The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-20
NO. Is.
FARM AND GARDEN.

Feed carrots to color the milk and
make the butter yellow.
Grooming the cows is work which
always brings good return.
The pear delights in deep, rich.
warm loan, with clay subsoil.
Iowa walks off with the best prize
for butter at the New Orleans exposi-
ton.
Neither phosphoric acid nor potash
leave the soil except as they are taken
up by plants.
"Cracklings'' as food tor poultry
will answer an excellent purpose in
supplying animal food.
Treat the cows kindly. Harsh treat
ment will make them hold their milk,
and dry themselves up.
1t is said and well proved that the
more quiet sheep are kept the more
quickly they will fatten.
Watch that lice do not infest the
dairy stock. They often come, no one
can tell how, nor whence.
Remember the harnesses and tools
of all kinds, and put them in thorough
repair for the spring campaign
A little good feed, mixed with a
good deal of thoughtful attention, is
what makes the flock do its best.
The wool trade of St. Louis aggre-
gated about ~, 800, 900 pounds in 1884,
against 18, 1868, 729 pounds in 1888.
Do not allow the poultry to stand
around in the snow, but give it dry
place to run under in the day time.
Incoming COWS should have limit
tot <~fI xuif
for few weeks previous to calving.
No field on the farm is so unfairly
treated as that containing the orchard
The chief cause of orchards running
out" is an exhausted soil.
Reports show that the number of
sheep in Great Britain has suffered a
great reduction in the past ten years,
something over 1000, 900 head.
In driving the cows, never hurry
them; as when their udders are full of
milk, or they are heavy with calf, it is
very likely to do them permanent in
jury.
The cherry grows best in rich,
warm, sandy loan. If mulch OF
leaves, straw or brush is put around
them they will be very much benefited
by it.
John Splan, noted horseman, says
a quart of oatmeal in pail of water
will freshen horse after hard driv-
ing, and prep are his stomach for more
solid food.
The best treatment for an orchard,
after it comes into bearing, is to make
a hog pasture of it. If clover is sown,
and the pigs allowed to feed upon it,
the soil will improve-and SO will the
pigs.
Steady work does no harm to ma
ture horse. If well fed, carefully
groomed and kept from undue expos
ure, team may labor the winter
through with profit both to the owner
and to the animals.
Raspberries and blackberries are
more hardy if planted on light, sandy
loan, but if large berries are desired.
a mulch must be used in July. On
more moist land mulching is not need
ed, but the canes are more liable to
be winter killed.
1t is well-known fact that sheep
love bright fine hay, and will eat it
cleaner and do better on it that on the
coarse hay; while cattle seem to relish
the coarse hay and folders even better
than the very fine. 1t would not be
much trouble to feed accordingly.
If you are keeping COWS for the
dairy, or to give milk and make but
ter, keep only the kind that will give
the greatest quantity of your speciality
butter cows, if it is butter; and If it
is milk, then keep COWS of one of the
milk breeds, says the Pittsburg Stock
man.
The Orange County Farmer says:
''The sugar beet is preferred among
the roots for sheep, being most pala-
liable and containing the most solid
nutritious matter" However. sweet
turnips are preferred by many prac-
teal sheep feeders, among whom are
leading Englishmen.
Give to the COWS none but the best
md purest food. With no other stock
S this so essential, for the reason that
t has been fully demonstrated by
authorities that the milk is
/ very prolific source of transmitting
disease germs from impure food, and
especially from impure water.
Meadows and pastures need refresh
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lure at intervals. The seed should be
'own with each dressing of compost.
Repeated cutting and pasturing weak
,ns the grass and destroys some of it,
md the thick, healthy sod is only kept
Up by occasional reseeding.
The receipts of wool at Chicago last
'ear were Al, 693, COG pounds, against
10, ,222, ,625 pounds for the year 1883,
md for the year 1882, $4,000, 990
pounds, which shows an increase in
he sales of nearly 100000 pounds
'ver the year 1884, and over 100000
pounds over the amount received in
SS2
The farmer who keeps few sheep
an give them better attention than
1here large fiocks are kept; and per-
APPS those farmers who can not well
eep large numbers could handle tho
hutton breeds to better advantage.
hey require just such treatment as
sese farmers are best prepared to
i've them.