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Show THE WESTERN SUMMER the stackyard fence all winter will not sell for asmuch by WEEKLY. FALLOWS. About Hogs. half as if it had been properly taken care of. In answer to an inquirer for the latest A harness with its lines tied in experience of intelligent farmers as to Butchering Devices Described That Have knots, its buckles gone, its tugs the value of summer fallows, we may Proven Very Convenient to Farmers state that modern practice has considerDuring the Disagreeable Operations of butchered with rivets, and _ its ably reduced the necessity for resorting Slaughtering and Dressing Swine. |blinds swinging loose, tells a very to them, but stillit occasionally happens Farmers who raise the best of hogs too that they proveof greatuse. Their chief straightforward tale of the kind often have few conveniences for butcherof amanit is that owns it. “A benefit is in the destruction of weeds, ing, and those hurriedly and awkwar while they afford the opportunity for a .made, generally by the hired men while stitch in time saves nine.” Post cheap and rapid pulverization of the so’) the water is heating in the morning. this adage in the hat of every boy with broadcast two-horse implements, A small expenditure ‘of labor and money would secure such facilities as would on the plantation. Some perennial weeds, which would —_——-- = 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. “Waar will the harvest a question that Utah pretty generally this time. present discussing he has been up to date, September next will not find Utah wheat a dr ug in the market. ><+—_>-+ Is it not barely possible that the prospéctive drought next year will incite a wholesome and profitable reflection among the farmers on the subject of husbanding irrigation If so, there will be at water ? least one good result from a season of “tight times.” ee 4 er WHEN yourcorral manure thaws out don’t allow it to remain spread out over the ground until the choicest parts have been leached and drained away. It has as fixed a value upon thefarm as the wheat and the oats stored away in the bins. Preserve it with propor- tionate care. ae How many of the farmers of Utah are taking steps to supply themselves with fish grown on their own premises? feel perfectly safe not as many We in assexting, as. TO might do to their inestimable advantage if they would. If you don’t know office orto “Commissioner, A. the of any State to enact M. oe for <i <P : >—~+ + pockets and the daughters looking with green envy at the furs and feathers of their city cousins when turkeys sell for twenty cents a pound? We ‘don’t know how much of this goes to the “corner | grocer” for lis. portion of the profits; but if the poultry grower allows his dealer to gobble the lion’s share, almost anybody could point out to him the person whom he should blame for his losses. The Territory might consume five times as much poultry and ten times as many eggsif it could get them. 2 > >_< e-,< “Hines, harrows and harnesses” should be sung in concert at the farmer’s table, morning, noon and night, to keep the boys reminded that they havea value even when not wanted. A harrow with equal rightsin the several States to all citizens of the United States. The opinion was by Justice Field. a> <> The World’s Sheep. The Boston Advertiser has gone to considerable trouble in gathering statis— tics of the total number of sheep in the In Australia, Africa and South America the number has been largely augmented in the last decade. The following table will show the distribution: Nouthy American: soe: 100,000,000 Australia and New Zealand... All other countries .......... 5,000,000 Ota Stas clea cera ee ope 517,000,000 The Dairy State. The New York State sioner in his annual Dairy report Commisstates that during the year 30,746 patrons delivered 1,237,370,427 pounds of milk, which was the product of 407,810 cows, to the cheese factories and creameries of the State. The average number of pounds of milk required for a pound of cheese was 10.6. During the year New York City received 5,747,558 cans of milk, 119,194 cans of cream, 75,483 cans of con- densed milk, and the value of $9,652,500.. total loose. or half gone is estimated To Sheep Men not as useful in putting in the spring crop as if it might be taken We can Sell you the Finest SHEEP from an appropriate implement house direct to the field when wanted,without the loss of precious tine and hard cash to put it in reA hide that has hung out on DIP in RATE. tl> Country at USEFUL AND INTERESTING a Address THE WESTERN WEEKLY LOW render butchering greeahle. ooo day much less disa- terest in the DEVICE HANGING A HOG—BUTCHER KNIFE. The barrel or cask so often employed is, for many reasons, a poor affair in which to scald a hog, and every one who annually butchers swine ought to be provided with something less circumscribed and inconvenient. An excellent scalding vessel, one which has been approved by many who have tested it, isa heavy box, FOR 6 or 7 feet long, 80 inches wide this has a sheetiron bottom, it may be set over a stone or brick foundation, in which there isa chamber for making a fire, so that the water can be kept thoroughly hot for any length of time. In the first cut here given are shown a butcher knife especially designed for sticking hogs, together with a device for haneing the carcasses, recently described by Ohio Farmer. The knife may be made from an old file by any The idea is to have the |. blacksmith. blade broad and blunt at the point, so that it will sever both veins at once without cutting from side to side, or Men tur ning The in richest small con- Good Circumstances. of today are tbe Roths- bank account of. $1380.000,000, \V illiam K. Vanderbilt has $20,000,000, Licland Stanford and John W. Mackay area tie at $20,000,000 each, D. O. Mills has $12,000,000, Auscuss Belmont $16,000,000, and George William Ballou $8,000,000 and s‘ill gaining. THE WESTERN WEEKLY CURRENT MARKET REPORT. the knife around as some do. The blade of this knife should be six inches in length, and one and a half inches broad -at the point, with asmall keen point, as shown in the diagram. an expert it & In the hands of a) teries once. q dq o 4 e 5 8 ciNe 2 OU Ae is only necessary to put the knife in and out. as quickly as possible. It is of sufficient width to cut both ar- Butter, or,#2 Tb 5 Bran, | RON, 20 | 25-1 45 | 2 Se 20 25 | 20 | 2 3252 1? Me 853 00 «6 |f Remarked: “I take some dark meat Without dressing, if you please!”—EHa. Tuer fragrant and savory nutmeg is placed on the list of active poisons by the Hospital of London, because a boy of eight years, after eating two whole nutmegs,.fell into a comatose state and died within twelve hours. The to::rist, who said to an idle Skye man, “Why do you lie there all day with your hands in your pockets?” must have been taken aback by the cool reply:— “Cause she hasna been far enough south to learn to put them in other people’s.” Nature presents a curious variety in stomachs. A plant performs both the functions of digesting and that of breathing with its leaves. Some plants, like the Venus fly-trap of the Carolinas, 90 1 10, 65 | 90 oe ee 101 95, 70 |1 00 Coe ae Lao an 30 901 |—__—95 Barley és | about ten feet long, flattened at one end, of strong Chimneys. men | > ~ |} One. 1.00.1 00 1 00 §90 5 1 00 eae oT 101 10 65 Cte a out the childs, whose wealth is estimated at &200,000,- . 000. According to the best reports Cornelius Vanderbilt has $75,C00,000, Jay Gould has a Onions DEVICE FOR HANGING A BEEF. . The device for hanging hogs shown in the same cut consists of three stout poles Wheat Who, with that chill politeness That makes the warm blood freeze, stomach from Flour, #2 hun’d 35 00 25 503 00n2 60/2 75 Appeared quite unexpectedly, A hungry crecodile, veritable Shade.”’ Why is it that a glass chimney makes Sieh a difference to the light given by a lamp? Because it increases the supply of oxygen to the flame by oroducing a draught, and concen_|'trates and reflects the heat of the flame, in consequence of which the combustion of the carbon is more perfect, and very little escapes unconsumed, Lamp glasses were invented by Aime Argand, the inventor of the famous lamp which bears his name. He had been experimenting for some time in trying to increase the light, but to no purpose. On the table before him lay the broken neck of an old flask. This he took up carelessly, and placed it almost without thou*ht over the wick. A brilliant flame rewarded this act, and the hint was not lost upon the experimentalist, who proceeded to put his discovery into practical operation at ouce. at the bottom, and 20 to 24 inches deep, with sides somewhat flaring. When Unto a little nigger, A-swimming in the Nile, a Soudan, Lamp ‘Let no man halloo he is safe till he is through the wood; He who will not when he may must tarry when he should; He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight; O, he who once has won a name may lie abed till eight.” THORNBURY. makes of the trast he presents to the ordinary ‘‘desert co!ored” birds which preserve a neutral tint of gray or fawn, which renders them almost invisible. aes 77,000,000 PUUTODS Soe ae eS es 212,000,000 pA ERICA cds ent A Ga ene 25,000,000 PAGE cies eo ce Roe aU 50,000,000 Wnited: Siatess: icc. . sosoor. 45,000,000 @amada: sw ewrei maces 3,000,000 its beams war, ed and weather-checked and its teeth statute. same as other States, there is no force in the objection that the law is contrary to the clause of the Constitution granting world. Wuar is the necessity of the farmer, going about with empty sucha It further holds that as the citizens of Towa are liable under the statute the Fish instructions. - CATTLEMEN. otherwise require many times . the amount of work in hoed cropsif done by hand, are thus cheaply and _ rapidly cleared from the land. Formerly, they were deemed necessary to cleanse the soil even of annual weeds, but the work is now done with broadcast cultivation, if thoroughly performed, in the following manner: First,and before the crop is planted, plough and harrow thoroughly as much as may be required; then States Monday rendered an opinion of considerable importance to the cattlemen of the West in the case of C. Kimmish, plaintiff in error, vs. John J. Ball t plant, and before the crop has come up, and Henry Tinskin. The case involves give the ground a thorough mellowing the constitutionality of the State ofof with the smoothing harrow over the Iowa making a person having in his posposwhole surface. This breaks and destroys session within the State any Texas catall the small sprouting weeds before tle which have been wintered north of they can come up without injuring the the southern boundary of Missouri and larger and more deeply set strong plants Kansas liable for any damages that may of the crop. This course is particularly accrue from allowing them to run at successful with any of the grass-like large and thereby spread what is termed plants, such as corn, wheat, or sorghum, Texas fever. The two Judges in the the teeth slipping over the thread-like | ‘Circuit Court of the United States for leaves. The harrowing being repeated the Southern District were divided in every few days,or as often as may be opinion and the case was sent here for necessary to destroy. all the coming weeds final decision, with the record showing before they are half an inch high, sweepthe cause had been decided against the ing over the whole surface, corn and all, plaintiff on the ground that the Iowa keeps the field clean with ease. If the statute was an interference with inter- weeds are carelessly allowed to get two State Commerce and also in violation of or three inches high, the whole operation the Constitutional provision giving citi- will be a failure. The larger the plants zens of the several States all the privi- become, the less is the danger of tearing legesand immunities of any State. The them out, but the loss of a few is overSupreme Court. holds that the Lowa balanced by the benefit. In this way, statute is not in conflict with the para- the practical advantages of the summer mourt authority of Congress to regulate fallow are obtained while the crop occuinter-State~ Commerce. The case, it pies the land. But with such perennials says, 1s not one of restrictionof com- as Canada thistles and quack grass, this merce, but simply a requirement that treatment will not answer, but summer whoever permits diseased cattle to run fallow in its fullest extent must be at large will be liable for any damages thoroughly resorted to, by preventing occasioned thereby and the court enter- the growth of a single leaf or blade for a tains not the slightest doubt of the right day.—Country Gentleman. _ what steps to pursue to obtain carp, write to this “4 is A Decision by the Supreme Court that is in Harmony with Common Sease. about The Supreme Court of the United Unuess the fleecy forerunner of thrifty crops is more generous in the IMPORTANT oS are ia ms a his visits than > be?’ farmers ‘Bird In the Soudan the respect for the ‘‘Bird of the Shade” is unbounded; he is endearingly known to the Arabs as their *‘Uncle,” and they are more exorbitant in exacting blood money for his chance slaughter by the hand of the stranger than if it were really the relative in question. Shoot tneir dove, their ostrich, their varied scavengers of the vulture kind, their once sacred ibis even, and then grin and bear it; but once aim a bolt at the ‘‘Noah Bird,” and a hundred lean but muscular brown arms will be raised, and the beeaved white teethed relatives will gesticulate and shout round you, while they explain how black bued was your accidental crime. Apart from this, the raven, with his jetty plumage, will always bea point of in- — “ bu. SERRE aE! ie | 90) POO rem rh |85— 90 wee tania aL eae 25 30) 90 ee 2 ‘6 with a stout bolt passed through all Potatoes three. Place a hook on each outside ee ole, about the right height for the Beef, 5 ae a ee #@ ib ength of a hog. These hooks take the place of the old gambrel stick. After the > Gi. ge il 5 hog is attached to the hooks it is elevated Mitton by means of the middle pole or lever, and ee ee ae a the hog can be spread out as desired by Boe eee moving the two outside poles. Oe ; 7. To Ohio Farmer we are also indebted Veal 10+ «“ for the sketch of the device for hanging beef shown in the second cut. By this Poachers; dried, fran hac ean tee device you need only one joist or tie. 49 ib| 7 5 15 The device can be moved from place oes tee 4 4 4 C to place with little trouble, and it takes Apples, little work to make it. Take a piece of de ip le fe ae scantling3 by 8 inches, good hard weod, elas, i 6 feet lone: round it 18 inches on each end; leave the remainder square. Make Apricots. a rca ; 10. 9 ‘* two holes 1 by8 inches, and make two levers to fit ae holes. Put ne rope Applesiereen. aie Sua ena an over any joist or tie that ‘is strong sees 49 u,| 70. | 45 | 45 enough to sustain a beef, forming a loop 1238) eae Ege over the tie so the rope will not slip. Wool, #2 ib Slip the ends of the rope through holes 3 near the end; start level, and wind up Hides ; dry) 9 “to where you want. By leaving the lever in it rests against the beef and holds it every time. No ratchet or spreading stick is wanted. wee 4 green) 4 | a LD its leaves—catches flies and other insects, and then digests them. In some lower orders of the animal kingdom found in the southern seas one organ performs the duty of stomach, lungs, and heart. Some still more lowly creatures possess no organs which may be called a stomach, and yet are capable of producing a stomach upon the spot whenever one is needed. Perhaps, instead of saying that this singular creature, the amoeba, is ftrnished with no stomach, we should give it credit for being all stomach. Certainly, to eat, digest, and exist, seems to be its sole purpose in life. Frosted Corn Fodder. The best treatment for frosted corn fodder, says Country Gentleman, is to preserve it in shocks from the weather in the te" Ogden Report Corrected weekly by H. L. usual way, and before feeding out to pass Grirrin, Wholesale Produce and Commission it througha cutter, which will cutit a third Merchant. of an inch long, and then moisten it lightly Nephi Report Beriectcd weekly by J. W. and sprinkle meal over it. The stalks will - VICKERS. afford some nourishment, the dead leaves Provo Report Corrected weeekly by. little or none. We are not aware that any CO. A. GLAZIER. analysis has been made of frosted leaves, Logan Report Corrected weekly by but they are not so good as straw. Chopped and placed in the silo, there J. A.McLavesury, at Z. C. M. I. Salt Lake Report Corrected weekly by would probably not be heat enough to prevent a sour fermentation, and they Secretary of Produce.Exchange. Hides and Wool by J. W. SANDERS. might be spoiled, but much would depend [a> Where two sets of figures are on the condition of the stalks and of the quoted in same space, price ranges from leaves, which would vary with circumone to the other. stances. The result would be uncertain. |