The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-17
For Farmers.

lfstraw is used for protecting berry
patches it is apt to I'll the soil with weed
seeds, besides being in the way in the
spring, Potato tops are free from weed
seed, and by spring much of their sub
stance will be washed down into the
soil, making fertilizer rich in potash.
A writer in the Live Stock Indicator
believes it to be fact that the Holstein
is winning its way rapidly in the regard
OF our people as the grandest "combin-
alton COW" known. The COW in the
hands OF our farmers that will give the
most milk and then be easily turned
into good beef carcass seems to be
the Holstein.
Horses hard at work need blanketing
while at rest at this season nearly
or quite as much as they do in winter,
when colder weather prevents much
sweating. Whenever a horse is moist
with sweat he is liable to serious illness
ifchilled by exposure to winds. Always
put horse in his stable to eat, even if
he has very short time for that purpose.
Too long feeding is common mistake
in fattening fowls for market. 1t takes
of thepro6ts when shorter time will
answer. If kept in dark place and
stuffed with all they can eat they will
fatten in twelve days or two weeks, and
if this is continued much longer they
will begin to grow poor again. Those to
be kept over should not be subjected to
this fattening, or rather stUffing process.
One of the best, well-tried and always
successful preventives of disease among
swine is to keep trough to which they
can always have access filled with
mixture composed of sixty parts of wood
ashes, twenty parts of salt, twelve parts
sulpher, and eight parts copperas. The
pigs will regulate their doses. Prof.
Turner Of Jacksonville, ILL.,, has been
successful with his preventive, as
originally composed by him.
Much of the manner offeeding animals
nav be known to the butcher by ex
aiming their insides after killing. Those
which have most fat on the intestines
have been fattened after a prolonged
period of starvation at some earlier
period oftheir lives Fat in this position
isnlture's mode Of providing sustenance
against time when food is scarce, which
as it has already occurred once in the
animlls experience, is presumably like
ly IL occur again.
The best OF roots for the horse in
winner is the carrot. Enough should
be provided to give two or three messes
a week, though where they are plenty
still better plan is to feed some every
day with oats or other grain, the ration
Of which may be proportionately
diminished. To buy them they are
generally as dear as oats, but may be
grown for much less cost, good crop
Of carrots yielding 200 q 8OOor 800 bush
els per acre, according as the email or
large varities are grown,
Cows are as liable to founder as horses
orat least, they will show the character
istic lsmeness Of this disease after over
feeding on almost anything. We have
seen it where apples, potatoes or green
corn were the articles with which the
stomach was overloaded. Any such
ration fed to excess will stop at once
the flow of milk in the best COW; and il
will take several days ofca-efull manage
ment to restore it. II she dungs freely
keep her in a dry place, especially at
night, and give light. nutritious, but
easily digestible food. A cow.suffering
from indigestion is very liable to take
cold If exposed to storms and chilly
weather az night,