Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-01-01
THE AGRICULTURALlSl'
Newsv Notes Concerning the Farm A'o
of Especial Interest to tie Fa-
cIfic Coast Husbandman.

the holes made by borers III Ire''' VIZ
borers will be destroyed.
The water trough needs thorough
scrnhbing and scalding occasionally, /
or it will soon be coated with Slime
IT, is better to feed cow every ounce
of food she has the ability to take care
of than to try to gain profit by saving
feed.
Too much grain is more detrimental
to breeding stock than not enough
rhe food should be bulky, with
small allowance OF grain.
No animal is so hardy as to require
no attention. The more an animal Is
exposed the less it will produce, either
of pork, wool, mutton, beef or mix.
Major Alvord condemns dehornng
in toto. He says in the Boston Culn
vator that it is cruel, and argues that
it does not render cattle less pugna-
ciC US. =.
The Iowa Agricultural college, it is
said. has been crossing Southdown
ewes with Shropshire bucks for four
wears. Asa result the average OF all
Heeces has increased from 81 to sly
pounds. and the percentage OF lambs
nom IT per cent. in 1850 to l3l per
cent. in 1888.
Horses can, of course, stand more
exposure in cold weather than men,
but the same kind OF exposure That
produces colds, rheumatism, etc, IN
men, will be liable to tl5ct horses IN
the same way. 1t is, therefore, APP
parent that warm stables, good blank
cts and protection from severe weather
are necessary.
Professor Henry gives the following
as a good ration for a dairy COW where
corn fodder constitutes the main por-
ton of the coarse fodder: Corn stalks
cut Is to 16 pounds; clover hay, D
pounds; bran, 6 pounds corn meal,
pounds. This can be fed twice Or
three times a day, as the feeder prefers.
The drains should be put down be-
fore the ground freezes A single tile
drain will sometimes carry off the sur
plus water from large field, but
enough drain should be used to rem
er the field dry in early spring and
be in proper condition for blowing,
The use OF the drain will add hun
dreds of dollars to an early crop.
A Western dairynlan has hit upon
very simple plan Of warming water
for his stock to drink in winter. He
: puts an iron plate, say Is inches square
, on the bottom Of his water tank, cut
: ting away the wood. of course, where
the iron was. Under the plate he uses
an oil stove. He says 10 cents worth
of oil day would warm the water fol
60 COWS up to 10 degrees or more.
In developing COWS for butter the
feeder should be sure that he does no.
overfeed, but as he finds they eat with
good appetite he may add a littl,
more to each feed, and 50 continue
gradually to increase the feed as they
e will bear it. This power of digestion
t will increase, and he may gradual,
+ increase the milking capacity OF hi:
COWS and their production of butter
The skill of that feeder has much t.
do with the result
The editor OF the Mark Lime Elk
e press advises farmers 10 cut off pc
tato blossoms as they appear. The bal
or true seed OF the potato, which re
e suits from the blossom, are net onl
p unnecessary to the formation of TIL
l. tuber below, but are prejudicia
l. strain on the plant. He says "
have tried it again and again on
= large scale-shree rows left and tire
!. rows cut--and the results have NOR
,r than satisfied me-"
U There are several States which pre-
duce surplus of corn. OF these Ill
i nois and Iowa are equals, the produc
y, of each being estimated at 10000
. 600 bushels; Missouri ranks as thirc
y with 2l0,000000 bushels and of tn
~ other four, Kansas has made a gaia c
II 100000 bushels, as compared wit
X the crop OF 1887 Indiana has game
/ 69,OOO,OO0 bushels; Nebraska, $4,000
s. 600, and Ohio 100000 The tote
X increase for the yea is believed to b
not far from 560000000 bushels, @
more than twice the entire product {
o Illinois and Iowa together The con
s. parison affords aid to the Imagination
s In forming conception of the surplu
II available Tor expectation, either d
rectly or in the form of meat an
- other provisions but only when th
70 mind dwells upon the magnitude c
70 the entire product of more than 1900
=. oOo,OJo bushels is it possible to realiz
a the significance of the name to whic
corn Is now entitled as king of cereal.
k Now Is the time to get rid of tn
Of poorer ANIMALS. 1t will not nav /
a winter them, as better animals wi
Y give larger returns for shelter. car
lie and Iced. 1t is not economy to kee
poor animal through any season
,e out 1t Is most extravagant to keen
v. through the winter. 1t is the hight ,
re loly IN stock raising to sell the be,
v and keep the worst. True. the he.
3. orlng the largest prices; but if you Sc
the best and keep the worst, 500
your best will be no better than you
s worst Is now, and your worst will h
g soch that the more you have fl
n, poorer you will be. You, by thi, pla,
vi constantly make your animals poore,
e, ana as the stock raiser makes Lis AN
mas poor he makes himself poore
g II he Keeps up the process, banknr,tc
u Is as sure rs fate rhn "