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See, said he, what this little chick doeth, and learn of her toacknowledge whence your mercies came, by re- *This Depariment will be devoted strictly to the interests and development of Western Farming and Stock Culture, and con“tributions from persons engaged in those pursuits are solicited. rl ever been answered by its echo, —_why?—why ?—The same question it seems has been disturbing the editorial mind of the German- town Telegraph, and has awakened the following response: “Quinces are so easily raised and usually are in such good demand that it seems singular that they are so seldom found on farms, beyond a few trees in a garden, and these quite often neglected, so far as cultivation is concerned. ‘The best way to start a small quince orchard is to buy the young trees from a nurseryman, rather than to wait until one them for himself from can grow seeds or will take two ina bushy form, and it is bestto let them doso as the fruit is more easily gathered and there will be more of it than if they are trimmed up to resemble an Still, they should be apple tree. kept thinned out enough to allow a good circulation of air through the branches and to be kept in good shape. I think the apple or orange-shaped quince the _ best, the pear-shaped is also good. One objection to raising them in large quantities at a distance from a good market is that they are easily bruised, and consequently do not bear shipping well, and are not long keepers, but the market never seems overstocked with them, so that.a more extensive cultivation of them would no doubt be generally profitable.” PS ea Slush in the yards, loads of gravel and throw in. A good material for the porpoise is coal] ashes. Sy sifting the ashes in the poultry yard, the level will be gradually raised,and the earth become hard and compact. Where the yards are slushy, it is better to keep the hens inside, in order to avoid frozen feet, wet feathers and colds, which bring on roup. a> _>- Blanketing Horses. It was formerly a too prevalent tom among cus- farmers to neglect the use of the blanket entirely, and with cold and cheerless stables the horses were compelled to occupy, the blanket did seem a useless luxury for the horse stand at the required to hitching-post. But with better stables the horse is more sensitive to cold winds, and having alighter coat of hair should, when stopped warm, be protected by alarge tom of blanketing blanket. the truly vide hot water to quench thirst, at least twice every day. We do not mean that you should pour boiling water directly into their drinking troughs: but you take from horse The in custhe stable should be regulated entirely by the cireumstances of the owner. Unless it ean be done regularly better avoid it entirely except where cooling the horse off when heated. the hot water on the stove a certain portion into a cold vessel, carry it to your fowl quarters through the stinging out-door air and pour it into a frozen dish. By that time the temperature isat a right point, and you areamply repaid by seeing the eagerness with which your birds cluster around the steaming dish and appropriate its contents. This moistening and warming of the crop is a great aid in digestion —very necessary——inducing afree production of eggs. Nor must you consider this or any other direction for the use and comfort of your flock unneces- sary.. Faithful and regular attention must be given them; and such habits once formed are, like reward.—American virtue, their meek-looking burro leaned over the fence, With a countenance sweet and bland, And asmall boy passing remarked to himself: “Them burros hain’t got no sand,” Then he thougat ‘twould be funny to have a ride And race round the field so gay, And no one would know ofthe picnic he’d had, For no one would walk that way. So he carefully sly’d around the fence, And was mounted in a crack; The burro was dazed by the sudden spring, But just for a moment, alack! In The There is pleasure too, as well as_ profit, ‘in the garden; and we would urge upon every readers of the WESTERN WEEKLY who tills the soil, to make arrangements for a good garden this year of 1889, and then carry out his plans. Let the seeds be procured in season, so as to be on hand when wanted. ant matter. Another thing: garden seeds This is an importIt is useless and then to neglect plant them. ‘The soil must be rich, and then the plants must be well tended all through the season. rn 2 oes Barbed Wire Fences. Someone says that if the farmers who} have horses in pastures fenced with barb wire, will plow a furrow or two around the pasture, inside of the fence, the danger will not be half co great as without. The stock will be able to distinguish the line at night and being horribly mangled thus avoid and perhaps killed. We have had an idea for a long time that where fine stock was kept, very little barbed wire ought to be used. The above is perhaps well worth the exper- World. barrel in the water in winter than at any other season. He usually selects a dark, often a drizzly board or such like. which acommon sized cat can pass he is sure to get in and do some of his bloody work. One eold morning we found as many as nine good fat hens lying stiff on the floor of the hen-house. Their jugular veins were severed and there was not a dropof blood in In skinning rats, begin at the legs and side from one to the other, the. skin off over the head. worth25to35cents, and find musk- cut on the inandthen pull The skins are ready sale at a fur store. their bodies. Asthey were entirely fit to eat, we feasted on fat chickens for several days, eating all but one. We filled this one with strychnine and left her where she lay. The next morning a large mink on Practiced Root by Grafting Plain Mllustratians. Root Described grafting any one is a may in Mode Known Detail, as with simple operation, to perform. ty nurserymen stocks, and known for as whip grafting. consists mainly in fitting the two parts so closely together as toe insure the union of the inner bark of graft and stock. The two parts separate and united are shown in Fig. 1 of the cut here reproduced from Orchard and Garden. comfortable, and the less of she experiences the more real uage, makes acommon mistake when it refers to the present year as ‘‘the closing year of the ninth decade.” > . The year 1890, not the year 1889, will be the closing year of the ninth decade of the Nineteenth century. The year | was the first year of the Christian era, and the first decade was not completed until theclose of the tenth year. The year 1889: is the 1889th year of the Christian era, and the present year will not be ccmpleted till the close of the 1890th year, that is, the 31st day of December, 1890. The tenth decade will begin on the ist day of January, 1891, and end on the tions with Globe. Father Didn’t WHIP GRAFTING. The seedling stocks are washed, their tap roots shortened and the tops removed at the collar of the root with a smooth, sloping upward cut; in the center. a downward cut leaves a tongue. The scion is cut on its lower end witha downward sloping cut and a tongue also made on it with an upward turn of the knife, corresponding to that on the stock. The two parts are then neatly joined together, the inner bark of both being in close contact on one side at least. Presence eggs she will Of Mind. A Kansas paper relates raiser near Severy went feed lot recently on foot. came infuriated and made He fell flat on the ground Blame queried her mother. “Why, you know, mamma,” said the little one, in grave surprise at such ignorance, “he sold his birthright for a mess of partridge!”— Youth’s Com- panion, quiet. The handle them Relieving Choked 4 Cattle. S658 Southern Cultivator calls attention to a plan devised by Professor Simonds, of the Royal Veterinary College of England, Butter, @ ib for relieving cattle Eggs, when choking. Ac- || SI ve — now side of the animal, Paint stains that are dry and old may the gag, which protrudes from the side of the mouth, with one hand, and the opposite horn with the other. The head must also be kept elevated so as to bring it as nearly as possible in a straight line from cotton and woolen holding the handle of with the neck. Professor Simonds’ instructions f The probang being held as represented Eens That Lay. Leghorns lay more eggs than any other is to be passed through the opening in the gag and carried carefully over the variety of fowls. so says Felch, the patri- dorsum of the tongue into the pharynx, and from thence pushed inward until Sufficient claims that the white Leghorn will lay it reaches the obstruction and well regulated pressure is “now to larger eggs than other varieties of Legbe made until the obstruction yields, horns. He commends as an excellent when it is to be driven by the cross for practical purposes—meat and Care should eggs—a white Leghorn cockerel on light instrumentintothe rumen. always be taken to propel the obBranma hens. A correspondent in Southstructing substance into the first stomern Fancier says poultry. ‘The best hen egg in America. | have [Je also 1 ee ever seen or tasted is that of the light Brahma ken, laid in her second year. This egg is dark colored, rich flavored, large sized, thick was laying beside her, as cold and dead ‘shelled, ropy white, and heavy. rich asthe hen. | yolk. In size. weight and quality, the After he makes a raid on a flock of Brahma egg more than makes up for loss poultrya mink is sureto return the fol- of number as compared with the Leghorn. Mr. Felch says the egg of this lowing night or very soon thereafter, and if he finds one of his victims still cross— white Leghorn and light Brahnia —is large, rich and dark colored, and lying there ready for his carnivorous ap- strong shell For all practica! purposes petite he will make his supper on cold —eges for eating or shipping, or meat meut instead of warm blood. Hence it for eating—I can commend this cross to iseasy to poison him after his first raid.— farmers who wish to cross with two varieties of pure bred fowls. Am. Agriculturist. ach, and we should never rely on the power of the cesophagus to do this after we have succeeded in removing it from its original situation. Want of attention to this simple rule has often protracted suffering to the animal and not unfre- quently death. The nary use are seldom probangs of sufficient length, large and slightly cup shaped. for nothing cc. throws away time. food.and labor. car Pe NE(80.OO Doe a 80 Sula 85 Ss 90 iesoe eee ee oo [51Z° -6 [eee aia Ceo 614) 414 Be: eS eee BB 10 lg “ 19 10 4 bu.) Wool, ao: 4 aeue a Vey ed ee a Apples, green, ie | | 9 rs gl ta | |Oe, bao |! 7 4 ‘ 7 |——'= PUR ee 70 | 50 | 40 | 50 lO) 1) 451) 1a green) 06 cae 18: | sO 8 (hai 4 5g ena “ = dryi3 »| 2a Fagen ke" Ogden Report Corrected weekly by H. L. GRIFFIN, Wholesale Produce and Commission Merchant. Bm Nephi Report Corrected weekly by J. W. VICKERS. Provo Report Corrected weeekly by. Logan Report Corrected weekly by J. A.Mclavennin, at Z. C. M. I. Salt Lake Report Corrected weekly by Secretary of Produce Exchange. Hides and Wool by J. W. SanpzExs. {as- Where a good 90 | Apricots in ordi-' C. A. Guazrer. nor are the bulbs with which they are tipped of a proper shape. The instrument should not be less than six anda half feet long, and the bulbs should be The owner of (85 Apples, | Se eee ganas Waa OOS 10! 25)}1 a6 80 Tb) Hides. Sect Wont. GOOG! Hag for operatin.: are as follows: as eee 90\1 25 DOs mel 1 25) HOO 1 30) he att se 00/1 10 80 1 00 Se dried, Peaches, 90] 70 | 90 eos loess 3 00/2 752 75'2j———50 a gs| 90.| a3 f 2 eR! 6 hate ae oe BO B fowls, one of the greatest obstacles being the cost of expressage. removed 25 | 4 | f i 5 1 Be @ doz Se lane 17446) 20 Flour, 8 hun’d |2°503 06|, 9 bellowing goods with chloroform. First cover the pots vi th olive oil or butter. WEEKLY CURRENT MARKET REPORT. too roughly. that a cattle out into his The cattle bea rush at him. and remained mad, THE WESTERN <i ~ of Esau. Increasing age does sometimes cause us to appreciate more fully the temptations of others. Little Madeline was eating broiled partridge for the first time, and great was her delight in its savor. | “It’s nicer than anything | ever tasted,” quoth she, *‘and | don’t blame~ Hsau a bit.” “Whet has Esau to do with it?” : Oats — herd came up and tramped round and | | round him, smelling of his body, but if Barley INSTRUMENT TO RELIEVE CHOKING, never attempted to injure it. After four | to Professor Simonds ‘the ‘hours in this position seme man noticed. cording ce amount of danger in cases of choking Corn | the peculiar action of the herd and went may be mostly calculated by the abdomiin and rescued him. A Onions nal distention. for death results from the lungs being unable to expand. in Wheat, @ bu. All poultrymen are interested in the consequence of the pressure of the rumen against the diaphravm. In many cases. passage of the parcels-post bill, lately in“ prior to relieving the patient, the gaseous Potatoes troduced in Congress by Representative compounds which are disengaged from Bingham, of Pennsylvafiia, as it will not the ingesta and distend the rumen must Beef, @ ib only cheapen the cost of sending eggs be given an exit by puncturing the rumen Mutton to prevent suffocation. to consumers, but compel the breeder to In the cut is shown the instrument to pay the postage in advance, which will ut also induze him tomake the packages as be used, which consists of a probang and Pork There will then bea gag, the latter to be placed in the mouth light as possible. st as shown. Two assistants are required. Veal greater demand for eggs of pure-bred One of these should be placed on either arch Time. - Bosjon * The lin or with cotton warp drawn through melted grafting wax, and packed away in sand in the cellar. In the spring they are planted in nursery rows, setting them in the soil as deeply as shown in Fig. 2. Due care should be taken not to winter RAS See Ree a ty perfectly Decades. York Sun, which is proud of its uncommon accuracy in the use of lan- harrow strips of waxed, thin cotton mus- Warmth is more potent in inducing the hens to lay than any thing else. Have he hen house warm and comfortable. Youcan get no eggsin winter froma shivering hen. To lay well, she must feel lay. About dist of December, 1900. It isa very common error to suppose that the present century will end with the close of the year 1899. It will end only with the last day of the last month of the year 1900, and the Twentieth cemtury will not begin un,— til January 1, 1901. 5 It is just as well to be accurate in keeping the account of our transac- 4 ao and learn practiced apple A. Our esteemed contempory, The New Grafting—The Nurserymen Whip IN MANNER. joint is then firmly wrapped, either with to night, in which to make his raids. If there is an opening in the fowl house through about half-way, near the musk-rat holes. I have caught more than a dozen in one night in this way. They are sure to jump upon a piece of be troublesome DISCUSSED TRAPPING MUSK-RATS. Boys,if you would like to make alittle money, get anold barrel and make a musk-rat trap out of it. Knock out the bottom and the head, and then nail thd head together with cleats as shown in the illustration. Run a stiff piece of wire through the head and _ through holes in the side of the barrel, so that the head will revolve freely. Then fasten a piece of iron to one side, so that after the musk-rat tips the head down it will go back to its position. Sink the i> — The Mink. The mink is much more Hints erafting Warmth and eggs. Garden. Some The mode He thought he was going right up to the moon‘ But suddenly touched the land; And as he limped off he remarked to himself: ‘*Ves burros has got some sand,”’ Poultry World. When a farmer neglects the garden he neglects one of-the most important lots of the farm; for from # a family can grow a very large help towards its living. TOPICS PRACTICAL which Then his head went down and his heels went up, And the small boy clawed the air, He was sure he could see stars and lightning, too, And felt that his head was bare. own <a oe. Slush in the poultry yard is the most disagreable thing about winter poultry mient.—Rural keeping. A poultry yard should be well |. drained. If too low, it will pay to haul afew very ed oftener and with more apparent pleasure if, in the winter season,you pro- or three years longer. They want rich soil and should be set ten to twelve feet apart. Naturally they will@row life—describes TIMELY A by the peculiar conformation of the creature’s mouth and throat, will be repeat- We-have been confounded on several occasions with the question, why are there so few quinces raised in Utah, and the query has which rural the seeming gratitude displayed by some of the most innocent and harmless creatures that come within the daily range of our observation. But this significant action of the bird, necessitated ‘QUINCES. cuttings, ceiving them with looking up.” | This pretty illustration of spiritual things—taken by John Bunyan from simple WEEKLY. WESTERN THE bow ; x mT bd 2 a ° : ds 8 ‘ - e * 3 : % * aE - Tt prea eT, ETT es ee es oe Fe ee hy % a two sets of figures uoted in same space, price ranges fr one to the other: are 2 |