Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-02-05
THE AGRICULTURALIST
SOME ESSENTIAL Ell EMENTS OF
SUCCESSFUL FARMING.
Cheap Lands Not Always the Most Proi
itable--The Value OF Hay Lies IN
Feeding It to Your Own Cat
tle-Well-Kep Farms.

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Of flour. j at two or three eggs ana
stir into the batter with little salt.
Fry as any other griddle cake.
The farmer who thinks that to make
money he must go where land is
cheaper, should consider well If he
would not make more money by max
ing the land he has deeper and richer.
The elements of the fundamental
principles of farming are: Soil, heat,
moisture, muscle and brain power.
The commingling OF these five ele-
ments produce the key to successful
farming.
Pumpkins for COWS have best effect
when fed before very cold weather, for
there is less absorption of animal heat
to warm the mass-forty or fifty
pounds-that COW will take into her
stomach.
A neat and well-kept farm indi-
Gates that the owner is thrifty. The
manure heap is the most important
thing now. If the heap is sheltered
so as to prevent loss, and so managed
that everything that can be added to
it can be decomposed, it will effect a
saving and prevent filth in the barn
yard.
We do not produce potatoes enough
for home consumption if the fact that
such products are imported are taken
into consideration. II foreigners can
ship their products 5000 miles to
reach us, we can, with our improved
machinery on our cheaper lands, pro
duce more than may be required in
this country.
Sheep manure contains from 80 to
IS per cent of the plant food con-
tanned in the rations consumed by the
sheep 1t is, therefore, very rich
fertilizer, as experience has shown. 1t
is especially rich in nitrogen in an
available form, and for that reason is
excellent for use as a starter in the
hill for corn and potatoes.
All smutty corn or husks should be
burnt. 1t is better to take precaution
for next year than to attempt to pre-
vent smut by some remedy. 1t would
have been best to destroy the affected
stalks when growing. but even now
no traces of smut should be allowed to
exist. Seed should never be selected
from field containing smuLty years
! of corn.
When grain and hay crops are sold
off the land they carry away the fer
tility of the farm, but when such
crops are fed TO stock not only is a
| portion of the crop left over as ma
nure, but a higher price is received
for such crops in the shape of beef,
pork, mutton or milk, which enables
the farmer to restore any loss OF fer
tility by the increased receipts conse-
quent upon the keeping OF stock.
, The improper keeping of cream,
a and allowing it to become sour while
waiting for more, and the failure TO
keep the milk and cream in some
place of even temperature, is the
: cause OF nearly all poor butter. The
/ quality OF the cream should be uni
D form, and no mixing of different ages
can be done safely. No amount of
i, working the butter can compensate
for the injury done before churning,
, and every portion of the work should
be done speedily and not be made de-
pendent on something that is to fol
!, low
: A correspondent in the Southern
Live Stock Journal gives the following
as remedy for thumps in hogs :
= Give one tablespoonful of vaseline
. petroleum jelly (not carbonized). Re
peat every twenty-four hours as long
as necessary. The great advantage
:. of the remedy, aside from its efficacy,
!, is the ease with which it is given. 1t
n is job to drench hog, but this vas
cline slips down so easily that there
: is no time for strangulation. in ex-
IRENE cases it is best to blister under
> :, neck and between front legs with c..n.
tharidal collodion.
: If the milk is too cold for the but
: ter to come, or the temperature is too
q high Gas sometimes happens in sum-
mer), it may be brought to the de-
sired temperature by the addition OF
+ cold or warm water, as the require
t ments may be, until the proper tenn
e perature Is obtained. The use of a
thermometer will greatly assist in the
r work OF chuIning. Some prefer to
s raise the temperature by placing the
r churn in tub of warm water. Any
r mode that will raise the tempe allure
Will answer. Rectangular churns,
which dash the butter from side to
side, are now largely in use, the but
termllk being drawn off as soon as
the butter assumes the granular
stage After the buttermilk is off. il
preferred, strong solution made bv
1 dissolvng salt in water, may be
/, poured into the churn aud the butter
. washed by again revolving the churn
!, This carries off the buttermilk and
partially salts the butter.
i Although no definite rule can he
laid down to be followed in COVERING
, seeds, it is safe to say the larger the
seed the deeper the covering should
be. The old rule of covering seeds 10
3 a depth equal to four times the diam
: eter OF the seed, will not answer in all
cases. The writer's experience would
d lead him to advocate greater deptb
OF sowing as general rule. A dentb
equal TO SIX times the diameter of the
seed would ha ,>,o.so -.