The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1888-09-26
Farm Notes.

| ~ 10 surprising now many insects q
flock of turkeys or guineas will destroy
in a day. If given a large range they
will be industriously at work all the
the time, and will need no feeding at
the barnyari at this season of the year.
In saving garden seeds it must not be
overlooked that where several kinds of
vegetables have been grown near eacl,
other there is danger of the varieties be-
coming mixed. This will not show itself
this season, but plants from the seed
saved the present harvest will vary next
year. 1t requires care to save seed il the
varieties are to be kept true, and, for
that reason, where only a small garden
is cultivated, IT is better to procure seed
rAther than to attempt TO save it.
Never allow dirt to accumulate on the
horse collars. Wash 1t of with a lather
of CASTLE SOAP, and when the leather is
PARTLY dry rub in vasoline enough to
keep the collar soft and pliable.
In many cases a plank drag does bet
ter work than Il roller in preparing land
Tor seeing.
The farmers tired wife should 90 to
bed and stay there until she gets rested.
Give the cream twenty.four hours to
ripen after the last skimming is nut in.
When a COW gives milk she requires
three times al much water as when dry.
Save seed from the earliest sugar corn
that ripens, not the latest.
To emove white-wash from the wall
in order to paper it, wash it over with
vinegar, and the paper will stick tight as
a drum.
1t is the pullets and yearling hens that
will lay the most eggs.
A quart of meal will GO farther now in
fattening the hogs than two quarts in
cold weather.
A COW is not loosing time when lying
in the shade chewing the cud of content
ment.
The man who can not go to breakf fast
in a cheerful frame of mind should fill
his plate, take it out on the porch and
eat it alone.
To insure a good catch of grass this fall
plant Strawberries where you want it to
grow.
Four ounces of sulphate of copper dis.
solved in a gallon water, and sprinkled
from a watering can over five bushels of
seed wheat as it is being shoveled over
by another person, will do away with
smut and may help to checkmate rust.
The Connecticut Farmer says that S
M. Wells, of WethersfieId, Conn, has a
lot Of onions, and they have
been raised on this field for fifty years
consecutively. For the past six years he
has used fertilizers only, experience
having shown him that there is nothing
better for this crop or any need of barn
yard manure in combination with it.
Bronze turkeys are now made to attain
the weight of fifty pounds when 2 years
old, which is a large increase compared
with the average weight of the past ten
years.
We feel satisfied, and our own expert
ence will bear us out il the assertion.
that careful breeding from year to year,
coupled with the proper kind of food
plenty of it, will in due course of
time full fix a type of first.class mixers
from a reasonably fair beginning. We
in our herd of grade cows three diff
ferent families that we have raised and
graded up from ancestors through a
course of years numbering from the
shortest, fifteen years, to the longest,
twenty six wears, and We have no know.
ledge of any one of these cows in that
length OF time proving a failure or of
making a record that would not compare
favorably with that of the best cows of
the country. And this has been brought
about by reasonable painstaking through
time, with no extra effort beyond
which should be made by the aver
age dairyman.-Correspondent of Nation
nj Stockman.