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Show turnips, carrots and potatoes will also OUR BUD JET OF FUN.1 prove acceptable, both raw and cooked and in moderate quantities may be INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR profitably fed. Geese are fond of ap- SOMB GOOD JOKES. ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. OUR RURAL READERS. ples, and when confined in an orchard will consume the imperfect fruit that from day to day as completely Tfcfn and Xow, or the Dover's Cause for How Successful Farmers Operate This drops as sheep or hogs. Lamentation An Appeal to Reason of the DAIRY AND POULTRY. Farm A Few Department Hints as to the Care of I.ive Stock and Poultry. Fodder Crops for Geese. Rhode Island Experiment Station: Geese will consume a great variety ot food, probably a greater variety than any other class of poultry. In a wild state they do not usually stray far from some body of water, except in their migratory Journeys, and then some lake, pond or river is selected as a place of rest from flight and to obtain food. Aquatic plants and roots, with worms and insects dug out of the mud in shallow waters, and probably some tender herbage growing along the shores, constitute the food of the wild goose. It can hardly be said to subsist by grazing, as it depends largely upon water for both food and protection. The domestic goose, however, like the sheep, is an epicure respecting tender grasses and juicy fodder plants. After the breeding season is past, the old stock, which only requires to be kept in good store condition until the approach of another breeding season, can be economically kept by confining them to a pasture, where they can easily obtain most of their living by grazing. They should have access to water at all times, and a little dry corn occasionally is acceptable. If the supply of grass is scanty, more grain should be fed, or, better, they may be supplied with greenfoods, cultivated for the purpose, after the manner of growing soiling crops for feeding cattle. By this method people with comparatively small areas of land may grow large flocks of goslings, confining them upon a limited area, and cultivating fodder crops to be cut and fed to them day by day. Or they can be confined upon the growing crops by the use of movable fences. When the crop is eaten sufficiently close the fence is moved to a new area, and the vacated lot allowed to grow up for a second feeding, or the land plowed and planted to a new crop. As almost no ground was available for pasturage near the poultry yards, preparations were made early in the spring for growing some fodder crops as green food for the goslins. Oats, both with and without Canada peas, were sown as early as possible, at the rate of about four bushels of oats and one of peas per acre, so as to get a thick stand. When the grain was three or four inches high the goslings were hurdled upon it, using at first wire netting one foot high, held in place by iron rods to confine them. Water and sharp sand, thoroughly wet, were kept constantly by them, and they were fed soaked cracked corn, at intervals of two hours, when quite small, and less frequently as they grew older. The oats were always before the peas, and unless the crop was fed very closely the peas would remain untouched. When the oats are young the goslings should be changed from place to place frequently, so that the roots of the oats will not be killed by too close feeding. A succession of oats can be had by making several sowings at intervals of a week. Green oats are eagerly eaten by large goslings or old geese, as long as the stems have not turned yellow and grown fibrous and tough. The first green food in the spring can be supplied by fall sown rye, but grass seeems to be preferred by goslings if obtainable. Sown after rye begins to joint or send up seed stalks, it becomes hard and tough, and is not relished. Cabbage, turnips and sweet corn are excellent soiling crops for geese. Sweet corn, sufficiently advanced to be in the roasting ear stage, will be almost or quite devoured when fed at night to geese in pens. Only small pieces of the largest and hardest butts will remain uneaten. Hungarian grass or millet was tried, but it did not appear to be relished at any stage of its growth. The very satisfactory plants used were sorghum and Essex rape. The young goslings eagerly ate the leaves of the Dwarf Essex rape and made excellent growth when hurdled As soon as the gosupon it. lings are removed to another place the rape plants begin immediately to grow a new supply of leaves, and thus the crop can be repeatedly grazed, if the hurdling is properly done. A wire fence two feet high, held in place by double pointed iron rods, made in the shape of the letter h, with the top portion much higher, is used for confining the goslings. The two points of the rod are about ten inches long, and are thrust into the ground, the point of the tall portion being thrust through the lower edge of the wire fencing, while the upper edge is held by a notch in the top of the rod. Of course, different lengths of rod3 must be used for different widths of fencing. Cabbages make excellent food for geese, and are especially adapted for winter use, particularly during the breeding season, when a greater variety of food is desired to stimulate the production of fertile eggs. Beets, Working Butter. Methods of butter making will always be in order so long as people prefer a choice article, says Maine Farmer. A critical examination of the large and fine exhibition of butter at the Tops-hafair brought out anw the importance of what is known as working butter. To bring out a article of butter it is not only necessary to have good milk, but every part of Ish must be done just about right. At dairy exhibitions it is now quite common to find samples of butter that are not worked much. There has been so much said, of late, by public instructors at dairy conventions and dairy schools m first-cla- ss about butter that many makers have gone to the other extreme over-workin- g and do not work enough. This is more frequently met in private make than in the factory product. Several samples at the Topsham exhibition were faulty on that account. The same was true at the Lewiston state fair. Butter not worked enough is quite as faulty as that which is Writers may proclaim that butter needs no working as much as they please, yet the claim will be untrue so long as the present standard of merit continues. Those for whom butter is made .desire a condition of the article that is only secured by what is popularly known as working. Too much of this working is injurious, too little is defective. In the making of good butter there are three conditions dependent on or brought about by what is termed working. 1. Adhesiveness. There should be a certain measure of cohesion among th particles or globules of butter. This should be sufficient to cause it to adhere together as one common mass. This condition is just the opposite oi what is known as porous and crumbly. It Is sometimes very properly designated as "waxy, meaning thereby lik wax, compact without being sticky oi greasy. Consumers say such butter cuts well. Buyers say it draws well on the tryer. This desired condition is secured by working. 2. Water. Butter contains a measure of water. There is much attention being given at the present time to the amount of moisture butter should contain. An undue share renders it defective. When butter is taken from the churn more liquid adheres to the particles or granules than Is desirable. Whether this be buttermilk, pure water or brine from the salting too much is more than is wanted. This excess is taken out by working. Hence too little working leaves too much water in the product. 3. Streaks. Salt Intensifies or brings out color in butter. Where the salt is not thoroughly mingled with all parts of the butter alike the butter after it is made up will show light colored streaks, and will have a mottled appearance when cut down. This is a serious defect and will knock oft more or less a pound from the price whenever found. Mottled butter gives the impression to consumers of uncleanness and filthy habits about the making, and they do not like it. This condition can be overcome by working and mingling the lighter parts with tin mass till the salt is evenly distributed and all becomes one common shade. Thus it is seen that the proper working of butter i3 an Important matter and means money to the maker. It la rare at an exhibition now to find a samIt is a common thing ple to find it In the effort to avoid an extreme in the one direction caution has gone too far in the other. It is the maker who gets all these conditions the nearest right who secures the highest score and takes the prizes. Butter-makin- g requires the constant application of a skilled judgment. over-w'orke- d. over-worke- d. under-worke- Sifted d. Coal Ashes for the liens. In the winter time, when it is impossible to get road dust for the hens, sifted coal ashes may take their place. We say nothing about the barrel of road dust that may have been provided from last fall, for we are morally certain that such barrels are empty and most of them have always been in that Give the fowls something condition. to wash themselves in, for the hen uses dust in the place of water. She has no use for water for bathing. . Teasing the Animals.Teasing of young animals on the farm should never be tolerated. It may be very funny to see the young things make use of their tender horns, and stamping of feet, etc., but as they grow older and learn to know their strength, they often become vicious, and then some day in a fit of bad temper they are liable to injure some member of the family, or strangers which may happen to be passing by are very likely to be attacked by vicious animals. Give all animals on the farm kind but firm treatment. Animals should b made to both respect and love their attendants, but this cannot be accomplished if they are allowed to b teased. Farm Journal. plenty of light keeps the poultry house dry. A sunbeam Is medicine. One Extreme to Cohen's Ready Reply, From Another Then and Now. N life's fervid June time I courted a maiden; No Mute, Graca or Goddess more witchlngly fair. I turned to her glances buds to the sunshine. Wealth from the Earth. It was winter in the Klondike. Th aurora borealis was frozen so hard that men could have cracked walnuts against its side. Through the frosty twilight plodded a solitary pedestrian. He was returning to his cabin after a hard but fruitless days work. Suddenly he stumbled against some object projecting above the ground. H glanced down toward the earth. He became interested, and kicked the object loose. All apathy now completely " NORTHWEST NOTES. Eighteen inches of Kaiispell last week. Suovv fell at An issue of school bonds by Lewis- ton, Mont., sold at a premium. Ben Morgan, a clever forger, who is wanted at Helena, has been captured at Bearmout . Bourvoing Comstockers who left for Butte last Sunday were escorted to the depot by a brass band. vanished, and with trembling nervea he lifted a large, yellow object from Douglas county issuing Lyon county the ground. He gazed at it but a mo- for $22,841, taxes collected by the dement, and with an insane cry of joy fendant on property alleged to be in thrust it into his bosom and ran toward Lyon county. the camp. Sain Johnson of Anaconda, was He had found a large, smooth potain his cabin recently, a fire to. G. W. Brooks in speeches enrap- been started by the overturnhaving alrthe tur'1 oAejTJ vrro I would we a of dsjo11 dreamed V, ing lamp. A High and Dry Suburb. li e in a cottage Robert G. Shadwell is on trial at V embowered. She Oh. do you know, I am comWhere redolent gardens made fragrant pletely infatuated with astronomy. Butte, for the murder of Martin J. the wnd. Where birds sang love ditties on blossomNow, lets see, wheres Mars? In the O'Connor, last January. They quaring branches, west? reled over a game of cards. And sinuous tendrils luxuriantly twined. He In the west? I gness Well, The Chinaman who was arrested at The angel consented to crown my affechardly. Id like to see Mars get past tion; Elko, N'ev., a short time ago for selling h We've been man and wife now a Chicago now that they think it is into an Indian, was sentenced to or so; whisky habited. busiThis Greater New Yoik My lady now walks on the earth just as one year in the state prison. ness has set them wild out there. others, A very tine woman as fine women go. The Great Northern is planning exIve done with my dreams of a cottage, A. tensive 2000. In I. improvements in Montana The With gardens, and bowers, and vines, toMrs. Smith I found a horse-sho- e track between Butte and Clancy and all that; We go now and then to a theater toIn olden times they considered is to be replaced by day. steel gether, an omen of luck do you think it rails. that And live pretty happily here in our flat. -- H. J. S. is? minWilliam Metting, n Smith Well, I should say so. Why, of An Appeal to Reason. Montana, Fergus county, if its a genuine shoe we can sell it ing man, has been arrested on a charge of perCholly Hang it, I dont know how for $500! Let me see it quick! to take Miss Cutting. jury, in connection with some mining Reggy So you wont take her at all? litigation. (wood Theyre Always loing Ha! Ha! Good joke, bah jove! (Juite a grist of Indians, Chinamen Cholly Naw, I dont know just how and white women, who have been sellthe matter stands. I thought Id learn tc Indians are being put ing liquor me fate, as they say, doncherno, last mill of the Uuitcd States the through a night. Shes mighty intelligent girl, court at Carson, Nevada. and I knew that just a beastly, everyI a do. So took Jack Flynn, who recently stabbed day proposal wouldnt book with me, and when I got weady Sam Jones at Madris, Nev., has had to make the aw proposition, I wead a his preliminary examination and was ckaptah to her. It told that there wa3 discharged. Jones is reported as betwenty thousand more women than ing able to sit up in bed and will prob men in the state, and that wight heah ably recover. In the city there were thirty thousand James R. Love, a prominent busimoah women than men. That ought ness man of Forsyth, suicided last to have appealed to her judgment. week by shooting himself with a reReggy A good idea; a bold stwoke. But what did she say? volver. Lillian lVerlcss, of Bozeman, Cholly She said that she thad nodemimonde, took a fatal dose of morticed that aw that real men were phine Saturday night. scarce. I got to thinking about her A woman in Kentucky, named Riley, remark, and I actually fohgot to protook the contract for carrying the pose. Montana daily mail at The Spider Come in, my frendt, und Columbus-Cook- , I sells you a nice, cheap suit! She a asked for proposals $2,460 year. After Bigger Game. The Fly What, do you do business for and the lowest Tom YVhat a decent sort of fellow on the Sabbath? was received a vear. bid 80,000 that chap Symons is to be sure. The Spider Ach! Dis aint pisness! Dick Why do you think so? of The furniture Youngs hotel, 140 Dis vas charity, I sells so cheap! Tom I just met him on the street bedi o m sets, parof rooms, consisting this morning for a moment or two, and lor sets, carpets, chairs, lounges, bedhe gave me one of the best cigars I ding, etc., etc., etc., will be sold durWashington's Ilun. ever struck. W. "I won by beating retreats, said ing Conference week at Dick Humph! He gave me an Lake 2nd Don't So. Salt City. street, of at close the Gen. the Yrashington atrociously bad one the other day when Whenever I found the enemy miss this chance. he wanted to borrow $5. I wonder war. too strong I beat a retreat. what he wants to get from you? William Crandell of Glendive sold to "But you won many victories, said William Case of Miles City, Mont., 50 Cornwallis. steers at $35 No Appreciation There of 3 and head "Well, said George, with a twinkle 40 head of stock cattle and Samuel Stubble This here prosperihead, per In his eye, doesnt a victory beat a after all. ty is kinder at $15 per head. Cabo Adams sold his retreat? Mrs. Stubble IIow so, Samuel? bunch of stock cattle, numbering Samuel Stubble Why, were gittin about 50 head, to the same man for $25 From One Extreme to Another. more of the necessaries of life than we Gavin Dont you think Rogers is per head. did in most lines, but I take notice that One of the largest transfers iti ranch this here doctor you had prescribes going to extremes in accepting that new and stock property for some time past position? the same old size in doses that he did Bailey Oh! I dont know. He Is a was consumated when times was close. recently between first-clasalesman. and Ernest Schluter, Kuhr Jurgen Gavin Yes; but remember he was of Cleveland, Mont. Mr. Schluboth Rain Falls on the Just and Unjust Alike. in a liquor store, and is now ter sold his ranch of 160 acres patented Reuben Restanrust Wheat up ter formerly store. into a going desert claim for $3,000, and a ninety cents yet? Ah, thats prosperity. I feel like gittin out and yellin. and 3,000 sheep at $4.25 a head. The Beats the Poetic Fire. Henry Hoecorn But you didnt raise is Friend it that you chap sheep were a good bunch, made np of Why any wheat. ' at the sight of a young ewes straight. get Inspired Reuben Restanrust I know it, but I always storm? snow Is divine afflatus the bullfc who The of I borrer A kin brothers, them that did. Brocltway guess wave of prosperity hit3 everything in rampant at such' times? and own the Fetterman irrigating Trenchant Penn (the celebrated po- canal in Converse its path. county, Wyo., are et) No, not exactly. At such times a an expedition of 100 men to organizing fellow has got to hustle at something Always Meeting; It. go to Klondike by the McKenzie river or other in order to buy coal. route. They propose starting from Edmonton, Can., about the middle of Editors Chamber of Horrors This is the old Hudson Bay Fur April. Exchange Editor I understand that route, is safe and feasible, companys has been drinking our and abounding with fish and game. rather hard of late. Dick Nixon, a negro, has confessed City Editor I should say he had. Delirious for a couple of day3. I stayed to the murder of a boy named Brown, with him last night, and he saw near Miles City, Mont., declaring that all .the time. the crime was instigated by his Geo. Gcddes, Mrs. Geddes and A Friendly Word to Kioha.rd Third. a cow boy named Welsh. The boy had We understand its in the play that "ireulated stories reflecting on Mrs. Shakespeare meant, of course, Geddes character, and she expressed That you should stride about and great satisfaction over his death. Gedyell, My kingdom for a horse. des and Welsh have been tried and time-and will folks have But changed, convicted and sentenced to 9;t and 20 freeze you cold as any icicle. out after this, "My years, respectively, and Mrs. Geddes Unless you sing will now be tried. Mrs. Geddes is kingdom for a bicycle." tli e daughter of Powers of Helena, and is the mother of four I,ot the Keolpe, Ferhajia Aunt Maria And did the angelj children, and Geddes is the son of a bring a little baby to your house? wealthy resident of Brooklyn. Clara Yes, but I guess the angels The largest furniture and carpet That baby are awful busy lately. wasnt half finished. They forgot the sale ever held in Salt Lake City comhair, and it hasnt a tooth in its head. mences Monday, April 4th. Conference West 2nd South st. week, at Creditor May I ask whether you The furniture and In First Etc War, postofiice. opposite ever expect to meet your IndebtedEddie George Washington was a carpets from 180 rooms in the Wasatch ness? block, known as the Youngs hotel, Hardup Meet It? Why, great Scott, winner, wasnt he, pa? do What Father sold Eddie? you mean, under foreclosure proceedings. I time I meet it every man, go into the Eddie Why, he had three firsts to Sale continued until everything is street! Dont you throw it into my his credit, didnt he? face often erougb? sold. like Her suf-iocat- soft-spok- en - twelve-mont- flower-gemme- d d well-know- n g, one-side- d, ss dry-goo- ds 320-acr- editor-in-chi- e ef war-rumor- s ein-oloy- ff |