Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-29
FOR THE FARMER.
Pointers for Farmers

chine cast glance around to see that
the bolts and pins and nuts are FL
right.
Broods that are being weaned by
the mother hen, require watching for
a few evenings lest they crowd into
neighboring coops and get pecked by
cross-grained hens or crowd togeth.
er and smother.
Turpentine, coal oil and vinegar,
equal parts, well shaken together,
and rubbed on the eggs of the bot
fly on horses legs will. we are told,
utterly kill them after about three
applications.
The little chick is happy when he
can swallow big fat worm. Don't
begrudge him the little fruits. or the
plants he sometimes accidentally
destroys. He will return it's value in
a few weeks, destroying pests
Thirteen miles from Cheyenne Is
what is said to be the largest horse
farm in the world. There are 12O,-
600 acres of land, where roam 5000
horses, which require the constant a t.
tention of sixty-five men. One hun
dred miles of wire fence keeps the
animals in bounds.
BY stirring the soil after every
rain, the weeds will be more easily
destroyed than at any other time.
Never allow weeds to go to seed, es-
pecially ! the garden. A single weed
that seeds entails more labor next
season than it would cost to clean
cut all of them at this time.
The sudden approach of summer
heat is enough for fowls to contend
with; when the plague of lice is added
the burden is fntolerable. While the
poultry keeper cannot control the
weather he can control the lice, and
there is really no good excuse for per-
hitting them to worry the fiocks as
they do for night and day.
The farmer who considers all mat
ters designed for the improvement Of
agriculture will mot neglect the sheep.
In an old weedy pasture or wood lot
they will more than pay their keep
by the service performed in keeping
down the noXious weeds and briers,
while nothing equals them for restor-
ing fertility to a worn-out field.
A strong, vigorous plant produces
a strong, vigorous seed, which in
turn, withstands abuse to a certain
extent above the more delicate off
spring of weaker plants. Strength is
given a plant by proper cultivation
in suitable soil. But proper cultiva-
ton does not consist in allowing the
weeds to rob the plant of nutriment.
An exchange suggests that an addi-
tional incentive to raising good
horses, did it ever strike you that
the horse was the ouly product Of
the farm that the farmer was allowed
to put his own price on? The Big
-Four fix the price on the meat crop,
John Bull on cotton, and the gam
blers on the grain, but the horse crop
has not yet been corncred.
There is no crop grown on the farm
but will run out in time ifcareis not
taken to obtain new seed occasional
Iy, or unless care is taken to keep the
seed pure and carefully selected, but
no other crop seems so short lived as
potatoes, nor can new varieties of
any other be so easily produced. 1t
will pay occasionally to try for a
new one.
1t is discouraging when even little
grain is given a COW in Summer at
pasture to have her begin to fatten
instead of increasing the milk flow.
But if the COW be OF that kind, the
sooner her owner discovers it the
better. If granting fattens her she
is not worth keeping with
out the grain. So fatten her as
rapidly as possible, and get better
COW in her place.
The Shorthorn cattle originated in
Durham, England, and it is even yet
common in some old-fashioned Sec
lions to speak of them as the Dur
nam breed. OF course the original
Durhams were not bred up to the
present standards tor beef making.
)ut the characteristic tendencies of a
rood beef breed were in the original
stock. Good feeding and careful
selection OF breeding stock has done
he rest.
The heavy driving rains often carry
AWAY from the barn-yard deep
stream of valuable fertilizing mate
'ial, which is irretrievably lost. This
nay be prevented by keeping the
Tard well scraped up, and the con-