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Show Re THE WESTERN shavings, a horse will spend half his time lying down and grow fat, while if half frozen he will eat continually and grow poor. Besides, his skin should be kept reasonably clean from stable filth, and he should not be compelled to inhale st | the fumes of a neglected stall. The air should be sweet and pure and comfortable, just asit should be This 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. with a human with any being or indeed other. living, breathing animal. : These are reflect upon. profitable topics ; x ' be ' fr ti . > recently strained through barbed wire fences or even the silent,unadulterated below zero weather of our northern winters. Cold water may be the last straw which breaks the back of profit. 6. Warming water during our beef cattle the spring weather proved quite harmful, sults even from for when compared ice-cold water. with re- This still further illustrates the point, that warm- ing water in any but very cold weather does not pay, and may even do harm. 7. The general interest which has been o> a at FOOD AND CARE OF STOCK. In bulletin No. 4 of the College of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota is an elaborate report on food and treatment of stock. The practical char- acter of the tests employed and the high scientific authority behind them is worthy of consideration. JBbe.text of document has been s Sd 3 for their stock, and the water warming Potato culture is occupying unusual attention in the state of New ERN WEEKLY. are now due, and York. A leading agricultural subscribers who have not already journal recently made a wager that done so, and where no special ar- 700 bushels could be raised on one rangement has been made for acre of ground, by pursuing a cerpayment, will please make early tain method. The wager was lost. remittances to this office. Money A Western WEEKLY subscriber may be sent by postal note, money in Springville claims to have order or registered letter, or small raised 800 bushels on a _ single amounts may be sent in one cent acre. stamps. Utah is the climate for potatoes. Our Subscribers will please take not’ce that Mr. §. H. Hobson is no longer general subscription agent for the WHSTERN WEERLY. That branch of the business will now be carried on directly from the office of the paper. plied cold, absence of well authenticated facts upon the subject, mark this as an important line of investigation, and our experiments and thé resuls_ a PARCHED The parched corn FOR POULTRY. recommends World as reported. ee, CORN Poultry ensuing the during continued will be winter. excellent an food for poultry. Its preparation is simple; all that is necssary being the laying of the ears across the coals and turning until them the outer end of the kernels are charred. Those who have tried it declare that corn thus prepared is an excellent substitute for charcoal as a purifier, acts as a tonic upon the fowls, and that its feedproperties are rather heightened than As its preparation is so diminished. easy and the expense practically nothing _the fowls must be feed—it is certainly worth a trial by those who have never as yet done so. Many of the drive ATION AMONG FARMERS. generally ability of co-operation den in this Territory ceived a just é6nside™ mals are owned in t00 Teams are M! Wo. have them they fora or to driven through the streets of Salt Lake almost every day whose owners in the light of humanity should be subjected to arrest and prosecution. The man who cannot or will not properly care for a defenceless animal whose life and energy are devoted wholly to his service, should not be permitted to own one. Cruelty to dumb brutes is not only ungodly and morally criminal, but it is degenerating. It debases the one that practices it and the one that is compelled to witness it. There may be laws ample for all purposes. We have no inclination to look the subject up from that standpoint. The thing that should most’ impress itself upon all is that these facts exist; whether from want of law or its proper enforcement is of little moment. Not enough consideration is given to the comfortable stabling of animals, particularly of horses, in the coldseason. ‘'T’o tie a horse up by the head and freeze him night after night during two or three months is not very much in advance of beating or starving or pulling or driving him to death. Besides there is an element of flagrant extravagance in it. The heat of an animal’s body is its vital energy. It does not matter whether that energy is consumed in pulling a plow or is wasted by a freezing atmosphere, it has to be supplied just the same with a proportionate c _amount of food. nieatncinennepertineeit senamntaistont and on a In.a warm stable dry bed of “rist Ag™® by men who are not able, or not the inclination to feed during severe Weather, and are turned out to scratch living on a barren range, starve to death. 7 straw or obtained hereafter. 2. The fact that ensilago made from the largest “most watery” kind of southern dent corn, grown 35 tons to the acre, can be compared with fine timothy hay, nearly to the proportion of 21 to 1 for milk cows, is mostimportant. While we do not necessarily claim thatg por gestible food istaken out of tj 5 ments would suggest describes the line of co- -operation among growers of New Jersey. is put into it, the results of t that is all in the fruit they It was limited the business did not succeed very well until February, 1884, when the Union was reorganized and a piece of ground and built a large store building. Here groceries, dry and general merchandise were | The first year’s trade amounted goods kept. to $28,- 000, and a dividend of two and a half per lage increases’ the pa cent was declared. The second year, a grains, it is reasonable '| business of $45,000 was reached,and a five it may increase their| >|per cent dividend was declared. . Last since these two qualities of foods are so year $63,000 was received and seven per intimately associated. cent declared. So far this year the 3. The fact that our cows decreased business has been larger than ever bemilk yield when changed from the ensilage, bran and little hay fed the dairy herd during the winter, to the rich grain and hay ration given during the first period, very strengthened our faith in the silo. faith was made still stronger much This by practical work of the experimental the feed- Thus a large trade has been| fore. established, and merchandise of various kinds secured at prices lower than the market rates. In addition to the merchandise business, the enterprise has proved a godsend to the farmers in way of shipments. In the town of Hammonton, twenty ing as well as by the results. One promi- _years ago, farmers had to avoid raising a nent fact is that the timothy hay favored too large crop of berries, or a large part the production of fat on these cows, would perish. for want of a market. during both periods one and two, while When the Union started a market was ensilage favored the production of milk created, and the business grew. The and butter. present. year 2,269,239 quarts.of black4. Part bran instead of all corn asa berries were marketed. In one week grain feed to supplement corn ensilage, 366,000 quarts of strawberries and in two proves the better for fattening steers. If weeks 267,000 quarts of raspberries were confirmed upon further trial, this isa shipped. One farmer from forty acres most important fact to those who of blackberries marketed about 60,000 produce beef, especially in the great re- quarts. If the farmers in the South and gions of the northwest, where cattle and other sections of our country would more diversified farming to prevent les- form similar co-operative societies they sened fertility, are much needed. could secure low rates and be guaran5. With a warm stable and little ex- teed better accommodations by railroad posure to cold during the late winter and and steamship lines, and find a ready early spring, milk cows did somewhat sale for their produce. The fruit crop better on ice-cold water than those for. is one that is especially adapted to bewhich the water was warmed to 70 deg. ing handled through co-operative exF. Doubtless water at 50 deg. would changes. have given better results than either of these extremes under the condition of Iv is very easy to judge another, but the experiment. The point made is,that we are a great deal more lenient towards any benefit arising from warming water | ourselves.. We are willing to view our = <>- in cold weather (and we believe thereis.a benefit) must come from the combined ill effect of cold’ applied’ externally scarcely know and internally at the same time, as the latter alone gave no bad results. Cold water how to own faults through the large end of the telescope, while we use the small end, or a powerful microscope, for those of our neighbors—a case of the mountain and the mouse, as it were. ing. Nes., November Please meet J. FRANK A MOUSE THE for sorts; were a general failure. Salt Lake, fruit-raising fruit as but peaches Being so near to proves quite re- to. Bountiful farmers. Like in many other places of the Territory, the lucerne yield of this year is a. very light one. Farmers generally get three good crops, but the most favored ones have had but three scant ones, some only two,and others again ‘but one. Lucerne is sure to be high this winter. of this burg precious of their eggs just might rest Then easy are now. our in THE WESTERN Saturday, Nov. 17, 1888. big tribe goes chairs back on them. The genus tramp is a bird of passage that is frequently seen in this neighborhood. ,A certain ludy that I know has a by asking dimensions of him to chop some wood. The way in which most of them turn up their classic noses is simply a eaution. But the lady is incorrigible. and she asserts that her method is a perfect one. BountiFuL, ® a Nov. 13, 1888. M. <> ——: oS There is a hen story going the rounds that according to an exchange emanated from Pettyville, W. Va. Benjamin Stoops, a farmer of that village, had a fine six-weeks-old Jersey calf killed by of the poultry-yard. The hen flew at the calf and pecked out both its eyes. The calf strggered and fell, and the hen kept pecking and beating it with her wings until she killed it. Why not boom this breed of poultry as a substitute for the watch-dog? <P> <i> top. Lay off the the clear water from the eggs 55 | 22..|.25:) Flour, @ hun’d71 12002 2 502 ‘“ Bran, Shorts “ SO 1 001 101 001 00 Barley carefully eae10 1sane 20/1 15)1 \ 10190 80 Onions “ ca 1E 25. ¢? tb O5 | 2S ee ee ama: ce / ea 10 Sipe lhe a Penile: |e ee Sine 1Z 66 | lord es HO dried, | _ 1 tb e Plums, — “ Apricots 90 ¢ Sey ee 6 é “ 1 10, a | 85/75 | 80 | 75° a i mona sy | 90 Bae 90 | 65 | Wheat, %# bu. Beef, 25 50) 2 402 80 2 25 35 Li 1595 110 66 Soi), 25,. 80 | ean 85 80 | 90 | ee75 | 90 aoe ett e habe 2 | ‘“ Oats 20 8 fe ( G eer 8 | neal 108) 8 [1534 8 | Oe! /8 |10|% Dal | —, Wool, #2 Ib |8 00 s-dry| b2 8 green See igs a ae 13 ot 8 6 ; 6 4} 4 |a54¢| — Hi “oo 1246 OS 5 see a Sy 42)2 “ Apples, green, eda ( 4 50 of Min- stand until the milky turbidity subsides, draw o A 98 | 95 | 95 | 27 | 98 es nesota gives in an exchange the following instructions for preserving eggs: Eggs are preserved either in lime For the former pour water or salt. water on fresh unslaked lime, and let it then © | Hegs, %2 doz Ehides®: poultry-man pA © Butter, % tb TO PRESERVE EGGS. An experienced on ND an old setting hen. The calf was wan- Veal dering about the meadow and poked its Peaches, nose into a brush-heap where an old hen was doing her best to increase the popu- Apples, lation eee BOOT Potatoes“ Henpecked to Death. : oe cousins arm WEEKLY CURRENT MARKET REPORT. very A city their when the feathered soul JAR. for the city water. A few days ago the public reservoir was drained and eleven dead infants were found in the bottom. price is being offered by dealers, but the eges are not forthcoming. It would be amighty good thing if some ingenius fellow would devise a way of producing artificial eggs. PRESERVE terious falling off in their appetite of all The chickens IN This year there your readers wellknow. munerative ELLis.” crop of apples, plums Bountiful is quite a place berries car there. The fastidious denizens of St. Ambroise, a town near Quebec, have recently experienced a mys- persons are doing. and 12th. City: Tuesday morn- >—~4 ~<a get along Speaking of the started in 1867, upon a very basis, but dry “Omana, A. M. Musser, Salt Lake Will leave for Ogden without them. Water can still be had by driving deeper, and this a number of Fruit-growers’ Union and Co-operative Society of Hammonton, he says: incorporated. Cash dividends were at A | first declared, but it was afterward decided to issue shares of stock, retaining the cash as capital for the business. With this money the Union purchashed the quality of making th with which they are given more digestible The cows seem to relish the ensilage with grain far better than the with grain. If the sucet in assigned is the unusually she quickly arrives at the § of business and industry. Boyer in a letter to the a movement Bountiful summer of the past year. People have become so used to flowing wells now that his bral attention in almost, wells at are drying up, and especially is this the case in South Bountiful. The reason very effective way of dealing with them. Whenever one comes to ask for food, Lame oO Bdecaisek Lobster * ¢0- Ome Mr. A. M. Musser has received the following communication from Mr. Ellis, in charge of the U.S. carp car:. Bountiful Bits. in common practice doubtless adds much in ill effects to the externally ap- to manifested by farmers in the subject of was an abundant gas> Subscriptions to the WEST- ; WEEKLY. in a jar |~ CuicaGco GRAIN AND Live Srock. - Cutcaco, November 15—Wheat,# Wheat—Firm: Cash, bu:— 1.113%%°; Decem- ember,1.133¢; J anuary,I. 1214; May,1.153¢. Corn—easy: cash,+41; and pour the clear lime water over them 39 1-16; January 3936: ; “May, until it rather more than covers them. To pack in salt put a layer an inch deep in a box; set a layer of eggs, large end down into the salt, keeping them so far 2646; May, 29%. Oats—steady: Rye—steady; cash, December, oe 25%; December, 55. Barley —Nominal. with salt, filling well between, and set in another layer of eggs and so on until all are packed. Keep in a cool, dry Cattle: — Receipts, 15,000; slow; beeves, 5.00@5.50; stockers and feeders 2 00@3. 40; Texas and Indian cattle, 1.80 @3.50; western rangers, 2.60@4.00. Hogs—Receipts, 22,000; steady; mixed, 2.25@5.50; light and heavy, 5.30@5.60. place.. 3.20@3.85; Texans, 2.50@3.40 apart that they will not touch. Cover <i _ TO DEODORIZE Sheep—natives, i25- Ogden Report Carte: Wholesale Merchant. MANURE. sages VICKERS To sift over manure plaster of will serve to deodorize it. It is at the time for some soils an excellent tilizer. Its effect upon the manure absorb the escaping gas, forming paris same feris to what in technical language is ammonium sul- phate, which is one of the best fertilizers. Wood ashes or lime should not be used. Their effect is quite the opposite of that of plaster of paris. They drive off in the form of ammonia gas the richest part, of the manure. Report Provo Report C. A. GLAZIER. 2.50@4. 405 western Corrected weekly by H. L. Produce and OOtimigeton poe weekly Corrected by J. W. weeekly by legate 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. Sanpmrs. (2 Where two sets of figures are. quoted in same space, price Tanges from one to the other. |