Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-11-19
HOME AND FARM.
How to KIN Horns on Calves-The Time
to Apply Lime-About the
Care of Swine.

cows, thus gradually making the change
from green to drv food. If the change is
made suddenly the COWS will fall OIL IN
milk. Az an assistance to the green
food (which will soon become scarce
give sliced turnips, beets or carrots.
Peach trees will sometimes partially
renew themselves if the dead limbs and
twigs are cut away. In this manner
a tree may be induced to bear year or
two longer, but when the tree is old, and
the new wood grows slowly, it may be OF
little advantage to attempt to prolong its
existence.
The longer the corn fodder remains
stacked in the field, the darker it will be-
come in color from exposure. and the
greater the deterioration in the quality
OF the blades Bright fodder is more
highly relished by the stock, as it is ten
der, while exposed fodder gradually be-
comes tough.
The time to apply lime is in the fall
so as to allow it time to act on the soil.
The beneficial effects of lime may not be
apparent until the second season, much
depending upon the condition of the soil
and its composition. 1t shoud be ap-
piled on the surface to be carried down
by the rains, and not plowed in.
About one and half pounds of corn
will suffice as a grain ration for one sheep
ii the animal is given all the hay or grass
il desires. The breeding ewes, however,
should be allowed oats in preference to
corn. To fatten wether give mess OF
cooked turnips and cornmeal with the
other food, and it will gain rapidly.
A Nebraska fruit-gro wer thus states
the results obtained on a small plot of
ground 81 sold 1928 quarts of raspber-
ries, which netted me $lh0.2S, and 796
quarts Of blackberries, which netted $40.
These were from one and one sixteenth
acres OF land (measured), and do not in
include the quantity eaten, canned and
given away.
Qdince trees are benefited by heavy
manuring more than any other fruit trees,
and If the ground a ound the trees is we'll
covered with manure this fall the bene-
fetal effects OF the manure will be very
marked next spring Too much manure
around peach trees, however, sometimes
does harm, but light covering of COM
post will be beneficial
The horses on some of the stage routes
in Nevada are trained to wear showshoes.
After an animal becomes used to them
he can travel four or five miles an hour
where it would be impossible to get that
distance in week without them. The
shoes are made of thin steel plate, and
measure about nine by eleven inches
The horses are shod with long heel calks
which go through the snowsboes and pre-
vent their slipping going up and down
hill.
Professor B. d. Halsted finds that the
common asparagus is heliotropic, /. e
follows the sun in its daily course. In
early morning the shoots are nearly up
right, but when the sun is two hours
above the horizon the same stems lean
Enthusiastically to the eastward. At noon
the stems are leaning somewhat to the
southwark and at evening they point
westward. The curving is most promin-
ent with average sized stems which have
escaped the gardeners knife, and are be-
tween one and two feet in height.
Rye straw is preferred for bedding, az
it is long and easily spread over the
stalls; but in preparing the bed some
consideration must be given the handling
of the manure and absorbents, for which
reason the material will give better re-
suits, so far as labor is concerned, If cut
up for bedding. Wheat straw is equally
as good. The finer and shorter the bed
ding material the better it will absorb the
liquids. As soon as the leaves begin tC
drop they should be raked up and hauled
to the stables for bedding.
W, Brazelton tells in Hoard's Dairy
man how he kills the horns on his cal yes
He says get a stick OF caustic potash
then when the calf is say, ten days old
take it by both ears, stand straddle OF it
then let an assistant have little water
wet the place where the horn would
come, then after wrapping a rag arount
one end OF the caustic. rub the other enc
OF the horn spot. 1t being wet, will dis
solve enough of the caustic to cause n dry
scab to form. II thoroughly rubbed fol-
say minute, one operation is all-suffi
cient Mr. Brazelton's calves six months
old thus treated have not sign of horn
1t requires but a small plot of raspber
ries to give an abundant supply for s
family. They should not be set out I'm.
! til late in the fall or early spring, and i
a protected location be selected for then
they will bear little earlier than if ex
posed. The raspberry delights in rich
soil and the canes should be well man
ured every season. The red variety il
the best, and sends up new plants trom
the roots, which gives thick mass o.
canes in the row. The black caps are
propagated by roofing the tips of the
canes, which are bent to the ground and
covered.
Swine have acquired the reputation o.
being filthy animals. This is unjust
however, because it is only by restraint
that they are so. Give them their native
freedom and pigs are very neat in theil
habits, When fed and kept as nature
designed, the flesh OF swine is probably
rs conducive to health az that OF any Of
the grass eating animals. Pigs should
not be kept i'll villages or cities, or con
gregated together in too great number,
anywhere in confinement, where they
must wallow in filth and breathe fou
air. Pork from such slums is not proper
food for the human stomach. Swine kept
upon the farm, and furnished with suit
able quarters and healthy food, are &
most desirable class of farm stock.
Four lots of lambs, of ordinary grades
were fed by Professor Roberts, to deter.
mine the cost and ratio of increase, from
different foods. not only OF the Ca. cass
but OF wool also. From November tc
April-five months--the lambs wer,
given quite variety. The four lots con,
tanned three lambs each. One lot was
fed on earbonaceous diet, having al
the whole corn and timothy hay they
could eat, with half pound of roots each
the estimated cost OF the food being So. 10