Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-03-19
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
ACRIcULTURISTS
Some Up-to-Dats Hints Abont Gull
tivstion of the Soil and Yields
acknowledgements yiticuiture and
Horticulture.
All Around the Farm.

Ae the day lengtnenS the colo
strengthens" This old saw gathers
added force II we have a bunch of
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
carload of calves and brought them
home. This was early In the spring.
He was quite young man and 1t 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 couple OF hours. The re-
suit was not another died OF blackleg.
Safety is reached by commencing with
q poor lot OF calves SO gradually that
there is no suddenness In the change.
When they have reached full feed no
harm results. / myself, last spring,
bought seven head Of calves, yearlings,
which were so warty they looked hid
eous. commenced gradually and kept
1t up until they ate every ear they
could. The warts commenced to drop
on before grass came. Good pasture
finished making them smooth. MY
opinion, after noticing calves for
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. It is natural for them to chew
, the cud. and roughness fed with corn
brings both up from the first compart-
! msntof 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
J 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. II is true that
/, numbers of trees and plants set oct 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
u / 10 rlaarh trGaq PAnrG
have stood 1t well. Apples not SO well
Many ornamental shrubs persisted: no
= tably the hardy hydrangea and the Gle
I mats. Among evergreens the Siber-
: ian arbor vitae is the most susceptible
: to drouth. The hydrangea and the
a evergreen must be watered literally Oh
S they will certainly perish. On many
: plants drouth is more destructive thar
r cold weather.
o Cooperation is gaining ground
o among farmers. Near me creamery oi
2 this sort has been running now over /
year, and so well has 1t prospered tha
e n Is per cent dividend has been declar
II ed. This and the fact they get the mill
o back, minus the cream, has given cows
Il a boom. Properly and honestly man
II hReQ. IHtE6 lS upi luG AGdSl doupI pu
\ that Il is a good thing for the farming
= community, and especially for thu
! stockholders. Another creamery rul
on the same plan few miles farthe
:. away, has done as well as the above
and one year 1t did better, for the pas
six years.
Men are hauling up TO the hous
great piles of logs, which before long
: will be sawed by horse or steam power
Half a days saving will last roun,
>. year. To cut the wood for that lengtl
~ of time as 1t is needed with the axe !
oI no fool OF job. which / know by sa
le experience Cutting wood at the wood
Oh pile in July and August is water
job. A man at the woodpile the
I'd seems to be the subject of "continua
Id dissolution and thaw." ! prefer tn
re steam power in the winter.
ne How cheerful the evergreens loo
On around the house when all the groun
n 10 covered with snow. They are tn
he ideal windbreak. have good man
he OF various kinds, but prefer for th
rank and file the white pine. 1t grow
IS. rapidly and, with room, very SHAPED,
nd There should be two rows twenty fou
he feet apart. The outer row should brea
Of Joints with the inner row. BY this
~ means solid shelter is made.
az Any quantity OF men don't seem
ne care copper whether their half of th
u line fence is kept up or not. Bad fence
a make, as rule, bad neighbors Aftt
: the fence Is first made, ordinary cal
A. will keep 1t In working order. ofte
~ wonder why II is that farmers don't Sc
~ that It is much easier to be on the be-
ne Of terms with their neighbors than
us be otherwise. Years ago when / con
va menced farming on this prairie ! r
ne solved that my stock should never tro'
de BILE my neighbors. and they never hav
re The sheep industry is looking up.
es near neighbor has now 1000 head. Al
ty other 600, and both tell me that she,
m, are very profitable. 1t is comfort
see that diversified farming is bett
lr- than hogs, cattle and corn, or corn, ca
,rt tie and hogs. and nothing else.-E
es ward n Heaton In Farmers Review.