Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-01-04
FOR THE FARMER.
Pointers for Farmers.

fat through the winter win shear
from one to two pounds more wool
than poor one, says farmer.
There are at the present time in
Germany upwards of 600 coopera-
tive creameries. OF this number 302
are situated in the province of
| Schleswig Holstein, where they arc
chiefly engaged in preparing butter
for the English market.
Grin D. Vance of Caribou,
Aroostook Co.. Me-, has this year
raised from one acre of land 405
bushels and LIZ pounds ofpotatoes,
313 LIS bushels of the lot being
large potatoes Many farms in
Aroostook regularly yield $50 to
| 300 bushels of potatoes to the acre.
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The cheapest fence, according to
The Country Gentleman, is barb
wire, ditch being plowed on each
side and bank raised. before put
ting on the wire. The ditch and bank
| will prevent animals from running
1 against it, will aid in draining the
land, and require shallow post-holes.
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Most house plants are watered
| to much ia winter. Even in green
| houses, where a uniform and higher
temperature than is possible in
most living-rooms is maintained,
/ the evil is more apt to be from to
much rather than to little water.
Unless the plants are kept warm
enough to grow rapidly, water is
an injury.
Tobacco leaves or a few stalks
of tansy, sweet fern, or anything
of strong odor put in the hens
nest will in many cases keep them
free from lice. Sulphur in the nests
is excellent. But if the dust bath
is kept in good condition and
changed from week to week there
will be little need of other remedies
The fowls will dust themselves and
SO keep clean.
In the absence of milk, an excellent
food for young pigs, says Henry
Stewart, can be made up ofpotatoes
boiled and mashed with the water in
to thin paste and mixed with suffi-
Gent quantity of corn meal and bran,
so that when iU is cool itcan be lifted
with a shovel. This mixture is not
only extremely nutritious, but it is a
well balanced and healthful food, for
growing, as well as fattening pigs.
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/ We make the broad assertion, says
the Pennsylvania Farmer, that no
farmer of this section is making six
per cent on his investments, while
the average will fall below three per
cent, while many are makingno pro-
fits at all. Again facts force us TO
say that twenty-five per cent. of the
farms of this section are for sale.
These include some OF the best in To-
cation and improvements There is
no use attempting to disguise the
fact that agriculture is suffering.
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There is little potash naturally in
a sandy soil, and that little is sill
cate or so combined with the sand
as to be insoluble. Often a dressing
OF leached wood ashes will secure a
clover catch on sandy soil, when it
would fail without the supply of pot
ash that even leached ashes contains.
If a clover crop is grown and plowed
under, it furnishes vegetable mold,
which decomposing gives of carbon
ic acid gas, and makes some of the
silicate of potash available for plant
food.
Ifthe butter is thoroughly worked
to remove all the white flakes of
caseine, it will need much less salt.
1t is the impurities of butter, and es-
pecially its exposure to air, that
cause its quick decay. The pnblic
taste of late years requires much less
salt in butter than it used 20 do, and
to make little salt effectual necessi-
ties all the greater care for the but
ter-maker. 0ver-saltingis, therefore,
presumptive evidence that salt has
been added to cover defects arising
from ignorance, laziness and general
want of cleanliness.
1t is comparatively asytopro sure
of butchers the bony pieces ofanimals
they slaughter themselves, and which
are worth more even than entire
meat to make fowls lay. Break the
bones up with a hammer, after boil
ing them so as to make them softer.
1t does not matter if some of the
pieces areas large as chestnut. The
gizzard will quickly grind them finer
! il the fowls are supplied with gravel.
1t is the bone material that is neces-
sary in making both eggs and shell.
Fowls thus iedwillmaGe muchmore
valuable manure than they will fed