Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-02-12
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS

privileges.
Some of our cattle feeders have learn
ed that plump, meaty I2oo-pound q
year-old steer will bring more cash than
a long 4-year-old.
The chap who is wondering whether
it will pay him to till his land next sea-
son should ask himself what he can get
out of land il it lies idle.
AS matter of business. If It we're not
a gain to cut the feed, it would not be
the common practice of the employers
of hundreds of horses in single stables
to use cut feed.
The depression in prices and general
encouragement of farming must pit be
permitted to interfere with plans for i'm
proved farming. Improvement is the
way to overcome depression.
A very valuable book for all who are
intere ted in farm darying is "Good
Butter and How to Make it," published
by the Kneeland Crystal Creamery COM
pany, Lansing, Mich. They send ii free
to all applicants.
When pruning the old orchard and
removing large limb, first saw a notch
on the under side of the limb; then saw
down from the upper side to meet that
below. This will prevent splitting the
limb. Use gum shellack dissolved in
alcohol, or thin, Eght-colored paint to
coat the wounds.
One reason why women are over
worked on farms is because they have
not discovered that men can do most OF
the heavy work about the house. And
there should be nothing discreditabe in
a man doing work which is honorable
for woman provided, of course, his
time is not worth more at some other
labor.
Cleanliness is the best mode IF get
ting rid of odors, but even with the
greatest care in that respect odors will
often prevail. The best remedy is to
burn a spoonful of sulphur in the
-oultry house once week, first clos
ing it. The use of tablespoonful of
carbolic acid in a gallon of water
freely sPrinkled in the poultry house
once a week, will be found very effec-
tive in disinfecting.
The ideal location for an apple
orchard, Miss Cutler told the Boston
farmers at their meeting week ago,
is on hill. The advantage in this
over a plain being that the trees are
more open 10 the light and air, giving
better color and flavor to the fruit,
better natural drainage and freedom
| from frosts.
For .he table nothing equals the
Budlong, or as some seedsmen cata-
logue it, Breadstone turnip. This is
the sweetest turnip grown, and if
planted late, not earlier than July, and
on rather poor land, or on sod land
it will not grow large, and when once
grown, twill be always grown" Every
one should try this.
A Phillips county settler named Fred
Boreland, of Holyoke, Mass. writes: ain
1888 1 invested 5000 in sheep, sheds and
corrals. The number of sheep pur-
chased was 744, for which 1 paid $500.
I kept this flock and increase until 1890,
without adding anything to my invest
ment, but during that year invested
$4oo more in sheep. During 1891 sold
the entire herd for $1,000. In the mean
time, made my living and kept up all
the expense of running the band out of
the sale of mutton ard wool from it.
Last season l re-entered the business,
and have purchased 1000 head of sheep.
I know of no business that yields such
satisfactory profits with as little risk"
After repeated efforts in packing ice,
It is found that there should be openings
in the gable ends over the sawdust I
think that if the building is fully ex-
posed to the sun, two feet is better than
IS inches of saw-dust around the sides
We have no inside partition, simply pile
up the ice cake on edge, and keep filled
solidly all around with sawdust, prefera-
Div pine. Use an adze to keep the up
per surfaces even as each layer is putin,
50 that there Will be no crevices. Plac-
ing the cakes on edge does not eucour-
age melting as does placing them fat
because Presoiation is more rapid
through the pores by the latter method.
It is essential to keep the sawdust well
.rodden down as the ice is taken out.
Boston printers Endorsed petition
.sking from the legislature the right Of