Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-11-02
FOR THE FARMER.
Notes for the FarnsrI.


than nine months old.
The man that has thepoorest stai'-
ion generally does the most blowing
about him. National StocRmah'
In driving horses on the road let
them drink Mt every opportunity
dozen times day III summer IS hot
too often.
Small fruits have produced album
dainty throughout the Black hllls
this year, and the quality has Deen
very fine.
Don't burn the straw ii you have
any stock TO eat it, or tramp il into
condition for top-dressing the wheat
or grass lands.
Cream makes better butter to rise
in cold air than to rise in cold water,
but il will rise sooner in cold water
and the milk keep sweet longer.
Peter Hoffman, of Miner county,
has raised over 100 bushels OF toma-
toes. 1000 heads Of cabbage, ana q
variety OF other vegetables on three
acres this year.
The wheat cropin theloweFeounties
of South Dakota was one OF the
heaviest ever harvested, while corn,
millet, fax and potatoes are IN ex-
cellent condition.
Ii you have not already protected
your grain, hay and buildings by e.
fectiye fire. breaks, do not sleep until
you have done SO. DO not wait tor
frosts-do it to-day.
1t is useless to try to save pure
seed Of many varieties Of plants and
vegetables, II grown near other
plants with which the flowers may
mix.
NJ. w. Cook says that Iowa is a.
ways associated in the mind OF near.
| " every one with rearing the beat
domestic animals and producing tho
largest field crops. II Is the land OF
corn and swine"
| To make the iinest-flayored and
lougest-keeping butter the cream
must undergo ii ripentng process by
exposure to the oxygen d! the mir
while it il rising. The ripaning IL
very tardy when the temperature Is
low.
The depth OF setting should vary
with the temerature; the lower Il "a
the deeper milk may be sat, the high,
er, the shallower it should be. MIX
should never be set shallow in d Low
temperature. or deep 10 n high one.
Setting deep in cold water ccunum.
ICES time, labor and space.
Onions keep best in barn
lofts whcra they frccze. Frocz-
ing and thawing injuries
them. Joseph Harris once threw
a load under his eysrgrvrus,
protected only with snowhuhks. They
were sold at high prizes this ncxt
spring, Green's Fruit Grower.
There is perhaps no county in this
Dakotas where 40 many farmers own
sheep MS in Sphinx county, andn flock.
musterwrites: There Is no demand
for good sheep here. Those who have
sheep want To increase their hncks
and no one cares to sell, Tor no crop,
or kind OF stock pays so well ~
sheep"
Some ingenious chap has invented
n new.fnngled milking stool. II i a
four.legged concern two or three fect
long, is provided with seat Tor the
mixer, a shelf for the bucket, n stow.
away for milking oyernlls and n tool
box. This will never become popu.
lar. With a clumsy thing OF this
kind, how would the farmer 80 nble
to punish the COW when she kicksnnd
runs AWAY? One leg is enough for
any milking stool.-Iowa State Reg.
lister. .
4 good cleaning powder for win.
dows and mirrors is prepared by
moistening ealcined magnesin with
pure benzine. SO that mass will h,
formed sufficiently moist to let n
drop form when pressed. The mix
tnre has to be preserved in glass hot.
ties with ground shoppers. in ordo,
70 retain the easily volatile benzino
q little OF the mixture is placed ON \
wad OF cotton and applied to IN,
glass plate. DO not use nenr n ars
or light, as the beuzine yapor d vcrt
ihnammable and explosive.
1t Is often found that cows prere,
to drink stagnant water. even airnos,
lilthy' from pools, rather than r.
take that fresh drawn from The vol
It is not the cleanliness Of tho we'll wa.
Yer that the COWS object to INIT d.
to,uness Leave the well wnter i
suos or troughs exposed TO tbo mir :
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