The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09
NO.. 5.
FARM AND GARDEN.

| <hAND OhhDELNs
| A small amount of lime mixed with
wheat that has acquired a musty smell.
by having been slightly heated, will.
sweeten it without injuring the wheat,
it is claimed.
This is the season in which horses are
apt to be troubled with scratches. Be
sure and see that the fetlocks are
clean. There is too much neglect OF
the legs of horses.
Professor Tracy regards sweet corn
as our most valuable vegetable. He
says that nowhere else in the world.
unless it be in Italy, can sweet corn be-
grown in such perfection as in our
country,
Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and
| West Virginia produce the choices,
fleeces of washed wool raised in the
| United States, and form a standard
which regulates the value of all woods
marketed.
1t has been ascertained by carefully
repeated experiments that the first
| drawn milk contains five, the second
eight and the fifth seventeen per cent
of cream. Thus a COW three quarters
MIXED is not half MIXED, if butter is
the object.
Common coal oil. such as is used for
burning in lamps, is claimed to be
perfect protection to timber against
the ravages Of worms, when applied
freely. With its use, the trouble Of
having wood powder posted is sue
cessfully averted.
A well-known genealogical writer
says that there are two hundred and
nine varieties of cherries, sixty of april
cots, two hundred and thirty-nine of
peaches, one thousand and eighty
seven of pears, and two hundred and
ninety-seven of plums.
1t is possible for short horn steer
three and under four years old, ex-
hibited at the next fat stock show pro-
vided he is owned in Iowa, to receive
as premiums an aggregate OF ~ zoo.
This should bring out Iowa's best OBJ
tainable specimens.
Stock raising has made Holland one
of the wealthiest agricultural coun-
tries in the world. Land there is
worth from two to four thousand dol
lars an acre; nine acres out of every
ten are kept in grass, and pay the
owners large dividends.
A western correspondent recon-
mends selling fat hogs about January
1. Keeping hogs till January gives
them ample time to accumulate flesh,
and as farmers say, they have time to
fill out, and that hogs fat faster the
last of the season. Sometimes hogs
bring more at the beginning of the
shipping season, but there is always
cause for such result, which can bo
foreseen and easily taken advantage
of by producers.
The irrepressible question as to
whether trees should be set out in the
fall or spring is answered by the Rw-
raj Nea0 Yorker in this way: "If you
live north of Chicago and New York,
set them in the spring; if south of
Chicago and New York, in the fall.
But wherever you live, give the roots
large holes and mellow soil. Compact
the earth we'll about the roots and
cover it with few inches of manure,
or something of the kind"
Professor Morrow says that the
prickly comfrey has been grown on
the Illinois Industrial University farm
for several years. 1t grows luxuri-
antly, but he counts it valueless where
good grass, clover, or corn fodder can
be readily grown. He has never
known horse, COW, sheep, or pig to
eat it as it grows OF when
offered them. 1t would be classed as
q coarse weed. Knowing nothing OF
either one would almost as soon select
The Canada thistle or the burdock for
q valuable forage plant.
The ninth annual show of the Brit
sh Dairy Farmers Association, re-
gently held in London, is pronounced
he most successful yet held by the So
,iety. The chief feature of these
shows is the display of dairy cattle.
Jerseys and short horns were in the
argest number, and the short horns
eem to have been most favorably re-
,arded. In the milking test, in which
Iuality and quantity OF milk, as well
S the length of time since calving,
we're considered, the champion prize
vas given to short horn COW not ELI
ible to record, giving fifty-one pounds
# milk in one day, having calved May
last. Another short horn COW gave
orty-four and half pounds of milk.
he prize Jerseys gave twenty and
alf and thirty-six pounds. A Welsh
ow gave forty-six pounds. The lar
est quantity given was ffty-two
ounds, by Dutch COW recently
1own at Amsterdam. The low per
entage of fat in her milk prevented
er taking prize in this test The
gricultural Gazett reporter is enthu-
astic in his praise of the class Of
'rty-five unregistered short horn
'ws, all of which might have been
ghly commend ed.