Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-27

soon leads to disease. Gan ounce OF
prevention is worth pound of cure"
in this case.
Ensilage.
The successful practice of ensilage
during the past few years will no doubt
lead to its still further extension. Its
economy of labor and material are
such as to recommend it to every
farmer who has horned stock to feed
during the winter. But we have not
as yet nearly exhausted the POSSIBLE
tiles of this practice. English farm
ers have gone further than we have i'll
its application. They have got so far
as to do without silo, and preserve
the fodder in sacks covered with
tight roof, and either weighted down
or drawn down by means of chains
and screw bolts so as to compress the
mass after it has heated sufficiently,
to prevent injurious fermentation and
acidity. Another very useful modifi
cation of the practice is to +mix the
cut fodder with dry straw, cut fine,
and leave the mass to ferment, by
aroma of the fodder and becomes
softened and more digestible. This,
however, is not d new discovery, az it
was first used by Dr. Voelcker several
years ago, and described by him in an
article published in the Journal of the
Royal Agricu tural Society of Eng
land long before ensilage was first
used in America or in England.
Reliable stockmen OF Ada County,
Idaho, say that CHAMBERS has appeared
among their horses.
A single diseased animal may entail
loss in a community amounting to
thousands of dollars. 1t cost Missouri
81 100000 and ten months time to
stamp out pleuro-pneumonia, while
the loss to the cattle men of Kentucky
has reached $2,O0O,O00
The number of hogs packed in the
Western markets from November l to
January %, is as follows At Chicago,
1925 900 animals; Kansas City, 500,
600; st. Louis, $4,000; Indianapolis,
$4,000; Cincinnati, 1000; Milwau-
kee, 10000.
An Arkansas farmer writes that last
year, when coons m ,de havoc in his
corn field, he went to the drug store
to buy striychnine with which to kill
them. By mistake the druggist gave
him morphine, and the next mornine
he found his field full of sleeping
coOns
The truly beef COW is a small and
brief mixer, often failing to give sup
port to her calf, and the ultimatum is
reached when the beef type actually
undermines the function of mother
hood promises the CELEBRATION of A
beefy family, while motherhood, in its
broadcast and most complete sense, is
the predominant trait OF the dairy
COW.
Sixty million pounds of prunes
were imported into the United States
last year, but California is growing
this crop more largely every year, and
1t Is only a matter of time when the
foreign product will be run out of our
markets by home grown products
The California prune is said to be SUI
perior to the foreign, and sells at bet
ter prices.
Common pine tar is excellent for
colds in poultry. Put a tablespoonful
OF tar IN quart bottle, add twenty
drops OF carbolc acid and one tea
spoonful of crude petroleum. Then
add hoe water and shake well before
using, giving teaspoonful of the tar
water to any fowl that NAV have
hoarse breathing Or that seems debili-
tated from colds, 1t may be kept con
stantly on hand, and is a very cheap
and excellent mixture.
OF the 100000 bushels of pesnuts
raised in 1886, worth about SD 900 600
Virginia raised 100000 bushels
i've sevenths-in half dozen counties
IN the southeastern portion of the
State. j. w. Johnson of Richmond
claims that for fodder the vines are
nearly equal to clover hay. Hogs viii
latten ON nuts left in the pround
Peanuts are raised on land which will
not grow corn, tobacco, or wheat
probably.
"A poor horse eats as much as good
one; scrub cattle as much as grades
or thoroughbreds; mengrel poultry as
much as grades or pure breeds, Then
why keep interior stock? II this be
SOUND reasoning in regard to animals
why may not the same reasoning be
to trees and shrubs? The
rare ana beautiful forms of evergreen
ana oeciduous trees take up no more