Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-01-17

That you VIII cultivate your corn at least
four times. -
That you will prize the compost heap as
the apple OF your eye, and Rot allow it to
burn its heart out or the rain to wash it
away.
That you will keep the weeds in the fence
corners cut down like the profits from bad
farming. "
That when you are called out to work on
the roads you will 60 willingly and labor as
becomes an honest man.
That you won't plant tree and then let
it die for lack of attention
That you won't let the rabbits aad mice
girdle the young orchard trees.
That you won't neglect to manure ne or
chard as you do other crops.
That you will grub out tree as soon as it
dies and put another in its place the next
spring or fall.
That you will put the ashes around the
orchard trees
That you will never plant another tree on
land not underdrained, if il needs draining.
That you will prune when sap is not fiow-
ing, and cover the wounds with wax or
paint.
That you won't let a travelling agent with
book of wonderfully colored plates take
you in again.
That you will not make mule pasture of
the orchard.
That you Will keep register of the trees
you plant.
That you will attend good Horticultural
meetings.
That you will make the berry patch twice
as large as it is.
That you will cultivate the raspberries.
That you won't let The weeds hide the
black kberries.
That you will reset the strawberry bed.
That you will keep the dead canes out of
the currants.
That you win give the grapes more ele-
waiting treIIis than the earth.
That you will send for specimens of all
the rural journals, carefully compare them,
and subscribe for the best.
That you will eat more fruit and be hap
pier.
That you won't sell the best fruit and keep
the inferior for your family to eat.
That at all times you will give your stock
plenty of pure water.
That you will provide shelter in summer
and in winter.
That you will not feed with sparing
hand
That you will keep only the best breeds
That you will change litter frequently.
That you will give the hogs chance to
be cleanly, and if that don't suffice you will
compel them to be so.
That you will provide variety of whole
some food at seasonable times for your farm
stock.
That you will not abuse your herses and
allow their shoulders to remain sore.
That you will not dose your horses with
all the vile decections the fiendish ingenuity
of ignorant, superstitious quarks has de-
vised.
That you will not make a COW feast on
corn stubs and depend on rail fence for
shelter, and then wonder why she does not
give milk.
That you will have good clover pastures
for your hogs.
That you will not raise cookie burrs to
spoil the wool of the sheep or the name OF
the horses.
That you won't fierce the swine to drink a
Cruel Of tadpoles and mud.
That you will have an carly garden.
That you will eat more vegetables and pay
| fewer doctor bills.
That you will not allow the manure to
accumulate in the poultry house during the
winter, but mix it with soil, sand or muck
in a sheltered place.
That you will keep a chicken-proef fence
around the garden and yard.
That you will have beautiful home.
To which we would append
That you will subscribe for the Rocky
MOUNTAIN HUsBANDMAN, read it carefully
and heed is precepts show it to your
neighbor and induce him to subscribe, that
the agriculture of our Territory may keep
pace with the age.
The RuraI NeW Yorker says if you were
to stop your Light Brahmas from laying,
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