Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-22
FOR THE FARMER.
Pointers for Farmers.

Germany upwards of 600 coopera-
tive creameries. OF this number 3O2
are situated in the province of
Schleswig Holstein, where they are
chiefly engaged in preparing butter
for the English market.
Grin ID. Vance of Caribou,
Aroostook Co.. Me-, has this year
raised from one acre of land 405
bushels and liz pounds of potatoes,
313 lis bushels OF the lot being
large potatoes. Many farms in
Aroostook regularly yield $50 to
300 bushels of potatoes to the acre.
The cheapest fence, according to
The Country Gentleman, is barb
wire, ditch being plowed on each
side and bank raised. before put
ting on the wire, The ditch and bank
will prevent animals from running
against it, will aid in draining the
land, and require shallow post-holes.
Most house plants are watered
to much in winter. Even in green
houses, where uniform and higher
temperature than is possible in
most living-rooms is maintained,
the evil is more apt to be from to
much rather than to little water.
Unless the plants are kept warm
enough to grow rapidly. water is
an injury.
Tobacco leaves or q few stalks
Of tansy, sweet fern, or anything
Of strong odor put in the hens
nest will in many cases keep them
free from lice. Sulphur in the nests
is excellent. But if the dust bath
is kept in good condition and
changed from week to week there
will be little need of other remedies.
The fowls will dust themselves and
SO keep clean.
In the absence of milk, an excellent
tood for young pigs, says Henry
Stewart, can be made up ofpotatoes
boiled and mashed with the water in
to a thin paste and mixed with a suffi-
Gent quantity of corn meal and bran,
with shovel This mixture is not
only extremely nutritious, but it is a
well balanced and healthful food, for
growing, as well as fattening pigs.
We make the broad assertion, says
the Pennsylvania Farmer, that no
farmer of this section is making six
per cent. on his investments, while
the average will fall below three per
cent, while many are making no pro-
fits at all. Again facts force us to
say that twenty-five per cent. of the
farms of this section are for sale.
These include some OF the best in To-
cation and improvements. There is
no use attempting to disguise the
fact that agriculture is suffering.
1.-THE butter is thoroughly worked
to remove all the white flakes of
caseine, it will need much less salt.
1t is the impurities of butter, and es-
pecially it's exposure to air, that
cause its quick decay. The pnblic
taste of late years requires much less
salt in butter than it used to do, and
to make little salt effectual necessi-
ties all the greater care for the but
ter-maker. Over-saltlngis is, therefore,
presumptive evidence that salt has
been added to cover defects arising
from ignorance, laZiness and general
want of cleanliness.
1t is comparatively easy to procure
of butchers the bony pieces ofanimals
they slaughter themselves, and which
are worth more even than entire
meat to make fowls lay. Break the
bones up with n hammer, after boil
ing them so as to make them softer.
1t does not matter if some of the
pieces are as large as q chestnut. The
gizzard will quickly grind them finer
if the fowls are supplied with gravel
1t is the bone material that is neces-
sary in making both eggs and shell
Fowls thus fed will make a much more
valuable manure than they will fed
ON any kind of grain.
Don't trust the dehorned, bulls
says reader of the Breeders Gazette
For time an animal which has beer
accustomed to use his horns is rem
dered more or less harmless on finding
his weapons OF the offense and defens,
4 have vanished, but his nature is still
the same, and ifonce driven or pressed
too far, heaven help the man who hai
trusted to this change ofdisposition
have lately had two Scotchmei
working for me; both had been will
poled herds in Scotland, as well a
with Short-horn herds. Both agree,
that they considered it much safer t,
work among the horned cattle thai
polled. The only safe plan is as yo,
say: "Never trust u bull, cross o
kind, horned, uniformed, or de
horned"
An important legal question wi
probably arise soon over the RICH
of fruit growers to spray apple an
other fruit trees with water contain
ing Paris green, while the trees al