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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1880-06-10
HOW TO pL0W WELL.

In the frs place have your plow sharp.
Even good workman will not be able TO
10 good work with bad tools. 1t is not
enough TO turn over clean fnrrow. GOOD
Blowing means the thorough pulverlzallon
OF the SOIL and the best plownan is he VINO
can break up the ground into the finest par
Acles. Plow an inch or so deeper each year
and thus deepen your seed-bed and bring
the subsoil into contact with light and air
Tor their chemical operations. You can
never 90 too deep provided you go slowly.
Never be in hurry at this kind Of work. II
you have not the time to do your work just
night, make the time. One acre we'll plow-
I'd Is worth two acres half way done. Ii
sock or root or any other obstruction Is In
your way stop and get rid of it entirely. II
fis rock put it Oh your fence or throw 1t
INTO a sink hole never let 1t bother you
again dispose of it at once. Do not rloe
On your plow handles. Your team has
aranght enough to overcome without your
hziness adding fifty pounds more. Riding
sn the handles never does good work.
When done take your plow and clean II
we'll and put it under cover out of the way
a wet and moisture, which, like rot, soon
sestroy valuable implement.-E1.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1880-06-10
HEN TALK.

Some people talk "horse," others talk
..cow,r and so on so we will talk hen,"
for hens, when well cared for and properly
managed. are a very profitable and desira-
BILE live stock to have on the farm.
The day for 500 and $50-apiece chicks
has about passed, and we can now get fair
specimens of almost amy of the noted breeds.
pure bred birds, Mt from two to five dollars
each. and in exceptional cases lower; so
farmers who wish to improve their flocks of
common fowls. can do SO by moderately
small outlay of cash for breeding cocks or
cockerls. lflayers are the desired qualities,
the Leghorns are the ones to select males
from, while, where flesh is the main object.
the Asiatic-the Light. the Dark Brahmas
and the Coclins-are the "heavy weights"
ON the list.
There are now hundreds OF breeders of
fine. pure-bred fowls scattered over our vast
country, and eggs or young birds can be
fought ut such moderate figures, it seems
to us that the farmers should try to have
their tiocks pure instead of mixed blood
for = single trio OF birds will, in only one
season. produce quite flock of young
clcks-enough to start fair sized yard ol
pure breds the next year.
Plenty of good, suitable food, care, shell
ter and cleanliness are the secrets Of sue
ceas, and good winter layers" are pro
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1880-06-10
TURKISH AGRICULTURE.

| see in your paper OF April 9Th q state
nent that Leynham has sent out to the
aelghborhood of Aintab aco,nbined horse
noe aud scarifier, together with forty-one
Sacks of seeds, and that others are going to
send out seed potatoes. l have lately been
az and around Aintab, and having spent
many years in Turkey, know the Turk
well, and heartily pity all now suffering
nom famine, and think shall be render
sng assistance to the distressed if point out
shat to send agricultural implements to
a ASIA Minor is quite useless. At Aintab,
ahd In all the region round about there, the
nhiy Implement that IL, or ever has been
ssed, Is rough wooden plow that Just
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1880-06-10
HUNGARIAN GRASS.

Comparatively few farmers raise this
crop, though it is very productive, and ex-
cellent for most kinds of stock, If fed In the
proper manner. The time between sowing
and harvesting is shorter than for any 1ield
crop raised on farms. 1t Is useless In this
latitude to sow 1t early in the season. 10
produce good crop the entire growth OF
the plant must take place during very warm
weather. If sown at the same time oats are
the plants will make q very slow growth,
and will remain stunted during the entire
season. The trouble some farmers haye ex.
perienced with Hungarian hay has arisen
mainly from allowing the grass to remain
uncut till the seed was nearly or quite ripe
It should be harvested as soon as the seeds
form and before they have commenced to
mature, Another difficulty has arisen from
the amount of dust Hungarian grass often
contains. AS it grows on land that was re-
GENTLY plowed and harvested, and over the
surface of which there is no sod. much dust
is likely to be disturbed in raking and pitch
ing the hay. This may be prevented very
largely by cutting the grass quite high, and
by gathering it when 1t is cured with
mandrake instead of with horse-rake. Ii
gathered in this way and pitched on the
cart when the ground is moist with dew,
nearly nil the dust usually found In Hunga.
rian hay may be avoided.--Ag. Dept casea'
90 Wmass.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1880-06-10
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POULTRY FOR PROFIT.

Profitable poultry keeping depends so
much on careful and intelligent management |
that it is not strange so many farmers, who
consider that hens can take care of them |
selves, realize but scanty returns from this
important branch of husbandry. Farmers
who fail to supply warm shelter for their
fowls in winter. or who fail to furnish proper
food, must expect TO get eggs only when
they command the lowest market price.
One may have the best known breed Of
poultry and yet fail of remuneratiye returns
if he manages badly. What is worth doing
at all is worth doing we'll 1t is true with
large range fowls need but little extra feed
ING in summer. Care should be taken that
they are supplied with fresh, pure water in
abundance both summer and winter. Many
shiftless persons allow the hens to depend
alone upon rain water or snow to slake their
thirst Ma H
TO secure a good return from eggs during
the winter season. when high prices are the
rule, proper feeding is necessary (; the fowls
should be regularly fed two or three times a
day. Their first food in the morning should
he Of a soft nature and mixed warm. A
good plan is to mix it with boiling hot wa
Ter the day before its. use, allowing it TO
cook. This soft food should not be COM
posed entirely of corn meal, as it is of too
fa tening Il nature. Scraps and shorts should
be added. also cayenne pepper in moaera-
ton. The other meals OF the day may con-
sist, of whole grainsor cracked corn. 5 10
supply eeded exercise, grain may. be scat
tered about among leaves or earth.
| Absolute cleanliness will insure tn best
results. The nights droppings should be
ceane, up daily. No farmer would think
Of leaving the manure Of his horses and cat
/ lie under their feet month after month, VI
even tor single week, yet in hundreds OF
instances poultry are allowed to roost over
their droppings, from which continually
enanate noXious gases, injurious to the
health and we'll being Of the fowls. Large
amounts of valuable fertilizer may be OBJ
tained from a flock of hens. If gathered
daily barrel of manure may be secured
from seventy.tive hens each month. A
neighbor states that last year he raised an
acre of fine corn, the only fertilizer used be-
ing five barrels of hen manure, while the
result was comparatively as large as though
S25 worth of cow manure had been used in
stead. If the roost are placed about foot
above broad shelf. the cleaning-up process
is greatly facilitated. AMy experience shows
a net profit of at least one dollar to each
bird from their eggs alone, beside the item
of dressed poultry and manure. Farmers
should give increased attention to profitable
poultry raising. Prairie Farmer.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1880-06-10
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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1880-06-10
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
2. N. SUTHERLiN, Editor.
d. II. SUTHERLIN, Associate Editor

The ROCKY MOUNTAIN. HusBANDhAN Is "eslgneh
. be as the name indicates hlspananah IL every
..mse of the term, embracing III It's Columns every
department Of Agriculture, otock-ral9H-g' hortl
.,,t,re Social and Domestic Economy.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-04
No Sugar This Fall.

We are sorry to be forced to record the
failure of the state agricultural society,"
proposed experiment in making sugar
from sorghum the coming fall. Mr.
Treasurer Stafford, who had the matter in
charge, planted about five acres in May
and the very dry weather at that time and
poor seed gave very poor stand, hardly
II stalk in rod. This was planted OIL
good corn land and but for these accidents
named should have given good growth
Another piece planted later gave nearly
the same result. and the whole field has
been plowed up.
Mr.. Charles ID. Hazen of Hartford
planted several acres, which came up in
about the same way as Mr.. Sallord's, and
have shared the same fate.
Farmer Sanborn of the college farm in
Hanover, NH, has one piece which looks
and promises well, but with the failure oil
the other and greater portions, we fear
no opportunity will be offered to utilize the
NiOP' go W. uhuOioI'Hi tHOJ VIII NV pun
chase any machinery for working the
sorghum this season, though we can hard.
ly see why it should be delayed.
Prof Collier, in his experiments, made
Il success in getting sugar from cornstalks,
and he promised profitable yield from
them. They should have at least II full
and fair trial.
Mr.. Stafford has twelve or fifteen acres
of good corn-there are hundreds of acres
within easy reach of his place. Why not
get the machinery, try cornstalks this Year
and what sorghum Mr.. Sanborn has? 1t
will ut least be enough to point the way in
experiment in that, and there are, as we
have shown, cornstalks in any desired
quantity, and this season the growth is
the best. One years time saved will be
worth infinitely more than the interest on
the cost of the machinery, and the chance
of loss of the investment will be no more
and no less this year than next, for that
will depend on the final success or failure
of the experiment
Gentlemen of the sugar committee, let
us have the trial this year and save Mr..
Sanborn's crop of sorghum and see what
Vermont cornstalks will do toward max
ing sweetening for our apple sauce
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-04

Mr. EDITOR Hero is something that
have scrubbed and you may print it or moi
Just as you feel disposed-yOu needn't put
my name to it, however, for don't intend
to go out doing washings. / didn't intend
to write anything so commonplace as
" washing" | meant to soar into some
thing lofty and inspiring when | took up
the pen, but read the tall woman's wash
ing experience, and l thought the machine
was rather snubbed. can't put the preach
ing in, perhaps she can when she comes tc
see me wash. You needn't feel obliged tC
print this; shan't be offended if yoU
don't, and I'll try again. if you can stand
it, for l don't think this is long enough tc
fulfil my part of the obligation.
am moved 10 write my washing cx
perience, after reading how this tall
strong woman thinks it early TO iinisf
washing at II o'clock am diminutiye
often called Midget" and not strong as
Sampson-but with the aid of boy o
10 rattle our weeks wash for eight per
| never would wash all day. | have ;
good machine, plenty of soft running
water and soft sop which | use plentiful
ly-wood, water and stove convenient.
put enough clothes in the machine
have plenty of hot water on them, and tel
the boy to swing the m ,chine. lie swings
il till say "stop," then wrings them out
with the wrnger, put the clothes on to
boil and take them out, su Is anl rinse
them, the boy turns the wringcr to finish
them from the rinse, lifts out the m Ichlnes
and tubs and hangs out the clothes. We
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-04
Forward March.

In short interview we had recently
with Geo. Hammond, Esq, the new su
perntendent of grounds of the stale apri
cultural society, we learned that decided
reforms are to be introduced at the com
ing fair of the society, to be held here this
fall, first of which is the exclusion from
the grounds Of all swinding, gambling
schemes which have been SO Extensively
prominent at many fairs, and too much 50
ut the state society's. Oar readers will,
no doubt, remember the FREEMAN'S out
spoken condemnation of the presence of
these seeds of corruption, these primary
schools of vice in the festivals of the
farmers, and it is with no small degree of
pleasure that we record this important adj
vance in reform in our first and most
important society, whose excellent exam
pie lesser societies would do will to imi-
tate.
Among other improvements will be ar
arrangements tending to greater fairness
in trials of speed, and for insuring greater
safety from accidents on the track; :.
large tent to contain the exhibit of agri-
cultural Implements, and tents for the
headquarters of superintendent, mar
shals, police, etc.
We believe no pains will be spared to
nuke the coming exhibition one of the
most enjoyable and profitable of our really
good state fairs.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-04

Contributors NOTES AND QUERIES. -
An inlalible cure for gapes in chickens is
to give them as much kerosene oil as they
and chickens, every day, about one table
spoonful of kerosene mixed in two quarts
of meal Or middings, and they are kept
free from gapes, tleas and lice.-A 4. B.,
Mansfield, Mass.
A teaspoonful of new warm milk turned
down the throat will cure chickens Of
i gapes, dislodging the worms, unless they
have eaten through.-R. B.
Take tail feather of hen, and wrar
fine sewing thread around the feathery
extremity, extending backward about two
inches, SO that the end OF the feather will
constitute a small swab, not much larger
than a good sized knitting needle. Wei
this in Il solution of carbolic acid tone
drop of pure crystal to Il tablespoonful o.
soft water), have an assistant hold the
chicken, open its mouth wide, draw the
tongue as far forward as possible; the
opening of the windpipe will now appear
at the top of the back part of the tongue
insert the swab into the orifce rs far us il
will 60, rotating gently several times
This process will detach and destroy the
small. thread like worms that infest this
locality, if it is thoroughly performed
and will restore the chicken to health. II
necessary, it can be repeated in two OF
three days. The chicken shonld be
wrapped up Immediately, and kept warm
until it RECEIVERS from the effects of the
operation.-G. W. Brooke, N. D., in
Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-04

CROPS IN VERMONT Having recently
taken IL trip through several towns in
Windsor county, the result of my obser.
vations send for the benefit of your read
ers. A winter without snow, and a spring
and early summer without rain, has hat
its due effect upon vegetation. 1t has beer
n trying time; but by planting seed in the
commonly wet places, and by a more care
ful cultivation, these times of drought are
more easily gotten over than in past years
Potatoes are everywhere showing lux
uriant growth, while the farmer is "A com
plee master of the situation over the bee
ties. The plan most general seems to be
to let them alone until the slugs cover the
vines, then with common watering poi
and spoonful of Paris green to Il pal
OF water, give them sprinklDg once
or twice at most, is enough for the sea-
son.
Early planted corn is far advanced for
the season while later had to contend witt
the dry weather, but promises well. A
larger acreage than usual is planted in
consequence of the lands being clear Of
snow and mud very early.
Oats, wheat and barley are looking ali
that could be desired; indeed, | do not
think | ever knew so fine promising crops
though heavy showers may lodge the grain
and lessen the yield. Although water is
scarce in many pastures, streams low and
many mills stopped, yet for some reason
the pasturage is unusually good and the
dairy interests do not suffer. Cow scrubs
are not often seen. but fine Jerseys, Dur
hams and natives are grazing in the pas
lures by the roadside.
The hay crop is being harvested, much
OF 1t early; but as the rains set in about
The first Of July very much of the grass
has grown since that time, and the wise
ones have held back and let it gvow. As
whole the hay crop may be set down as
lighter than last year, but no stock need
be sold in consequence. 1t is heavy, con-
densed and "gummy," the scythes in a
short time becoming coated and sticky.
This was nor the case last year. Many
farmers report fully as much as last year,
while occasionally a dry, gravelly farm is
almost destitute of hay. With the intro
daction of the moving machine there
comes great improvement in the fields,
which is very noticeable. Many mowIngs
which few years ago were rough, now
present the appearance of u lawn. The
mowers in use are of all the different pat
ents. The Wood is the standard; the
Clipper the pet. while the new Champion
takes the field by storm.
The most satisfactory results inevitably
follow thrifty husbandry. Fine barns lead
to fine houses, and fine houses lead to
smooth fields and intelligent and thrifty
cultivation. So true is this that if you
see but one the other readily suggests it.
self Poor crops and frowzy fields indi-
cate uninviting buildings and an ignorant
S. of WeatberSfeM in
american CaLLtUdtor.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-04

A TRIAL OF SHEEP DoGs.-Among the
novelties proposed in connection with the
international exhibition of sheep, wool
and wool products, to be held in Philadel-
phia in September, under the auspices of
the Pennsylvania state agricultural society,
is an international sheep dog trial-a
thing that has never taken place before in
this country. Among the special rules laid
down for the trials are these: Each dog
competing will be required to take five
sheep from pen, drive them certain
distance to another, and pen them there.
A fresh flock of sheep will be provided for
each dog. He. in driving. may bark or
not rs may be his habit, but biting his
sheep will be a demert. Each shep-
herd may take his dog over the ground
before the sheep are brought in, and show
or tell him what he wants him to do.
The shepherd may precede Or follow the
sheep as he may choose; he will not be
permitted to assist his dog except by voice
or gesture. lIallooing. berating, or much
bidding, or noise, will detract from the
estimate of the performance of the dog.
When dog is working, no other dogs
shall be present to distract his attention.
No person except the superintendent in
charge and the members of the jury, shall
enter the sheep ring while the dog is
working The jury will carefully note
the disposition and docility of the differ
ent ilocks of sheep, and make due allow
ance for those which are more wild than
others. Each shepherd will have the
privilege of exhibiting the working of
his dog by choosing his own kind of
work with the sheep after the regular
trial has been completed. He may also
show the training of his dog for other
practical purposes as farm or house dog.
Dogs Is months old or over must COM
pete in the aged class. Puppies under 10
months, having competed in the puppy
class. will also be eligible for entry in the
aged class. All ties will be run off on
flocks of three sheep. Tractability, ready
obedience, steadiness in driving, gentleness
in working the sheep, and general apti-
tude in the dog for the business before
him, will have due influence with the jury
in making the awards.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-04

FEED FOR BUTTER.-At this time wher
SO much attention is given to butter pro
duction, we are naturally on the lookout
for fodder that will improve both the
quantity and the quality of that product
Corn fodder holds deservedly high place
rs producing food, but the quality O.
the milk is thin unless meal be added tc
the stalks, or fed in connection will
them.
Mr.. L, w. Lcdyurd, of Cazenovia
Madison Co., N. Y, has n fine herd Of
Channel Island cows, both JERSEYS ant
Guernseys, and finds that Golden Mile
fed to his cows produce marked change
in the quality Of the butter and probably
also in the quantity. The butter comes
much firmer and of a more granular and
waxy texture. did not have the oppor-
tunity to question Mr.. l.. very closely, SC
as to learn his full experience. He has.
however, established the fact to his own
satisfaction that this is the best food lie
can give his cows to secure the best quail
ity of butter. l would have been glad to
know how Hungarian or other mllets
compared with it. The comparison in
Mr.. Ledyard's mind was clearly as be-.
tween hay and corn fodder, and Golden
Millet. Wheat bran is milk-making
food, but it does not increase the butter
very much. Cabbages and turnip tops
increase both the milk and the butter, but
do not improve the flavor. Parsnips and
carrots certainly and largely increase both
the quantity of the milk and yield of
butter, and improve the quality of the
latter. Sugar beets and manges are
among the best milk producing articles of
bovine diet, and the quality does not
suffer so far as l know. How important
it is that we should have experiments,
yielding definite and valuable results
Agyiculturist.