The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-15


n. purposes. There are quite a numbe
of varieties of recent introduction
that are great improvements upon tn
n old common oat, black or white. Th
J. hulless oat is good for milling; tn
f. black Russian can be sown in fall
Il White Russian, Welcome, Pringle'
a Excelsior, Challenge, Black Tartarian
q Washington and Probstier are al
o. meritorious. The oat crop to attain
4 its best should be sown very early
G The grain will not stand great hea
r and drought. The ground, where a.
: all possible, should be prepared il
the fall and early winter, and the seed
} sown early in the spring.
At this season of the year it is nee
: essary that poultry should be fed
vegetables at least thrice each week.
Cabbage forms the best diet, but il
too expensive or difficult to obtain, a
good substitute will be found in man.
Colds, turnips, or even sliced potatoes.
Care should be taken during the win
ter tc see that this description of food
is not frozen. Many careless keepers
of poultry will look into the coop,
and seeing the vegetables lying around
will say, oh, they have plenty of green
food; no use giving them any more.
whereas very little trouble would tell
them that the roots are perhaps frozen
as hard as stones. Give little and
often; removing the old, before feed
ing fresh.
Considerable interest was mani.
tested at recent convention, says the
New York Tribune, in the manage
ment OF creamery at Waterville, N
T., in which the cream from 1000
COWS, owned by sixty different patrons,
is collected and each patrons cream
churned by itself, and the butter pro-
duct OF each weighed, graded and
paid for according to quantity and
quality, or returned to the producer at
his option, if not satisfied with the
grading, with small charge added
for manufacturing and all the work,
Including gathering the cream, being
done without difficulty by one man
and his wife.
1t is poor time to sell sheep or 90
out of business when thousands upon
thousands of sheep are being frozen
and starved to death in the far west, |
and when an unusual number is being
slaughtered at all leading markets. |
Farmers may rest assured that it is |
low tide in sheep husbandry, and now
is the time to take advantage of the |
rising tide which is sure to follow.
Improved stock has fascination
and substantial profit that is popular
lzing it all over the enter prising west.
1t is attracting the capitalists and
business men from the city. 1t is Civ
ing new interest to farming and to
farmers sons. Improved stock keeps
the boys on the farm and makes good
business farmers out of them.
If your apples, turnips, onions or
beets are frozen it will not necessarily
destroy them, provided they are not
thawed too suddenly. If placed where
hey will gradually thaw, care being
AIKEN not to disturb them, they will
De but little injured. provided they are
afterwards kept in a cool place.
There is a great difference in value
between carrot that runs down into !
he soil Il foot and half to two feet
n nearly true taper, and one that {
'uts the same weight into the first six {
IT ten inches and then suddenly ]
hrinks to a fine root that breaks as c
aSlly as cotton thread. Z
Oats have been hitherto but too ..
nuch of secondary crop, planted to .
Ike out shortness in corn. In feed
1g it will be found iehly economical :
S well as healthful to cut the oats Z
nd straw together, mix with cotton
sed meal or shipstuff, not forgetting Il
alt.
Some one said: 'Show me coun- Z
y in which much attention is given -
} sheep and l will show you 9 pros .
erous country" And it is even so. -
SYSTEMATIC sheep husbandry persever- ~
| in means solid wealth to the indl- I,
dual and to the state. ~
A writer says that he has found that NJ
requires as much food to bring one q,
lrkey to maturity, when the bird is n,
,nlined to one yard, as to make forty q,
ounds of pork. We should think that IS
ould depend on the size of the tur- IN
~, somewhat. o.;
No fixed quantity of cream can be gI
,pended upon for yielding a certain 10
mount of butter. Cream varies ac- tic
riding to the weather and feed. de
,metimes it yields less butter than at Or
her times. falling below one week of
I'd yielding more the next. W:
BY giving cows water ~ I. temper III
ure OF 66 Weld of milk one-third an
reater was obtained. according to fal
perimcnts made at the Agricultural co
'Ilege, st. Reuly, Franco. ph
Prof. Stockbridge says that the bu
crage growth of wood ON any acre WI
land between New England and the CT.
tomac, is a cord and a half a year crl
thirty years after it is once cut ou
err. as
Chip dirt from the side of the wood GA
e and old ashes are recommended Pc
one of the best possible dressings ou'
put around fruit trees. III
much larger area will be devoted 1''
sorghum growing this year than
merly- {
barrel of ann1ac will p,aba oho,t A.