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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

THE inexperienced usually prefer to plant
large trees. This is a great mistake. Over
grown nursery trees are frequently not
worth the cost of transportation, for four
out of five will have the roots badly dam
aged in taking up. An apple tree one inch
in diameter should be taken In preference to
one of a larger growth. Our most expert
enced planters now prefer trees of one and
two years growth. The roots are less in
jured in transplanting, and they can trim
and shape the tree to suit themselves. Be-
into full bearing quite as soon AS the older
ones.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26
COMPARATIVE YIELD OF EGGS.

~
There is wide difference In eggs. A cor.
respondent writes on page 538 that the lare-
est eggs ne ever got were from Houdang.
(which were about six to the pound. -
Houdan hens. when fully matured, lay large
rather lengish, white eggs, but they will
not do it until two sr three years old. The
largest and richest eggs. that l ever met
with were from the Spanish and Hamburgs
These TIVE fowls crossed produce eggs very
large, and rivaling the turkey egg in fine
ness and richness. Brown Leghorn eggs
ordinarily weigh nine to the poui.d, on the
average; selected ones probably would go
seven to the pound.
There has of late been an improvement
in size OF the Asiatic egg over the first in
troduced Shanghai fowl. Some of the va
rieties as well as many OF their crosses, lay
eggs rivaling in size those Of any other va
riety. In quality they do not excel, usually
possessing small yelks. The true Brahma
egg is rather small and of fresh coffee col
or, with thick, heavy shells. The eggs are
generally uniform in size and oval in shape
The average standard, however is as follows:
Light Brahmas and partridge Cochins, eggs
seven to the pound; they lay, according to
treatment ano keeping, from eighty to one
hundred per annum, oftimes more if kept
well. Dark Brahmas, eight to the pousd,
and about seventy per annum. Black, white
and buff Cochins, eight to the pound one
hundred is a large yield per annum. Ply
mouth Rocks, eight to the pound, lay one
hundred per annum. Houdans, eight to the
pound, lay one hundred and fifty per annum;
non-sitters. Lay Fieche, lay one hundred
and thirty per annum; non-sitters. Black
Spanish, seven to the pound, lay one hum
dred and fifty per annum. Dominiques, nine
to the pound, lay one hundred and thirty
per annum. Games. nine to the pound, lay
one hundred and thirty per annum. Creve-
c9urs. seven TO the pound, lay one hundred
and tifty.per alnum. Leghorns, nine to the
pound, lay from one hundred and fifty to
TWO hundred per annum. Hamburgs, nine
to the pound, lay one hundred and seventy
per annum. Polish, nine to the pound, lay
one hundred and fifty per annum. Bantams,
sixteen to the pound, lay sixty per annum
Turkey eggs, five to the pound, lay from
thirty to sixty per annum. Duck eggs vary
gr' atty with different species, but from five
to six to the pound, and from fourteen TO
twenty-eight per annum, according to the
age and keeping. Geese, tour to the pound,
lay twenty per annum. Guneas, eleven to
the pound, lay sixty per annum.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

ldle While some one went to the railway
station to get repairs HE drills did not tail
just when the wheat ought to be sown the
wagons were not always breaking down
and occasionug delays and vexations. An
other thing may be said in their favor, and
that is that they always did good work
The reapers cut Il smooth stubbe and put
the grain down in good condition; the
plows did not refuse TO scour; the drills put
the wheat in just as a first-class drill should;
and these implements did good work not
only while they were new, but till the last
year they were used.-Ohio Farmer.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26
ORCHARD PLANTING.

Let no one be persuaded to plant fruit
trees too close together, under the mistaken
idea that it is a waste OF ground to give
them more room than they require during
the first fifteen or twenty years. 1t is, 10
the contrary. far greater waste to plant
them too clsse. Uptil the tree> do occupy
the entire grsnnd, some athei crop may be
grown between them, as easily and profit
ably almsst as in the open field. In the
closely planted orchard, however, the trees
will soon crowd each other, exclude light
and air, and co .seauently produce but par
tial and inferior crops Tor the remaining fifty
or more years OF their existence. This is
the penny wise and pound foolish system
in order to avoid a possible small waste OF
ground during ten years to incur manifold
greater one forsthe remainder Of one's llfe-
| time.
Strong growing kinds of apple trees
should never be planted closer than thirty
five teet apart each way; and On strong soil
! forty feet will be found still more profitable.
For market purposes plant only reliable.
saleable kinds. One good, well-known mar
ket variety is better than a miscellaneous as
sortment.
Cuttings Of currants, goeseberries, grape
vines, elc., may be made until the buds
start but those cut last fall or early this
season may be more depended on. They
should be planted as soon a. the ground is
dry and can he orked-never when it is
.,lx,, ,ll II
pulveriZed soil. If delayed until vegetation
starts they cannot make sufficient roots.
before summer sets in, to resist heat and
drouih.
In small way cuttings may be planted in
beds about tour feet wide. with narrow paths
between them. A board toot wide is laid
across the bed; along its edge trench is
dag with a sharp spade. so that the smooth.
slOping side rests against the board. Into
this trench the cuttings are placed, about
three inches apart, and pushed dawn deep
enough that only one bud remains just even
with the surface after leveing. Fine soil is
then drawn IN, and firmly pressed against
the cuttings, esnrcially the lower ends. The
board is then turned over, away from the
row just planted, and another trench open
ed. using the soil tor ii ling in the first one.
In nurseries. where large quantities OF cut
tings are made every year. they are planted
in long parallel rows about three feet apart.
so as to admit the use OF cultivators.
The ground has to be stirred frequently.
and kept entirely clear and free from weeds
all summer. In very dry seasons watering
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26
No. "a.

The quality as. well as the quantity of eggs
is greatly owing to the keeping. Many
times the above weights may be exceeded,
and at Others not reached Keeping and
management haye much to do with it.
While it is to be regretted that so many of
our vluable fowls appear to disadvantage,
consequent different rations, there are many
times when highly priced and tended speci-
mems do honor and credit to the variety
Cor. Country Gentleman.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

ACCORDING to best German authorities.
sweet corn contains more digestible matter.
more muscle making and tat.torming mate
is better for growing animals than either.
A proof than there is also considerable nu-
triment in the stalks is the fact of making a
large percentage of molasses from them af-
ter the ears have been removed.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

SOME garden herbs should always be put
in during March. when the ground is suit
able, and quite nice garden should be sown
in April, and in May there should be still
another sowing, and for very late use a
small sowing may be made about the last OF
May. By managing in this way. farmer
may have plenty of fresh vegetables all the
season. ... ...,. -.. -. .-..
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

The Elmira IN. W Husbandman learns
from a correspondent who had sixty-tiye
hens, mostly Brown Leghorns, that he sold
frem February l3, 1882, to February 1888,
1863 dozen and eggs, which brought $7l .6s,
besides using in the family and raising over
100 chicks.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

WHEN setting trees, if the subseil is poor
throw it to one side, throwing in couple OF
shoveltuls of the mellow top soil. Upon
this bed firmly press the tree, filing in with
the richest and finest soil, topping of with
the poor subsoil, firmly pressing the whole
with the loot as the work progresses.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

THE frosty nights for the past week have
retarded the progress of farm work some
what. in many valleys the ground freezing
OF nights and not thawing sufficiently to
plew before noon. The season, however. is
now sufficiently advanced to insure that this
work may progress uninterruptedly.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

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with his request.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

FARMERS should not omit planting out
trees along their fences and irrigating
bitches. Quaking asp and cottonwood
bushes may be easily had, and the time of
planting will amount to nothing compared
to the value of the tree few years hence.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

CELERY is one of the finest vegetables of
this class: Formerly it was customary TO
sow the seeds in hotbeds, but better success
results from sowing in the open ground dur
ing April, and cutting off The tops OF the
plants once or twice before planting out.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

TURNIP is both field and garden vege-
table. 1t does not demand the richest soil.
Much depends upon the soil selected.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

THE breeder ofleghorn fowls will find
the chicks to be very hardy. They CON-
mence to feather out when two weeks old,
and after that age there is but little danger
of their dying.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

SMITH river valley hens positively refuse
TO furnish eggs for less than so cents per
Dozen '5A
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

By the time this issue reaches our readers
many of them will be receiving orders Of
fruit trees from Eastern nurseries. We
therefore devote considerable space to this
subject this week. .s..
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

SPINACH is fine for greens. For early crop
sow In early spring and for late crop in au-
sumn. The bed may be covered with
mulch, so that the leaves can be gathered
in the winter
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

THE principal bitches on the farm which
do not have to be changed should be sown
with timothy seed. The roots will protect
the banks from falling in and furnish sod
for daming and patching.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

LETTUCE is a most healthful salad, and
kitchen garden is not complete without it.
By early and successive sowings, at inter-
walls of a week, it may be gathered fresh
and crisp as long as desired.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

MONTANA is better adapted to the use of
sulky plows than most of the States, and at
this advanced age every man who farms for
the purpose of making money has one or
more.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

LEGHoRN fowls can be bred up to lay good
average sized eggs. ~ Z" in"a 7"t aHsn .
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

Do not hurry, but proceed steadily and
with dispatch, for time is lost by getting in
a splutter on the farm just as well as else
where. slE NJ
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

ONIONS ia the farmers garden are usually
grown from seed. They require rich soil
with a fine smooth surface, and the keeping
out of weeds from the very start. If weeds
once get established in young onion bed,
the crop will be small
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

THOUSANDS of acres Of grain is being
sewn every week.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

he who plow and sows in the spring may
reap and garner in the harvest time.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

A GOOD walking team will accomplish
third more in day than one that moves at
the ordinary gait Farmers, therefore, of
all others are most interested in the ina
provement of the walking gait of horses.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26
Ght naulfry gard.

The Asiatic breeds of fowls are good win
ter layers. .sais b Az. ssf ia, .ts..s
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26
1arifnihtral.

Do not longer delay the planting OF an early
garden. m. ..,saa g5...
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-04-26

The ROCKY MOUNTAIN HusBAFpNAN Is designed
70 be, ~ the name indicates, husbandman in every
sense of the term, embracing In its columns every
department. Of Agriculture, steck-raisi.g, Horti-
sultxre, SociM and Domestic ECONOMY.
ADVERTISING RATES..
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-02
rELEGRAPHIC NEWS BOILED DOW

The statue of Genaral Zachary Taylor has
arrived at Louisville from Italy.
NOTWITHSTANDING the scarcity of money
in the Louisiana treasur ythe July interest on
the State bonds will be paid.
ESTIMATED decrease of the public debt for
June is SIT, 500, 900. Total reduction for the
year ended yesterday, about $I37, 2as 200.
THE notice the abrogation of the fishery
clause 10 article 80 of the treaty of Washing
ton is to be given by the President on July l..
II is said the Irish Revolutionary brother
hood have passed sentence of death upon
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, for the way h c
conducted the trial of DIR. Gallagher and
others.
No information has been received at the
War department, at Washington, relative to
reports that some of the captured Indians are
again on the war path. General Scho6eld
indorses Crooks policy.
The gap on the Kansas City and Memphis
railroad between the Iron Mountain crossing
at Hoxie and Springfield, Mo-, has been
| closed. This makes a continuous line from
Kansas City, Mo-, to Memphis, Tenn, by
the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf X. R.
PHILADELPHIA, June 3o.-Major Ellis p
PhiPps, ex-Superintendent Of the Almshouse,
recently convicted of forgery, was sentenced
this afternoon to FIVE years Imprisonment il
the county prison separate and solitary con.
finement with hard labor. An appeal to the
Supreme court will be taken at its session in
November.
THE trade dollar must go. A Philadelphia
telegram says every bank in the city ha,
closed down on the trade dollar. Both the
Pennsylvania and Reading railways hav,
issued orders to all agents tn refuse the coin
Like the Clipped quarters the trade dollar ha.
had too long a run in its bastard state, ant
now that the public has set the seal of its con
demnation on il but short time will elaps,
before it will become a curiosity.
AUSTIN, June go The cash receipts fo
June at the State treasury are: Genera
revenue, $255,237; available school fund
$33 a53; permanent school fund, 500, 37o
Total, 1857, 500. Notwithstanding the At
torney-GeneraPs opinion that school land
filed and surveyed, and on which first pay
ments have been made since the lands wer
withdrawn from the market, still belong to tn
State, the claimants have, under advice, de
termned to hold possession and test thei
rights in the courts against the State or an
, other party.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-02

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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-02
HelOteS Rancho.
STANDARD STATIONS.

MAMBRINO HOWARD, (trotter) see No.
b. j. Treacy's catalogues Lexington, Ky. He
is blooded bay, 10 hands high, weighs loo
pounds Service, SIS.
KNIGHT OF ST. LOUIS Uhoroughbred),
sired by Glendower, dam by Epsilon, see Bruce s
American Stud Book, volume 8, page 352. He
is q dark chestnut sorrel. Service, S25
DICK QKentucly jack, l5 hands high, weighs
800 pounds VIII cover mares or 1ennets.
Service, Sl5
Short-horn thoroughbred cattle, Red Bulls,
by twenty-eighth London Duke, Lexington,
Ky. Services, $40.
Spring season, February |. Terms cash. Ser
vices paid when mares taken away, and If not
with foal have the privilege to return the next
season free of charge. Stock delivered at Al
fred Reaves', Main Plaza will be taken and
brought back without cost.
II. GUIIBEAU,
281y Helotes. TeI.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-02

THAT toploftical statesman, the Prince OF
Wales, wants England to organize fish COM
mission like the United States. 1t is a good
thing for England that the thick skulls of En-
glish royalty are more accessible to American
ideas than to any others.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-02

MINNIE MITCHELL, betrayed and deserted
in Shreveport, committed suicide the othe r
day and on the same day her betrayer was
killed in a railroad accident. Such incidents
make us think that there is such thing as
retributive justice, and it is pity that they
are not more numerous.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-02

ARE WE to have 4th of July celebration
or not? is a question that receives negative
answer, if we except the usual celebration ol
the patriotic firemeu While citizens in all
parts of the State are fifty celebrating the an
niversary of the independence San Antonio is
not doing anything in that way.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-02
MONDAY. JULY 2, 1888.

THE late Emperor of Russia's love, The
Princess Dolgorouki, has abandoned her
mourning and is mashed with handsome
young officer who Travelled with her, and who
rumor says is to be husband No. 2.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-02
InternationaIEGreat Northern
RAILWAY.
Time Card, TO Take Effect June 10.

Leave San Antonio bound North at 7:45 ..
M, and 12:l5 p. IN. Arrivc-3:l5 p. m, and
p. IN. Leave for Laredo 9 p. m, arrive from
Laredo 1:l5 II. m.
Train leaving San Antonio 7:45 Il. m. has
Pullman Palace car to Galveston, via Austin,
and Pullman Hotel car to st. Louis. Train
leaving San Antonio ut 12:l5 p IN. has Pullman
Palace Sleeping car to Texarkana, via Pales-
tine, where close connection is made with
express train for st. Louis.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-02


Justice thought different, but only fined the
abusive Josephine ST. and costs.
THE two Virginia editors, Beirne and
Elan, have at last had courage to fight their
duel. At the first exchange of shots both
combstants missed, but on the second FIRE
Beirne's bullet struck Elan on the thigh, and
he then fell. Beirne expressed himself salts.
fed, raised hat, saluted his fallen combatant
and left the field. The condition of Elan is
dangerous, but there are hopes OF his recov-
cry.
Russia is doing some very startling az
gressive work in the direction of British India,
it is said, under the counsel of the great Ger
man Chancellor, the consideration being Rus
sian blindness to any results that may grow
out Of the tripartte alliance. Bismarck's hand
seems to be seen in about every innovation
now in progress in Europe. England sees it
in the probable failure Of the Porte to carry
out the promised administrative reform in
Asia Minor, which the Chancellor we'll knew
would greatly agg'avate England by affording
Russia an opening and an excuse for pres'-
ing her p olicy in the East. At any rate, she
is getting steadily nearer to Afghanistan.- En-
gland sees the hand of the great Chancellor in
everything, and is no little alarmed at the re-
cent movents Of the Northern bear, which
threaten the integrity Of her empire. The
prayer Of the average English Statesman at
present is, long live the Queen-death to Bis
marck.
THE Chicago Inter Ocean estimates tina t
500, 600, 900 worth of liquor is annually drunk
in the State of Illinois. This enormous sum
would lift above want, and purchase many Of
the so.called luxuries of life, for all in the
State who suffer their privation. And wha I
are the fruits Of this outlay? Idleness, waste
iulness in other ways, crime, incapacity and
misfortune in business, discord and misery in
homes. There is not a man, unless one al
ready impaired in health, an invalid, who is
benefited by any stimulus; not a healthy
man who is not injured by it. All artificial
drinks impair the enjoyment of that most
healthful, invigorating and refreshing bever-
age provided for us by divine goodness and
divine wisdom-pure water. 1t is as much
law as that vessels float, or rivers run, that
there can be no substitutons for water with
out injury. The first damage is that we
abridse by it our enjoyment of water and its
heathfulness. With artificial driaks and
foods, equally, the palate loses its edge, its
keen susceptibility to delights, while the mind,
which the will should restrain aad govern,
leads the senses into false desire, habitual
cravings. But we believe that the Almighty
is getting ioothold in the social world and
that, before long, his laws will be recognized.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-02

The Riverina Journal, an Australian paper,
has the following advertisement: Wanted
A cultured gentleman, capable Of milking
goats. university man preferred" Why
it is necessary to have highly cultured and
educated gentleman to milk goats is a ques.
ton not easily answered.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-02

WE NOTICED on our table an antique look
ing paper, and were under the impression that
we had to thank some kind correspondent for
sending us copy of an early Eighteenth cen
tury newspaper as curiosity. On examin-
ing it we found to our surprise that it was
copy Of the Galveston Civilian for last
Wednesday.