The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-11-14

evaporator, has been pronounced by
experts to be equal to imported teas.
An Orange comfy On. W farmer
keeps peafowls to destroy potato bee
ties, claiming that they were very ser
viceable in that respect.
The dust bath is as necessary foT
fowls as water is for man; it cleansef
their feathers and skin from vermin and
impurities and is instrumental in pre-
serving their health.
Keep your fowls tame if you want
them to be profitable. Fowls are often
frightened by the owner or allowed to
be chased by dogs are as general
thing not very profitable.
The healthiest pork cannot be OBJ
tanned from clear feed of dry corn.
The digestive organs of the animal so
fed are sure to get out of order upon so
heating food, and thus the whole sys-
tenn becomes tainted and impure.
Set out raspberries in the fall. if pre-
ferred. until quite late. Blackberries,
raspberries, gooseberries, currants, ETC.,
start very early in the spring. In fall
set plants this growth is not injured, as
they make much better Roadway than
when put out in the spring, especially
if protected.
Members of the Illinois Horticultural
society denounce the practice of ring
ing orchard trees to produce early bear
ing, except in thickly-planted orchards,
where the final intention is to take out
alternate trees. In this case the treeS
to come out may be profitably forced
into early bearing.
In most parts of the south an average
corn crop has been raised, and there
will be less demand for western corn
than for some years past. This is espe-
cially true in view of the fact that the
largest hay crop ever known in the
south has been harvested this year, and
more oats will be sown than ever be-
re.-PlanterS' Journal.
There is this element in the stock
business, says the Farmers Review,
which does not exist in grain-growing.
1t is that the man who produces
choice or fancy grade of beef is paid
according to its merits. The same is
true of the raising of horses, wool, NUT
ton sheep, and, in a less degree, OF
pork, while the same holds good in hor-
ticultural productions. Y
An Irish breeder says that offspringS
bred from greatly dssimilar parents, in
either size or character, should never be
used for breeding purposes, as their
offspring will certainly prove to be
mongrels of nondescript character. The
parents should be as similar as possible,
as rule, the neglect of which has led
to more disappointment than any other
cause.
Sir John B. Lawes, of Rothamstead,
England, says he remembers when the
first thrashing machine was bought and
taken into his neighborhood. The
owner had to bury it at night, as armed
bodies of men went about the country
burning all the machines they could
find. The socialism of to-day has about
the same amount of sense as that OF
old.
A writer to the Indiana Farmer says
he cures heaves in horses by withhold
ing hay and substituting green food
instead. He then makes ball, as
large as hulled walnut, of equal parts
of balsam of fir and balsam of copaiba,
giving the animal one of the balls night
and morning. 1t is suggested, also,
that the grain allowed be slightly mois-
tened and seasoned with lite salt be-
fore feeding.
An experienced horticulturist says
that fresh cider should be boiled and
SKINNED completely before being
bunged up. In the spring, if vinegar
is desired, place it in warm, sunny
room, and add six pounds of dilute
brown sugar to the barrel, leaving the
barrel open for three or four weeks,
according to the acidity of the cider.
The exposure to the air admits oxygen
and changes the alcohol into acetic acid
Or vinegar.