The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-04
Small Talk For Farmers.


thinks farmers do too much guessing in
their business, trust too much to chance
luck and the moon, and do too little
close figuring.
DIR. Yasey, botanist of the department
of agriculture, says that handbook Of
Northern farm grasses will probably be
issued at Washington during the coming
summer and fail.
Crops are generally reported faii
throughout this country. In France and
in England a shortage is held to be
imminent. Both these countries will
need to buy wheat largely
Belgian horse breeders have formulat
ed stud book. 1t comprises three
classes-the race Friesian, or puresi
Flemish; the Belgians, or heavy variety
and the Ardennaise, or light race.
A well known horseman, who believes
strongly in pedigrees, says when com
PEELED to choose between all pedigree
and no horse, or all horse and no redi-
gree, he takes the horse every time.
Continuous cropping by cattle, to-
gether with the killing effect of nard
winters, is a Colorado cotemporary, Field
and Farm, says, so thinning the wild
grasses ON tina plains as to cause anxiety
among the rangemen.
Mr. Samuel Miller mentioned in Col
mans Rural World that if grass be APP
piled for mulching strawberries, to keep
them clean, it shonlA be prefectly dry,
particularly if put on when the fruit is
ripening. If used when fresh cut it will
give the appearance of scald and impart
a bad flavor.
An Ohio farmer j. quoted as having
cleared his potato field, which was ''aliye
with bugs" anF at the same time benefit
ed the plants by a single sprinkle with
a brush ola solution made by dissolvlng
two and a bali pounds each of copperas
and lime in twenty gallons of water.
The farmer who rears fine large
family should realize that his main crop
has been a success. Ifin addition he has
an unmortgaged farm, an investment
giving steady annual returns, he ought
to be a thankful man. How many of
these who went to the farm can boast of
a more fruitful life?
. Mr.. B. F. Johnson has a favorite
theory that series of good and bad crops
alternate at intervals of from seven to ten
years; that 'S6 corresponds to 70 and 70,
"and, like them, will load the country
with a tremendous surplus" causing
revival of business ofthe most pronounc-
ed character, activity in all kinds of man
ufactures and general advance in prices
Of agricultural products.
F. L. Yoakum says, in the Texas Farm
and Ranch: A handful of lime sprinkled
over heap of Irish potatoes before you
cover them up for the winter-even if it
be in the summer time when you cover
hem up-will assuredly save them.
Turn your onions upside down in a rack
when you are drying them, and they
will not rot either These two facts are
worth millions to our people.
"What a delightful existence it is,
Farmer Robinson" said his city guest,
out here in the country. How crisp
md beautiful the air, and the fragrance
If new mown hay pervades all. l should
hink you would feel like chanting
,eans of the Creator the year round"
1T is sort'o nice miss, grant. But
never feel quite so much like thanking
heaven as | do when I've scrImmaged
bout an get money enough together to
,ay the taxes. Hartford Post.
There is more nutriment in bran soak
d and soured than most peoplesuppose.
t is excellent food for summer. Save
he corn meal for winter, when heat is
equired. In hot weather the bran or
neal should not ferment more than
WE'VE hours or it will become too acid
nd cause inflammation of the stomach
nd bowels and then there will be a
care about "hog cholera"
In these degenerate days." when so
many people perfer to eat vile compounds
imulating butter, to the genuine aroma
&c product of the churn, if only the for
Ter sell cheaper, it seems scarcely worth |
lille to commend method for restor-
ng rancid butter to sweet; nevertheless,
ere Is a recipe which is said to answer
ne purpose: To pint of water add
lirty drops of liquor of chloride of lime,
nd in this wash two and half pounds
lncid butter; after every particle has
1me in contact with the water, let it
and an hour or two and then wash in,
can, pure water Another method is
his: Wash the butter in good new milk
tier which wash in cold spring water.