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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

For currant and gOoSeberry cuttings. the
lands must be made fine. mellow and rich
You cannot make it too rich. Seventy-tive
tons of well-rotted manure per acre is none
too much-or say halt a bushel to square
yard Work the manure thoroughly into
the ground.
When the ground is prepared. stretch
line, and with sharp bright spade cut mar
row row along the line, deep enough to
hold the cuttings upright, with the upper
end not over an inch above the surface of
the soil. Place the cuttings about four
inches apart. Draw the dirt up to them
with a hoe, and press it firm with the foot.
This is all there is to be done, except to
keep the land clean afterward with cultiva-
tor and hoe. And it is well to cover the
surface of the soil with manure and lei it
remain all winter, and then work it into the
land in the spring.
If you intend to use horseshoe between
the rows, it is better to make the rows
three feet apart, but if you depend on hand
hOeing, the rows need not be over two feet
apart.
1t is sometimes recommended to remove
all the eyes from the cuttings except one at
the bottom and one or two at the top. The
object of this is TO raise bushes with single
stems. When the buds are removed the
bushes do not throw up suckers. In the
garded, nicely pruned and trained bushes
with single stems have a neat, tidy look
But in growing currants extensively for the
market, and especially in not, dry climate,
it seems desirable to let the bushes throw
up suckers or shoots. True, they are apt
| to throw up more suckers than we need
and it is necessary to remove all but three
or four that we wish to grow, to fill the
| place of old branches that it Is desirable to
cut out. On the whole, it might be good
plan to remove some of the eyes from the
cuttings, so as to lessen, but not entirely
destroy, the habit of throwing out suckers.
There should always be at least one eye at
the top and bottom of the cutting.
In regard to setting ouS currant bushes
permanently, the first consideration should
be, how can we most surely keep the land
clean? If you set out bushes along a fence,
the chances are that in a few years the soil
will be covered with thick mat of weeds
and grass, and the growth of the bushes 50
feeble that moss and worms will render the
currants worthless. We cultivate thd corn
and potatoes and cabbage, why not we cul-
| tivate currants?
On my own farm the first bushes | set out
were four feet apart each way. The next
lot were six feet between the rows and four
feet apart in the rows. | intend to set out
several Thousand bushes this autumn, and
shall put them in rows seven feet apart and
four feet in the rows. The object is to at
lord plenty of room to use a cultivator be-
tween the rows, and also to drive wagon
or cart between the rows with monure. For
two or three years, till the bushes get large,
if desired, row of beans or peas may be
planted between the rows. In my own
case. have three year old bushes to set out,
and the will occupy the whole ground from
the start.-Joseph Harris in N. Y. Examiner.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18
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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

EVERY farmer and gardener should save
seed for next years use. 1t would he big
saving to the Territory if every farmer and
gardener saved all the seed he needed for
next year. And besides being a saving to
'he Territory the seeds are much better.
Seed grown in this climate produce vegeta-
bles that mature quicker than seeds grown
in lower latitudes
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18
MOULIN G.

All animals are continually casting off
worn-out particles or parts of their bodies,
and by their nutriment replacing them in
similar form. This is mainly accomplished
by the circulatory organs conveying, as
they do, constant stream of organic mat
ter, the capillary blood vessels penetrating
every part. As the stream returns the
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

FARMERS who tried the hard Scotch Fife
wheat assure us that the grain produced is
much nicer looking berry than the seed
sown, and tor this reason conclude that
when generally introduced here the Mon
tana wheat crop will be superior in quality
to that of Dakota.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

WE in common with many others have
always recommended the planting out of
currant cuttings in the spring, but Joseph
Harris, one of the best farmers and garden
ers of the age, says plant them now. For
full particulars read an article from his pen
in this issue.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

A SMALL patch of fruit only affords taste
and is good for nothing except to prove that
it can be grown in this climate. What every
farmer and suburban resident wants is an
acre or more in fruit so that he will have
plenty and to spare.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

Do NOT plant out 100 strawberry plants
and 80 or 60 gooseberry and currants, but
plant 500 currants and 5000 strawberries.
Plant a nice lot while at it. and when
they get to bearing you will not have just a
taste, but you will have plenty.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

1T costs the Gallatin county farmer forty
cents per hundred pounds to send his grain
to Butte or Anaconda, but the Utah farmer,
living 800 miles further away, can send his
there for twenty-five cents per hundred.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

FARMERS should make their caculatio
to dig their potatoes by the first of OCto-
Der !; however as yet there are many crops
that have not matured.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18
ED.---0-'-aaa'

IT costs the Missouri valley farmer twenty
cents per hundred to send his grain to the
Helena market, forty miles away, while the
Utah farmer sends his products 800 miles
for twenty-five cents per hundred pounds.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

NOTWITHSTANDING the discrimination
made between our local grain and that
raised in the adjoining Territories ny the
railroad companies, Montana farmers should
we think. be able to compete,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

en- respecting the site OF Paradise aud a
Swedish professor in the seventeenth centu-
ry wrote a book to prove it was in Sweden.
-Louaon.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

The matter of displaying flags at signal
stations instead of hagning out bulletins, is
being extensively agitateG.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

THE market for all kinds of produce
should be firmer this year than last and
prices should be some better.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

THE farmers of Montana. we are proud to
soil of any country on earth.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

II is probably just as well to grow spring
wheat as fall wheat if the farmer will plow
his land in the tall and be ready to sow his
crop ir the spring as soon as the snow goes
off
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

THE fall wheat crop OF our Territory has
never yet deem molested by the Hessian fly.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

WATER is one of the best fertilizing agents
known
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

THIS department has had the effect to in
crease the poultry product of Montana 80
per cent. during the past two years.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

PLENTY blesses the board of the indus
trious farmer.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

AS times get harder our small farmers be-
gin to learn that there is money in growing
fowls
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18

TIE high price of beef and the difficulty
OF keeping it fresh admonishes Montana
farmers to grow hundreds of chickens and
have them every day if they wish, from the
time they are big enough to fry until cold
weather comes.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18
IgrifnlhraL

MEADOW lands should be fertilized.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-09-18
Anultry gard,

SMITH river hens refuse to lay eggs for
less than fifty cents per Dozen
Fowls are cheaper 10 the farmer than
beef and much more palatable.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
The Use orSummer.

"We have summer" said the
Lime Kiln Club orator as be pulled
down his vest, ''ir. order dat water
mellyons may ripen, and We hev 16,-
456 changes of weather in de course
of a year in order to accommodate
all minds, as possible moonlight
nights for sich pussons as am behind
hand in hoein' corn or sawin' wood,
an We hev dark and cloudy nights
fur de benefit of burglars, cats an
gas companies. Natur' didn't make
de kentry all mountains nor all pra-
ries, kase she realized that the seem
cry would be monotonous. Had
de sile been all sand we could have
raised muffin but sweettaters. Had
it bin all clay we should hev run
largely to wheat, an crowded the
price down to 16 cents per bushel.
De ocean was made SALTY so dat de
corpses ofhorses, dogs an cats dump
ed into itoff Cony Island wouldn't in
terfere wild de seaside hotel bizness.
De lakes war made fresh in order
dat Chicago an Buffalo might once
in awhile change DER drinks. Fack
am my hearers, man am mighty
slim grain of sand when compared
to nature. While she has made
eberythin' fuy de bes' and in de bes'
way. de wisest man on airth, had he
bin giben de job of maxim yaller
dog, would hev got the fore an hind
legs all mixed up and left de tail off
altogether.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
Autumn Care OF Meaaow Land.

Meadows should not be closely
grazed any time, and especially not
in fail. They need to have fertiliz.
ing material added to instead of
taken from the soil. Young ami
mails are more injurious than ma
ture ones, they withhold a large
share of the potash, phosphoric acid
and nitrogen of the food to build up
their bodies, leaving the manure
comparatively poor, while the ma
ture animals need very little of these
three chief elements of soil fertility.
Meadows, like winter grains, are in
iured by freezing and thawing, and
the plants need to be in vigorous
condition in late fall, with good
growth of aftermath for protection
from the frosts ard winds. Well
rotted manure applied soon after the
hay is removed, will insure a fine
crop next season. Take good care
of the meadows, for they suffer il
abused.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
Deacon and Dude.

But the deacon was uneasy. Near
him sat dude from New York,
with loudly checkered suit, silver
headed cane, and a pronounced odor
of patchouly. The deacon eyed the
dude, shifted uneasily in his seat,
and at length arose and said:
II guess I'll get to wind'ard."
81 tell ye," said he suddenly ad-
dressing the dude, Il know what'll
take that air smell outer your
clothes.
You must bury 'em-bury 'em a
month, an then they'll be all right.
Naow when | was a boy, lived in
the country, an one day | was goin'
to school, an | threw a stone at q
little black kitten by the roadside.
Jerusalem but I've never stoned q
black kitten since. / reckon you
run across one o. them critters this
mornin', by the smell-Good gra-
cious, where's the feller gone? Don't
see what there was to get hutfy
about" be remarked, turning to the
smiling crowd that had gathered
round. Guess he must ha' gone to
bury his clothes. Boston Globe.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
Sixteen Thousand Prunc Trees

Perhaps the largest prune orchard
in the world is situated on the Los
Gatos road, one mile south from Sar-
atoga, and contains 10000 trees. 1t
was planted by Messrs. higgins &
Stoddard and recently sold by them
to Malone d Brown Tor s72 000 1t
is situated on a gentle slope from the
loot OF the mountain TO the Los
Gatos road. and can be taken at a
glance. Near by is the famous Rice
orchard containing fruit and nut
trees OF almost every variety: also
the O'Banion IL Kent orchard of
eighty acres, recently sold for $780,
0OO, and for which $4,000 advance
has been offered and refused.-Los
Gatos (Cal. News.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22


Agriculture may also bring
succ0r to those whom society
has not been over-ready to favor
our women.
Widowed mothers, dependent
girls, the weak and the feeble, all
may find blessing in the easy,
pleasant and profitable labors of the
apiary. OF course, women who lack
vig0r and health, can care for but
very few colonies, and must have
sufficient strength to bend over and
lift the small sized frames of comb
when loaded with honey and to
carry empty hives. With
the proper thought and manage
ment full colonies need never be
lifted, nor work done in the hot sun
shine. Yet right here let me add,
and emphasize the truth, that only
those who viii let energetic thought
and skillful plan, above all, prompti-
tude and persistence. make up for
physical weakness, should enlist as
apiarists. Usually stronger body
and improved health, the result of
pure air sunshine and exercise, will
make each successive days labor
more easy,and will permit CORE
spending growth in the size of the
apiary for each successive season.
One of the most noted apaiarists not
only in America but il the world,
sought in Bookkeeping her lost health
and found not only health, but rep
utation and influence. Some of the
most successful apiarisis in our coun-
try are women. Ofthese many were
led to adopt the pursuit because of
waning health, grasping at this as
the last anu successful weapon with
which to vanquish the green mon
ster. Cvula Linswick an experience
apiarist, said, ''She would gladly
purchase exemption for indoor work
on washing days by two days labor
among the bees, and / fad two
hours labor at the ironing ta-
bic more fatiguing than two hours
of the severest toll the apiary can
exact" l Irepeat that agriculture of.
fers too many women not only
pleasure but profit.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
A Peculiar Hebrew Tribe.

Between Damascus and Jerusa-
lem is tribe OF about three thous-
and Hebrews, which has been there
probably since the beginning of the
Christian Era. They have neither
city or town they live in camps.
The temple is represented by more
spacions tent. They never admitted
among them q person of different
race or religion. Their ordinary
language is Hebrew. In their rela-
tions with Others they speak Arabl-
an. These relations however, are
very few, for they have remained
like the primitive races, exclusive
ly tillers of the soil and warriors.
They cultivate the ground, armed
from head to foot, always ready to
defend their portion of earth, with
great difficulty, they derived mea-
gre sustenance. They live on little
and are content to thus live in this
sort of native country which they
have occupied for centuries.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
A Dog That Thinks

A gentleman from Socorro has a
setter pup named Jack, that is gift
ed with almost human sense. Two
anecdotes will serve to illustrate its
capacity for reasoning. and if any
one has a smarter dog let them trot
him out. Jack daily accompanies
his master to the butcher shop, where
a piece of m eat is bought for him,
and which be carries home before
being allowed to eat it. The other
morning the package was too large
to admit of a passage with it in his
mouth through a hole in fence the
dog was accustomed to 60 through,
but the intelligent animal laid the
package at the hole, jumped over
the fence and pulled it through
lengthways. Another time, while
carrying a paper sack of peaches. the
sack became torn and single peach
dropped out. Jack set the peaches
down, went back and got the one
that dropped, and replaced it in the
sack.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
These arc Solid Facts.

The best blood purifier and sys-
tenn regulator ever placed within
reach of suffering hun anity, truly
is Electric Bitters. Inactivity OF
the Liver, Billiousness. Jaundice,
Constipation. Weak Kidneys, or
any disease of the urinary organs,
or whoever requires an appetiser,
tonic or mild stimulant, viii always
end Electric Bitters the best and
only cure known. They act surely
and quickly, every bottle guaran-
teed to give entire satisfaction or
money refunded. Sold at fifty cents
a bottle by c. N. Boyd.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
a Remarkable Escape.

Mrs. Mary A. Daily. of Tunkban-
mock, Pa, vas afflicted for six years
with Asthma and Bronchitis, dur
ing which time the best physicians
could give no relief. Her life was
despaired OF, until in last October
she procured a bottle of DR.. Kings
New Discovery. when immediate
relief was felt, and by continuing
its use for a short time she was com
pletely cured, gaining in flesh 50 lbs.
in few months. Free Trial Bottle
of this certain cure of all Throat
and Lung Diseases at G. n, Boyd g
Drug Store. Large Bottles $1,000
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22

Some persons seem to be troubled


Some persons seem to be troubled
with incredulity in respect to the
statement that General Sherman,
who is a citizen Of Missouri, is dis
franchised in that model Democrat
ic state, because he is an officer of
the Army of the United StaItS. He
has been retired, it is true, 'ot the
crest constitutional lawyers ii Mis-
souri, who hold that Sherman was
engaged in the unholy prosecution
of an unconstitutional war, construe
their precious constitution so as to
include retired officers. There is a
great deal OF expert constitutional
lawyerism in Missouri. That sort
of thing fiourishes in Democratic
strongholds, and always amounts
to assaults upon the honor and Dig
nifty of the United States, and ac-
counts for any villainous form of
of provincialism. 1t is the 11th
Section of the Sth Article of the
Constitution of Missouri of 1875
that prohibits all officers of the Ar
my or Navy of the United States
from voting. We presume If the
Democratic party had the power
they would make the law general
through the United States, and we
do not think them any too good to
discriminate in the same way
against all men who served against
the Southern rebellion. Missouri
is the State in which they have had
the hardihood to reveal that which
they have in their hearts. the dis
reimbursement of General Sherman
by the Rebel element in control Of
Missouri is thrown out in fine relief
by the Democratic candidacy for
Governor of the state with certainty
of election of General Marmaduke,
WIN resigned from the United States
Army to enter the Confederate SER
vice. He is perfectly constitutional.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
A California Reaper.

California growers have a reaping
machine which requires twenty
mules TO propel it The machine is
called a header" in that it cuts off
the heads of the wheat stalks, TAX
ing in as little of the straw as pOssi-
bic. The heads are carried on an
endless belt to cylinder. where
where they are threshed and after
wards cleaned. The grain is run
into sacks, the sacks tied up and
left on the ground, TO be gathered
up by wagons. These combined
harvesting and threshing machines
are yearly becoming more popular,
although they cost $1,000 each.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
He Was a Brave Soldier.

You were in the late war. were
you not, doctor?" was the question
put to quack physician.
+" Oh, yesl" he replied, straishten.
ing himself up, and ! was account
ed a very brave soldier, if l do say il
myself"
Yes," the questioner went on
''your experience in your profession
| imagine, would necessarily make
you indifferent to personal danger
Why SOP" asked the quack.
Because you are so accustomed
to facing death. PhilG. Call.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
A Playful FOX.

Sunday afternoon fox appeared
in the yard of Mrs. Comstock and
began to play with the dog. The
dog ard fox were playing in the
bsrnyard and the dog was holding
the fox down with his fore paws
when the hostler at the barn appear
ed, got rake and put it over the
neck of the fox. The fox tried to
get away. but it couldn't. Another
person employed on the premises
procured rope and tied it around
the neck of the fox. After doing
this the other end of the rope was
tied to a stake in the barn and the
fox was secured. He appears con,
tented and eats every day.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
An OF Well.

Phillips Bros well, near Butler,
Pa, is one of the most phenomenal
wells ever seen in the whole oil re-
gions, and all interest is now CEN
tered there, to the exclusion of the
lately discovered Glade district,
which is rapidly waning. Phillips
well was drilled on August 30th, and
has been producing since over 1900
barrels daily, reaching Oh the 7th to
100 barrels an hour. 1t flows with
the regularity of clockwork, the oil
gushing out at intervals of nine mi
utes and hall, the flow lasting
about four minutes. Large numbers
of people visit the well.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
A Fortunate Discovery.

A new light is thrown on the SUBJ
ject of Consumption by DR.. Wagner
Kemp, discoverer Of Kemp's Balsam
for the Throat and Lungs. A REM
edy that has proved Itself to be a
remarkable compound. Il does its
work thoroughly, stopping a hack
ing cough instantly.
Sold by c. n. Boyd. Price 50cts.
and sl.00 Trial bottle free. Get
one.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
hisky BurHed.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, October ia
telephone message to the Courier
from Uniontown, KY, reports a
disastrous fire there 10 day. The
bonded warehouse of J, G. Roach
d Co. took fire about noon and was
totally destroyed. together with
about two thousand barrels of whis-
ky, three years old, and valued at
$4,000. The building was two
story brick. The total loss will
probably reach $4,000. The in
surance, if any, is not known
here.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
Postmaster Disappears.

WASHINGTON, Pa, October g.
Postmaster W. c. Wylie, OF this
place disappeared suddenly a week
ago, and is still mysteriously mis-
sing. Nothing is known of his Office
affairs. but a special Government
officer will arrive in the morning for
the purpose Of examining the books
to ascertain whether deficiency ex-
lists Mr.. Wylie was a strict tenn
perance man and not give to extrav.
agance. His wife, who is ignorant
of his whereabouts, is prostrated by
the blow.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
Patsrck's Terrible Fate.

On Cry, October Especial.
Yesterday morning the body of Pat
rick Mclaughlin was found on the
railroad six miles from Warren with
the top of the head torn of, one arm
and one leg severed, and the body
mutilated SO as to be scarcely recog.
nizable- The unfortunate man had
been in this country only a year,
and leaves wife and three children
in Ireland, who intended to come to
this country in month.