The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-03-26
All Around the Farm.

calves to feed. Cold and carelessness
are calculated to knock spring calf in
the head. Then when spring comes
and they have all the grass they can
eat they are liable to take to blackleg.
A neighbor went to Chicago and bought
a carload Of calves and brought them
home This was early in the spring.
He was quite a young man and it was
his first venture. They were thin and
so at once he fed them literally. They
would eat until they were satisfied and
then lie down. This was kept up quite
while and then nine of them died OF
blackleg. The idea struck the young
man that they needed exercise, so
every day for week or more, as soon
as they were through with their corn
in the morning they were driven
around for a couple of hours. The re-
suit was not another died of blackleg.
Safety is reached by commencing with
a poor lot Of calves so gradually that
there is no suddenness in the change.
When they have reached full feed no
harm results. I myself, last spring,
bought seven head of calves, yearlings,
eous. l commenced gradually and kept
it up until they ate every ear they
could. The warts commenced to drop
off before grass came. Good pasture
finished making them smooth. My
opinion, after noticing calves for a
goodly number of years, is that black
leg is simply paralysis Of the surface
blood vessels. They fail to circulate
the blood. Exercise keeps up the cir
culation; lying down induces torpidity
OF the veins and paralysis. am no
doctor, but them's my sentiments on
blackleg.
Cattle should not be fed on corn
alone. 1t is natural for them to chew
the cud, and roughness fed with corn
brings both up from the first compart-
ment Of the stomach and all is digested.
Without roughness scarcely half the
corn goes through the process, and so
1t passes from them in whole grains.
Hence there is waste, unless hogs fol-
low, and in any event the corn does
only part of its Office in the fattening
process.
The drouth in these ends Of the earth
was beneficial in making, not only
sound corn, but in maturing the young
wood on the fruit trees. It is true that
numbers of trees and plants set out in
the spring have persisted. Especially
is this the case with cherry trees, which
seem more susceptible to drouth than
any other sort. Plums are all right and
so are the young peach trees. Pears
have stood it well. Apples not so well.
Many ornamental shrubs persisted; no
tably the hardy hydrangea and the Gle
mats. Among evergreens the Siber-
Ian arbor vitae is the most susceptible
to drouth. The hydrangea and the
evergreen must be watered literally or
they will certainly perish. On many
plants drouth is more destructive than
cold weather.
Cooperation is gaining ground
among farmers. Near me a creamery of
this sort has been running now over a
year, and so we'll has it prospered that
a 10 per cent dividend has been declar-
ed. This and the fact they get the milk
back, minus the cream, has given cows
boom. Properly and honestly man
aged, there is not the least doubt but
that 1t is good thing for the farming
community, and especially for the
stockholders. Another creamery run
on the same plan a few miles farther
away, has done as well as the above,
and one year 1t did better, for the past
six years.
Men are hauling up to the house
great piles Of logs, which before long,
will be sawed by horse or steam power.
Half days saving will last a round
year. To cut the wood for that length
OF time as 1t is needed with the axe is
no fool Of a Job, which know by sad
experience. Cutting wood at the wood
pile in July and August is a watery
Job. A man at the woodpiIe then |
seems to be the subject of continual |
and thaw." l prefer the |
steam power in the winter.
How cheerful the evergreens look
around the house when all the ground |
Is covered with snow. They are the |
ideal windbreak. have a good many
OF various kinds, but prefer for the |
rank and file the white pine. 1t grows |
rapidly and, with room, very shapely. |
There should be two rows twenty-four
Leet apart. The outer row should break
Joints with the inner row. By that
means a solid shelter is made.
Any quantity Of men don't seem to
care copper whether their half of the
line fence is kept up or mott Bad fences
make, as a rule, bad neighbors. After,
The fence is first made, ordinary care
Will keep it in working order. 1 often
wonder why 1t is that farmers don't see
hat 1t is much easier to be on the best
If terms with their neighbors than to
De otherwise. Years aen when I cnm= |