Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-02-18
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
Some Up-to-Date Hints Abont Gull
tivation OF the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures yitiouiture and
Horticulture.
All Around the Farm.

strengthens" This old saw gathers
added force if we have bunch Of
calves to feed Cold and carelessness
are calculated to knock a 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 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 a 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
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,
which were so warty they looked hid
eous. I 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. 1 am no
doctor, but them's my sentiments or
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 1t 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
ably the hardy hydrangea and the Gle
natis. Among evergreens the Siber-
an arbor vitae is the most susceptible
o drouth. The hydrangea and the
must be watered literally or
hey will certainly perish. On many
,lants drouth is more destructive than
old weather
Cooperation is gaining ground
mong farmers. Near me creamery of
his sort has been running now over a
ear, and so well has it prospered that
13 per cent dividend has been declar-
d. This and the fact they get the milk
ack, minus the cream, has given COWS
boom. Properly and honestly man
ged, there is not the least doubt but
hat it is good thing for the farming
ommunity, and especially for the
Another creamery run
u the same plan few miles farther
way, has done as well as the above,
nd one year it did better, for the past
x years.
Men are hauling up to the house
reat piles of logs, which before long,
i'll be sawed by horse or steam power.
alf a days saving will last a round ..
ear. To cut the wood for that length
time as it is needed with the axe is !
} fool of job, which 1 know by sad
,perience. Cutting wood at the wood
lie in July and August is a watery
b. A man at the woodpile then
ems to be the subject of Continual
solution and thaw." I prefer the &
cam power in the winter.
How cheerful the evergreens look {
ound the house when all the ground b
covered with snow. They are the e
cal windbreak. 1 have a good many b
various kinds, but prefer for the q
nix and file the white pine. It grows a
pidly and, with room, very shapely. g
ere should be two rows twenty-four Of
It apart. The outer row should break a.
nts with the inner row. By that lie
,ans a solid shelter is made fl
Any quantity of men don't seem to d.
e a copper whether their half of the tn
e fence is kept up or not. Bad fences OF
Ike, as a rule, bad neighbors. After
fence is first made, ordinary care
j keep it in working order l often te