The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-23
FARM AND GARDEN.

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% The decrease in wheat acreage
- Missouri and Kansas from the breadt
" sowed last year is 10 to 80 per cent.
- 1t is said that $4,000, 900 of Englis
20 capital has been invested in Montar
~ stock ranches during the curreI
1 year.
- The republic of Mexico maintain
8 an agricultural college at its capita
the appropriations for which last yea
q were $330,343.
Sprinkle little lime (air Stacked
: over the potatoes in your cellar. /
= will. tend to prevent rot and purif,
!. the air of the cellar.
+ An Illinois breeder injects vinega
and pepper into the nostrils for grul
7 in the head, and uses as a preventive
, air Stacked lime with salt.
Lard cheese, which up to recent
date was the latest adulteration Of
that food, is now rivaled by cheese
made chiefly from cotton seed OIL
peanut oil.
DR.. Bridge, state veterinary sur
geon, reports that, in his opinion,
there is not case of pleuro-pneu-
monia among the cattle in Pennsyl-
vania.
Make practice of raising the heifer
calves of the best mixers to replenish
the dairy stock as needed. 1t is the
only way tirst-class mixers can be Sc
cured.
Horseradish should be left where it
grows and dug as wanted, except a
little for use in very cold weather may
be put in box in cool cellar and COW
cred with moist SOIL
Good butter is the prime necessity of
every well-set table, and it should be
the endeavor of every farmers family
to excel in the quality as well as in the
quantity of their butter.
The unsold land of the Union Pacific
Railway on December 81, 1883, amour
ting to Fl, 368,36 acres, was equal to
the area of the thirty-two southern
counties of England and Wales.
The Chicago stockyards were con-
structed some twenty years ago, and
are the largest in the world. They are
capable of accommodating 10000 cat
tie, 100000 hogs, 10000 sheep and
1000 horses. Seventeen different rail-
AOouo NOhpOi Ill IlO JdlQS.
Corn yielding about seventy bush
els of shelled grain to the acre will |
yield about two and one-half tons at |
the outside, of slower of fair quality. |
Slower from crop of sweet corn is |
better than from ordinary field corn
and the corn itselfis valuable product.
Sheep often go long time without
drinking especially if in good pasture,
and when the dews are SO heavy that
they can fill up with wet grass in the
morning. But when they do want to
drink, water is as necessary to their
health and comfort as to that of other
animals.
Most kinds of fruit trees thrive best
on rolling land. Hardy grapes do
well on almost any soil with little
care. Sandy ridges are best adapted
to their growth, but sand and leaf
mould mixed with underdained CLAY
will produce large vines and fine yields
of fruit.
Variety of food is as essential to the
health of young chickens as to any,
thing else, and if left to supply them
selves they will obtain it. In the win
ter when they are dependent upon
man for substance, the demands of
their nature should be as fully COM
piled with as possible.
A man can sell of his entire stock of
wheat and buy seed to begin anew with
next year, if he decides to return to
hat crop; but who can replace
! good flock of sheep if once sacri-
iced? 1t is the work of lifetime to
'uild up flock displaying a high and
inform type of excellence.
The egg center moves westward.
Central New York and New Jersey
lid the greatest business forty years
lgo, but now the greatest egg depot
N this continent is at Cardington, O.,
90 miles southwardlv from Cleveland.
n the lively part of the season 1000
'arrels month are shipped there.
One of the difficulties is the freezing
f the water for fowls in winter. This
an not be avoided in very cold wealth
+ and the water must consequently
e supplied often. Hot water is high
Y relished by the hens, and if allowed
nth pinch of red pepper and cop
eras will be found very beneficial.
An easy way to pack dressed poultry
Or market is to have the birds in uni
orm rows, heads towards the sides of ,
ne box and breasts up. A very little
lean wheat straw may separate the j
lyers, but some packers use nothing.
i'll the boxes so full that it will re-
uire little pressure to force the
le covers down.
Fifty years ago the average weight
beef cattle was 800 pounds, now it
1,4OO pounds. The increase is due
the introduction of pure-bred stock
nd more careful breeding, as well as q
luch better feeding of the produce.
is now as common to have animals
800 pounds as it was then to have
lem of 1920 pounds, and the increase
weight is fully one-third. n
A tree overloaded with fruit, Mr..
AIRY says, can neither perfect the
uit nor ripen its wood properly, and
a severe climate is quite likely to
lccumb to a degree of cold which,
lder proper trea tment, it could have
sisted. The grape is very sensitive
this respect. 1t is safe to say that