Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-20
AGRICULTURAL.
FARMERS COLUMN.
BRIEF NOTES.

| Sprinkle salt upon the back OF lamb to
induce sheep to own it.
1t is not other peoples poultry that
needs attention, it is yours.
The butter supply can be increased by
frequent stirring of the cream.
The cows should be MIXED Gas regu-
lar as clock-work," as to the hour. and
in precisely the same order, each day.
The whtish scurf on the shanks of
fowls is skin affection known to poul-
try-men as scaly leg. 1t depends on ex-
tremeiy minute parasites, and increases
as they multiply.
The Farm Implement News says that a
sharp knife in a moving machine saves
time, team, labor and temper. Right
successful hay-making begins with good
| tools.
Ii you want flowers near the hen-yard,
plant sunfowers. The seeds are excel
lent when fed in small quantities. Cut
the heads before the birds have a chance
to plant the garden.
| Experiments are now in progress to
make An artificial crossing between
wheat and rye, so as to obtain new and
standard cereal for breadstuffs. So saws
the New York Herald.
| The modern term colony, used to des-
lgnate a hive completely supplied with
bees, comb, etc, is considered more ex-
pressive than the words swarm, skip and
hive, which are only partial in their
| meaning.
X. NJ Littler, the secretary of the Ma
tional Butter, Cheese and Egg associa-
ton, says the farmers who do not cast
their ballots in accordance with their
own wishes, and for the promotion of
their own welfare, have no business to
be free men.
The disadvantages of the ordinary sys-
TEN of settling milk in shallow pans for
raising cream are that long time elapses
before the skimming is completed, too
mich space is required, and in sum-
mer the milk becomes sour, before the
whole-Of the cream is raised.
Cholera germs are taken into the sys-
tenn through the mouth 1t is cheaper to
kill the germs than it is to cure the hens.
Think OF eating eggs laid by hens suffer
ing from cholera! One ounce of sulph-
| uric acid in a gallon of water sprinkled
about the yard and feeding places, is re-
commended to kill the germs.
the orange shipments are now about
be few more odd lots and an occasional
carload to be shipped the coming two or
three weeks. The total footing to date
is 500 carloads, amounting to 1884, 900
| boxes, or a total of over So 900 900 oran-
ges.-Riuerside Press and Horticulturist.
There is no need of bothering about a
cows pulse to find out whether she is
well or ill; simply look at her nose. If
n.nl1 fxt.,tI he, a,~.1 Il (
dry and hot. A staring coat or hollow
eye are also points indicating disability,
and as the symptoms of disease they are
more to be dreaded than the dry nose.
Breed SO as to have every lamb an i'm
provement upon the average standard of
The flock, and sell as soon as they can be
made ready all that come below that
standard, is the good advice from an I'M
known source. When the time comes
for selling animals of any age do the Sc
lecting yourself-always keep the best.
They are worth more to you than anyone
else, SO long as you are not overstocked.
Blackberries and raspberries need
never be staked if properly pruned. AS
soon as the spring canes reach height
OF thirty or thirty-six inches "snip" their
tops off, when they will throw out later
ais, become more stalky and hold up
their loads of fruit without stakes Stalk
ing is useless expense and labor. Some
times wires can be drawn by the side OF
rows OF tall plants to good advantage.
An English farmer has made the dis
covery that his carefully kept farm &C
counts, in which every transaction is
noted as it occurs, and everything nee
essarv to the calculation which has not
actually been bought or sold was valued
at market prices, have demonstrated that
after making allowance for the large
death-rate OF cows, Strengthening has
paid him better than dairying by about
30 per cent.
RABBITS AND APPLE TREES.
John King, who has an orchard on
Battle creek, informs the Red Bluff Ssnt-
mel that he had heard that sure way to
keep rabbits from eating the bark of
young apple trees was to kill a rabbit,
cut 1t into pieces and rub the remains on
the body OF thetree. He concluded TO
try the experiment, and found it entirely
successful. If a rabbit goes to an apple
tree he invariably smells OF it, and if he
finds the scent of dead com panon on
1t he leaves at once and never returns.
Mr. King has nice young orchard,
which he has saved from these destruc-
tive animals as above stated. 1t is
worth trial, anyhow.
FROM BETWEEN THE PLow-HANDLEs.
The most numerous employers are the
farmers, and they are the most import
ant producers. A study of their, trials
with the wages question is interesting.
All farm products are to-day % to so per
cent. lower than they were ten and fifteen
years ago. Following the natural laws
the wages paid to farm labor should be
% to so per cent. lower, too. In fact,
however, wages are much higher than
they were then. Now, is it not plain
that the farmer, the employer, is the
man who is going to the wall, between
the high price of labor and low price of
products? True, he can put his own
shoulder to the wheel, and he has to.
The S-hour system has nothing in it for
him. If he average during his busy sea-
son six hours for sleep he is fortunate.
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