Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-12-12
FARM, FIELD AND GARDEN.
POINTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE
AND INDUSTRIOUS FARMERS.
a Word About -Pampas
Horsebreakers- Incubator Ex-
perience--A Novel Corn
Tie--cIeanilness for
Sheep.
A Word About Farming.

1
Farming may not be as delightful
as we, in the poetic mood in which we
sometimes write may paint it, but
there is one fact in relation to the
calling that cannot be denied and
that is this, that however distaseful
1t may be to some, there is none other
beneath the sun that men can engage
IN with like capital that is any
thing like as pleasant and profitable.
Every farmer may not see the golden
beam OF promise in every rick OF well
cured hay or every waning field of
golden grain, but there is no rubbing
it out that the farmers home may be
made the most beautiful spot on
earth and his table supplied with
the best eatables, the land
affords and if such entertaining sur
roundings good appetite such as the
iarmer always possesses, and a table
spread with delicious fresh vegetables,
| fruits, ice cold cream, butter and crisp
brown chicken, will not produce hap
| piDess then we are at loss to know
what will. This is according to our
ideas the ne plus ultra of existence
and for these things poetry or no poe
| try commend us to- farm, the green
leaf embowered home in some nook or
mountain dell behind which rises TO-
mantle cliffs that run back into lofty
heights OF eternal snow and pinacles
grand, and from whose doorway
spreads out to the front wavingm mead
ows, marked with winding willow.
fringe1 brooks clear as crystals and
alive with mountain trout; or even
the home on the broader valley be-
meath the spreading cottonwood and
from which the valley and heights IN
| all direction from an eyer-changing
panorama of things to please and de-
light the eye and refresh the mind
Rocky Mountain Husbandman.
Pampas Horsebreakers.
Amid this mass the quick eye of the
domador soon singles out horse
suitable to his requirements, perhaps
the finest and most vigorous OF the
whole tropilla. As the animal passes
beneath the cross.b eam-swift as a
dart, nnerring as the lasso-the dom
ador drops upon his back and rides
on with him into the spacious corral
The terrified brute plunges and rears
and rushes madly here and there,
rousing the whole herd into state of
excitement and fear.
Once free OF the danger of collision
with the herd, which has fled to the
furthest corner of the corral, the dom
ador whips from his arm a large and
coarse cloth, with which he promptly
succeeds in binding the captured
horse, and then begins in a variety OF
ways TO master the proud wild spirit
beneath him. The horse will kick out
in all directions, plunge and rear,
whirl round and round, backward and
forward. and even roll over and over;
but as well might he attempt
to shake of his own name rs to
rid himself OF that terrible in
cubus, the domador The latter. OF
| course, takes care that the animal
does not roll over him. He simply
steps off and aside till the brute picks
himself up again, only to find that the
| grip on his sides is there as strong as
ever. Embodied as he is. he cannot
see his tormentor, although at times
he manages to elude the latter's grasp
and attempts flight; but the ready
| lasso speedily arrests his mad course
As a rule, before the horse has had
time to regain his feet the domador
4 Ian FVFa-saA 70 eli L. 4,
| the cruel massive bit used all over the
platine countries.
The effects of this new instrument
of torture are fearful. Maddened by
the pain. qnivering with rage and fear,
the animal dashes away in any direc-
ton, forced by the cruel bit now to
this side now to that, until the donna
dor at length succeeds i'm forcing him
through the gates OF the corral into
the wide open camps. Then begins a
mad forliberty or themastery OF n
noble spirit. At speed TO which ter
ror, pain and fury lends wings, horse
| and man thunder over the ground,
which seems literally to fly benesth
their feet. Foam drops like flying
scud on each side OF the horse; his
nostrils dilated and his eyeballs dis.
tended, name and tail streaming on
wind which their speed creates; the
tanner seated cool and grim, hand and
eye alert, and every faculty bent on
overpowering the fierce beast he be-
strides. Thus they pursue their wild
| flight for many leagues, and the donna
dor knows that when the brute's mad
rage is spent and his strength exhaust
ed he win slacken his headlong pace
more and more, until he almost com.
pletely halts, and soon, breaking out
into Il fit OF trembling, surrender for
ever the savage freedom of his I'M
tanned state The rest OF his educa-
ton is easy and need not be told.
Incubator Experlance,