Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-06-22

Inc Chlef thing that most farmers
need to make more money is to get
out of the old ruts. The extra care
and labor which market gardening
implies are too many an objection.
If the farmer begins gradually and
moderately in market gardening he
will probably make success of
that also, besides being better farmer
in every respect.
Whenever grain is largely grown,
most farmers have more straw than
they can profitably use. Why not,
then, save barn room by cutting the
grain high and leaving long stubble?
rhe straw, as manure. is certainly
more evenly distributed than it could
be by any other means. Stubble is al
so no insignificant protection to young
clover in winter. 1t holds the snow
over it, when without the stubble the
field would be wind-swept, and the
ground much more deeply frozen.
The contact of the clover leaves with
snow in winter keeps the plant from
injury, no matter how cold the
weather may be. The stubs of straw
are by spring time mostly llattened to
the ground, where they rot under the
growing clover in spring. By the
time the clover is cut the straw will
be thoroughly rotted, SO as to give
little trouble in haying if the clover be
as strong and rank as it should be.
Most farmers have noticed that hay
rapidly wastes when handled two or
three times in winter. If they are
obliged to buy load toward spring, it
does not go so far as that pitched di.
rectly from their own bays or stacks
into the feed managers or boxes. There
is doubtless considerable waste of the
finer portions of the hay, which are
broken off and fall on the ground dur
ing repeated handling. But the newly
mown hay is not packed closely, and
cannot be it is SO dry. 1t looks to be
more than it is. If the farmer in
spring is obliged to buy hay he should
usually feed more grain to make it &c
farther. The one advantage of hay
on most farms is that it is on the
premises, and it costs more to market
it than it does grain. The latter in
most places furnishes the cheaper nut
rlment, and when both have to be
bought, the cheaper handling of grain
is an argument in its favor as agains
hay or coarser feed.
Crushed corn or tineground meal il
more economical to feed TO cattle thar
corn in the ear, for they cannot wei
masticate the latter, and more or les.
passes whole through the intestines
undigested. Horses and mules will
sound, smooth teeth can grind it prett,
we'll; still it is not SO fully digested a.
fine meal. But this last should no
be fed alone; it ought always to b,
mixed with bran or shorts, at the rat,
OF one-fourth to three-fourths, accord
ing TO circumstances. If for workin,
or store animals, one-fourth of Indian
meal would be a good proportion, bu
If fatting cattle, one-half to three
fourths might be best If a half to
whole pint of linseed or cotton-see,
meal were added to every four quart
OF the above meal ration, it would b
so much the better, as this lubricate
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also quite nutritious. There is YER
little work for mill to grind it wit
the grain, and we doubt whether tn
extra expense of doing this is PAID
Its chief value is to tighten up or ser
arate the finer particles Of the meal, G
IN thinning or diluting it.
There is talk at Harrisburg of cor
structipg water ditch for the pul
pose OF furnishing water power for
paper mill, which Portland capitalist
propose to build there.
Robert Brown, the brakeman VIII
was charged with having robbed til
BODY OF George Kalmback, had III
trial at Huntington and was fully e,
onerated.
! Grant county's school fund has bee
quite materially Augmented since I'll
commencement of circuit cour
: Several large fines and lot of smalle
ones Is the cause thereof.