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The Mineral argus., 1884-01-31
1ustice-But somewhat Irregular.

Snstice-But Somewhat Irregular.
Some three months ago Mary Rose Mat
NEWS, a bright, winsome little girl of ten
years, was adopted, from the Denver Col.
Oatholic Orphans home, by Mike Cuddinie
and wife, living on a raAch ten miles from
ouray, a small mining town in the southern
part OF COLORADO. On Sunday the Goth insr.
utle Rose suddenly died, and was buried
" the Cuddihie's in a distant part of the
EAneh. The little girl was cruelty treated
uom the first, the neighbors said. end her
tbSsserous death and hurried burial aroused
! suspicious, and the coroner of Ouray
,ba notified. he immediately repaired to
ohci aRd exhumed the body, when
ws~.a Slakable evidences of a cruel de th
VIII revealed. The body was covered
H. Anne wounds. One leg was broken.
So s1uil crushed and limbs broken
w;ntnaan no doubt been driven out in the
storm to die. Cuddihie and wife
nc o. nme1 lately arrested and i4iIed. On
m1.S ihey we're tried and found guilty OF
hsnSt, About l o'clock in the morning a
49, u masked men went to the hotel.
Ouddihie and vile were Temporarily
The Mineral argus., 1884-01-31

California wine makers estimate thei
production last year at 1900, OD0 gallons
of above the average Quaity.
The Mineral argus., 1884-01-31

Rereipted New Year $ oils are a good
recipe formutual happiness.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21
No. Is
CHICKENS IN COLD WEATHER.

When the fowls are compelled to roost in
their own house and have not the warmth
of cattle or other stock to fall back on at
night their home must be built warm
enough so that their combs and feet will not
freeze. Fowls that are not comfortable and
warm cannot lay eggs for their owners.
Stove heat is not needed to get eggs in win
ter, but warm, sunshiny quarters, with
varied diet of warm mush and buckWheat,
with chopped up meat scraps. A feed OF
wheat screenings once day is an agreeable
change and is a good food to produce eggs.
Five cents worth of cheap meat day will
supply thirty laying hens with all the meat
they want. The fowls should be sorted out
and all the hens that are going to be kept
through the next summer put with good,
active, strong constitutional cock, and the
other cockerels and pullets and old fowls
that are to be fattened or sold, put by them
selves and fed lberally-al they will eat
and got rid of as soon as possible. 1t will
be found profitable to put a new cock, a
thoroughbred, with the flock every year.
Farmers AdUance.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21
E1 ~
ALFALFA.

Mr.. George W. Rust, formerly connected
with the National Lioe Stock Journal. now
residing in Colorado, writes to the Byeeder's
Gazette: Alfalfa is regarded in Colorado
as onr most valuable forage plant. Every
description of stock appears to like it and
thrive well on it, Both horses and cattle
will reject ali other kinds Of hay when al
faia is in the manger. Horses when using
it can be kept with one-half the grain they
would require when on hav. Sheep like it,
Hogs can be fed on it the whole year; j. G.
they will Craze upon it IL summer and eat
the dry hay in winter"
10 speaking OF the soil nnon which alfalfa
grows. Mr.. Rust says: LAS to soil, it is
planted here on every kind we have and
aside from "A peculiar sensitiveness to alkaIi
appears TO do well everywhere. 1t does
well upon the up clay soils and upon
the aInyial deposits in the creek bottoms,
but does not take hold we'll in boggy places
where the soil is cold and wet"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21
ONE EGG FOR TEN PE0EL E.

One ostrich egg tor ten guests is the pat
tern at the California ostrich farm. zone,
two, three, four, five, six. seven, eight nine,
ten." said Dwight Whiting, counting the
guests he had invited to spend the day at the
ostrich farm with him. Il guess one egg
will be enough and having given utter
ance o this expression, he wended his way
to the paddock, and soon brought to the
house an ostrich egg. For a whole hour 1t
was boiled, and though there was then some
misgiving as TO its being cooked, the shell
was broken, for curiosity could no longer be
restrained, and a three-pound hard-boed
egg was lald upon the plate. But aside from
irs size there is nothing peculiar about it.
The white had the blush tin9e seen in duck
eggs and tue yOIk was OF the usual color.
Ii tasted as 1t looked-like duck egg-and
had no flavor peculiar 10 itself. But it was
immense! As it takes twenty-eight hen
eggs to equal in weight the ostrich egg
which was cooked, it is evident that the host
knew what he was about i'm cooking only
one. There was enough and to spare; and
before leaving the table the party unan-
mously agltra that ostrich egg was good.
-Anaheine, Cat., Gazette.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21
IMPORTED EGGS.

Eggs are coming to this country from
Europe and have been tor the past twelve
months or more, and the average farmer
will be surprised to learn that an opening
exists in which this ncw industry is appar-
emily tlour,>hing. Tho value of eggs i'm
ported last year is placed at round million
dollars. This sum is doubtless above the ac-
tual figures, but admitting that it il only
half a million, this is sum which appears
to the average reader should be kept at
home. This character OF competition was
wholly unexpected, and discloses the fact
that eggs are much scarcer and higher here
than the Circumstances warrant, and 1t is not
creditabe TO the industry or enterprise Of
our farmers, that portion OF the commun-
.itY should be eating the necessarily stale
eggs that are imported 1000 to 5000 miles.
This matter furnishes food for reflection and
may serve to call attention to d somewhat
overlooked industry that could be made
profitable. The idea of the United States
importing eggs in monstrous.- -Dirigo Rural.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

0ther countries. and during that time Eu-
rope has had az almost unprecedented sue
ceSSlon OF crop failures. Had the crops OF
other countries been on an average during
this period, our largely Increased crops
would have pr0cuced a serious depression
in domestic farming, and the progress of
wheat growing would have received check
1t would seem that we were on the eve Of a
severe practical test OF the question OF com
parative ability to conpete. If our wheat
crop is kept up to anything near our present
magnitude, we may have range of prices
that will starve our growers on either side
OF the Atlantic. Milling World.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21
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CHICKEN CHAT.

Somebody says that Plymouth Rock pull
lets are not always early layers, for they Of
ten grow for ten or twelve months before
laying, though some lay as early as six
months after hatchng."
Well that's news to us, and we have kept
Plymouth Rocks quite a while. too. We
have had Rock pullets commence laying at
six months, and once we had a few that
didn't do thing toward earning their own
living till they were almost eight months
old; but seven months is nearer the average
and that is what we count on when selecting
the pullets that are to be kept for winter
layers. The pullets that are tatched from
the first of March up to the first of May,
commenced laying all along from the middle
OF September to the first OF December. Pull
lets that we want to commence laying in
February, are selected from those hatched
in July 1t would really be very gratifying
to me if the people who know no more
about the Plymouth Rocks than they do
about the fate of Charley Ross, would keep
their twaddle out OF print.
One OF my correspondents is very anx-
ious to know it the Langshans are the ''com-
ing fowls" Hardly. Fanciers who have
tried them pronounce them the "best bird
that were ever imported from China, y which
Is pretty high prais1, but all the same they
are not popt lar with farmers. They will
never hold the place that the Plymouth
Rocks hold. Since you wish to buy fowls
OF the breeds for which there will be the
greatest demand next season. should ad-
wise you to get Plymouth Rocks and Wyan-
dottes. These, in addition to the Light
Brahmas aud Brown Leghorns that you al
ready have, will give you the tour breeds
that are the most popular, and If you have
good stock, and let people know that you
have got eggs for Matching, you will prob
ably have orders for all the eggs that you
will care to sell.-Famnie Field in Prairie
Farmer.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21
TOO MUCH WHEAT GROWN.

There seems to be widespread opinion
that American wheat can be proitably dis
posed of in England at less than five shil-
lings a bushel. which will have the tmmedi-
ate effect of forciag English farmers in very
large numbers to suspend the further culti-
vatlon of this grain because they have no
money to waste in sentimental agricultural
nurs,Iits. and the arrangement between the
land-owning interest and the tenant farmer
is becoming more and more pronounced
every day. Our great agricultural success
has been most fattering in the past few
wears. We have increased our wheat crop
100 per cent. since 1875, but in doing so we
have not thrust out of cultivation like
proportion of any OF the wheat acreage of
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21
q lTlJhe Dou5ehnM,

Msnding Rubber Boots.-Get piece of
rubber-an old shoe will do, but vulcanized
rubber will not do-and cut into little bits.
Put these into bottle and cover to twice
the depth with spirits of turpentine or re-
fined coal tar naptha-not petroleum nap
tina. Stop the bottle and set it on one side,
shaking it frequently. The rubber will soon
dissolve. Then take the shoe and press the
ripped or cut edges close together, and put
on the rubber solution with camers hair
brush. Continue to apply as fast as it dries
until coating thick enough is formed.
Spirits of turpentine are slowest in dissoly-
ing the rubber, but the cement formed by
their means is the most elastic.
Saoeet Bread Cake.-Dissove an ounce of
German yeast into half pint of tepid wa
ter, work gradually into pound OF flour
let this rise, and then add two ounces of dis
solved clarified butter, quarter of pound
of sugar, little ney....shredded candied
orange peel, caraway powder and ground
cinnamon. Let the cake rise. for half an
hour, then put..into well buttered tin, and
bake slowly until golden brown (the oven
should be very hot at first, and then be con-
siderably slackened, ,..orsthe cake will! not be
good color) The additionot beaten egg
is an Improvement which should be added
when.the butter is mixed in.
Cream Psfs.-Boil halt a pound of butter
and two cups OF water, and three-quarters
of pound of flour and cook one minute.
When quite cool add.frst the yolks and then
the whites of six eggs, and bake ten minutes.
Cold VeaL.-Cold veal is an abomination,
but it can be made into very good dish.
Put piece of butter as large as an egg into
a saucepan, and when it is melted put in a
teaspoonful of -four Be careful to have it
thoroughly mixed with the butter, but do
not let it brown; add salt, a little mace and
pepper; pour in one cupful.of hot water,
then put in the veal sliced very thin, and
heat over gentle fire. Just before sery-
ing stir in the yoik of an egg. French cooks
often add few drops of vinegar.
Oatmeal Cookies.--Yery good cookies for
children may be made by substituting two
thirds oatmeal for wheat flour in any of the
ordinary recipes.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

Or. SHAW, President of the Colorado Hor-
ticultural Society, makes the following sug
gestions is regard to planting trees:
When trees are received in the fall, open
all bundles, dip the roots in thin mud and
bury them in pit in dry soil with roots two
feet deep and tops even with the surface
work the soil we'll among the roots, and fill
up and mound over the tops six inches deep.
After the ground is frozen put little ma
nure over the pit. Grapes and small fruits
except strawberries-are kept in the same
way. In the spring raise the trees early and
heel in, covering the tops with straw to pre-
vent too sudden drying, and plant when the
ground is warm. If your trees and plants
don't arrive in the spring till the ground is
warm and buds are well started and broken,
don't be frightened ; it is Just the time.
Plant carefully according to directions and
you will be surprised at their quick, healthy
growth.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21
WEAK WHEAT

In quality. our last winter wheat crop is
decidedly inferior to what may, in this re-
spect, be termed good crop. as it also is
largely short in quantity. The grain in
many States is shrunken, li.ht in weight
and deficient in gluten aud therefore, will
make less AND poorer flour per bushel than
in ordinary years. With good milling, it
turns out a wite handsome flour. but it is
very deficient in strength. This is especially
the case with fours made from the Ciawson
and Fultz varieties of wheat, and such -four
branded extra on account OF its color. has
lately been sold in this market as low as
1925 per 1856 pounds in bags. There is
plenty of this weak stuff left, and except at
a very material reduction in the price from
that obtainable for strong flour of no better
appearance to the eye, sales of it are ex-
tremely difficult-Millers' Journal.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

NOTWI1HsTANDING there is as yer ample
free pasturage in all parts of Montana, our
farmers are well aware that our grasses are
gradually being fed down aud shat the time
will eventually come when they will not be
sufficient to sustain their stock. and in vie "
Of this fact they should begin 10 raise their
own hay. 1t has been proven that timothy
hay can be grown here with as good results
as ell sew here in America. but it takes several
years after sowing tor it TO become suffi-
cientlv rooted and thick enough TO produce
a full crop. The yield when fully set will
be fully double that of our heaviest wild
meadows. Therefore, to be supplied in the
future with sufficient good feed tor S tock in
winter. farmers should now begin to make
their own meadows. In localities where
blue joint grows plentitully it will not be
necessary to sow timothy. But enough land
should be allotted to growing hay and suf
ficient supply of water turned on to enable
the meadows to become well set.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21
FARMERS MUST READ.

Did ever a lawyer or physician succeed in
his profession without much reading and
study? Every lawyer has his library, and
must not only be posted as to what "the
code" says, but must keep himself posted
concerning the new laws which pass Con-
gress and the Legislature of his State. If
he neglects TO keep up his reading and study
he will soon degenerate into an antiquated
pettifogger.
The doctor, after years of reading, courses
of lectures, etc, etc. must have his books
and medical journals at hand, and must
read and study them. After years of prac-
tice, as new forms of disease and new RENE
dies appear, he continues to find to the end
of his life, that there is something to learn.
II he discontinues his reading he will soon
be called quack or an "old fogy' and de-
serves the name.
How is it with the farmer? A man living
on farm, plowing few acres of ground
and keeping some stock is called farmer.
He may never have gone through any train
ing for the business. and never read much
about that or anything else; but it is 40
trick to be farmer" and he goes at it
blindly, and calls it good lack when he sue
ceeds and bad luck when he fails. No law
yer or physician more needs a course of
reading than he. The soil he tils is a study
fully rs intricate and instructive as Black
stone. The improvement of his stock and
the hest manner of making that improve
ment is another study and so on indefinitely.
Success in each department requires study.
Farmers should not be satisfied with books
on agricultural topics alone. They should
not only have them, but each family should
take two or three or half a dozen agricul-
tural papers, and should read them and
profit by what they teach. The few dollars
spent in this way will be like bread cast on
the water-it will come back again. Ii farm
ers make a study of agriculture they will be
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

able TO detect the mistakes which appear in
some OF these papers. For instance, some
ia mer reports to his paper some expert
ment he has tried, aud some other farmer
fiHds when he tries the same thing that it
won't work" He should study out the
reason why the process is at one time sue
cess and at another failure. In short each
one should study and know for himself
Ah11erican Farm and Home.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21
GQyhe poultry gard.

Fowls which are expected to lay during
the winter months must be amply fed with
good nutritious food. Many costly fowl
houses fail to keep healthy their inmates,
principally becduse of the absence OF thor
ough ventilation. The Bronze turkey is lne
smallest departure from the wild turkey in
respect TO color and decided improvement
on it, both in size and lustre OF color.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

LAST spring we advertised for month or
two IA variety of oats called the Welcome
Oats" A number of farmers sent TOR these
oats for trial, and we would be glad to learn
what success they had with them. Will
some of our friends who tried them kindly
inform us something about the experiment;
they compare with other varieties grown in
this Territory
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

Transient advertisements PAYABLE in advance
Regular advertisements payable quarterly
Twenty-hv per cent. added for SPECIAL advertise
ments.
Remttances by registered letter, post-o1ice
rider or draft at risk; but not at our expense.
Any one failing to receive his paper regularly
should notify us promptly by postal card
A subscriber desiring to change the post-ofice
iirectOn of his paper must communicate to us the
name of the post-ofice to which ii has previously
oeen sent, otherwise may he unable TO comply
with his request.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

JOHN W, Of fredericksburg, Ohio,
writes to one of our exchanges, saying ::
"As some contributors have been publishing
egg records. it is now my turn. | have a
hen that in one successive laying, laid 80
eggs without wanting to hatch. If any one
can beat that for common stock, let him
speak OUT
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

THOSE farmers who have made a speciality
of raising barley for brewers. may grow
that grain with more certainty of good
market than any other crop, but those who
are inexperienced will find barley raising an
uphill business in this country, besides it is
growing brewers barley.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

Mr.. PURDY, of the Fruit Recorder has a
new strawberry which he calls the Jumbo
and which he says is of great promise. 1t
is large very late, good quality, firm and
good yielder. If it pans out in accordance
with all these promises, it will be very
valuable acquisition to the list.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

THE Country Gentleman says two things
are necessary for the growing OF good as
paragus, namely, plenty of room for the
plant to grow and copious manuring. The
latter is best applied to thick beds by cover
ing the whole surface with manure two or
three inches thick, late in autumn, and fork
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

10 raise grain cheaply farmers should be
supplied with the latest improved farming
implements. Gang plows, seed drills or
broadcast sewers. and self-binding harvest
ers. They should also have lively stepping g
teams
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

NORMAN j. COLEMAN, editor of the Rural
World and President of the Mississippi Val
ley Cane Growers Association. recommend
ed in his address the organization of Ma
tional cane Growers Association.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

The grape thriveS well on rich. loamy
soil, or on the poor 4ravelly hjllsIdes. Like
other vines, however. it does best when well
cultivated and carefully managed.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

If you intend to raise crop next season,
you should make all necessary preparations
now when there is nothing urgent to be
done, so that at seeding time you may begin
early and put Ia full time
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

IHE HusBANDMAN is doing tor the farm
ers that which no other journal cau do, and
every person interested in agriculture should
read it. Send in your names and the names
OF Your neighbors
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

THE prospect OF a large fruit crop in Lou
isiana is better than it has been for a nuu-
Der of years.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

ing it in very early in spring. before the
new shoots starts. Thick beds, however,
should not be planted, but the plants allow
ed three or four feet each way to each. Three
by five is common aud suitable distance.
and large stalks may be obtained in this
WpV.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

The ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUsBANDMAN is designed
TO be- as the name indicates, lnsbandrnan in every
sense of the term, embracing in its columns every
department. of Agriculture, Stock-raisii.g, Horti-
culture Social and Domestic Economy
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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

ALFALFA is being grown in Montana with
good success, and farmers would Go well TO
sow few acres. 1t grows rapidly in warm
weather, and should not be irrigated except
IN midsummer, as too much water seems to
retard growth. The most successful fields
are upon high bottom lands near rivers,
where the soil is of such character as to
afford sufficient moisture to the roots. 1t
does not thrive we'll in marshy lands, yet
it requires some irrigation tor The first two
or three seasons after sowing.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-02-21

lie problem Of what to do with the germ
mas never yel been solved. Recent articles
IN some OF our contemporaries have
sought to show th;t this portion of the
wheat berry may be reduced to flour along
with small particles OF middIings, Or perhaps
OF bran flour net every white, it is true,
but still nnurshng, and too valuable not to
be saved from the offtl.-St Louis Miller.