Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-13
AGRICULTURAL.


Corn is reported in the best Of condi-
ton throughout the west.
The best time to prune grape vines IL
as soon after the leaves have fallen a.
possible.
A handful of linseed meal fed to each
COW or horse at least three times q week
will regulate the bowels and promote
health.
Do not leave the management OF teams
entirely to the boys or to hired hands.
They may make mistakes which will
give you trouble.
There is no cause for excitement and
worriment that will surpass the exposure
of the COW to the hot sun for ten or
eleven hours while the thermometer Ia
among the nineties.
The American Duroc-Jersey associa-
ton has members in twenty states, and
an enrolment of $50 names on its regis
ter. Mr.. G. II. Holmes, Grinnell, Ia, is
the secretary.
Farmers in feeding horses give nearly
twice as much hay as city people do,
and yet city horses are in the best con-
dtion for the road. There is the lesson
in this that less hay should be fed.
The governor Of Kansas is authority
for the statement that there are now in
that once treeless state more than
20,000,000 fruit trees and upwards of
200, goo acres OF forests, all planted by its
progressive farmers.
In Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas
and Tennessee crop prospects continue
flattering. The presence OF the fly is re-
ported in several counties in Indiana,
but no injury from insects is reported in
any OF the other states.
The Dakota board of agriculture,
Huron, Oak, will hold their second an
nual fair at Huron, September to 10.
Fifteen Thousand dollars will be offered
in premiums, and $3.50 will be awarded
the best county exhibit.
A country clergyman thinks the horse
that does six hard days work during the
week deserves TO have an undisturbed
rest the seventh. You cannot afford to
wear good horses out by making pillow
horses OF them through the week and
buggy horses of them Sunday
Officers of humane societies have had
occasions to arrest farmers for cruelty in
leading unframed cows, and some ex-
pensive law suits have grown up from
SurD treatment Oh animals. All OF InlS
might have been avoided by half hours
leading of the animal when calf.
An old farmer being asked the secret
of his large crops. replied: 81 tell my
men to harrow the ground until they
think it is narrowed twice as much as it
ought TO be and then tell them it is not
narrowed half enough" Few farmers
properly appreciate the value of .
thoroughly mellow soil.
RAPID MILKING.
Rapid milking is an advantage, says
the Live Stock Journal, if it is done with
out hurting or irritating the cow and she
Is MIXED clean. If not MIXED in a reas-
enable time, the cow refuses to "give
down" Ii made to feel comfortable,
she just stands and pours out the milk.
The rapid mixer has the advantage
How long ought it take to milk a cow |?
Ordinarily about six minutes. good
mixer, with good cows, having no i'm
pediment in the way of rapid milking,
ought to milk ten COWS in an hour.
Some cannot milk over eight, while
others can milk twelve.
BRIEF NOTES.
A horse that is gentle and safe in all
positions is worth three times as much
as one OF equal ability that cannot be
trusted.
If you teach colt TO expect blow in
stead of caress, you will be sure to
make brute. If you tease him, look
out for his heels when he grows up.