or
nice cold custard. put the eggs in and lay
the straw, neet-like, around them.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20
LIME AS A FERTILIZER.

The value Of manure is no longer doubt
full subject to q weste. n farmer. Farmers
i'll the western states, excepting possibly
those who are now for the first time break
ing up new prairie in Kansas, Nebraska, or
Minnesota, are now compelled to lookfal-
most as closely to their manure supply as
the most impoverished eastern farmer.
Among manures we must include what in
ntradistinction are known as fertilizers,
and lime is the most important although the
most common Of these. There is no other
mineral that is more plentiful than lime. 1t
is found almost everywhere in the west
From western New York to the Missouri
river, the underlying rock is almost every
where limestone, and it is curiously true
that the application of lime is equally effect
I've on limestone land as upon clays and
sandy loans where no lime is to be found.
There is no cheaper fertilizer than lime.
When used upon soils rich in vegetable mat
ter but which have been exhausted by con-
tih'aed cropping, it restores them at once
through its effect in rapidly decomposing
the inert organic matter, and reducing it to
soluble plant food. When used upon clav
or sandy soils, of which potash rocks, such.
as mica, feldspar, or greensboro form con-
siderable portion, it is equally effective as it
frees the potash from its combinations and
renders it soluble. It has the same effect
upon soils containing insoluble prosphoric
acid. and releases it from its inert condition
and makes it available as plant food to some
extent. There is no other fertilizer to be
procured by the farmer so cheaply as lime,
that is at the same time SO effective, or that
can be proftably used.-Ru.alN Neso Yorker.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20
AGRICU 1T 7 RAJ.

TO SELECT a suitable list of journals for
the farmer fireside is by no means a trivial
matter. The minds of the young are more
or less moulded by what they read, and
hence every home should be supplied with
the choicest matter that can be procured,
variety is also very essential. Every farm
house should be supplied with good liter
ary journal. a Journal of fashion and one
devoted to fun and merry making, besides
the substantial farm and stock Journals,
without which 10 farmer or stock grower
can proceed intelligently. Nothing is bet
ter calculated to drive away the dull monot-
ony of country life than good supply of
periodicals. Farmers papers are as essen
tial as his implements of husbandry, but the
list should not close with these as the body
tires of labor SO will the mind tire of con-
tinual feast Of agricultural topics, and more
particularly is this true of the young folks.
DO not narrow them down to the dull rou-
tine of the farm and household. Give them
feast Of history, travel, science, romance,
wit and fashion. that they may know what
this great world is made of, and become in
telligent.and useful members of society. If
our farmers and stock-men would have their
children grow up fully acquainted with life,
have them become intelligent, honorable.
hign-minded citizens. they should see that
they are supplied with good variety of
reading matter from the time they learn to
read until they are ready to push out into
the world on their own account. 1t is the
home, the farmhouse not being thus sup
piled, that makes so many of our farmers
sons and daughters grow weary of county
life and so ready to accept any condition
that promises change.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20
SOWING OATS EARLY.

In few things have the advantages of an
underdrain soil Shown to better effect than
in oat-growing. Light soils are not favora-
ble to the oat, and yet it is the light soils
which are the early ones. On the other
hand the oat requires moderately low tenn
perature of at least two months to perfect
its root-organization. It ought to be one of
the earliest crops soWn in spring. but our
strong soils Or which the oat does best are
often wet soils, and very unfayorable to
early sowing.
Those who have strong soils, and yet toll
erably dry, have the very best OF oat land,
and those who have not must watch eyery
chance to get in the seed early if they would
have the best results.
Those who know this and yet have land
for oats which they feel they will hardly be
able to seed before the end of April, some
times prepare the land in the fall, and then
sow the seed on the snow in February.
Snow in our region is too precarious to found
any system thereon. We may have snow
or we may not. But in the western states,
where snow is regular thing at that time
OF the year, we notice that the practice is
growing into favor. Those who have tried
it say the seed sprouts as soon rs the first
warm days of spring come, some two weeks
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20
THE PLEASURES OF GARDENING.

At the Fruit-growers' meeting at Read
ing two weeks ago, Mr.. Thomas Meehan
delivered an address on this subject, which,
while it attracted good deal of attention
from the fact that it was not hackneyed,
served as dessert to the large dish of prac-
tlcal matters which the society had disposed
of. Nothing could be truer than the views
taken OF gardening by the speaker. There
are pleasures of memory and pleasures OF
! hope, which are the ideals of thought. but
the pleasures of gardening are something
| tangible, something to be enjoyed day by
day, something real. encouraging and hope
fnl; something indeed created by ones own
hands that will in due time come forth in
freshness and beauty to delight the eve and
minister to the cravings of the appetite.
Gardening in all its ramifications should
be source of the sweetest enjoyment to
every Well-trained mind. The spending of
two hours day-one in the morning and
one in the evening-Which need in no way
interfere with the regular days business.
will prove more invigorating and health
giving than ali the drugs and medicines i'm
the world. Every portion of the body is
exercised. Even the STOPPING position
which SO many object to, performs an i'm
portant office. The fragrance of the fresh
earth is strengthening and agreeable. But
every part of the labor gives the system
that degree of moderate exercise which il
SO necessary to its proper equilibrium !.
hence. while we are performing this indis-
pensable amount of work to reach pros
pectiye result we are laying down for our
selves foundation for superstructure of
prolonged health which few other resorts
could afford.
The pleasures of gardening, moreover.
reach their acme only in the products which
are the result of the efforts in preparing for
them and watching the processes from the
seed-dropplng to the matured flower or veg
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20

at least ahead of the regular April sowings,
and the crop proportionately increased, We
may not find this plan everywhere feasible,
but we may be encouraged always to sow
at the earliest time practicable.-G German
torn Ieleqraph.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20
The POULTRY YARD.
HATCHING CHICKENS EARLY,

l
Sitting hens are certainly annoying. where
this desire is nearly constant. yet have seen
the time when the first broodiness of hen
was hailed with great joy. On some occa-
sions, especially with amateurs, early chick
ems are desirable, and that is when the birds
are intended for exhibition. Where eggs
alone are the desideratum, constant brood
mess among the hens is intolerable. To
avoid this, the nonrsitters should be culti-
waited. It is really trying, when eggs are at
30 to 80 cents per dozen, to find the majority
of your hens down with the sitting fever, at
/ mid-Winter. Yet the larger breeds will do
it, 10 matter how great the emergency.
Broodiness is contagious, and where once
introduced among flock Of Brahmas, is
likely to effect all alike. The infusion of
Leghorn blood remedies this evil to great
extent. and increases the production of eggs.
Where sitters are required for early chicks,
the Brahma mother, by all odds, is to be
preferred !, not only from the fact that she is
steady and persistent sitter, but for many
other good qualities thatshe possesses above
all others. According to my experience,
the Light Brahma is the more tractable. be-
ing more quiet. The Partridge Cochin hen
Is too sluggish and Indifferent for a good
sitter. She breaks her eggs, and when her
chicks hatch is liable to kill them by the
careless. clumsy manner in which she gov
erns her movements.
For very early chickens. an Asiatic moth
er is to be preferred before all others, as her
body is larger and warmer Il never found
artificial heat conducive to health and
strength) than the smaller birds, and this
bodily warmth is highly .necessory at all
seasons OF the year. She possesses an am
pie coat OF feathers, which retains the
warmth, and is calculated to accommodate
and keep large brood comfortable. The
mother that broods them makes all the diff
ference with the chicken, not only at hatch
ing time, but ever AFTER Where early sit
ters are required, allow the Brahma sepa-
rate apartment from the non-sitter and there
will be found little difficulty wheiI egg are |
TO Deset. Where the non-sitters are allowed |
to associate with them they soon break up |
any tendency to brooding, especially in cold |
weather. The smaller breeds generally |
have the ascendency and rule the roost, il |
not the roast. The Brahmas are quite low
minded fowls, and a roost two inches from
the ground suits their taste Just as well as
one ten feet high. The sitting hen should.
where it can be done, always have her nest
on the ground, that she may walk on and
off, and not be compelled to use her wings
in going to and from the nest. A regular
sitter that means business seldom leaves the
nest oftner than once i'm two or three days.
The first week of incubation is the most
critical one. for then the embryo begins its
growth, and the tender life is sensitive.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20

etable. The changes going on from day to
day in their gradual development fill the
heart with Joy and interest; and when the
consummation is attained and we behold
before us the fruition of the seasons achiev-
ments,, the pleasure accompanying us from
the beginning to the end can be estimated
only by those who are the actual partici-
pants.-Ge77nantoson Telegraph.
The seeds of wheat possess vitality
which resists intense cold. A sample of the
wheat left by the Polaris, in 1871, iii 81 !,
l6 min. north latitude, and exposed to a
temperature varying from that OF summer
TO that Of winter in that position for five
years, was sown last year by DR.. Schan-
burg, Of the Botanic gardens and govern
ment plantations, South Australia, and out
OF three hundred grains, sixty germnated
and produced plants, three or four feet high,
with ears containing thirty grains each.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20
DUBLIsHED WEEKLY RY .vzM
r. N. SU,THERLlN,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,

The Rocky MOUNTAIN HUsBANDMAN is designed
60 be, as the name indicates husbandnan il every
sense OIL the term, embracing in its columns every
department OF Agriculture, Stock-raiaii.g, Horti-
culture, Social and Domestic Economy
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20

Transient advertisements pavanle i'm advance
Regular advertisements payable quarterly
Twenty-Five per cent. added for SPECIAL advertise
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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-20
Army APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.

q Washington, March 1.-THE senate's ex-
session to day was wholly devoted to
IN animated discussion of the report of he
judiciary committee on the question of the
right of the senate to confirm nominations
for army appointments and promotions above
the rank Of captain, in view Of the act of
June 10, 1873. which prohibited such ap-
pointmants snd promotions until after The
action of the commission commonly known
q the Burnside commission shall be made
andcacted upon BY congress. The conclusion
Of the judiciary committee that this prohib-
itary clause is still in force was to-day sup
potted I'm ar1ument by Messrs. Garland,
Naxey and Thurman, and was combatted by
Measrs. Randolph, Hoar, Butler. Logan and
Burnside. A number of other senators
participated briefly in the debate, but the
foregoing were the principal speakers. The
advocates of the judiciary committees view
argued that although various proceedings
we're takM M4sch house of the forty-6fth
congreefnpS6 the report submitted by the
Burnsi6e5 bmmission, no act either In affirm.
RmE SNisafirmance thereof ever received
tSrrence of both houses, and there
aeeNl1s no action of congress has ye
zen upon that report. It was ak
at 1t would he unwise for the senat,
the pending nomination, becaus
PIT of different construction bein)
IN the law by the house Of repre-
md courts there would be grea
NAconfusion in readjusting tn
esgs whose promotions Nigh
t31&t6sf4t0sevgk heye been illegal. The resul
fbSo1&dsred!d 0sbtful, although the recon
A6Hd6shnna IL sindiciarv committee AZ
1s4aaiiy tusSfnS4gA
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-20

I N. Washington correspondent Of The
Chicago htarO oss. says thasAhe dsmscrasa
have about decided to pass the appropriation
bills and adjourn. Senator Eaton said in
his speech thath would never vote for the
army bill without. the clauses prohibiting
the use oftrSefps atahe polls, but he rep!Fees.
ents but few ofAn1isa ID o6nat1sndthe
opinion has been gfosins fqssaNsnld sas
until it is now almost universal ar5tong dem,
ocrats, that the best thing they can do is%p
pass the appropriation bills without the
political riders, pass the repeal Of the test
oath, which the president vii! aign4 iaAqe u
address to the eopntrE, proclainming that tn
liberties 81 the 1p5escpiss are being tfamplet
upon, and adjourn. This eoasspohdsa
states further that there will b, a attenp
to get caucus action upon the proposition t
let the army bill drop. and it would have
succeeded a week ago, but it will % now
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-20
HOUSE 3rlAats AND WINDOW hardening

U s. HOLSTER in ST. Paul Dispatch.
|. Every sprine, %, coon as the. weather Il
above freezing point. loIg before the trees
have budded or the grass commenced e
grow green; frequentefs oftbe large 'marke
houses-in ouf,city will observe long row.
Of house plants 10 bloom there exposed fol
sale, and a. the season adsasce will NEE,
every few steps eome one bearing away
these floral treasures to adOrn and beauti.
Fly theft homes. [ always feel sorry, on
these occasions, for the purchasers. who
are Doubtless anticipating much pleasure
in the possession of-them, for nine chances
out. ofetenthey-are doomed to disappoint
ment. The changes from the warm. moist
fn1enbOuse % The bleak winds, where they
irefthoroughH chilled, and then 70 the dry,
hot cir of Q sitlng room. IL sure to make
the plants drop tneil leaves and blossoms.
I'll much better to Hait until the middle
of May before i%ndulgiGg much in either
house or bedding plants. tor by that time
the risk is small, and the result more like.
II to prove satisfactory.
It will soon be time N prepare window
boxes, and no one Who has hitherto failed
to possess one can realize how much better
plants grow in them. and how much less
trouble they are than when kept in pots.
Il Ne most convenient SDape Is 10 nave lne
length fit snuely to the sill, and be about
fourteen inches wide and nine deep. l
cover them With oil cloth, the pattern of
which is no longer than the depth Of the
box. Around the edges tack or glue a
plain, narrow moulding. but unless the box
be 10 acouspicuous place this Can be dis
pensed with, as the. vines and droop ng
plants eoon cover the edge entirely. The
outer edge Of the box mus, be secured by
wire 10 the window frame: Small hooks
or staples answer the purpose nicely. A
market basket of leaf mold and half as much
more sandrw will fill it and mske a good rich
mixture fsr the pisntsa:. 1t Is astonishing
how Tmsuy ore OF these boxes will hold,
and when given q little kt,mulsnt onc- q
week Of manure or smmonia, water vii
thrive luxuriautly. SGt9E& ~
To those ladies' who procure plants every
season to stock their verbena beds let N,
Say that I14hsve found those grown from
seed IRE usually larger, richer colored ant
more fragrant thaulsny you al buy in pots
Try it once and see,f your own experienc
will knot support my assertion. OF course
they're not quite SO early as the Others
but seem ever 10 much harder, withstand
ling ddtou,h more readily, mpking rspi
/ growth. and blooming freely. W
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-20

Darlington, Ia, May n.-Ths Hawkey'
will publish On Sualay metning . specia
EeeSp report from sSer one hundred point
"A Iowa. They hoy : iacpeeed ac.sag,
HEheat and.oefn. snd.tlAe. 9TH SetE'
1(1ps are in exSlllelt cosattttH he ~
SSfshas been dig, which ~ e6Sbled ~ y
u pillow lands that we're Aotstiilahe ~
vet season. In few localities drouth haa
done some damage, but a . rule the recent
rains came il time to leave the
crops in good shape. But in
most sections more rain will-be neen-
ed within . week Or ter, daYs 20 keep the
crops 81 gooaIcondiuel.l OFT aAdlhsy VII
FIJI short Of the yield last year, owing =
Me decreased acreage or OATS 6own-a N the
dry season. Other crops promise . good
vield. ~ ..
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-20
OF RICH MEN
ChicapoTimes


It il distressing to think how poor rich
men really are. There was Vanderbilt, Who
votes on thirty millions of railroad stock,
and insists in New York upon having =
boulevard to speed his blood dIborn.esn mon.
Mr.. Vanderbilt marched up to the ofice, Of
the tax commissioner and placidiy subseribs
ed tosanoSth thatShe al not the owner Of
any taxable property vhateEeF. The poor.
devils Who are periodically Knocked over
BY his fast hcrsas paid thsa1anicipaIity Of
New York more tax thahGkEgaMr. Cyrus
w. Field 9 ssems TO sts troubled
with tn fIINenderbilt COMPLAINT. He
clstns that 1ithin abort time 81 hss SaApa
th~ree-quaitefs of million to MSgsNflI
throush.hisslS dsrailwsy venS
has . residence u Hramercy pafk
known asa New Yorker. The
sionsn ssseised hts PSxsonal prepSdy
$1OO,QOO: III protested that he 18sGl11fi
that, w~astaxable, and that his homosj31i
Tsrrytown. He-went himself
counsel to see the commissionGH
theniusistsa fiat if'Nr Field4S6S
able property and having besa.MeS
the5o~nef Of such, It was hi 4otfauSs
the law toWakes m Affidavit t11Ask
He didn't want to do this, h16S c.
missioners would not relieve G4aaeGasaia
Then he made this affdavit. EsasEsaESrSsN
Field, do,sxear thstaI have
property: in this state subject 70 9xSapl
above my debta.* He was relieved. Ri
truly pitiable that men like Mr.. Vsndefbfl
and MI.kield are not in condition to bel
support the government of a municipalit
of vhich they clsimrtebs distinguished an
and Ah6ste1empfar1 citizens.