The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-29
farm Notes.

Iffarmers would give their daughters
half an acre of ground to plant In rasp-
berries or Strawberries it would be the
means of making many girls .contented
with their homes who now wish for
means of earning a little money that
shall be their every own" and 50 all the
more appreciated.
Coal oil will cure your chickens
whose legs are scaly. Dip the legs in
to the oil and hold for a few seconds,
until the scales have been penetrated.
The yield Of orchard grass seed in
Kentucky ranges is from seven to twelve
bushels per acre-occasionally reaching
fifteen bushels. The price varies from
81 % to 50, according TO the season.
There is great difference in tie
shape of hogs, and for keeping and
breeding, those with long bodies rather
than those short and dumpy are pre-
ferred. But after they are killed the
conditions are reversed. Those that
are short and fat have larger proportion
of ham and shoulder, which are con-
sidered most valuable, and they have
also larger proportion Of lard. A long
bodied hog has generally larger, longer
head, which in hog is a disadvantage.
The less hog knows beyond its duty OF
eating the more valuable it is.
know that with mercury below zero
COWS often refuse water for an entire
day, and when they do drink will
shivcr for an hour or more. The expert
ment of warming the water is so easily
tried that recommend every dairvman
to test it the coming Winter II, as is
claimed, the amount of milk can be
largely increased by this plan, ] know
of no other way in which it could be
done SO cheaply.-Correspondent
Farmers Review.
Edward Burnett declares, and he
ought to know, that more skill is required
in feeding swine than any other domestic
animals. He might have added that the
average farmer feeds his hogs more
carelessly than any other animal. This
may be the reason why, taking one
farm with another, the money received
for pork sold in market will hardly pay
for the feed and care it has cost.
1t is bad economy to try to winter pigs
or sows only on such a washy diet as
turnips. mangolds, and squashes and
the like. 1t is also bad economy to try
to winter on wheat alone 1t is best
economy to combine the two kinds OF
feed. A larger per cent of the ration
from mixed feed will be digasted The
question is not how much an animal
eats, so much as how Ruch of the feed
does it digest and assimIlate. 1t is true
| think, that the wholes0meness as well
as economy of a gwen feed may be
measured by the per cent of 1t that is
digested and assimilated.
Afer butchering pork or beef it is
usual in colJ weather to leave it hang
ing over night to get all the animal
heat out of it. With large animal this
often requires several hours, and is
essential to good packing. Often how
ever in very cold weather the carcass
freezes through. which, Of course ex-
pands the flesh and fills it with air
If pork or beef is packed while in this
frozen condition the air slowly escapes
in the barrel and soon spoils the meat
See that the frost is all out before putting
in the barrel. IF the meat is immersed
in cold water it will thaw out and all
will escape at the same time, as may be
known by the bubbles rising to the sur
face.
1t is a very rare exception to find q
farm with good walks TO the barn and
outbuiIdings. Most farmers tuck Their
pants into their boot-legs and wade
through the mud, and spend more time
each spring in cleaning their boots than
would be necessary to make good walk
to every outbuilding. 1t is not that
they can not afford to make the walks
but simply that they have so long been
accustomed to the mud that they do not
give the matter a thought Now ] lay
down the proposition that good walks
are a necessity on every well managed
farm, particularly in the locations where
there are many alterations of freezing
and thawing during the Winter and a
sticky clay soil,
1t is difficult, saws a Belgian Journal,
to distinguish between iron and steel
tools. They have the same polish and
workmanship, use will commonly show
the difference To make the distinction
quickly, place the tool upon a stone and
drop upon it some diluted nitric acid
-four parts of water to one of acid. If
the tool remains clear, it is of iron; if OF
steel, it will show a black spot where
touched with the acid. These spots can
be easily rubbed off.
Commissioner Colin and has sent out
the past yeaI 764 $50 packages of flower
seeds and 554,732 packages of turnip
seedsl But the taxpayers can afford to
spend 100000 a year for such nonsense.
The taxpayers are mostly farmers.
When the Commissioner gets inflated
into full-sized Cabinet officer he will
have more salary and more men and
maidens about him to draw salaries, and
the farmers, too, will pay for this
recognition of the dignity of agricul
ture."
There remain open to free settlement
in the United States about 5l5,0O0,0O0
acres of Government land. Of this area
obout SO per cent, because of its noun
famous or barren nature, is and will be
permanently, valuable for the r1rposes
of agriculture or stock raising, although
as timber preserve parts of it may serve
as adjuncts of no small value to contigu.
GUS farming sections. 0fthe remaining
90 per cent, fully one half is not immed-
lately available for settlement owing to
the swampy or arid nature of its soils.
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