The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-13

from an over-use OF this rrltaung
remedy.
THERE is a great want about most |
farms. that of a well-regulated Yegeta- |
HE garden. With all the material IN |
abundance, our farmers, as a general
thing. are not as well supplied with |
choice and delicate vegetables as the in
hsbitants of our cities or the denlzens
of our suburbs. There can be no excuse
whatever for this; and no farmer, who
has a proper regard for the wants, even
rights, of his family, will allow another
wear to pass without supplying this
great desideratum.-ET.
SroCK INSPECTOR Charles D. Hard just
returned from a trip to Custer and
Meagher counties, says the Helena
(Montana) Herald, reports the feed
ranges in that part of Montana pretty
well occupied and the grass for this sea-
son of the year shorter picking than
usual. Cattle. however. are in good con-
dition, and the favorable autumn IS a
great advantage to the feeding herds in
that part of the Territory. Stock in
nearly every section of Montana is in
excellent shape to confront the coming
winter.
TIE MAN who wants good, thrifty half
breed 3-year-old range steers at less than
three cents a pound, for feeding pur-
poses, ought to go without and be COM.
PEELED to sell his corn at sixteen cents
bushel. There is plenty of money in
feeding steers good oneS) at three cents
a pound. The Campbell & Dorsey stock
sale was a complete success. The horses
and cattle brought long prices, Raw
horses sold at from SIT to $40 head.
Calves sold for $12 to SIS and yearlings
for $50 to $23. Eight months time did
the busIness.-CaldWeU Journal.
THE COMMISSIONER OF agriculture ex-
presses his intention of preparing some
recommendations to Congress for legis-
latiOn to check the fraud of selling arti-
fetal butter for genuine, and states that
he is IN conference with eminent legal
authorities with a view TO ascertain
what kind of a law would be practical
bic. The chief of the dairy division of
the department is collating all the State
laws on the subject in order that the
dairymen may be able to tell better than
they can now whether to seek congress
sional or to rely on state legislation.
REFERRING TO the decreased demand
from America for draft-horses, the Lire
Stock Journal, London, says: 1.-The
foreign demand for frst-claSs breeding
stock has fallen off somewhat, and dull
trade has caused contractors to reduce
their studs. What is to be done, then,
where ANIMALS are eating their heads
Off All that the farming horse breeder
can do evidently is to economic in the
keep without starving the stock, and
wait for better times. Once a reaction
in the trade sets in, it will be hard to
check it, and we know it has been going
very much by fits and starts during the
last two decades"
In THE meeting of the Hereford breed
ers in Chicago, the motion carried to
make one out of every ten thorough
bred bull calves ineligible to entry, the
idea being to weed out in future the
male animals to the extent of one
tenth. This is simply one of the many
sensible moves the breeders of white
faces have of late years been making.
In discussing the motion, Mr.. II. c.
Burleigh hit the nail on the head when
he advised breeders that their success
depended on steers more than on bulls"
When in England he had always adj
vised their friends there Ito steer one
half of their male calves, the four in ten
that were the poorest and one-sixth of
the best Roll call on the motion
showed I49 votes for and only p against
it.-LiUe Stock Indicator.
THE FARMERS in the vicinity of Long.
mont. Colorado, are becoming aroused
in matters pertaining to their own in
terests. A few days ago a meeting was
held in Longmont to take into consider
alton the feasibility of building or buy
ing Touring mill, and if possible avoid
having any transacting with the millers'
mbinatiOn. A committee of five sub
stantlal farmers were selected to make
some Investigations and report at
meeting to be called in the near future.
This is a step in the right direction. and
why cannot the farmers organize for
protection as we'll as any other class of
men2 If it is the right for trades and
corporations to organize in order to
concentrate their inference, it is equally
right for the farmer, to do the same
LoUetd'ld Reporter.
THE EXPERIENCE of most OF our ranch
men this year is that there is big money
in raising potatoes. as the crop is one
of the easiest raised, and one attended
with but little outlay of money. while (
the amount realized per acre is greater
than can be realized from any other
crop almost that could be put in. This
season the price has averaged about
seventy cents per hundred pounds, with !
a rising market. Already in the neigh |
borhood of thirty carloads have been |
shipped from this station, the markets !
OF Leadville and Gurfnison taking th
major part of them, while at least one !
half of the crop has been stored away |
for the spring. It is safe to predict that
the acreage of potatoes that will be |
planted next spring will be double that !
of this season, and that next years /
prices will not be lower than this sea
son. Delta County productions were |
this fall introduced into the mountain |
markets and they were wonderfully ap- /
prsciated. Chief.
THE NEW Creek cattle law Just passed
by their council provides for tax of 81 !
per head on all over 2 10 head of cattle I
owned by any citizen 1t also taxes all
foreign cattle brought into the country
between September 1st and June 1st to
the amount of So per head, and all
brought IN between June 1st and Sep.
tember 1st shall pay tax of S. per
head. This bill was vetoed by Chief
n. L l.