Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-12-13
FOR THE FARMER.
Pointers for Farmers.

fat through the winter Will smear
from one to two pounds more wool
than poor one, says farmer.
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There are at the present time in
Germany. upwards of COG coopera-
tive creameries. OF this number 302
are situated in the province of
Schleswig Holstein, where they are
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 11A pounds of potatoes,
313 1-15 bushels of the lot being
large potatoes. Many farms in
Aroostook regularly yield $50 to
800 bushels of potatoes to the acre
The cheapest fence, according to
The Country Gentleman, is barb
wire, a ditch being plowed on each
side and a bank raised. before put
ting on the wire. The ditch and bank
will prevent animals from running
against it, will aid in draining the
land, and require shallow post-holes-
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 a 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 n
well balanced and healthful food, for
d growing, as well as fattening pigs.
t
n We make the broad assertion, says
IS the Pennsylvania Farmer, that no
/ farmer of this section is making six
: per cent. on his investments, while
: the average will fall below three pei
9 cent, while many are makingnc pro-
II fits at all. Again facts force US to
le say that twenty-five per cent. of the
Il farms of this section are for sale
g These include some of the best in 10
II cation and improvements. There Ia
e no use attempting to disguise thu
- fact that agriculture is suffering.
There is little potash naturally il
# sandy soil, and that little is a sill
id cate or so combined with the sane
t, as to be insoluble Often dressing
n OF leached wood ashes will secure {
Id clover catch on sandy soil, when i
&c would fail without the supply of pot
o; ash that even leached ashes contains
r. If n clover crop is grown and plowet
Id under, it furnishes vegetable mold
it. which decomposing gives of carbon
1t ic acid gas, and makes some of tn
ng silicate of potash available for plan
ny food.
nj nj 1.-THE butter is thoroughly works.
iva to remove all the white flakes c
ON caseine, it will need much less salt
do 1t is the impurities of butter, and es
NIL pecially its exposure to air, tina
- cause its quick decay. The pnbli
IL, taste of late years requires much les
MI salti in butter than it used 70 do, an
he to make little salt effectual necess
~ ties all the greater care for the bur
KS ter-maker. Over-saltIng therefor
ass presumptive evidence that salt ha
We been added to cover defects arisin
from ignorance, lazlness anu Sehers
want of cleanliness.
80
vn 1t is comparatively easyt pro Hul
BILE of butchers the bony pieces ofanima
nd they slaughter themselves, and whiC
oF are worth more even than entil
/, meat to make fowls lay. Break Il
- bones up with hammer, after DO
lts ing them so as to make them softe
,ys 1t does not matter ii some of q
nd pieces are ms large MS a chestnut. III
SIX gizzard will quickly grind them fin
if the fowls are supplied with grave
I'VE 1t is the bone material that is niece
sary in making both eggs and she
nj Fowls thus ted will make a much mo