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Show WESTERN i epBs a root-cutter, or, if you have procure a long box no cutter, just the width a short time. It is better to mix asmall quantity of bran or meal with the potatoes, as the cows will eat more slowly, and I think the increased flow of milk | will much more than pay for this extra feed. In this manner I have fed as high as eight quarts per cow at each milkThis Depariment will be devoted strictly to the interests and development of Western Farming and Stock Culture, and contributions from persons engaged in those pursuits are solicited. ECONOMY ON THE Economy is just as essential in farming as it is in any other of life’s callings;. and especially in a community like our own, where we are largely dependent on local consumption, is it necessary to look after the little leakages which tend to decrease the profits of the farm. Singly, these losses may appear insignificant, but when there hap- they are likely to produce an actual loss in- stead of again. try feeding them to my _ows, although nearly every one I consulted on the sub- ject told me they would dry the cows up, “for we have tried it and know,” said they. J began feeding a small quantity of cut apples well mixed with bran, and FARM. pens to be many of them ing, and always with good results, Having nearly 200 bushels of unsalable apples on the farm this fall, I decided to A well-conducted gradually increased the feed to five or six quarts per cow twice a day till I had the satisfaction of producing more milk than any of my neighbors, although some of them were milking more than twice the number of cows. ig escevhs endets Points in Butter Making. Henry Stewart says, in the Rural Home that there are only a few points to be observed in the whole process of butter making, but if one fails:the end fails. These points are as follows: (1.) The entire absence of all foreign and injurious matter in the milk, from whatever causes these may come. A MODEL HORSE. Brevities. of your scoop-shovel, and in it you can properly cut enough for a small dairy in WEEKLY. THe annual honey product of America | One That Will Both Drive and Draw Make a Fuss About it. is said by one of our exchanges to be 28,000,000 pounds. Tue Northwest is experiencing severe weather. Heavy throughout Dakota snow has fallen and Minnesota and strong winds are drifting it badly. THE planters of Union and Kershaw counties in South Carolina are alarmed at the prospect of a negro exodus. Several carloads of negroes left Union for Arkansas. Their passage was paid by the railroad contractors. Two hun- dred left Kershaw for Louisiana to work Sensville Tuck, Assistant attributable to their own indolence and downright’ waste. Farmers, comprising all the industries, arts, etc. Paintings must be favorably passed upon by an art jury before acceptance for exhibition, therefore the art group is still incomplete. Much more space has been applied for than can American exhibitors. be allotted to you can’t be too vigilant in making all things contribute to your success. ><>) + ,< Value of Hen Manure. : made to preserve the manure. It is left there to be scratched about by the hens, to bread vermin, and to fill the air with contaminating vapors, which become to the fowls a fruitful source of disease and death. Hen houses should be frequently cleaned, at least two or three times a week. We know one farmer who cleans his every day, and some plan may be easily devised whereby the work may little. be done with comparatively trouble. In order to retain the valuable properties of the coop, orthe roosts, should dry earth, or matter, which izer. the manure, the floor of portions of it under the be thinly covered with plaster, or other earthy | will also act asa deodor- It is necessasy before using manure to reduce it three or four such | times with earth or plaster, for it is too rich be applied in a concentrated such manure properly the best of fertilizers. form. to But prepared is one of — The The December report of the Department of Agriculture makes the product of corn 1,987,890,000 bushels, valued on the farm at 34.1 cents per pushel, against 44.4 for the crop of 1887, a decrease of 23 per cent of the crop of 1887, and be- The wheat aggregates 414,868,000 bushels, an average yield of 11.1 bushels per acre. Winter wheat, 11.6 bushels. Spring wheat, 10.6 per cent, against | 68.1 per cent for differenee the being UTAH MILCH HORSES. er makes the following query concerning Crop Report. previous due more crop, the to foreign evident, any isto ect other class. As, by which we therefore, draught for that FIG. horse are the per- not criteria by which we are governed in our judgment of a fleet courser or the trotting horse. In the determination, therefore, of a model, one is confined to the structural points only and not fast walking horses. “We have always been taught that an increase of speed also requires an Therefore, suppose at the rate of three claimed by many great gain to have the team walk four reduce the speed, and increase width and depth of the furrow?” FALL the COWS. A professional experimentalist says of fall cows: 405,063; France, 158,946, against 143,781; Belgium, 133,409, against 123,137; Denmark, 87,112, against 91,542; and North Alfalfa in Kansas. Alfalfa is winning its way steadily in western Kansas. One of our Kansas exchanges records the success of a Finney county farmer who realized $50 per acre from his year’s alfalfa crop. He threshed A correspondent in the Rural New Yorker thus speaks of his experience in feeding potatoes and apples to milch cows: : eight bushels of seed per acre, which he I have practiced feeding my small po- sold for $3.75 per bushel, and has three tatoes to milch cows for years, and crops of hay from the same seeding left. always with the utmost satisfaction. —Farmer’s Review. . Care should be taken both as regards the time and manner of feeding. My 3 practice has been to feed them just at one part plaster of Paris and three ~ the time of milking or immediately parts fine sand. Mix with cold water } fterwaids. Pass the potatoes through and apply with a case knife. 2—LOW WAGON FOR SMALL LOADS, thus afford means framework is of securing bedding to the consideration constructed that no planation appears to benecessary. ex- Both cuts are reprints from Rural New Yorker. Equine Sore Throat. The equire family have fully. as long if not a jonger train of ills than the human race. And in many instances there is a very striking resemblance. Quinsy in a horse is much like it is in a human. Take diphtheria also as an illustration. In the horse it is known simply by the name of sore throat. Butin merely aggravated cases, or even mild cases, sore throat shows a number of symptoms MODEL HORSE CC. passing D D. E E. Vertical directly Vertical Ground FOR GENERAL USE DRIVING. OR similar to.a person with the diphtheria, ROAD’ The horse’s throat is first inflamed, and is then followed by the yellow collection of spots so much dreaded in from fore arm to back of heel and through axis of leg. from rump to ground. line. dipuwueria. -- St. THE and general, the position as noted Eggs, # doz in Fl MU OVEAK 5 spine, thorax, pelvis, tail, fore EGuat ccc Tal de . 87 Pélvis‘and tail’.2)) ©: ore: and hind extremities........... CC a S093 .......... %8 Se Bees During you Dio Orie ; q ot el eS | 3 00/3 00!,. 1260i2 75 eo ‘ ee (G 90 125 | 70 | 90 Shorta,. Ons.ats 6 ee OB 1 10/1 25! 70 |1 00 0d TO 125) 95/1 25J 1 30 Hans ie 1 00 C A Corn 66 | IB 110100 7400 |e h 20 1 30|! hee o iS ee Onions ‘‘Have =| Q7 (221g 9914 20 | 25 hun’d Bran, and hind extremities. Professor Russell sums these up as follows: The spine. esJ Butter, @ tb | SP [2214] 25 | 49 | 25 the above illustration is admitted by horsemen to indicate soundness in every part of the organism of the horse and pee strength in shoulder, forearm, ind quarters, hock and loin. There are 247 separate bones in the skeleton of the horse, uniting by joints to form the WEEKLY ® the foreleg well tapered from stifle to foot; the hock is strong and the knee full and broad, and if to this be added small nozzles, expanded nostrils and forehead broad between the eyes, we have the marks of a model horse. ; In WESTERN saturday, Jan. 12, 1889. interfering or forging. The horse is symmetrical; the chest is full; the shoulders preminent; strong and well set is muscular, Globe-Demo- CURRENT MARKET REPORT, Such a horse will be free from stumbling, back; the forearm Louis crat. In the illustration here reproduced from Professor Russell’s useful work entitled ‘‘Scientific Horseshoeing” is shown no particular horse, but a faithful portraiture in one animal of all the points which are conceded by those who have knowledge upon the subject to be indispensable in a well balanced horse. the Winter Season. proved it profitable necessary to make examination of a | Wheat, eat, ##@ bu.bu or colo- nies of bees in summer stands during the winter when an occasional fine day permits? In other words, do you think any harm results to a colony from disturbing their winter nest?” The above query was recently observed in Gleanings in Bee Culture by a number of prominent apiarians. L. C. Root said: ‘‘If properly arranged and _ protected, it is profitable to leave them undisturbed.” Professor A. J. Cook thought it did no harm to examine the bees when the weather is warm enough to induce free flight. James Heddon said: ‘‘Harm or Potatoes 90 95 95x G0) iected lace [gD 1 00) 90 1 00) 85 |, oo 85 ‘“ a O5 @ tb 5 5 Mutton “ Se 5 Beef, So 25 35 rs 41g 4 |8 e. Pork ES See Wane eae len Veal ‘ 10 eaches Péathes, "o ol fe 7 | ee 6 le |. dried. i eS ale 6G ~<i—>—~4 them a good send-off for the summer. «A Convenient “ap THE BARS.” “We stood at the bars as the sun went down Behind the hills, on asummer day. Her eyes were tender and big and brown, Her breath as sweet as the new-mown hay. Wagon. A vehicle known to the Cornell students as ‘‘University Chariot” and designed by Professor Roberts, primarily for the purpose of gathering leaves for bedding, is illustrated at Figs. 1 and 2. har '| t ; “Mar from the west the faint sunshine Glanced sparkling off her golden hair. Those: calm, deep -eyes were turned toward mine, % And a look of “T see her bathed in the sunlight flood, I see her standing peacefully now, Peacefully standing and chewing her cud, As I rubbed cow.” her ears—that BJersey VICKERS. Provo Report Corrected weeekly by C. A. GLAZIER. Logan Report Corrected weekly by J. A.McLaveuuin, at Z. C. M. I. Salt Lake Report Corrected weekly by Secretary of Produce Exchange. Hides and Wool by J. W. SANDERS. (te Where two sets of figures are quoted in same space, price ranges from one to the other. contentment Frested there. GRIFFIN, Wholesale Produce and Commission Merchant. Nephi Report Corrected weekly by J. W. To Sheep Men ! In addition to the object for which this vehicle was Grigaiielte designed, it We can Sell you the Finest SHEEP has been found exceedingly useful movin the Country at a LOW ing pigs and calves and other small loads ; Due that dre difficult to get into a high wagon. RATE. Address With it all the leaves from the trees on the university grounds are used as bedding for the stock. saved and THE | WESIEFN WEEELY = > Seas saeeet > ‘“Tooking over my with cows of like those; which calved October gave from Fipeo ea TS eee for stock that would otherwise go to waste. Fig. 2 shows so clearly how the of questions of breeding. increase of power. a team draws a plow miles per hour, it is that it would bea miles per hour. But, as this increase of speed would require also an increase of draft, would it not be better policy to = It was made from the framework of an old road machine. There are many old wagons and trucks to worn out thrashing machines that might easily be converted into such vehicles as this and instance, the determine 5 i records, I find that than domestic scarcity. Apples, “ Sa ce ae age and _ breeding, The aggregate for oats is 707,737,000 in September and no harm, I should consider it time wasted to be opening and examining Plums,’ re) co gee fH pee 74 bushels, valued at 37.8. cents, against 30 800 to 1,000 tbs. of bees in winter, asa rule.” G. M. Doolitcents for the crop of 1887. milk more per year than those that were tle had experienced no bad results from - Apricots “ 10 10 10. o The comparison of the aggregate value fresh in the spring. I also find that the looking at his bees occasionally in win- |. shows the present corn crop worth $31,- winter milk is considerably richer than ter. Apples, green, eee! #9 bu,| 70 | 45 | 40 2 The editor of the journal mentioned 000,000 more than the previous one; that made from succulent pasturage of said: ‘‘Although I have at different wheat,. $74,000,000 more, and oats, $5,000,- the spring and early summer, and from SSRGoee we,Sanaa times decided that the less bees were dis- Wool, %9 tb * Le 1 195); saaiai, 000 less. one or two quarts less of. it is required turbed during the winter months the a> > better, I have about as many times de- Hides (Si drying 2 G 8 to make a pound of butter. I estimate cided that they could be handled. withBritish Imports of Eggs. that 2 Ibs. of butter will bring as much out any injury when the weather was so <s green ue ee alee 1 warm as to enable them to fly freely. The number of eggs imported into money in winter as 3 ibs.in summer. There may be an exception to this, howcan also show that cows fresh in the fall ever. After bees have been shut up for Great Britain for the month of Novema longer milking period than ber, 1888, was 705,567, against 826,086 for. have a long time and start out to have a good the corresponding month of 1887. ‘The spring cows, inasmuch as about the. time cleansing flight, if you pull the hive to following countries were the chief sources they would naturally commence to fail, pieces before they have this flight and settle down, I have good reason to think of supply: Germany, 253,030, against the fresh pasturage comes on and gives it may induce swarming out.” > Ogden Report Corrected weekly by H. L. —<- COWS. >—~4¢ A correspondent of the Prairie Farm- Russia, 63,808, against 57,062. POTATOLS AND APPLES FOR ti FAST-WALKING ing 27 per cent less in volume than that Hen manure is.a very valuable ferti-. of 1887. The average yield of theseven plus States is 33.2 bushels per lizer, but it is one that farmers are most corn acre. prone to waste through negligence. How often does one see hen houses that have never been cleaned out in years, and where no attempt whatever has been 4 two inches from the head, and the rethem are sufsecured, sult is quite a number of If the horns had fails, the fering a great deal. fail, as is been sawed off close to the head there cases, the would have been but little trouble. <i Se is the standard by which we judge of the merits of one class.:is not applicable to Commis- to make it compact and to secure the even mixture of the salt with it. If these points are perfectly the butter will be good; if one butter will be faulty; but if all the case in the majority of butter will be bad or worse. It Seay eee ac nature is horses as life, says William sioner-General of the United States to the Paris Exposition of 1889, says applications for space already number 750, and are from all parts of the country > lie prostrate,is unworthy the name, and his misfortunes should arouse no sympathy. Complaint comes with ill grace from such farmers, whose scanty returns are directly Russell. TT= on the sugar plantation. It is expected that many will follow. Agents are at work in other counties and it is expected many more will soon leave for the Mississippi Valley. (2.) The observance of the exact temfarm isone where rigid attention is paid to little as well as to big perature in the various parts of the proCHOICE AND IRTERESTING. things. Not only are the seeds cess. (3.) The proper degrees of acidity in planted in proper season, the land the cream when it is put in the churn. properly fertilized, and the grow(4.) The stoppage of the churning when One out of every five school-children ing crops properly cultivated and the vutter is in the form of small grains in Philadelphia is obliged to wear glasses, and the proportion is rapidly ineared for, but the plows, and har- no larger than grains of buckwheat. (5.) The complete freedom of the but- creasing. = rows, and horses are kept trim and ter from any trace even of the butterDEHORNING OF CATTLE. in good condition, The farmer milk. J. A. Dixon, manager of the College who will allow his machinery to re(6.) The mixture of the right proporFarm near Florisant, Mo., dehorned main in the field all winter, who tion of perfectly pure salt in butter. forty head of three-year-old steers some (7.) The perfect working of thebutter will permit his barn doors to fall days ago. The horns were sawed off from their hinges and his fences to The diversity which exists in as marked in the breeding of in any other species of animal as high authority as Professor = <nd not CSSA ie |