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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01
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LARGE OR SMALL BREEDS,

From six months until the third year is
the age OF fowls most productive of eggs,
although this rule may differ somewhat
with different breeds. For the largest
amount OF eggs the small breeds are best,
ana IN my experience the small breeds have
the greatest endurance, and better constitu-
nolls, and do not put on superfuous flesh
alter arriving at maturity. Many suppose
That egg-producing fowls are not good flesh
makers. In this respect the quality and
quantity vary greatly with age. A Leg
morn broiled at the age of ten or twelve
weeks is delicious and tender, while month
or so later it could scarcely be identified as
the same fowl. At the same age in a Cochin
or Brahma there are only bones and ten
oohs. lhelr flesh is not obtained until
months later. The small breeds mature
cal ly, and even at three weeks the bodies
are leathered, while the reverse is true with
the large breeds. The small breeds make
early and quick returns with generous feed
and care, while the large breeds are more
tardy in reaching a marketable condition.
when they will weigh very heavy.
Inc early or late profit in eggs varies in
the same way. While the small breeds, as
rule, come into laying at six and in some
instances at four months, the large breeds
llnger until seven, eight and nine months.
according to the keeping, while the greater
amount OF feed expended has a TELLING
effect on the small breeds in the right direc
ton; the contrary is observed with the
larger breeds. Judgment must be exercised.
tof neither breed should be stinted or
starved While growing. After the growth
anu leatherlhg are completed, the birds in
tended Tor laying should be separated from
those that are tattening. and put on small
ratlons OF tat-producing food, and large
rations of albumnous food, such as buck-
wheat, wheat. brans and milk. OF this
they should have all they will eat. When
fowls are in confinement it becomes neces.
sary to exercise judgment in feeding. as too
much strong iced and too little exercise
nave a tendency to tatten the birds, When
running atlarge the case is different for the
breeds subsist largely on
worms and insects obtained by scratching.
L lie large 1oWls are not so active, conse-
4uently must be put on ratons. In raisinp
ahlcks tor market early chicks are best,
Ihey should come out of the shells as earlv
Is they can be managed with success. This
period varies with the convenience and ac-
The location must be warm
ahd 'front.' towards the first warm rays of
he sun The north and west sides must be
heltered' Very early chicks escape the
5apes, for they avoid the dampness of the
growing yegetation.-Cor. Country Gentleman
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

OUR farmers spend money enough in tile
purchase OF fruit trees and shrubs to h,va
their homes well supplied with fruit. but
thy do not exercise sufficient care in set
'lhg them ont and caring for them after
they have started to grow to make thei,.
success complete. GOoseberries and cnr-
rants grow with less care than anv shrub
brought to this climate, but they are often
TOO much neglected. The soil tor these a.
well as other shrubs and trees sllou1d he
very rlch and we'll cultivated Itis money
thrown away to buy trees, small fruit shrubs.
strawberry plants, etc, unless they are
properly cared for. Ii this is done the in
VeSftnent cannot fail to prove a good one
since very small outlay will be sufficient
TO furnish every household with an abund-
ance OF fruit. And until this is done that
perfect degree OF cOntentment prOverbal
among farmers can not be attained Iet
every farmer and suburban village resident
attend to this matter promptly. and the Sec
ond or third year AT flrlhe~t they will BEGIN
to reap their reward.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

bly, well, but when the farmer comes to
market them he finds that he has too many
small ones. good only 10 be ted to stock,
and often allowed to go to waste, The eX-
perience OF our best farmers and expert
menters. among whom are DR.. Sturtevant
OF the Utica, N. Y. experimental station.
and Prof. Sanborn, of the Missouri Agricul-
tural College, has shown that potatoes cut
to one eye to the piece and planted II to 10
inches apart in The drill with rows 40 to Al
inches apart give the greatest yield to the
acre. Another point important in securing
d good stand and early growth is the cutting
OF the seed in time to dry them OFF or coat
them over before planting. This retains
the moisture in the piece and directs it to
growth of the sprout instead of rotting as
they sometimes do if planted Immediately
after being cut. The cutting may be done
from four to ten days before planting. A
quick good way to dry them is by rolling in
land plaster Immediately after cutting.
With good kind and quality of potatoes
for seed, there need be very little trouble in
getting from two to three hundred bushels
to the acre on an average piece OF western
sod land. We cover with seven inch turn
ing plow and run the harrow over just as
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

covering the entire season. In support of
this opinion e quGe from the reports of
Messrs Glib and Bud: Kazan is situated
on the Volga river, bove latitude 90 degrees
and four hundred and thirty miles east
from Moscow. Prf Budd SAYS of this
place: The climte of Kazan [ fail to
comprehend. That its winters should be
cold we could readily guess. In extreme
winters the mercur. congealS, and the mill-
est winters have pe,iods when the tempera-
ture reaches thirty o forty degrees below,
with very dry ali and great uncertainty
as to the time WheI the first SHOWS cover
the ground. Yet dl the villages we visited
are literally great o7tards with fine looking
and really very goot apples. To find sach
extensive orchards il the far interior and as
far north as kazan, nrprised us as much as
to have found then in Siberia. Even at
Moscow we were tod that but few apples
were grown as far orth as kaZan. | wish
| could have deleation of about one hun
dred intelligent fEmers of Northwestern
Iowa here tor one week to go with me over
the ground have tayersed in this district.
Have seen HUNDREDS of orchards literally
loaded with finer. smoother fruit than [
ever saw in Genital Iowa, growing on an
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01
Ghe 1un5ehnld.

fTuit Cahe.-One pound of sugar. half
pound of butter, four eggs, one teacup of
sweet milk, three and a half cups of flour.
one teaspoon of saleratus, nutmeg. CHINA
mon and cloves, and as many raisins as YOU
can afford.
Pancakes.-Five cupfuls of flour, cupful
OF finely ground corn meal, cuptul of
sugar, 2 eggs; buttermilk to make sufie-
iently thin; salt to taste, and If the butter
milk is not quite rich, add few spoonfuls
OF cream. Just before baking, add tea
spoonfuls of soda dissolved in warm wafer
Tea Biseuits.-Six cupfuls OF sifted flour.
teaspoontuls of soda, teaspoontuls of
cream of tartar, and one OF salt well sittea
and stirred through the flour; a full cupful
OF cream, or if not thick aud rich, allow
little more; and buttermil1 sufficient to
roll soft. Bake in quick oven. Graham
flour well sifted is excellent in this recent.
IL you have never fried any biscuit for tea
Try these, cutting out a small circle from
the centre, the same as for fried cakes. and
fry in hot lard to a pale yellowish brown,
ou will find them excellent.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

even lot Of healthy, hardy trees. The inspec-
ton of such delegation would do more to
convince the people that we must quit fool
ing aoih the South Of Europe fruits, than my
pen will do in forty years. But [ find the
facts to far exceed my expectations"
The professor says while at Sambrsk,
also on the Volga, in latitude 81 degrees :
" We have spent three days in examining
the fruits in tue many orchards in an near
to the famous fruit city of Simbrisk. 1t NAV
be properly called, Orchard City, than any
town in Europe or America Literally
every available spot in and around the CITY
is planted to apple, pear, cherry and plum
trees, all of which this year have produced
great crops of really choice fruit. But not
single variety can be found that belongs TO
the races OF fruit found even in North Ger
many. The climate is very irving. both
summer and winter. The city is located in
the dry steppe region, five hundred miles
east and few south of Moscow. Thousands
OF acres of orchard here are planted TO y
very, very few commercial varieties of an
pie, which do not differ materially from
'hose grown in the province of kazan.
Our Duchess we do not find, but the Boro-
vlnka and dozen other sorts are so like the
Duchess in leaf, tree and fruit, that thew are
hard to distinguish except by tasting. All
OF the varieties of Duchess type are finer in
texture and milder in flavor than our IRON
clad"
AT knavinsk, on the west bank of the
Voga, latitude 90 degrees. the professor
says: The shipments of fruit from this
place already reached this season about !.
100000 packages of thirty-six pounds each
Ihirty-six million pounds from one sh,p-
ping point, with many others above and
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01
FRUIT FOR MONTANA.

just at this season of the year the people
OF Montana are receiving their spring orders
OF fruit trees and naturally feel great inter
est III the subject of growing fruit in this
latitude, and little encouragement will
certainly be beneficial. We have always
maintained that fruit growing can be made
a success here. but are we'll aware thar If
VIII require some time to accomplish this.
ana that many failures will be chronicled
bcfort great degree of success is atrained
That it is neither too cold. too windy foo
dry, or too much of a prairie region. is evil
dent from the success in Russia, and we can
not see why it the hardy Russian varieties
are planted fruit growing may not be car
RED to success at an early day. Prof A. G.
futile, who has spent thirty wears in
studying up the matter. in recent article
in the Western Rural. saws.
"Where are we to LOOK mainly for the
late-keeping varieties of apples to make Or
certain and profitable in the Drai-
rie regions OF the Northwest? | answer.
from the cold interior prairie regions of
Russia. After ten to fifteen years trial of
nearly one hundred varieties from that re-
glon, and after reading the accounts given
by MessrS. Glib and Budd, we firmly he
Ileve that we shall obtain from that country
apples more valuable than the Duchess.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

below, will give some idea OF the extensive
| orcharding of this region.''
vi Volsk, he says: We have been ti-
ing ourselves out in the old work of ram
bling through parks. gardens and orchards,
near this ancient city OF Central Russia.
We are on the border of the dry steppes,
reaching into Central Asia. 1t has not
rained here for weeks, and such comminni
Ell dust we never know in Iowa. Yet, hot
and dry and sunburnt as the far-reachino
plains now are, the winter temperature
reaches 30 degrees Fahrenheit in extreme
winters, often without a particle of snow.
AS rule there is more snow here than in
Iowa, but the time of the first snow tall of
winter is very uncertain. Sometimes the
lowest temperature is reached before the
mantle of snow is spread. Hence only such
fruits, trees or shrubs can be grown as will
endure the heat and drouth of a semi-arctic
summer and semi-arctic winter"
Then of Saratoff, in latitude 81 degrees,
he says: This beautiful city on the border
ofthe elevated prare or bluff on the right
bank of the Volga, may also be called the
Garden City" 1t is literally surrounded
with great orchards. Within two miles of
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No. 25.

our hotel in this city of 500, 900 inhabitants
we visited to-day an apple orchard of $4,000
trees, which this dry year did not produce
as great a crop as in more favorable seasons.
Two years ago the crop sold was 153 car
loads of 10000 pounds each. The proprie~
tor, MIR. Patiskietf, has also a large pear
orchard adjoining, which also proves very
profitable. These large orchards grow but
very few varieties, all of which we are as
sured, have been popular on the yolga for at
least the past century,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01
CUTTING SEED POTATOES

Som" people object to cutting potatoes
mt" Snatl phi ce> tor seed, and Yet it won d
twrlv" grains of ror in each hill, although
the rtfect is ahou' the same. When Il pot;i-
t" planted whole. most. or many of the
eyes VIII grOW-not All. but too MANY to do
well. The crop ot potatoes under favora-
bic circumstances NAV measure ont to]era-
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

me stock Is ready to break through. Alter
l'at me process is simple. In St, Louis
county. where large quantities are grown
'of market, the usual method is. at first
pioWlhg turn the earth from the row: sec
ond use double shovel and third, turn
me dirt up to the row.-Farnse1's Adpauce.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

EVERY farmer could find use for large
quantity OF potatoes for stock feed every
WINTER and should plant accordingly. Po-
"'oeS are grown with little labor and yield
f. much it not more per acre than any other
|s'op' Farmers should therefore plant liber-
EalIy of this crop,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

a., 'HE HuSBANDMAN is thoroughly practi-
N III It's several departments. Its lessons
4n,o IT, go'A farming and stock growing are de-
r,s s.''oaS from actual experience of the best
~ S'pieFS and stock growers in the Territory,
'0e"hhot tail to be of benefit to all who
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

AoNTANIANs are beginning to despair of
|oeng able to raise apples successfully, but
we are confident that ten years hence the
territory will grow all the fruit it needs
|or home consumption, and would not be
surprised if it produced surplus.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

oCR agricultural department is alone
worth the cost of the HUsBANDMAN tor one
I'e8f-yeS, each department is worth the
,0>' OF the paper, and combined they are
"otlh many times the cost, and farmers
''u stock growers cannot afford to be with
loutit.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

HE irrigating ditch should be made
secure at the head befor the water rises.
lhls work can be done much cheaper now
man after the snow in the hills begins to
|meIt
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

BEETs are excellent feed for COWS. They
re easily grown and yield well in Montana,
EAd farmers should raise few acres for
4 #8lnter feed tor their mich cows.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

read them. Its editorial department is also
ABLY conducted and deals with the live
ISSUES OF the day in ii clear, comprehensive
and intelligent manner.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

PLANT plenty of peas, both in the garden
aand in the field, for in either place they will
prove paying crop.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

lHE firm OF Lamont, Burns and Redding,
probably the most extensive farmers of the
Musselshell, will sow large crop this sea-
IsOn.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

IT pays The farmer to have a good pasture
convenient to his stables.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

THERE will be a large increase in the
acreage of grain soWn this season in the
MuSselshell valley over last year.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

RHrBARB plants should not be disturbed
until the fourth year. 1t is claimed that to
cut it earlier rptards the growth.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

EVERY farmer should raise hogs enough
1or his own use, and in order to accomplish
hls successfully, should grow small acre
age of field peas.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

EARLY sowing is very much more certai
than late sowing.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

In few more years our agricultural val.
leyS will be under fence.
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IArifnlturaL.
GREEN is the grass on Montana's hills.

The work of sowing should be completed
as early as possible.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-05-01

The ROCKY MOUNTAIN HuSBANDMAN Is designed
to be, the name indicates, a husbandnan in every
sense of the term, embracing in its columns every
department. of Agriculture, Stock-raislg, Horti-
culture Social and Domestic Economy
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Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-01
MOROCCO,s MONsTROs1TEEs.
Queer Scenes About the Gates ofa City
 in Northern Africa.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the balJllIlOIe ouI
 Approaching the city of Morocco one is at once struck with the prolific, abandoned and vagrant character of nature and the total absence of what some people rave over as ''Moorish art'' Groups of hang -dog thiev
 ish-looking Arabs, true types of eastern cracksmen, and cut-purses of the desert of Sahara abound. These are the gaily attired tramps of the Orient Nomadic and quarrel some, blear-eyed and bloated, treacherous and licentious, are these much over-rated "children of the desert" A dowar or tent of these marauders is seen in a hundred diff ferent places outside the fortified city of Morocco. These tents are often parti-colored in stripes and amidst the dark and ugly dwarf thorn bushes that struggle and twist about the land like monster anacondas the effect at first is striking The immense pral- ries of glittering white sand in the distance, the colored and often jet black tents, the groups of fifteen or twenty blacker animated gipsy beings, anything but human, that oc- cupy each tent, the tethered spawned horses of 1neager blood, the long and inlaid muskets, the extra ornanented daggers and ponder ous pistols, the excessively decorated saddles and brides, the varied mats, goat-skins, the glariDgly colored chests, the dogs, donkeys, copper cauldron ana oIhef lnplehehIs' ail
 more or less stolen, or, as they term it, footed, make up picture that might charm Ge- rome or rival an Oriental rag fair.
 We occasionally halted at several of those tents, and found the women simply demoni- acal in expression and general appearance. Each group, of say twenty persons in each tent, is related by blood ties, and it is wise mother, to say nothing of the father, that kno~s her own child From the cradle to the grave here and hereafter, they are all horse thieves and liars While we were in one tent, or, rather, outside of it, for the stench within was simply terrible, young black rascal of an Arab boy deftly picked my pocket of tin box of wax matches, which | he more deft1y swallowed when detected.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-01
DIR V.

The milkmen of St. Johns bury have raised the price of their wares seven cents quart i'on account of dry weather" Murder will Burlington Free Press. An Englishman made red-headed girl awful mad the other day by asking her if she wasn't glad the rain had cooled the hair Burlington Free Press. 'sFishs' asked the waiter of country wis itor at the seaside hotel. 'FWell, dunno" ]" was the reply; ''wait till get suthin' ter eat and then I'll talk with yer about goin' fish in. '."-Boston Bulletin.
 t'Fact is" said Brown, s'there's nothing doing. Why, man, I've been unable to make both ends meet this summer' ''So?" re- piled Fogg: 'you should try green apples or cucumbers. ."-Boston Transcript.
 ''How do you dare eat so many onionsa" many I eat, :" he replied My wife is long l way off. She is in Buffa1o'' "Yes, but five hundred miles isn't very far for an onion 1 t-Graphic.
 ''It's strange" muttered the circus men as the tent was blown down by a cyclone, 'swe cannot see the wind, yet it's effects are ap- parent" "YesA that's so," chimed the 1 clown; Tits power is lay-tent "-New York 1 Journal.
 Fish are said to be getting more shy at
 Cape May year after year. It is all owing to 1 the bathing costumes, probably. The fish
 have been so shocked that they couldn't stay
 there much longer and preserve their self respect.-Boston Transcript.
 Old girls at the seaside twist wisp o1 common hay around their broad -br1mmeo
 hats and fasten it with fancy bows, and thuf
 impress dudes with the idea that they are 1T
 the hey-day of youth.-New Orleans Pica
 yune.
 A new telephone instrument has been in vented by which the crying of baby ma!
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-01

be heard at the distance of hundred miles, and bachelors are beginning to consider whether it is better to marry or move out of the country.-Cincinnati Merchant Travel Ter.
 Dr. Allen MacLean Hamilton, who ap- peared as an authority on nervous diseases in the Rhinelander case in New York on Wed nesday, laid it down as proposition that a red nose is one sign of insanity. In this region the red nose has always been presumptive evidence of overwork at the bar.-Riehmond Wa.) State.
 Tiff Johnson went out fishing again one day last week. He had nice lunch fixed up, but upon arriving at the creek he dis covered that he had lost it, so he retraced his steps Meeting q large, satisfed-looking negro, who was picking his teeth, Tiff asked: : Did you pick up anything in the roads" ftNo, sah, didn't pick up nuffin-couldn't a dog hab found it, and eat it upz'-Texas Siftings.
 Milo, the wrestler, a Grecian of gigantic strength, being desirous of giving convincing proof of his powers, undertook te rive in twain the stump of gnarled oak, but his hands being taken in the rift he perished miserably of hunger aud thirst. This anec- dote teaches us the extreme folly of ''taking the stump when it is not absolutely sure how things are coming out.-Life.