The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-09-28
FOR THE FARMER.

There Is more IN saving than IN
making. Most men now rich adopted
strict rules of economy in their early
days.
Good fruit and good gardens add
to the comfort and health, not only
for your own family, but in many
cases, that of others.
Just think how easy the world
would get on without you, should a
cyclone or mad bull pick you up and
lay you down the worse for wear.
Ifyou want to be happy, marry a
good, honest and Industrious country
girl, buy Jersey COW, and plant a
strawberry bed. and you are there.
To neglect the small things on the
farm means failure. This is true OF
all manufacturing enterprises, and
the farmer is manufactures.
Keep the temperature of the milk
as near to fitty-six degrees as possible.
The very highest should not be ten
degrees above the point.
One county in Missouri has sold SO
carloads of corn-cobs during the
last year, realizing $1,000. They
were sold to pipe factory in st.
Louis.
A strong solu ton of carbolic acid
and water, poured into holes, kills
all the ants it touches, and the sur
vivors Immediately take themselves
Off. D. Park.
! Nothing is more sensitive to out
side odors than milk, cream and but
ter, and the air of any place where
milking is conducted must be kept
pure.
Affection cannot be pounded into
animals. Kind treatment insures
that affection of an animal, while
rough treatment is sure to cause it's
hatred.
Well, it is weary business for q
farmer to lift a mortgage that takes
years of his best efforts and keeps
him all the time under pressing
and depressing load.-Husbandman.
God made birds for purpose.
Study them, learn their habits, their
usefulness, and you will never be
guilty::o killing one.-Green's Fruit
Grower.
Has any man right to more land
than he knows how to farm with
profit? Has he a right to misuse
and depreciate that by which the Ma
ton must live?-Vermont Journal.
No farm will do its best unless the
fertility expended in making the
crop is returned to it in some way,
and the more the better. Where en- I
silage is fed the proportion ofmanure
that is saved is much greater than
under any other system.
A good appetite indicates good
, health. 1t is no disadvantage to
have an animal that is a heavy feed
er. Such animals usually produce
proportionately to the quantity con-
sumed. The food is simply the ma
terial to be converted into products.
| 1t has been demonstrated that
horses can be ted on ensilage with ad-
vantage, and that where they are
not required to do service, as in Win
ter, an allowance of 30 pounds of en-
silage per day will keep horses in
good condition.
Frequent churning is better than
retaining the cream of seperate milk
ings, as mixture of cream of different
ages is usually the cause of poor but
ter. The best butter is made by
churning the cream as soon as it is
ready.
If a dairy COW is we'll fed her food
will cost at a fair market price from
$50 to $40 per year, and the care in
The way of milking, feeding, cleaning
put stables, etc., will bring the ex-
pence up to $50 per animal, or about
81 per week for each cow well cared
for on Western farms.
Have you tried the Farm Journals
method of keeping lice out of the
hens nest? 1t is simplya handful of
air-slaked lime with few drops of
:arbolic acid in it, scattered through
| the hay. No time need be wasted
whitewashing boxes, burning hay,
or painting with kerosene.
Too much of the profit is in many
cases lost by not attending to a
thing in it's season. When it is time
J FOR q seed to be planted it should be
planted. Whcn it needs hoeing it
should be hoed; when il needs prun-
ing it should be pruned, and wiier
the fruit is ripe it should be harvest
ed.
What the colt requires, is plenty of
Exercise, clean place to sleep, shell
ter from bitter storms, plenty of
good grass of different varieties,
good clean hay without dust, and
good, sound oats. Colts raised in
this way will not look SO well, nor
win as many premiums, nor sell for
rs much none y, but they will last.
| It has been demonstrated thatnut-
bearing trees can be made to pay
more than the interest on the value
of the land occupied during growth,
as well as to return larger profit at
the end of twenty-five years in tim
Der than could have been made on
such land in regular crops. When q
farmer has more land than he can
cultivate, he would find it to his adj
vantage to plant grove ofwalnuts,
chestnuts or some other valuable
wood or nut-bearing tree.
1t has been well said that man is a
parasite of the cow. Her flesh and
her milk enter into our daily diet,
and on her health hinges our own