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SCKY MO IUNTAIN HIISB ANIDM AN' , 4 . A Journal Devoted to Agriculture, Live-stock, Home Reading, and General News. IPElRS COPY. VOL. 3. DIAMOND CITY, M. T., OCTOBER 17, '78. NO. 48. 1 N. S-.UTHERLR I U , ED Il['OR AN1) PltOil'dE'1OIL .'.r. 3iLOUNiTAIN IfAn.Nu:.IAN is designed iu i. ft m1ic ji ilndicatett", :L hlIdsItruInute 1 I L every e; t e tet, lem 'at.cug ill its (cO1i r'lls everV -t , it o(f Agriculiur ,, Stock-rai.iti..g, Itorti iltn' - odal an't I)olletil c 1": c( Lo nio v. k . ) a " I ti 1 1 2i 1 40 •_ 0 .,n.. , 10 1 24 0 , ' , r2 0 120 v1 0 - 0 10 3 • : ot 45 5I : I I20 200 ...t. 30 40 i ,:,.')0 L 1-i .- 180 - 2. 0 q 1 :dvr. ri-; enij l ts jIav olit' i. . advaincae. l I, adl ,.lverti5 tt nt , t lya, lie I'Iautert ." l'ety-litve ,perl cent. adc d li r , siipe.l. a:tvertise A 1RI IJLT J 11 A i, _-_:. _ :.---:~ - ~ ~ ----:-_-:... . . ... .. . . ... . ,thl t hwhite ltl.ttmnll 11 frosts, thi brown aul yello1w letaves, anti t he chill October wnitd rtesin(ld us that winter will sooin be, IiPre. 1How is tlh farmer preparerd should , prove(' sevcee .? The grain and vegetables may be well stored, the tihy stocked coln vP(nient, :tanl all the prepa,'afionis complete :: llnt, the farti' for CaringII for the stock, etc. 1iit hwo\ are the coinveniiences of the house hold? hlave .3you taken anty thought of thecs ? !ave you thought of the number of tr:vts ihe twiI', mot1 her (' tor daughtr t1must tdke ere spring smiles forth ulpo)n the earth :gain? Ihave yo arrang'ed by ev.ery mcans in -o)!ur powerv to) Iss:on these. prepar'ed ev er:'ithihg that such as are t:akei(' m+y i)e molt)ly \ 'Wit lii: doors. It' you have n0ot, (10o I'),t lelay dtoin:g1 so. No one is So poolr out whit lhe cani arratrge his culinary depart !eilt ,so that the deartl Iones preparn'e a ime;d 'ithonut goglir out doors. W.0e h:ave ur;hid this \every tall. and shall cnltinue to di so until there is a radical chatige in our Iuiral homes. W\e care not, wvila;t the cir tiinitiCte Itlny be, these Ihiin's mIty be ur ranged. A .etw days, a week or two \eeiks iflt ce'ssa:.'y. spent i ixing up the 1;itchen lmakiing i co.nifortat le and preparing' to ]:ave' \\olod, water. vegetable`.% c(ct. n-eii' :at Illaiil, (';t111iiit, be het1ter spent. 'l'li.s duty "TIvry 1iati o\vtes hilmscelf and ftnmily. The m0st htilllie a:tbode ili all these 11mot0111taits, hLowever rough on thie outtside, llay bt e 111de coy andlt(1 cmttorth'tle as a paile; within. I,et every riteadert (f tht10he l';BsAN I)AN tili'LI li= ltt(l.ti(in to this umatter juit. once. anlld( I'rrial;e the lhou-.eho d i;ilth suc.h s steClltt ie order as to make the fri nintles so corn Iortttlble that they ca'IInot hbut slniile with lalppiuess all tie wiiiter throiugh. . .. .. .. .. -t, . i . m· ,. . .. . . . ENCOURAGE THE B3BS. The average boy i, a gregrarous animal. 11e nblior. s litluide. I7 deihtss it thle (.m(n inlly of hi Mellowvs, It ogft hle lay rev( ive 'tril their hlants nolthing but krkI. hard kuo,'ks 11i1 other peris)tl I abuse. Still the p)'iit w\Ihitli hin leads him to seeek their t!gell.Pitd soviety lpl o V evert'y pos-il)ie Octcs i lo, u?. , to eljoy~' this society ie ib Iaves pI'r (utal eaon ueanids. hunger, cold and darkness. ulit why this is so. Is one of those myster ieS which the itehlligei ce of the world has thus tar failed to uIliravel. The wile parent should take adlvantage of this natural desire for companipstiuship alid ." regulate boyish !intercour:ae ats to i-ati,-fy this ininate desire, keeping the manner a:ind I'xteit under their compilete control. It iý esele.ss to say that " my clihldrtrn have been taught to obey without question."'' The l'hart of nu is d ecitfult :"I id desplrately wic(ktd, if forced by ciructmst'lces to be so. uali we don't think boy-uature Iliers greal ly frotm in-nattre. The desire for com I:t:iinmhip is natural and harmnless. and to :i'leavor to ,circunscribe or prohiilit this de -ire W\ill only result in mortification to both pane'nt and child. FIarm life m.y seem to isolate the yonug l1'ra:i eatch others society completely. It tmay -i = tof) a tihe -but the remaction willt-come sooner or later, and then the farm is minus a boy. If, however, :adjacent farmers will allow their boys to exchange labor c'' hange works," in farm parlance-the re suit will be to create a spirit of emulation that will make the boy love his hoitie and endeavor to excel in the work he is to per form. There should be no grumbling and scoldling, no cults or rebuffs,, if there be' oc ea.sional bursts of boy-nature that make the old farm ring, and hush for the moment the song birds of the field and forest. Do not attempt to restrain or restrict. Give tiature lull vent. It may not be amiss to aid and encourage. Something like this must be done or the boys will be stealing down the back stairs and out at the side door at unreasonable hours and questionable purposes. If they are denied their innocent pleasures by day, they will find ways and means to hunt wac ermnelons, steal apples, rob grapes, plunder corn tields and raise the dlevil generally, by night.-E-.:i WHAT AGRICULTURE DOEt."' An exchange says: Without agriculture there is no wealth. Gold and' silver is not wealth-they are its convenient representa tives: Conmmerce produces no wealth-it simply exchanges it; mnanufacture and the arts combine it. Agricultural is the prolit ic mother (if wealth. The rest simply handle it when produced and delivered into their hands. The earth breeds savages. Agricultue breeds enilightened nations; it breetls houses :a(l ships, temples and seniinaries; it breeds the manufaecory sculpture, painting Uan(d mu sic are its offsprings. The wheels of the work shop, the sails of conmmerce, the im plements of science, the pen ot geniius, the pencil and chiisel of the artist, the eloquent tongue of the orator, the scheming brain of the statesanim. the equipages of wealth, the banqueting of pleasure-all that renders earth in its tides of life anything but a great seplilcthrc, move and have power of being, because tIe tliell viiel t heir fruits to the pa tient toil of the hlusbatldmuan. \Ve mnigiht manage to live without uner chants, withoitt miariners, withouit orators, without poets, p)crhaps we might possibly survive the loss of demiagitogue--buti sure, I ain, we could not without plowmen. 'The state of husbandry in any couintry is the I bet test of its eillihti ienit. The thleriuo i eter of eivilizatioii r'ises or falls as trives the plow. "Iou IImut send the pllow,' ex claimed ita ml wnho had traveled 1all over c(.1in'i1tian mnis5sioinariy girotuld, "'in hieathe li lands, a barbarian nation needs but to be plowed up) deep, sutbsoiletl, plalted. and the inevitable harvest will. be ani enlightenled - iation.: STOCK AND FPOLTiY DISEASZS. Good and evil are sitnougly bhiledcd in this world of ours. We can hardly avail ourselves of blessings on the one haeid with out being cursed %-\ithl the evils that lie near, by. \hen our cattle browt._-ed o( the spice bushes of lifty years ,ago, and our rhogs grew sponta nously in the wo.od.s, and fat ted themselv\es on the ma:st, and our sht;ort legged, oild-ti'h4olted clhickel:s roosted in the trees and scratch('ed the forest leaves trorn the virgin soil in search of food-in this gl(len age of hog and hell, we hand ho choler:i, nor did olur cattle (lie with I'cTx tas -fever, nor rinderpest. But itlen cow and hog au'l hen were all tof ser'ub la ced--inleed wecre scarcely ri'ciovNd roml tiir pre'imtpli'ive contld',ion before is ui ,donslieut'ed tlhemn. ou"r nianils, lilke ourselves, multiply dis eases, as lthe odes of life ie, ccolie nore a nd lloore rtificial. In the hitunali race, (iseases are evidently more uniitilrotus in the c(iviliz cIei, than iIi the savage state, but our knlow ledge of the prevention and cure of diseases has even outrun their multiplication, so that the average duration of human life is great sir jlow thtlw wh..'e our' trac we(re .Iavages. Can we apply tlvh name laws of hygiene to our doniestic animals with similar good re sults? It would be hazardous to give an allirmative answer to this question. Our stock breeding has been constantly in the C direction of producing radical changes in r the physical constitution of animals, affect- t ing directly, their form, size and period of i growth. i Under the influence of this special treat ment we have produced a race of hogs which wlll make growth of 250 to 300 pounds in ten or twelve months, while our woods hogs would hardly make that the weigiht in two years, with the best feeding. Now, such a mushroom growth must have but little power to resist d:sdase. Zymotic disease of the nature of colera, yellow fever, typhus, in the human subject, are propagated by the poison operating on those whose feeble vitality is insufficient to resist the epidemic tendency. So in the low er animals, as we make a forced growth, the bulk of living matter is greatly dispro por!ioned to the vital force, and the power of resistance is correspolndingly diminished. Now, if such animals be over-fed, or fed on unwholesome food, disease will be generat ed, and it fever assumes a typhoid character, which it is likely to do, then it will become epidemic and will be communicated to all aninatls which have not vital force enough to resist the contag oi, if they are exposed to it. What is true of the hog, is equally true of our exagg:erated breeds of barn-yard fowls; and they become diseaseased from the same cause.'What shall we do then? Shall we go b:ack to the mast hog, and duck-legge hens, to get clear of cholera? That we should, does not necessarily follow. If a man can raise t'en ogs in a year, to the weight of 250 p)Otzr;, hlie can afiord to risk the loss of live of them, rather than feed the ten for two years to get the same weight of pork, and that of an inferior quality. Mauch can be done, no doubt, to prevent the original generation of the fever (tor suih it is) in proper ittenition to tood; water and the general condition of the animal, but we cannot speak of these now.-Indiana Farm er. . ... . ..-- '.m.,- - 4i.- . .... ..... A TRANSATLANTIC MOAN. The 13,000,000 quarters or 101,000,000 bushels of wheat, which the Pall Mall Ga zecte flow acknowledges to be a low estimate fIr the deficiency which Great Britiat will hard to supply this year from foreign sources, will cost a current market prices, £;;0,000,000 or in the close neighborhood of I$50,0,00,010. Thus for'one article of food alone our t ralsatlantic cousins will have to pay at the rate of unearly five dollars per Icad to foreign growers. Yet it is conlcelddd that they will in this way obtain the supply fI r e(leaplcr than if they attempted to grow it at home. even if so large an amount could he protiiably grown on the small area of the British Isles. It is a fruitful grouuild of conl plaint with them, however, that the two )princilpal sc ure''s 6f supply-America and i ult.ia-should both show an increasing di incliflation to be paid for their exports of footd in manufactureti articlh. The vast: imiprovements lately made in our various ntanuthactlrces-or as the Englishl prefer to say, Our protective policy-have alumost de stroyed their trade with this country in iron wvnic aAd cottonll rabrics and seliously in jured other branches of tralfic; andl it ex torts a muocIn fraolt the neighborlhoodl of Johlln Bull's p)ci';t that henceeforth I. mutlst pay for the food imported from this country, out of the prof i's made"'in other directions in stead of by ant iuterchange of productions. Canadia;n farmers cl'tina that six bushels of peas are equt'l to'ten bushels of corn for fattening hogs, and that peas will yield a larger number of 'bushels per acre than corn. The pork ufde from peas is most exc:llent, . .... THE HOUSEHOLD. RECIPES. Cottage Ciheese.-Whten the milk is nicely clabbered put it cfi the stove and let It re main until well scalded, but do not allow it to boil. Pour both the curd and the whey into a bag made of cheese cloth and suspend it untill well draiined, and the curd is left quite dry; turn this latter' into a pan and add salt, a bit of butter, and enough sweet cream to make quite moist. It can be mold ed into little balls, or put into .a glass dish without further prepatration. Soda Cookies.-'l hi( e-louirtlis of a teacu of butter; two cupfuls of siglr; two eggs; a grated nutmeg; one small 'teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a tablesponfuIl of sweet milk; two teaspoonfuls of cre:iin 'tartar, in, flour enough to nmake a sotf t"ddugh. To make: Rub the butter and sugar t~6gether until light; add eggs without leating,' then the spice and soda. Beat a few minutes be fore putting in the flour, then handle as'lit tle as possible. Do not knead. Roll rather thin; cut into shape; bake in a hot oven, If liked soft, take the cookies from the tins as soon as baked; put in ajar, and cover close ly. Ginger Snaps (Excellent).--One teacupful of melted butter; one teacuplul of brown su gar; one teacupful of dark molasses; one teaspoonful of ginger; one teaspoonful of soda ¶iha large spoon of hot water. Flour, to make a stiff dough. Roll thin, cut into small cakes, and bake in a quick oven. Ta ble syrup is not as good as comminon molass: es for ginger snaps. Baking.-In baking, see' that `the furnace or oven is properly heatedsJome xlUshes re quire. more mheat than others. '"Lobk at the object in process of baking from"'time to time, and especially at the beginning; 'turn it around, if necessary, in case it lbe heated more on one side than on the othei~ to prd velt burning. In baking meat and fish, ble side's keeping the bottom of the pan covered with broth or water, place a piece of butterL ed paper over the object in the pan. It not only prevents it from burning, but acts as ai self'basting operation, and keeps the top moist an:d juicy. If the top of a c-ke bakes faster than the rest, place a piece of paper over it. Snow oPuddings.-Cover one-third of a package of gelatine with a little cold water, and when softened. stir into a pint of boil ilg water, add one cupful of sugar, or sugar to taste, and either the juice of two lemons or half a teacupful of wiine; when cold 'aind beo.ginning to thicken, add the well-btar"en whites of the eggs. Beat all light1ly and smoothly together, pour the miixt ureo into a mold, nd tlset away until htar'. Serve in the centre of a deep platter with a boiled custard poured around, miade wvith the yelks of three eggs, one pint cf inilk and half a cupful of sugar. Boililg.--This is the mosl'abused branch in cooking. We know that fany well-mean inig housewives, and even professional cooks boil thi~ngs that ought to be prepared other wise, with a view to economy; but a great 1ma1.1y do it through laziness. Boiling re quire, as tmuch care as any other branch, but they do not thinik so. and thercfo're' in dulgc in it. A ncthi r abuse is to boil fast insteCUil of slowly. Set a sumll ocean of wat er on ii brisk tire ind boil sornethiing in it us fast a you can; you make much steam-'but (do not cook tfitster, the degree of heat being the satiie us if you \ere boiling slowly. If the object you boil, and especially boil fast, contains any flavor, ;'ou evaporate it, and canlliot brirng it back. Many things are spoiled or partly destroyed by boiling, such its meats; colrfe, etc. Water that has been boiled is iiilerior for cooking purposes, its gases 4nd alkali being evaiporated. Hard Sauc e fr Pudding.-Stir to cream one cup butter with three cups powdered sugar; when light beat in juice of a lemon, twoV teaspoonfulk nutmuleg.