The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-14

to greater extent than would have
been obtained from the needless tree
had il remained. beside the improved
quality of the growth.
Much attention is paid in England
to the manufacture of sanitary wall
papers. The best English dealers
guarantee their paper free from arse
mic or other poisonous coloring mat
ter. 1t is wise to select smooth pa
pers, as they do not collect the dust
like the embossed and locked SUR
faces. If flock papers are used at
all they should be wiped at least once
a week. Light colors should be
chosen and small all-oyer designs.
People have hardly begun to under
stand the influence of color on health
and comfort, or to know that care
full consideration of this subject is
more important from sanitary point
of view.
While reports of the hay crops
coming from various western states
are very encouraging, the news comes
from New England that there it is
most disappointing. In Vermont it is
represented as being the lightest for
ten years, reaching $50, 900 tons, or
200, 900 tons less than last year. In
New Hampshire and Maine the crop is
reported as 10 and 10 per cent re-
spectiyely less than last year. Causes
assigned for it are bad weather and
damage by insects. The hay press
Will be in demand in the west to put
the good crop in proper shape for
Transporting east.
The annual weeds have mostly such
extremely small seeds that the begin
ings of the plant are on the most in
significant scale. Slightly brushing
the surface of a field twice week will
kill every one just as or before it
comes above the surface. A weed seed
that is barely sprouted is destroyed as
effectually with brush of the hoe or
garden rake as it would be two months
later when the strength of man
might be required 10 uproot it. Ere
quent cultivation kills more weeds
for another reason, which is that it
encourages more weed seeds to start.
A California paper says: We are in4
formed that complaint has been filed
in the superior court of San Diego
county, in which the plaintiff COM
plains that he has thirty acres of Muscap
grapes, raised for the express purpose,
of being made into raisins, and that
owing to the great number of bees.
kept by his neighbors he is unable to
utilize the grapes for the purpose
named. The prayer of the plaintiff is
that the court may adjudge the keep
ing of bees to be nuisance which
should be abated, and that he may
recover damages from the defendant
Ii is generally found that a COW kept
by herself will give better results than
the same COW in herd with Others
The single COW will be better fed, and
a more important point, so far as but
ter-making is concerned, will be the
fact that nearly all the butter will be
got from the cream, which is never
the case when the milk and cream
from a herd of cows are mixed before
churning. Owing to difference in size
of tho butter globules the milk front
COWS varies greatly in the time re-.
quired to bring the butter
On the Kankakee marsh, along the
Kankakee river IN Illinois, there are
large tracts of land which are used
yearly for grazing stock. 1t has been
the practice of farmers who had good
gram farms to send their young cat
tie to these marshes and have them
pastured through the summer at cost
of about 80 per head. Dry season,
stock will do fairly well, but after wet
seasons the cattle will come home lean,
being all horns and legs, weighing in
many cases no more than they did in
the spring,
According to experiments reported
by the secretary of the New Jersey
Horticultural society, and continued
through two years, the early Ohio ma
tured eight days before early rose and
beauty of Hebron, in 1884, and eleven
and seventeen days sooner in 1883.
In another series of experiments by
N. W. PARCEL, the early Ohio was six
DAYS earlier than Vermont and He
bron, and sixteen days earlier than
early rose.
1t is now confidently believed that
the shipments of wool from New
South Wales for the statistical year
ending June 80 will show reduction
in last years quantity by at least 2S,-
900 bales. There will be deficiency
also from Victoria and Queensland;
but an increase in South Australian
shipments will more than make up Tor
this, so that the total deficiency for all
will be about 10000 bales.
An attempt is now being made to
bore an artesian well on the large
plantation of Messrs. c. j. and j. Z.
Foster, near Shreveport, La. THIS is
the first attempt to bore such well IN
the Red river valley, and its success
will prove a matter of decided conse-
quence to the people of that section.
The contractor in charge OF the WORKS
is confident of success.
Another insect pest has appeared IN
in the nature OF small
worm, which secretes itself in the
heads of clover, entirely destroying
the stalk. The spread of the pest IS
so rapid that the clover crop through-
out the country will be almost a total
failure.
Barn cats should rarely be allowed
to come to the house, and never fed
there. All they need is plenty OF
milk. Compel them to get the rest OF
H.; l;v;n.r md thev will find it about