The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-29
Notes Won Political

people in the United States-.that Is To-
say, one to each family.
The ranchers Of the West are prepar-
ing to do big things with the horse trade
Of the country and Of the world d few
years hence.
The pacing record to saddle has not
been reduced in eighteen years. Billy
Boyce made 2:14t at Buffalo in 1868, and
that still leads.
A prominent turf writer alleges that
the betting elements among the patrons
of horse racing ia growing less and less
every year.
No less than 122 breeding horses, part
of them Clydesdales. left the dock at
Liverpool in a single vessel, for America,
a few weeks since.
It is estimated that $4,000 head of beet
cattle from Southeastern Oregon and
Western Idaho will be marketed in
Chicago this year. The main outlet
from these sections has heretofore been
toward San Francisco.
It is not the amount of food we give
our stock, but the quality and condition
of it that is the measure Gifts value 1t
must be given in a condition to make it
digestiable and easily assimilated By the
organs of nutrition. The actual nutritive
value of an article of food is of very little
consequence, unless We combine it with
different other articles in such proper
tons as will fully supply all the various
wants of the animals system,
There are novelties ofsome kind offer
ed to farmers every year 1t may be a
new grain, or fruit, or machine, or gates,
or what not. 1t viii be well for the
average farmer to fight shy of these
novelties until he can have some assur-
ance of their usefulness The intro
ducers are usually more or less prejudic-
ed in favor of their debutantes, which is
natural But it is well enough to be
skeptical of the alleged improvements
Wherever scattering oats fall during
harvest they will attain wrowth Of
twelve to fifteen inches IN heigh and
occasionally head out bafore checked BY
frost. The ground is not titled, and
often oats lie on the surface a week or
more before rains sprout them and give
them foothoId When fall feed is
likely to be scarce, oats sown on the
ground not otherwise occupied will make
growth enough to pay the trouble, if
only to lie on the ground as a covering
during the winter.
The question oforiginal and distinctive.
brands for cattle is assuming perplexing
proportions among the stockmen in Col
orada The Egbert Tribune says. There
are over 1000 brands in use i'll Colorado
Since August last the law has prohibited
the duplication of brands. 1t keeps the
force in the Secretary of States Office
busy suggesting new brands to meet the
requirements Of applicants Since Aug
l. 1885, 2,90s variations and inventions
have been placed On the books, running
all the way from plain saw horse to
lop-sided water Jug"
The question may arse, how large
strawberry he'd is needed to supply a
family with plenty Of fruit during the
season? On the supposition that straw
berries viii last month, from the ear
Hest Crescents to the latest of the Ken
lucky, two or three quarts or more will
be wanted daily for the table of a mode
rate family. If the kinds are properly
and managed, SO as to give a
continuous and tolerably regular supply,
about three or four bushels wall be
enough for the season. 0ne-twentieth
of an acre ought to give good family
supply, and this would be space on rod
wide and eight rods long. or two rods
wide and four rods long. Skillful cul-
tivators would get all they wanted from
half this much ground. The plants
must be well selected for a succession,
and not allowed to become choked with
grass and weeds MANY men say they
would rather buy than raise their straw
berries. This is all right if they only
would buy. But many cannot get them,
and it will be safest to raise enough for
home use.
The best butter-makers Of the day
stop the churn when the butter is in the
granular from, e., in small granules
Or grains, none of them larger than a
grain of wheat. In this stage the butter
milk lis drawn out of the churn and cold
water turned in to wash the buttermilk
tut OF the butter This is then drawn
,f, and the process repeated until the |
water comes away clear. A brine ii then
made and poured into the churn, and the
lash is turned enough to bring the brine
D contract with the small particles Of
,ut:er The butter is then removed from
he chuFn, and on worked enough to
emove the surplus brine and shape the
,utter into rolls or prints for packing.
N this way the grain is not injured, and
he good qualities of the butter are pre-
erved in all their integrity. constituting
what Isl known as 'gilt-edged" butter.
)f course, all steps in the process are
AIKEN with due regard to what is requir.
d to secure the desired product, proper
empture, proper cleanliness and proper
and accdIancy in everything.
Railroad Building
AS the building of railroads progresses
rosperity and increased business aud
follow in the wake of these
reat American civilizers Since January I
ST. 1886 more miles Of railroad have