The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-06
FARM AND GARDEN.

The exports OF leaf tobacco from tn
country during the past year wei
valued at $17, 405. 1872.
1t is expected that 500, 900 sheep wi
be shipped to England from Ne
Zealand the coming year.
An old stockman gives rs his opinio
that cattle never become tat enoug
on grass to injure their breeding qua
tiles.
If stable floors are not sound, do no
neglect them. Repairs are cheape
than losing horse by having his leg
broken.
Milking in the barnyard is an I'M
clean method, and the cleaner the
process the better the quality of the
products.
At the late meeting of the Illinois
horticultural Society the Early Rich
m0nd was recommended as the best OF
the sour cherries.
The american CulttUdtor thinks CO.
operation among small farmers is the
best and the only safe and practical
remedy for hard times
Says the Commissioner of Aericul-
ture, the current production OF agricul-
ture OF the United States, with fair
prices, can be but little short of
$4,000, 900, 900. rA
The time was when pound of but
ter would buy but yard of cotton
cloth or two pounds of sugar. Now
1t will buy four yards of cotton cloth
or four pounds of sugar. VOC
1t takes on an average, at this sea-
son, 81 per cent of the food consumed
by an animal to keep up the heat of
the body, but proper shelter materi-
ally lessons that per cent.
Ten pound washed feeces and 125
pound mutton carcasses should be the
average for Merino flocks, says the
Sheep Breeder, and the value of such
sheep should be from 81 to SIS per
head.
Peas are not an exhaustive crop.
The complete shading, which they |
give the soil serves all the purposes of |
mulch. If the land is free from
weeds pea crop is nearly as good
preparation for wheat as summer fall
low.
In many portions of Europe, where
labor is plentiful and cheap, with the
land closely occupied, the drilling of
small grains is generally followed.
They arc drilled far enough apart SO
that the space between the drills may
The Swiss cattle are we'll spoken of,
both for the dairy and for beef, but
have not been generally tried in this .
country. They are of large size, often
OF mouse color, sometimes white {
spotted, and with Jersey-like ring
around their black nostrils.
Any ailIng fowl should be at once /
removed from the flock to comforta- $
Bile, quiet quarters, and specially treat l
I'd with medicine and food. This will :
prevent the spread of contagious '
disease, as well as give the sick fowl !,
better chance for recovery. u
Lambs can be taught to drink cows
milk and by adding oatmeal to the .
milk they will grow rapidly. From P
he first day of its existence until mar q
etcd, the young lamb must be kept 81
arm and comfortable, as it will make 81
ut little progress, even with the best u
food, if it suffers from cold or ex- 81
0sure. al
The Prairie Farmer drops into arith- p,
etic long enough to figure out that ~
le 1,422 car loads of fat hogs, num- tV
'ring 66,597 animals which arrived al
the stock yards at Chicago on the &c
h ult.. would if stretched out in sim O., OF
3 file, reach a length of seventy TIC
lies, and would require fol- standing Pc
ON only twenty-one acres.
An authority on poultry says that II
tin pans, suspended by stout cords 40
that they come within few inches IL
the floor, make excellent feed ke
oughs. The idea is NOT bad one. ov
lie food is up out of the dirt, and the IA
MS have to stand up and eat '.liko tns
ks, not getting in with their feet gu
d making a muss generally. s cai
There is great and increasing de- "a: ga
md for.horses of the heaviest type a snS
the seaport towns of this and other o oas
lntries. 1t is found that the docks s sea
New York, and the streets of other a maa
les, have become so crowded that it ~
far more convenient to use one ans
-se that can move several tons than So
ne two or three that take up so much ne s
re room. .no
Colorado sheep grower of large - tSa
,erlence has never failed to cure sho
D in sheep by dipping them in a o oro
ltion of sulphur and lime, the pro- "a ..
ton being 25 pounds of sulphur oo;r
lz5 pounds OF lime to 100 gallons ~
water. This liquor is kept at 10 TO a oare
degrees by the thermometer in the ,,Iaa
ping vat. He also feeds sulphur piI"
salt regularly. ttSH
requires $4,000, 900 cows to supply sug,
demand for milk and its products or "
his country, and there are invested ;no
The dairying business of the United CHM
les over 1000, 000, 900, an amount wav
rly double the capital invested in snr;,
king and other commercial indus The
s. 1t requires the cultivation of w.
60,OOO,O0 acres of land to fur nece
food for the above number of b;sc,
s.. More than 5000, 900, 900 is in inse,
ed in dairy machinery and imple- tho :
10 "'ono. then
The Fashions in SJairhs rshsi
le SleiUhS sent ont from tba Eost "hu