The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-16

count the goslings before they arc
Matched. Have the nest tight, and
keep the goslings in over one night aft
er all are out. Make a triangular pen
with three long boards where the
grass is short but fresh and green, and
move to q new place every day A
shallow dish OF water must be placed
SO that they can get into it, and be
re.filled as often as it gets foul. Feed
a little at q time, but often while they
are small, and at the end OF the week
they will have gained strength
so they may be turned in
to their pasture, if sheltered at
night. Ii q gosling gets wet so as to
look drenched, and it begins to droop,
it must be carried to the fire and
dried. Feed corn meal ground with
cob, mixed into dough rather dry,
with an occasional sprinkling of salt.
Care must be used to teach them to
eat regularly. Throw the dough- a.
morsel at time, in the midst of a
flock, or the old geese will get the most
OF it. The goslings soon become tame
and will eat about as long as. one can
feed them. At the end of the third
week feed them only twice day, and
after the sixth not at all, till ready to
fatten them for market. A little
poultry food and cream for chilled
gosllng is about the only remedy I
know OF for sick ones, nor do I think
they will be often sick if they
have good care, and poisonous herbs
are kept out of their reach. If goslings
are taught to eat, then we'll fed, and
kept dry till we'll feathered, success is
almost certain.
A Word About Fertilizers.
1t is. the estimate of a. practical
market gardener that if rotted stable
manure, whether from horses or COWS,
can be delivered on the ground at So
per ton it is about as valuable for fer
tilizing purposes as Peruvian guano
at $65 per ton or pure bone dust at
$40 per ton. But he adds that it is
really better than these or any other
concentrated fertilizer from the fact
that it has a mechanical action on
the land; that is, it assists, from it's
light, porous nature, in aerating and
pulverizing the soil, while the COM
mercial fertilizers simply enrich with
out in any way assisting to improve
the physical condition OF the soil.
But this aeration of the soil is a
matter of very great Importance. AS
the use OF commercial fertilizers in
creases in agriculture, the necessity
grows, .pari passu, of securing proper
aeration by turning under sod
or growing grain, such as buck
WI wheat every three or four years.
The practice of market gardeners
near great cities, who, as g. rule
are the most thrifty and capable of
agrlculturalists, is to keep at least g.
quarter of their land in grain, clover
and grass, to be turned under at the
proper time, in order to preserve the
right mechanical condition of the soil
through the decay of vegetable mat
ter
Such an arrangement is beneficial
even when stable manure in sufficient
quantity can be obtained; but it is
absolutely essential when dependence
must be placed largely or exclusively
on commercial manures. For, when
this is the case, it will be found that
these fertilizers will apparently begin
to lose their efficacy after awhile. The
real difficulty is, however, that after
the organic matter derived from grass
roots, etc., has become exhausted, or
has lost, by decay, it's mechanical ef-
fect, the soil becomes so compact that
air cannot get to the roots of the
growing crop, and failure, or partial
failure, follows.
Increase Of Cattle In Montana.
A favorable report for the cattle in
dustry in Montana is made bv the
Rocky Mountain Husbandman, which
states that from the best information
we can gather, the coming season will
be one Of the greatest the state has
ever known in regard to incoming
CATTLE: A great many contracts have
been let for the delivery of young
steers into Montana during the season,
and it is safe to put the incoming
herds at 10000 head and it may 20
80 or 100000 head.
Last year there were marketed
nearly 1OO,O OMontana grazed Texas
or southern steers, but these did not
all come in in one season, but were
the accumulations of several years
driving. But the great successes OF
the experiments with southern steers
will induce a much larger shipment
from the south this year than last.
The good grass crop last year and the
mild winter will also have their in.
fluence upon the drive and shipments
northward from the southern breed
ing grounds and the local breeders OF
our state may consider themselves
fortunate indeed if the capabilities of
our ranges are not overdone. AS a
matter of course our greatest interest
lies with the local breeder and we
look to his interest first. But we do
not oppose the drive, yet we would
advise light instead of heavy pur-
chases.