The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-17
FARM N GARDEN.

POl ~ OSNlItO.
Feed %succulent foods for cheese, am
concentrated foods for butter.
Plant raspberries and blackberr;..
as soon as the soil can be worked eS
Sweet cream must be churned jor..
than sour. with a lower temperalpya
Canadian Farmers, who rrow erco,
lent crops of oats, consider that cros
hardest on land. w
A ounce in the California exhibit ..
the New Orleans Exposition measurA
seventeen inches in circumference
Clover seed may be sown this month
upon the bare ground. A more even
cast is obtained by sowing upon \
light fall OF snow.
French cheesemakers aim to oa,
S150 to 5000 yearly per cow. Fjns
stock, great care, and specialities in
manufacture, are the means.
Butter is worth more in proportion
than wheat or other grain. 1t will
pay well to use the COWS to turn sNoe
Of this grain into butter, and to make
the calves grow.
Josiah Hopes, in the New York
Tribune, says experience has con-
WINGED him that any soil too damn
naturally to produce healthy trees
should always be avoided by the Or
chardist.
A San Francisco naturalist sent a
nice cage and q wagon to a friends
house for a fine specimen OF ground
hog that was offered him. He T.
ceived a sausage, and it took him Three
days to see the joke.
Low prices of grain IN the north.
west will cause q lessened demand for
young stock for feeding. Much stock
will be hastily fattened an sold. and
thus cause lower prices for beef and a
scarcity two or three years hence.
Miller Purvis says in the Ohio Farm
err that the costliest mistake he ever
made was in buying cheap seeds. IA
recommends saving seeds for ones
own planting; if this has beer neg
lected, get the most reliable seeds to
be obtained and then save seeds from
them.
Nothing will pay the owner of one,
a dozen or a hundred hogs better than
the extra expenditure which will at
this time of year secure them a dry,
warm, comforting bed to lie in at
night and during such part of the day
as they may not be taking exercise or
eating. ~
Raisers OF early chickens do weiTto'
remember that chicks must have grass
food at twelve to fifteen days. If
chicks are Matched before grass comes,
then it must be raised artificially for
them. A good plan is TO sow oats in
in the kitchen window or
greenhouse.
Manure is on most lands the gr6H
essential to successful gardening.
New York, market gardeners
put as much as seventy-6ve tons of
manure upon an acre in a single year,
and when it can not be obtained, as
much as two tons OF fine bone flour
are often used.
Canker worms come out early. ~
ply protection to the tree now. Tie
simplest is a band of thick brown pa
Der. a foot or more wide, tackled
the trunk. On this painta
1and of pine tar, which should be re-
ii from any cause it does not 4
'emain adhesive. ~
Mr.. Russell, the secretary of the
Massachusetts, State Board of Agri-
hhbtANs coy II hOioC VIII wv ~
er if fed four times a day, and should
lot be fed less thar three times. He
avs the horse is different from ANY
'ther animal in that he has the small
st stomach in proportion to his sizeA
1t is asserted that the commH
arth worm is the cause of the cape
in chicks. In examining +
worms from a cape infected dis :
riot the cape parasite was found to
e coiled up in the structure of the :
arth worm, and On feeding chicks
nth such earth worms the disease was
t once produced among the brood.
Job Mills, of Pine Village, Ind, has
I'd 48 hogs the present season on cook.
wheat, and says they gained at the
ate of 2 pounds per day each. He
CURED the wheat as worth 60 cents,
nd the corr 80 cents per bushel. Says
hogs will eat about 10 bushels
heat at an expense of Sc per day, or.
bushels of corn worth also Sc, at
} cents per bushel.
Peach W in Southern Illinois
the curculio breed faster on
lid cherry trees than farmers can kill
lem in the orchard. The hawthorn
said to breed apple tree borers and
ople maggots. 1t is stated that on&Y
the most serious orchard pests in
lie 'fruit belt" is the rose chafer,
hich multiplied in a swamp of wild
,ses to such an extent that it over
N the country for miles about.
Consul Ryder, at Copenhagen,
rites that the Danes, in order to inv
re full development, health, etc.,
elk; Cleanliness, cooked or ground
cd. which is easily masticated aud
ge~ ed, plenty of water, regular
'ur.' of feeding, good ventilation,A
Iuable temperature, and freedom
om t"ichina-breeding rats. These
quisi,,s are not novel to American
eeders, yet some people are forget
J.. -
The Dorking fowls, while not quite
hardy as the hardest, are n valu-
lie breed. They are good layers
AXE good, careful mothers, and as .
IicKs are quick to mature. They are