Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-01-14
FARM, FIELD AND FInESIDE.
onnnrai Farming items.

General Faru0lUE ft@HS@s
A young school-teacber, 20 years
old, Miss Matte Worley, OF Green
wood County, Kansas, earned money
enough to buy 100 acres ofland, hired
men to break 80 acres and SOW ten
acres OF wheat, and purchased stock
Tor the rest oil the land. She is now
out OF debt, and still continues to
teach while her cattle increase and
multiply.
II we will rear sound, healthy hogs
and not race gradually deteriorat-
ing in stamina, vigor of vital organs,
and strength OF frame; il we are to
have pork with a fair proportion OF
lean meat to the fat we must feed a
ration with a larger proportion OF
nitrogen than is contained IN corn
alone. Grain, clover. skim-milk, peas
and bran and middlings are all rich
in protein, the nutriment that makes
muscle, and therefore they should be
used III connection with corn.
Intelligent and observant borsemen
! tell US the California two.year-old
thoroughbred is, as an average, quite
as well grown and as fully developed
as the three-year-old OF our side of the
mountains. This, they say. is prob
ably owing to the mildness of the eli
mate. and a green forage all the year
round, il needed-that keeps a colt
growing right along. These are. no
doubt, good reasons; but possibly
they do not embrace all OF them. Has
it ever been sufficiently considered
whether the feeding of alfalfa lucern1,
green and dry. may not have some.
thing to do with the rapid growth and
size attained at an early age.
Colts are sometimes constitutional.
Iy weak in the joints. This weakness
may be outerown by lapse OF time 10y
good feeding. The food should be
chiefly oats of last years growth and
good timothy hay. with no clover
bran III the form oil mash should sl
SO be given. 1t will help very much &c
apply the following stimulating bills
ter TO the Joints on each side: Two
drains OF spanish fly and one ounce o
lard. Rub u piece as large as chest
nut on each part, and in four day
amply sweet lard and wash on witt
warm water and soap.
The talk on weeds reminds me tina
on nine farms out of ten the weedles
spot is the garden. ! am not speakin
at random, for / have carefully in
spected hundreds of gardens and it
rare to find one that is not overrul
with weeds after the early vegetable
are past use. Now, IL / had such 1
garden would cover it with stray
and thoroughly burn it SO as to &c
rid of all seed could In that way am
then / would pillow it deep. turning
! fiat furrow so as to bury Is deep a
possible the seed on the surface whic
the FIRE had not destroyed and fror
that dav on there should never
weed go to seed in that garden. tn
var with weeds would have to
waged for FIVE years at least and pei
haps seven before it would be plea
ure to cultivate that battlefield.
have found crossed Brahma an
I Dorklng fowls a most excellent sort t
raise. Full grown, they are about tf
size of the Brahma. and quite sup
! rior in flesh, although not equal {
the pure DorkIng. which IN this T
' spect excells all Others, save the gan
e fowl. This crossbreed has few OF Il
e leq-feathers of the Brahma, and nj
9 often the fifth toe OF the Dorking-
G both of which are objectionable. The
are hardly, quiet, and fair layer
Q The chickens grow rapidly and NAL
good broilers at three months az
J. ard if well pushed still earlier. 1t
Z probably one of the most prohtah
{ kinds the farmer can keep, and tn
!. cross is largely cultivated now in In
e land and highly esteemed.-A
. Allen.
The onion crop is said to be sho
all over the country. In Massach
setts the yield is small. This Connec'
cut crop is slieht; the average yield
: 500 acres is 100 barrels an acre, mu
; below last year. and inferior in s.
e. and keeping quality. The onion gro
is ine towns Of New York generally
ne port small crop, and in Orange coun
A. the shortage is serious; the 20
acres OF onions will produce sol
4 $4,000 bushels in all, against neal
lie GOO. 900 in 1885, which are now $.
as ing at 50 per sach of l00pounds. 4
- New Jersey crop is also short. L
= same story comes from all the west