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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06
THE PROFITS ON SMALL FRUITS.

In illustration of the profits in cultivating
small fruits we note in the Santa Barbara
(Cala.) Independent, a statement that in a
garden at that place. l.. A. Hemenway is
raising Strawberries at a lusty profit. The
paper says Upon the three-fuurths OF an
acre. which are now ripening. the weekly
yield is one thousand boxes. These are of
the choicest variety, the Monarch of the
West. Mr.. Hemenway has sold already
this season over $3.50 worth OF berries, and
the vines promise to yield AS much more
before their annual period OF rest. Almost
the whole work OF preparing the land, con-
structing water bitches and fumes for irr-
CATION, setting and irrigating the plants and
attending to them when growing, has been
done by Mr.. Hemen way alone. Since the
berries commenced ripening they have re-
qnired the help of one man. Besides this,
Mr.. Hemenway has attended to his other
crops, doing the whole work connected with
ten acres OF hay, three acres OF corn, on e
acre OF vineyard, tour acres of pumpkins.
and five or six acres of apricot and walnut
trees, which are now beginning to bear
most bountifully. In this way, upon a
small piece OF land, he is making more clear
profit than many of the so-called large farm
ers who are sowing two or three hundred
or one thousand acres of wheat or barley
and paying out almost the entire receipts
tor hired help. harvesting, th-eshng. sack
ing. transportation, commission, etc.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06
No.. 43

Zone. When you know all about one
breed, get another if you like, but don't
spread yourself over too much ground to
begin with. If you attempt to handle too
many different breeds you will be apt to tail
with all.
mo. 6 wants to know if have ever tried
the Buckeye egg food. No !; but that name
has familiar sound. have it! The stuff
or the recipe for making it comes from
either GAINESVILLE or New Concord, Ohio.
don't want to know anything more about it.
1t is quite safe to let everything in the shape
of poultry or poultry supplies that comes
from either place severely alone. Ohio has
preducen some great men, but she has also
produced the worst gang of poultry sharps
and swindlers in the country.
''Several people want to know how to
pack eggs in summer SO that they will keep
well enough to be sold fer fresh eggs next
winter when eggs are high.
"You can't do it--not If you are honest.
There is no way under the blue canopy of
heaven by which you can keep eggs fresh
tor six months, but they can be kept good
bp lining. The best way to pack few
eggs for family use is to take perfectly fresh
eggs and pack them in salt. Set them on
end in layers and see that they do not touch
each other, and that each layer is entirely
covered with salt before the next is put on,
keep in cool cellar, the cooler the better
!. e., down to any point above freezing.'
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06
HARVEST HOMES

The season for the farmers enjoyment is
at its height, and "from tar and from near''
we hear of contemplated Harvest Homes,
which are not only source of pleasure. bat
are usually one of profit. These pleasant
gatherings of those who till the soil are of
apparently recent origin, the Grange having
done much to develop their present charac-
ter. 1t was formerly one of the penalties
for being a farmer that he was isolated.
such thing as sociability ty was absolutely
unknown, and 1t is fact tina. to be farm
er in the olden times was little better than
being prisoner; and it is not at all strange
that the boys used to turn their backs upon
farm life just rs soon as they could practi-
cally do so. 1t is all changed now, however.
The farmer who does not enjoy social plea
snres and profits does not wish to. Organi-
cation has been effected, and social inter.
lite. During the summer season he gees
under the auspices of some of the organiza-
tions to which he belongs, or should belong.
!" the neighboring grove, and with his fam
jly and neighbors spends day. whose hours
are crowded with recreation and pleasure.
1t goes without saying that he and his tam
lily are the better for it. The hard-worked
body is rested and the mind is refreshed
The effect is not lost for year to come, and
is never lost. 1t is very great misconeep-
ton of his duty to himself and to his family
tor tanner 10 permit anything of an ordi-
nary character to prevent him from going
and taking the wife and children to these
gatherings. Shut up the house and 60
Take the boys, the girls, the help, the witt
and the baby. Have Fourth of July il
August or september Western Rural.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06
FALL FLOWING.

In no way is the progress OF modern ag-
riculture more clearly shown than in the
general adoption of fall plo wing OF land for
next years crops. 1t used to be thought,
taught and practiced that all, or nearly all,
crops did better If the land was not disturb
cd until few days or few hours before
seeding. great benefits being claimed in
having fresh, moist bed to confide the seed
to. IT all lands were new, if fall plowing
deep did not contemplate spring blowing
shallow, doubtless the old fashion were the
better one. ss ..s. -tE
But since the farmer that adopts the plan
of tall plowing is pletty sure not to neglect
the essentials of preparing q proper seed
bed when the time comes tor seeding and
since modern experience has Taught that all
or nearly all soils produce better crops t
the land is suffered to lay for months II er
plowing. are sufficient reasons for the g.i'-
eral following of the practice. On the
ground of wise economy, the outstanding
Of ones resources, 1t were certainly better
to make all possible preparation for and do
all that can be done of spring work in the
autumn, when there is most leisure, the
teams strongest and the temperature best
suited to the work; and besides it takes of
the pressure of hurry at the time of year
when necessity will brook no delay. These
are considerations worth the farmers al
tention, but there are Others fully as mate
rial 1t is we'll established fact that all
| lands in all climates produce better crops
from fall blowing than spring plowiRg, tor
the reason that the surface accumulations
in the shape of stubble and weeds, are given
longer time to decompose and become
fertilizers to the coming crop. II pl"wing
! is delayed until spring these proe">- il
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

they go on at all, do SO at the expense of
the moisture in the soil and to the detr-
mcnt rather than the benefit OF the growing
plant. 1t is for this reason very often that
some crops suffer from drouth so much, as
the moisture that would naturally go to the
sustenance of the crop is absorbed by the
decaying vegetation that has been plowed
under with the mistaken belief that a good
fertilizer had been provided The natural
tendency of plant food is upward rather
than downward, hence the necessity Of hav-
every fertilizer of whatever nature or kind
in proper condition to feed the growing
plant at the time germination commences
Midland Farmer.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

A CORRESPONDENT OF the New York
Husband'man, speaking Of insects damaging
garden plants, writes rs follows about the
squash: A few varieties of squash seem to
be so vigorous as to be almost exempt
from damage by insects. Among t,ese
may be mentioned the Canada crook
neck, the white and yellow scallop bush,
and | think the list might also include the
green stripped Bergen. the Yokohama, the
Little Cocoanut. and the Perfect Gem. The
insects attack these varieties the same as
the others, but they seem able to cope with
them pretty well. Unfortunately these are
not the finest sorts tor table use. The Can
ada crook-neck is perhaps the best one
among them, and is by no means of bad
quality. Those who can accept nothing but
the finer sorts, like the Hubbard, Butmen.
Marblehead and Turban. will usually have
to fight for them with determined vigilance.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

The american Cultiuater says: 'The po-
tato beetle ia also liza lie to attack the tomato
plant. as many gardeners have found to
their cost. The use of Paris green is not
advisable on this fruit. which, as it grows
above ground, is not so certainly freed from
the poison as is the underground potato
Where potatoes are plenty in the vicinity
few of the bugs will attack the tomato. 1t
is question OF interest. however, whether
potato bugs bred on tomato vines would not
inherit the tendency to attack the tomatoes
by preference. Some experiments acei-
dentally made have induced us to think that
this is the, tact.'' -..--..s
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

slippery, it is OF inferior quality, though of
fancy brand. high-priccd and white as the
virgin snow-drift, and will, never make good,
light, wholesome bread. But if the flour
rubs rough in the palm. feeling like fine
sand, and has an orange tint purchase con-
tidently. 1t will not disappoint you. Such
flour, whatever may be its branded reputa-
tion, though its price be at the lowest figure,
will make good, light, nutritious bread.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06
4The 1an}shald.

Steamed Potatees.-Steam or boil dry a
quart of sound potatoes; then peel and
mash in saucepan, and mix in an ounce of
butter; set over the fire, pouring in slowly
nearly one.half pint of milk stir to pre-
vent scorching dish into common earthen
dish scallop and put in quick oven to
brown; set on table in same dish. This is
the most palatable way of cooking potatoes,
especially in the spring.
Corm'nsat Buns.-For small family beat
one egg, add a tablespoonful of good mo-
lasses, little lard, or lard and butter mixed,
good half pint Of new milk then thicken
with sifted -four into which has been we'll
mixed half teaspoonful of baking powder,
adding some saltA Have the mixture lit
tie stiff, so that you can lightly pile it with
spoen in small cakes in a CREASED pan;
bake rather quickly
Fried Potatoes. Bell medium-sized pota-
toes with the skins on; when thoroughly
cooked, peel them and set away for supper.
When ready, have pan of hot lard and cut
into it an onion the size of walnut, cut up
fine; fry little; slice thin the potatoes
put in the pan with the onions, pepper and
salt to taste, and fry until they are light
brown and crisp.
Corn Fritters.-Six ears of green corn,
grated from the cobs as fine as possible;
three well beaten eggs, a tablespoonful and
half of flour, season with sslt and pepper
mix well drop tablespoonful at time in
boiling lard aud butter mixed; fry brown
and serve hot.
Pressed Beet:-Boil beef of any goo d kind
till the bones fall out; pick it over carefully,
removing all gristle, chop it fine, season
with salt and such herbs as taste suggests
press in pan with heavy weight. When
cold cut in slices and serve.
| Good Plain Jumbles Three cups of white
sugar, not heaped one cup butter or lard,
two eggs, one cup of sweet milk and little
baking g-powder in the flour; make up until
you can roll out and use cake-cutter.
Poor Mans Cahe.-One cup of sugar, one
cup of milk, two and half cups of flour,
two teaspoontuls of baking-powder; flavor
with nutmeg, and bake in quick oven. 1t
ia better to eat when two or three days old
Chill Sauce.-To make a nice Chill sauce
which we know to be good, take one peck
of tomatoes peeled, six large onions, three
red peppers, one pound sugar, and one quart
of vinegar. Cook all together slowly for a
long time and add two tablespoonfuls each
OF three kinds of spices, Glove, cinnamon
and allspice, or any others, as preferred.
Salt to suit the taste. Ground mace is a
nice spice for those who like the taste of it.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

Potato vines, when boiled in water until
the Juice is extracted, n AXE a good insect
destroyer, by sprinkling the liquid ever
such vegetables as are subject to the raw
ages of the green and black fly cattapillars,
gnats, etc. 1t will not in the least impair
the growth of the plants. and the peculiar,
dsagreeable odor. which remains Tor con-
siderable time, prevents the insects from an
early return.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

Transient advertisements PAYABLE in advance.
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Twenty five per cent. added for SPECIAL advertise
ments
Remittances by registered letter, post-ofiice
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Any one failing to receive his paper regularly
should notify US promptly by postal card.
Subscriber desiring to change the post Office
direction of his paper must communicate to us the
name of the post-ofice to which 1t has previously
been sent, otherwise we may be unable to comply
with his request. .-r ,.s..E. 49,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

The harvest in Montana, being month
or more later than in the States, will make
our agricultural report seem little irregu-
lar. since some Of our correspondents in the
different valleys. in filling up their blanks
tor this office. left that portion of the report
relating to the condition Of the harvest
blank, but lew fields being harvested These
reports as tar as received, however, indicate
that the recent frost damaged the grain crop
from 5 to 10 per cent
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06
TERRITORY SEPTEMBER 1888

On the subject OF the wheat yield OF this
year, compared with last year, the Ohio
Farmer makes a calculation based on inior-
different sections OF the country, that the
shortage in the States of Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan and Kansas will exceed SO .OOO. 900
bushels-or decrease of 45 per cent. OF last
years crop.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

A sUNFLowER at Hartford. Conn. stands
twelve feet high, crowned with more than
fertv suberb yellow blossoms. The stalk
measures nine inches in circumference, and
some of its leaves are eighteen inches in
length and sixteen inches across.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

SAwDUsT is most excellent bed for
horses and cattle, and the m nnIe is said to
be better fertilizer for certain garden
crops than any other, and particularly for
celery if mixed with the soil--Midland
Farmer #- -.s .'t@
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

THE statistical office OF the Agricultural
Bureau at Washington will perhaps be sur
prised to know that our September report
does not contain the condition of the Mon
tana harvest This is owing to the fact that
the Montana harvest will not be completed
before the middle or last of September.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

RECENT reports are very unfavorable to
the cotton crop in Texas. DrOuth has
checked the growth of tbs plant, and the
orm is devastat ting whole fields in some
sections.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

AN exchange says that a New ork farm er
runs one hundred bushels Of wheat through
tanning mill to get eighteen bushels Of the
largest and plumpest kernels tor seed.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

PRICyY PEAR gardeners saved their ten
der vegetation from frost by building fires
fires in their gardens. #
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

In 1875 Professor Tornray, of Pesth.
wrote that practical men were greatly di-
vitled as to the value OF enslage. They are
still divided. -. ..l .'..
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

GRAIN Is sometimes injured by frost after
it has been harvested.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06
FLOUR TEST.

Place thimbleful in the palm of the hand
and rub it gently with the finger. If the
flour smooths down, feeling gentle and
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

IN thirty days from this date the farmer
will know what the market is to be.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

lT is net yet too late to plant out straw
berries. ...
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

The ROCKY MOUNTAIN HusBANpMAN Is designed
to be, as the name indicates hasbandman in every
sense of the term embracing in its columns every
department Of Agriculture, Stock -rasil.g, Horti-
culture, Social and Domestic Economy.
ADVERTISING RATES.
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eAarifnih hrral*

The harvest is now in full blast.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-09-06

OLD strawberry beds are not profitable.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-22
ENLARGEMENT AND NEW DRESS.

The augmented and constantly growing
demands upon the REcoRD-UNIoN as a
news and business medium has for some
months necessitated the setting of much
reading matter in smaller type and closer
form than is desirable or pleasing to the
eye Of the reader. The steady encroach.
ment upon our news space, however, left
Us no other alternative except that of
change of form, and this has now been
resolved upon. Our readers, who have
noted the pressure upon cur columns, tes-
tifying to the high estimate by the public
Of the value of tA;s journal, will be graft
ned to learn that an entire new dress
is now being manufactured for the RECORD
UNION by the celebrated type foundry
house Of johnson & Co., of Philadelphia,
Of which Tatum & Bowen, of san Frsn-
cisco, are agents. With the Introduction
OF the new type the REcoRD-UNIoy will
be considerably enlarged, enabling US to
present much more reading matter than
al present, in type admirably adapt,
ed TO the needs of the paper
aud the comfort of the reader.
This enlargement will also embrace the
WEEKLY UNIoS, and greatly enhance the
worth and beauty of that widely.read
journal, the circulation Of which, in com
mon with that of the DAILY RECORD
UNION, is constantly expanding. With
the new dress and enlarged forms the
RECORD UNION and WEEKLY UNION will
present themselves as among the hand
soonest journals Of the entire country,
while the new facilities for thorough jour
naIistic work will enable fuller and new
departments of interest and value to the
reading public to be presented.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-22
Il i, a still higher merit that the merchants

! it is still higher merit that the merchants
at those points give to their customers the
full benefit of these advantages. We have
for many years commended that these ad.
vantages existed, and that the customer
got the benefit of them. We now point to
the testimony of the leading commercial
journal of the metropolis in proof of these
assertions and the merchants of this city
could not perhaps do better thing for
their trade than to reproduce the article
under consideration and distribute it widely
to all merchants and dealers throughout
the Pacific coast.
Cities are the resultant effect of converg.
ing and diverging lines of transportation.
Each of these lines contribute to augment
the volume of commercial transactions,
just as the continents of river augment
the volume OF its current. Cities are not
the result of accident or choice. Their 10.
cations are determined by the memorable
demands of commercial exchange. Pro.
ducts take the cheapest routes to the best
focal point of exchange. The interior ter
minal points, of which the metropolis ap-
pears now to be jealous, are subordinate
centers of small commercial areas necessa-
rily tributary to San Francisco as a COM
mon center. Through the Golden Gate
the lines of commerce diverge, reaching out
to every port in the world. Inland, by rail
and water, other lines diverge, covering the
breadth OF half the continent. The greater
thenumbero OF these inland lines, thestrouger
will be the power and results of CONNER
cial focalization where they meet the con-
verging ocean lines. On the commercial
atlas commerce marks out it's own empires
and establishes their capitals, and it re-
quires no argument to prove the already
manifest destiny of San Francisco as the
one unrivaled commercial and financial
metropolis of the American Pacific coast
The prosperity of any and all interior ter
minal points inures ultimately to the ben.
eft of the metropolis to which they are
tributary, just as the size of the continent
streams determine the volume of the main
rivers.
1t would be charitable to say that the
writer of the Bulletin article is the only one
of his class who has not mastered these
primitive principles. But, unfortunately,
the whole course of the metropolis toward
the interior indicates but too plainly that
the BuAetn'S article does not misrepresent
the narrow misrepresentation of her true
interests, that has made San Francisco
selfish absorbent, grasping all and return
ing nothing to fertilize the fields from
which her prosperity has been derived. In
the meantime it is comforting to reflect
that wiser and broader conceptions govern
the railway transportation system of the
coast, and that Marysville, Sacramento,
Stockton, San Jose and Los Angeles will
remain terminal points, since that course
is demanded both by private convenience
and public prosperity.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-22
A BATCH OF CRANKs. "

We are aware of no restrictive statutes
except the insanity lsws-upon exhibi-
tions of mental incspacity and general
crankiness. If such existed and fools
were subjects of punishment for their lack
of intellectual ballast, we know of no class
that would deserve the attention of the
authorities more speedily than the few half
crazsd men who hold annual conventions
to denounce secret confraternal assocla-
tions. a batch of these people, who are
distinguished by their misdirected energy,
have been in convention this week in Phila.
delphia, praying "God to open the eyes of
the people to the great danger of member
ship in secret societies. We are not of
those who doubt the sincerity of these
cranky people there ia nothing shown to
indicate that their crusade is selfish, or
that they nave anything 10 gain by as
saults upon Masonry, Odd Fellowship,
the Grand Army of the Republic and like
associations. They probably really believe
that they are serving the cause of pure
religion by warning against secret societies
Blanchard, one of the leaders OF tie cru
SADIE, is editor Of the Cyaosure, a journal
devoted to assaults upon the fraternal
associations, is a man without 4 bal.
snce.wheel in his intellectual machinery
and one who excites only contempt in t he
West, where he resides. Ssoddard, an.
other shining light, is the man who goes
about exposing the rituals of various Or.
ders in which he claims to have taken de-
grees. He thereby confesses to infsmy,
for his revelations, if true, are In viola
ton of solemn obligations he voluntarily
assumed. That he took these with men
tai reservation is no apology. His cam
psign in this respect is based on the Jesuit
ical doctrine that the ends justify the
means. The chief discomfort to both these
leaders arises out of the fact that the world
pays very little attention t. them. They
have been trying for years to provoke as
saults upon their persons, and either of
them stands ready to accept martyrdom if
only some bloody-minded Odd Flow,
sanguinary Mason or vicious Good Tenn
plar wolld put steel between their ribs.
But they cannot be accommodated, and
must, perforce, suffer and live Oh. and
"work their cause for oil there is in it.