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POULTRY HOUSES.

Editor Husbandman:
Some time about the new year you had a
tew lines in your poultry column, saying
that some neighbor had built a root house
above ground, with double walls and an air.
space between, and recommended the same
plan for chicken houses. The writer took
exception to the plan; said such a root
house might do in mild winter, but would
not stand heavy frosts, and unless well ven
tilated it would simply be a charnel house
for chickens, and gave his experience with
two different chicken houses for several
years, at the same place and at the same
time-a cold, well ventilated and a warm
one. AS the communication has not appear.
ed in the HUsBANDMAN, it was probably lost
by the burning of the post office in Broad
water, McNamara g. Co.'S store at Fort Ma
ginnis, so | will try and give you the rest OF
the article from memory.
The small house was about lOxl4 feet
with low walls built OF dry hewn logs. well
chinked, aud plastered inside and out. had
dirt roof, was under cattle shed. protected
on the northeast by said shed and stables.
The ether was about 16x1S feet, part logs
and part boards, plastered on one side had
board roof, high ceiling and very open. The
small house had about sixty chickens, the
large one about hundred and forty The
chickens in both houses were fed alike, viz ::
besides the scraps from the house and the
run OF stables and corrals and plenty of
good water. they had good, carefully boiled
potatoes and other vegetables mashed up
with ii little pepper for breakfast, cooked
and raw meat and mashed soft bones for
dinner. and plenty of good wheat, with oc.
casionally few soaked peas. for supper !:
and all the milk they would drink at all
times. Both laid good part OF the winter,
but those in the large. dry, open house, act
ell more like wild fowl, cared less for the
cold, would stay out IN colder weather, wade
through the snow or run through the storm
to their roosting place, while those in the
smaller house appeared TO get easier chilled,
had less energy. When sudden storm
came up they would huddle down IN some
corner. where they weuld freeze their feet,
or probably freeze to death, il we did not
look them up. In short they did not lay as
many eggs, caused u great deal the most
trouble, and we had an six to eight die
every winter out of It'e small no use, for one
that died out OF the large one. Those in tie
cold house probable ate the most, but not
enough to notice it. One day a neiehbor
said they were losing chickens. | asked,
What Kind of chicken house have you
got?" First rate Close AID warm.'' docs
it smell bad in the NOR ing?' II don't
know; my wife opens ii. | will open It
myself tomorrow morning and see.' "It
it does, take out small chuking on the
south side, above the chickens heads, and
let in little air below" The next time
saw him he said it stn, He'd very bud when
he opened it, and there we're more dead
chickens that he knocked out the chinking
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

The census OF France shows that there
are in that country 100000 hens, and the
production of eggs is estimated at $4s, ,OOO,-
ooo. The total value of eggs, hens, capons,
ducks, geese, turkeys and young chickens
amounts to the astonishing sum of $50, ,OOO,-
600 per annum.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS MONTANA TERRITORY MARCH s. 1885,

If pruning is performed in the winter or
early spring, it is vitality important for the
best results that all large wounds be smear
ed with melted grating wax, or gum shell
lack dissolved in alcehol, or common boiled
linseed oil. 1t prevents the loss of the Juices
which must take lace from the unprotect.
ed wound. These juices are the vital blood
OF the tree. and all losses of the sap are SO
much taken from the next fruit crop
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

Mr.. CHARLES GIBB, of Abbotsford, Pro-
vince of Quebec, writes to the Journal of
burg, Russia, that the hardness OF variety
of fruit is not dependent upon the place of
its birth, but upon hardy ancestry; hence
he finds in England and France, under Eng
lsh and French names, apple trees of that
early terminate growth and thick pnbescent
leaf, which show pure Russian or Astra-
khan descent AT Reutlingen, in Wurten-
berg, he found the Perry and cooking pears
to be of different race from those of West.
ern France, and at Vienna race of apples
wholly new to HIM, with very thick, small
plicate leaves, natives of Pennsylvania, some
OF which grow from cuttings, like currants.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

THE the position that farmers only can
teach farming is a very safe one, and that
some are more successful than others, and
therefore competent to teach others, is
equally correct. We have heard it often as
serted that any person who has muscle and
the will to work can farm, and that educa-
ton and thorough knowledge of such
business is not necessary. This is false
idea. To succeed in farming one must give
it his best thought. To make two stalks
grow where one formerly grew, and to keep
the land continually improving is too little
thought of by the farmers of our beautiful
mountain land. The true policy is to in
crease crops by increasing fertility and acre
age. The introduction of agricultural pa
pers has done much toward the improve
ment in husbandry, and especially mixed
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

do not know. There was a cause-here
was an effect. All speak at once and tell
the cause. | have some of the stalks. Some
times little water run across those rows.
For more than fifty years did not think
that wheat would degenerate or produce
such an inferior variety. At seventy-five |
have change my mind.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

REST half OF the farm alternate years, and
take pains to till well that which you do
plant. The comparative yield will be better
and the work much lighter than where every
acre is cultivated
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

A WRITER in the Oanandian RorticuLtm'-
'st says: To prevent gooseberries from mil
dewing, whe the berries are say the size of
pea, dust the bushes and berries lightly with
sulphur. The bottom of the bushes should
also be kept tree from rank grass, so that
the air may circulate freely through them.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

A New YORK man is negotiating for 5000
acres of land III Lyen county. Iowa, tor the
culture of Bermuda fax. A mill will be
erected, and in the spring twenty steam
plows will be set to work breaking the
ground
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08
No. II

ms advised, and had not lost one si.ce. From
all this it will appear that chickens can stand
great deal of cold, provided they are kept
dry, well fed, and above all, have plenty of
fresh air. MONTANA.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

Now is an excellent season to prepare seed
grain. Oats, wheat and barley should be
thoroughly cleaned, and none but the best
all small, light and imperfect seeds may be
taken out. Nothing pays better than to take
care in selecting and preparing seed grain.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

Now that the Northern Pacific Railroad
passes through our most extensive grain
producing valleys, placing them in competi-
ton with other countries, it will be matter
of some study TO determine what crops will
be the most profitable. A diversity of crops
will undoubtedly be best in the future.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

THE good weather of the past month has
been a blessing to the farmer, as well as the
stock raisers. 1t has enabled him to make
an early beginning at farm work when
spring time comes.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

The Milter's Gazette of London does net
think there is much likel 45ed of declinino
values OF wheat. In its -ssue of January
22d. that journal says:
There can be no doubt nat it is the phe-
nomenal character OF the present winter.
aud the unfavorable outlook for the next
crop, both here and on the Continent. which
has created the speculative. spirit how ap-
parent; as far as regards the United King
dom, the decrease in the area could have
but proportionately little effect on the
worlds supplies, but seeing that a similar
state of things exists in France and Ger
many, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion
that the present range of prices rests on
solid basis in spite of the fact that there is
plenty OF wheat for all requirements of the
present season. France, however, if she has
any idea of short crop this year, will soon
be to the fore in making provision. and this
will be quite sufficient to make present pur-
chases for forward delivery SAFE"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

THE cultivation of the olive in California
IS proving very profitable. The estimated
yield of an acre of eight-year old trees is
$l,250. South Georgia and Florida will
grow them profitably.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08
.QIhe Aaulhy Nard.

BUcKwHEAT is useful as change in the
diet of aeRs. 1t must be fed in moderate
quantities, and it has a tendency to fatten
and also toward egg production.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

RooFING felt, cut into suitable strips and
placed around fruit trees, will, 1t is claimed,
effectually prevent mice and rabbits from
gnawing the bark.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

STATISTICS show that one third of the en-
tire broom corn crop of the United States is
raised in the State of Kansas.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

A NEBRASKA lady tells Fannie Field, the
celebrated poultry fancler, that she made a
profit of one dollar per head on 80 hens last
year.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

In the future the demand for oats will not
be as great as it has been the past two years
unless there be large increase in the devel-
opment and working of mines.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08
farming. To succeed well every farmer
should read the HusBssDMAN.

"A CORRESPONDENT Of Purdy's Fruit Re
corder recommends the following recipe for
grating wax: Take one pound of resin.
one ounce of beef talow, one ounce beeswax
and melt and stir together thoroughly. Re
move from fire and add seven ounces of al
cohol and oae tablespoonful of spirits of
turpentine. Stir until entirely cold. Bottle
alr-tgh: in large mouthed bottle. Apply
with brush.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

The ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUsBANDMAN is designed
to he. as the name indicates, husbsndnan in every
sense of the term embracing in its colunns every
iepartment Of Agriculture, Stock -raisilg, Horti-
culture Social and Domestic ECONOMY.
ADvHRTISING RAMAS.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08
9srifathnral.

The outlook for a good peach crop in the
State OF Arkansas is said to be tlatterng.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

The vegetables that are the first in the
market in the spring are the ones that bring
the highest prices. 1t costs but very little
more of labor, time or trouble to produce
very early vegetables than it does those that
90 not get to market till later in the season.
Money received from the sale of early vege-
tables is usually very acceptable, coming as
it does after the demands of long winter
have been met. A forcing bed, covered with
glass, with stove and everything complete,
sufficiently large to answer the purpose,
ought not to cost more than $40 or $50: aud
such one ought to last for many years. In
one OF these the seeds of such vegetables as
are most in demand in the early season can
be planted, and the plants from them be-
come of quite large size when the time
comes that they can be set in the open
ground with safety.-Nsdtazd Farmer.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

The farmers of the United States may be
proud of their work. Were it not for their
work there would be butslittle to do fol- the
thousands of ships which now traverse the
the ''trackless way" Farmers in the Uni
ted States have $12 2,2l0,253,3l6 capital in
vested in their business. OF this amount
the value of farms is placed at $40, 1856 $780,
645. farm Implements at $40S, ,5l6,9 ,902, live
stock $500, ,s32 1s7, fertilizers $2S, ,5s7 ,s56,
and fences at $79 754 ,723. From this enor-
nous sum it is estimated that nearly one
hundred millions OF dollars are annually
collected in taxation tor the support of the
local and national governments and purpo-
ses of education. The total contribution or
production to be credited to the farmer foots
up in round numbers, $2,30O,OoO, 900.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-03-08

ONE of the principal reasons why the rails
ing of hogs and making of pork in Missoula
county has excelled other districts is that
hogs have been allowed to run at large and
subsist upon wild camas, which grows in
abundance in that county, and a second rea-
son is that the want of a market fer grain
during number of years past has made
prices low, and the farmers have found their
best remuneration through feeding it ana
marketing the pork. Now that the North.
ern Pacific railroad taps that country, it is
placed on an equal footing with other Sec
tons, so far as the market for grain is con-
cerned. Bat while swine are permitted to
run at large and feast upon the camas roots
this county will maintain the lead in pro-
ducing bacon.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-10-12
STAR GAZING. .
The Glorics of tho sky as Revealed TO
Observers In October.

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Observers In October.
October will be a fine Month for star gaz-
ing, but those who wish to behold the chief
glories of the sky will have TO be up after
midnight says the New York Sun. Jupiter
Saturn, Mars aud Uranus are all morning
stars, and the three first named are very
brilliant. Saturn's rings arc so widely
opened now that a small telescope will show
them, and in a good telescope the great
planet looks like an cxquistcly carved ball
of ivory shaded with delicate tin,s and sur
rounded by double ring of gold even more
brilliantly ornamentcd.
Jupiter presents wonderful appearance,
his disk being covered With colored spots
and belts which change continually in form
and tint, and furnish no end of material for
speculation as to what can be going on upon
this giant globe to produce such surprising
phenomena, visible At the distance OF four
hundred millions of miles. Except in the
sun there is not in the range Of human eye
sight any exhibition OF material power equal
to that presented by the unstable surface of
the greatest of the planets.
Mars is no, In n position spt clnlly favorable
for observation, but powerful telescopes will
easily show the outlines Of his continents and
oceans.
Uranus is too far away TO be interesting
for the possessnr of n small telescope, bnt
Prof. Young. with the great Princeton re-
tractor, has recently seen markings upon the
surface of this distant planet by means of
which he thinks its rate of rotation on its
axis can be asccrtaincu.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-10-12
q. p. Phalen, Bristol, S. V. G.
Zira Elliot, Lincoln, j. V. 9.
THE FATAL NICOTINE.
A Middlcaged Man Falls a Victim 10
His First Cigar.

from the New York Morning Journal
The first cigar ever smoked by Mr.. James
G. Godfrey, Al years old, killed him. Mr..
Godfrey, who has just been buried in Green
wood Cemetery on account OF his rashness,
was born in this city and was in business
here at the time Of his death. He was a
quick, nervous man, who worked hard, the
effect being to overtax his vital force.
Mr.. Godfrey was n very temperate man in
his habits, and tobacco had never touched
his lips until the fatal cigar was tasted. On
a recent Sunday, his family being out of
town, he dined in his mothers house with
a few friends. After dinner he accepted
a cigar, u strong one, which had been
protected by tinfoil, causing the tobacco to
retain all its strength. On consuming halt of
the cigar he was taken deathly sick. This SEN
saton has been partaken OF by nearly all be-
ginners, but never before in the history of
medicine has it been followed by fatal re-
suits.
The violent sickness was followed by PROS
tration aid on the next Tuesday the family
physician, DR.. Charles Carey, of No. 2S South
Oxford street, was called in. He stated that
Mr.. Godfrey had been poisoned by nicotine.
To make assurance doubly sure, he confer
red with q brother physician, who had just
previously treated Willie Morris, Of No.
$50 Columbia street, boy Is years of age,
who died from smoking cigarettes. Both
practitioners agreed that Mr.. Godfrey's illness
was owing to his FIRST cigar, and they treated
him for nicotine poisoning. Everything was
done for the patient but his system was 80
Frustrated that he died within two weeks.
The only other case OF nicotine poisoning
ending disas,rously of late happened in
Brooklyn. A young student in the art OF
chewing by self-teaching swallowed the
juice. His certificate of death is now record
ed as having been occasioncd by nicotine
poisoning. AS there is no test for this kind
Of poisoning the inference has to be substi'
tuted for the known fact.
1t having been proven that cigar and cigar
cite smoking is deadly, nothing remains fol
the devotee of the weed but the pipe, which
has been banished from the streets, and i!
only seen when rural strangers come to town
The Brooklyn cigar stores will be obliged tt
change the character of their signs In place
of the Indian the skeleton will be substituted
and the customer will be asked is he desires
quick or slow death.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-10-12

The 100 mile bicycle road race under the
auspices of the Boston club, was won on
Saturday by Thomas Midgely, of Worcester,
9:47; Rothsay of Boston, second, in 1914.
Or nine starters four finished
1t is proposed to match Jay-Eye.Sec and
Clingstonc for stakes of 5000 at Cleveland
within fortnight. Negotiations for the race
are now in progress. Clingstone is said to
be showing 2:12 gait in trials. Mr. Cor
don thinks it safe to make the wager.
At the lacrosse match between the Mon
treal and Toronto clubs at Montreal recently,
for the championship, there was so much
money wagcred on the result that when the
Shamrocks (who were heavy favorites) were
defeated, Ross Mackenzie, one of the Montrc-
al team and the greatest player in the world,
was attacked by the crowd who had backed
the Shamrocks, and would have been mobbed
but for the police and the defeated Shamrock
club. who had to drug ont and club the
attacking party into subsection. 1t was
| owing to Mackenzie's proves that the
Toronto club won the first game in lon, the
second in G. and the third and deciding game
| in I'm. and 30s.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-10-12

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 9.-The Episco-
pal convention went into committee to-day on
the report of the joint committee on the
book of common prayer. Rev. Francis
Harrison of the Albany diocese said that if he
had persisted in Withholding his signature
from the report he would have been under
stood as opposed to all change He was SO
unfortunate as not TO agree with the COM
mittce as to their powers. The report seems
10 90 very much beyond what might be at
trbuted 10 liturgcal enrichment or increased
facility of use. Very much of the new
matter proposed TO be introduced was crude.
Judge Sheffrey in the chair ruled that it
would not be in order to discuss the after
parts of the report at this time. DR.. Harrison
was granted permission to treat tue subject in
general way. Referring to the matter OF
shortened service he said it seemed very
com ,,licated The whole object proposed
could he accomplished by adding rubrc of
about five lines to the morning prayer. Uni
| formity is very good thing but 1t can be
carried to an extreme. There is no reason
why the church should be called IN at this
| time to amend the rubrics so as to impose
| either of the verious forms. He asked the
convention to let the small amendments
| alone and allow the church to have the same
use as in former years.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-10-12
Interesting Railroad Litigation.

The only case heard-the decision was re-
scrved-at the recent term of the United
States court at Rutland was that of the
Rensselaer, and Saratoga railroad company
vs. the Bennington and Rutland railroad
company. The bill, the Rutland Herald
says, is brought to restrain the Bennington
and Rutland railroad company from entering
upon the track and road bed of the Rutland
and Washington road, which is leased to the
Rensselaer, and Saratoga railroad-urder the
privilege granted the former company by au
act of the Legislature in 1868. which is as
follows.
ITO enter with their engines and cars
upon the Rutland aud Washington railroad,
al the terminus thereof, in Rutland village,
and TO use said railroad and its branches,
switches and turn tables to transport marble
from the quarries and mills for saving mar
bic at West Rutland to Rutland village; and
also, to and from intermediate points and
also to transport other freight, paying to the
managers or owners of the Rutland ant
Washington road, for the use of said road
two cents per ton per mile, as toll upon al
| freight 50 transported thereon, etc"
The compliments claim the act was invalic
upon the ground that the legislature coult
not fix the compensation for the use o
the road that it interfered In ant
was in conflict with the chartered
right Of the company through its direc
tors. to control the operations of the road b,
the rules and regulations established by them
and impaired its right to control its owl
affairs; that it was invalid on the furthe
ground that it infringed the rights of tn,
company under its charter in regard to tn
income of the profits which were limited to
10 per ccut, and the Legislature could no
reduce it below that limit. 1t was furthe
claimed that entry upon the road, as con
templated in the vet of 1868, was prohibited
by the general railroad law, and which re
peaed section 10 Of the the orators charter
allowing the entry 10 be made, and
was claimed the act OF 1868 was object
ed to on another ground that the act O
1868 was special In its scope, as distiu
guished from general law, and applied L
no other road or parties, which, II valid
might exclude the compliments from tn
Use and possession of their own road an
the complainants further claimed the act @
1868 provided that the Bennington and Rul
land should, within five years, commence til
construction Of the road therein referred tC
aud if it did not within five years, said az
should become void that the case not show
ing that the defendants had commenced III
construction of the road in the time spec
fed, or it had not, that ii became void an
, no proceedings could be had under it.