Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-03-03
FARM RANCH AND GARDEN.
TO FREE THE HENNRRY FROM vERMIN.

FARM RANCH AND GARDEN.
TO FREE THE HENNERY FROM vERMIN.
]. M. Fairfax, Fort Wingate, New
Mexico, has taken to raising fowls on
TOO large q scale in too small quarters
and finds his hen house filed with YER
min, says the agriculturst. Clean it out
and whitewash it thoroughly,
roosts and all, with whitewash in which
crude petroleum, kerosene, or crude car.
bolic acid is mixed. Wood ashes should
be thrown in places and dug up for dust
baths for fowls. Give plenty Of ventila-
ton and wornly fruit. But fumigation
will be the best remedy. Drive out the
fowls, act fire to half pound OF flour
sulphur mixed with kerosene in an iron
kettle set on the ground. After two
hours throw open the doors and win
dows.
CLEAN HARNESS AND SOFT.
John Film, Marshall, County Kansas,
desires to know how to keep harness
clean and soft. Clean your harness
with large coarse piece OF
WOODEN cloth moistened with Kerosene
as often as it becomes dirty. After be.
ing out in the rain and mud clean it, and
wipe it with piece Of old flannel shirt
quilted double. If desired, a little good
blacking may be smeared over the wip-
ing flannel. Oil and varnish make the
harness dirty and rotten. When you
bring in your horses soiled and sweaty,
treat them the same way you do the
harness and they will last like the har-
ness, a good deal longer. Both treated
as advised will keep supple and look
we'll.
FARMERS AS STUDENTS.
The farmers alliance and the grange
are doing great work in the education OF
the masses, says the Eugene Guard. The
farmer has heretofore taken too little in
terest in the science of political economy.
He has been content to follow the pillow
and rear his stock, then sell at whatever
prices might be dictated by capital, and
buy at rates over which he had no con-
troll. Such a course, notwithstanding all
our advantages, has left the farmer COM
paratively stationary while millionaires,
made so by his labor, have sprung up on
every side.
STOCK AND FARM NOTES.
Bright corn fodder is beautiful food
for sheep.
Ventilation of the sheep pens must be
we'll looked after. Confined, poisonous
air is fatal to sheep.
The consumption Of mutton is rapidly
increasing in the United States, aud that
fact is the golden promise Of sheep hus'
bandry here.
The following formula is highly
spoken of by an experienced flockmastel
in
Powdered sulphate of copper, part
parts. Mix and use as dip for the foo
after washing and pairing the hoof.
1t is especially important that thu
sheep afflicted with the scours should bt
separated from the main flock when al
are penned for winter. because they de
mand dry, concentrated feed, while the
healthy sheep need lOosening diet as ,
corrective of the sudden change from
grass to hay.
A very singular freak is reported from
certain Australian flock. For foul
years past the color of the wool has beer
uniformly black, but this year when tn
sheep were brought in for shearing i
was found that, though the outer sur
face of the fieeces still bore the usua
black tints, within the wool was strange
~ varied in color. White and gray
bands of various widths were found eros
sing the staple, and these bands in
variably preserved an even distance from
the skin all over the body.
Alfalfa makes the best hog pasture il
the world. Hogs can be kept with prof
on almost any farm that will grow
alfalfa.
See that your stock have plenty O
good water. Watch this water bushes
closely, for want of water ia as bad a
want of feed.
Breeders of high grade cattle regar'
Hereford's as the best rustlers. POlle'
Angus the hardest and Shorthorns th
best for ranch and beef purposes.
Never forget that the health of al
domestic animals is bettered by cleanli
ness. The hog is dirty because MAJ
gives him no show to clean himself
The billiards. called for q might
great lot of beef in Nebraska this winter
At daylight New Years morning tn
thermometer stood 20 below, and stool
was falling everywhere. But the dee
snow protected the wheat fields, and thi
salvation touches UP their gloom will
very 9llvery features.
A really good dog does not kill sheep
and o really good man does not have
sheep-killing dog.
| Advance sheets from the report of tn
secretary of the state board of agricul
ture show the total value of the product
of Iowa soil for 1891 to be $449. 1897 Cos
OF this amount over $lO0, OO0, 900 is 70
corn.
Pure water is An important element il
| the growing Of livestock. Impure waite
will encourage disease. II your farm
not we'll supplied in this particular, yo
cannot invest money to better advau
tage than in at once remedying the de
feet.
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