The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-02-24
AGRICULTURAL.
Winter Not q Season for Lei.
sure Only on the Farm.
AHExcELLENr FORAGE PLANT

Do Not Dispose Of the Heller Calves
From Your Good Cows
Agricultural Notes.
Be sure the pigs fsrrowed now do not
get chilled.
Moist earth il said to be M lures cure
Tor wasp stings.
Holding stuff that il for sale too long
u just - disastrous - selling too soon.
In filing the icehouse Get the blocks
Of ice on edge. II will not melt 20 fast,
and IL easier to get out.
"A plentiful supply Of straw for bed
and the size Of the manure pile these
cold days.
The ammonia which 10 escaping from
the manure pile, and which can easily
be detected by the smell, ID valuable.
Prevent the waste by occasionally APP
plying dry earth or gypsum 70 the sur
lace.
Do not dispose Of the heller calves
from your good COWS. Those coming now
will. If kept thrifty, be ready TO turn ON
grass in May or June, and will then Just
shoot ahead II given . little milk or
grain.
II . piece Of land ID to be double
cropped next season, festilise it freely
and plant crops which mature quickly,
such - wheat followed BY miIlet, or
sweet corn followed BY buckwheat or
turnipe.
Dairymen don't have to borrow
money; 90 financial strengency does mot
affect them - it does other people. Tho
reason is that they are never tout Of .
job" and receive their money At frequent
and regular intervals.
Go down TO the "elough," and after
cutting hole in the ice get down and
drink, and you will learn enough to real
ize that, ii you make your COWS face
wintry winds tramping after ice water,
you are not much Of . man after all.
Piles of decaying matter about the
house or barn are . menace TO health. as
we'll as . breeding place for insects.
Even heaps OF rotting wood had better
be got rid Of by burning in the stove or
in the open air il not needed for fuel.
In some Of the great cattle-producins
sections, where once nothing was thought
of but stock, land owners are now COM
bining farming with their stock growing.
This combination is true agriculture.
Either branch by itself lacks something
Of completeness
Do not think that the winter il sea-
SON for leisure only upon the farm. When
it is so regarded leisure becomes only
another name for loafing. Study, read,
plan, think and fit yourself to be bet
ter farmer next year than you have ever
been. There lie room for improvement.
The sorghum plant makes An excellent
forage crop, and is especially relished by
the cattle. 1t is cut and dried somewhat
like hay. If syrup is to be made from
the plant, the blades are removed and
used for stock and the stalks run through
the mill. The refuse from the syrup
mill makes an excellent grade Of paper.
Go away from home . little during the
winter if you can. and learn what the
farmers are doing elsewhere. When you
are in new places visit the markets, and
zee what products are in demand and
what prices are being obtained. Every
sort OF information that at all relates to
your business is Of value, and you should
neglect no opportunity TO procure the
same.
1t has been demonstrated that 100
pounds of sand will absorb 25 pounds of
water; 100 pounds of loan, 10 pounds;
100 pounds Of clay loan, SO pounds; 100
pounds OF clay, 20 pounds. This ex-
plains why some soils always appear
drier than others and why after shower
some soils become like Q thick paste,
while Others are only comparatively
lamp.
What sort of q walk have you from
the house to the barn? Some who read
this doubtless have only such as nature
made. and nature does not make very
yood ones for wet and muddy weather.
It would be wise to take the job in your
,wn hands before the season has pro-
crossed further and have at least . solid
board walk that will keep your feet dry
md your boots clean.
BREEDING POULTRY.
Farmers Monthly says: The selection
,f the finest individuals of breed is Of
Is much or OF more Importance thAuthe
,hoice Of breed. Pure breeds have a.
strong an impulse to perpetuate their
Inferior characteristics IS their superior
qualities. Breed only from the best
males that can be procured. Avoid those
showing the slightest trace Of sickness
" the effects Of disease. Disease or Q
to disease 10 transmitted.
Weakness reproducee weakness; vieor
,egets vigor. Hereditary unsoundness
" q predisposition to disease may be
made the dominant characteristic OF Q
train. The offspring Of stock that 10
cry young or immature, or imperfectly
developed, or that is coustitutionally
impaired by privation or neglect, will
inherit q condition OF the system that
eadily becomes diseased from slight ex-
iting causes. Hardness, vitality and
igor OF constitution are Of more impor.
ance in poultry for profit than all other.
Qualities combined. Only the most wig
'rous should be bred from. Birds law.
ng strong. bright eye, that are cheer
al and active and are not much above
he average Of the breed in size, are the
most desirable. A dull and sunken eve
hows defective nutritive power and lack
I constitution and vigor. Tho progeny
Il two-year-old fowls grow larger, ma.
ure earlier and feather more rapidly
han that from younger stock. A cock
rel mated to mature hens usually gives
Arge and vigorous chickens. II the hens
re few in number. there 10 generally .
Of cockerels, especially
rom the earliest eggs. Cockefels are
more efficient early In the ssa-
on than cocks. II pullets are 10 BE- bred
rom, they should b mated TO . mature
ock. The earlier eeys viii produco
more cockerels than the latse one. A.