Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-12-04
RURAL ECONOMY.
seasonabls Notes.


|, ssasonabls Notes.
CoRH contains FIVE times the oil OF
fat yielded by wheat
/. SOME of the farmers who have been
buying patent cow-milkers o call
. them COW dryers.
THERE is no animal that will better
repay the cost Of good extra keep than a
dairy COW in full milk.
STANDARD apple trees should be
! planted 80 feet apart each way, though
! in poor soils rs feet may be enough.
CLEAN up all rubbish about the yards
and buildings, and remove MANURE heaps
having all possible materials for COM
post gathered and utilized.
The London Omnibus Company,
which ten years ago fed their horses
principally with oats and beans with
hay, now feed almost exclusively on
Indian corn and hay.
The best favored meat, and at the
same time of the richest quality, is at
tanned when the COWS feed on old and
rich permanent pastures in summer, the
flavor being particular sweet
WORK not a rod of land more than
you can work well. 1t is easier and far
more prof table to reap sixty bushels
from one acre than fifty from two.
Manure and proper cultivation will en-.
able you to do it.
Do not work butter to much nor too
fast. Work slowly, and until all the
salt in thoroughly and evenly absorbed,
otherwise the butter will not be of uni
form color. Working it too fast will
destroy the grain.
ALL the harvesting implements and
machine should be cleaned and oiled
both woodwork and iron-and stored in
a dry, covered place. To remove rust
use crude petroleum; then brush over
linseed oil. Petroleum is q good pre-
server of wood.
PURE air and good water are of even
greater Importance than exercise in the
care of young animals. They are often
huddled together in houses altogether
insufficient in size, and in which the
atmosphere is almost constantly impure
from the product Of respiration.
To make q cheap pork barrel, buy a
coal-oil barrel; knock n head in; take
q bunch of old hay, set fire to it, and
throw it in the barrel; let it burn until
the slaves begin to burn; put it out by
turning the barrel upside down; scrape
the Goals of, and you have a good, sweet
barrel.
THERE is no better time than the pres
ent for draining wet ground. Swamps
are now dry; work is not pressing; every
foot of land a farmer owns should be
made profitable, and if the season is per
mitted to pass and this work is neglected,
a year must elapse before the opportunity
returns.
ON stiff clays, barley may yield a
greater produce, but it is of a coarse
quality. On light chalky soils, it is thin
skinned, rich in color, and, though light
in weight, we'll adapted for mailing. On
ioamy lands and sandy marls, it assumes
greater plumpness, yet still retains it,
mailing quality.
BEFORE cutting up corn the seed corr
should be selected, taking ears from
stalks that have borne two or more good
ones. The tops of the selected stalks
may be broken down, tt mark them, and
when the crop is cut, left standing until
the ears are perfectly ripe, then they
should be gathered and stored in a dry,
cool place. Such selections of seed will
tell well in the next crop.
CABBAGE has a superior value fol
feeding purposes. English cattle feeder.
assert that their beasts progress taste,
on cabbage mixed with plenty of fine.
cut wheat straw and cotton cake than
with any other vegetable. Cabbage
contains one part fesh-forming substance
to three of heat.producing, while in
potatoes the flesh forming is only one to
twenty. Cabbage is also rich in miner.
al matter.
A WRITER in an exchange saws: FIX.
perience gained the past season goes to
show that liberal manuring is the most
economical. We can see in the mas,
harvest where IS more fertilizer Del
acre would have been twice that value
in grain. There can be no doubt tina,
artificial manuring must become a par,
of our settled practice in the future, and
making a few careful experiments will
give valuable experience as to the ust
of these fertilizers.
TEACH the boys to love the farm, but
do not prove hard taskmasters. Do not
make their farm life one of drudgery
and toll if you would nave their thought.
in after life turn lovingly to their old
homes and happy young lives. Teach
them that something more than muscle
and physical endurance is required, thai
indeed agriculture is q science or ar,
that should be conducted according tc
clearly defined laws and well established
principles, and successful in proportion
to the intelligence that directs it,
Exchange.
A VIRGINIAN writes in praise of corn
not only the best food for laboring men,
but for domestic animals of all kinds.
He states that the usual ration for a
negro laborer, for a week, is one and a
half pecks of corn, three pounds of
bacon and a little molasses. They
thrive on it, and are healthy and strong.
Southern horses and mules, as a rule
have only corn for grain, but they live
longer and do work than northern
horses that feed on oats. In this part OF
the country dogs are fed almost exclus.
lively on corn meal, and they not un
frequently eat corn on the ear, while
wandering cur devour it on the stalk.
Even cats eat cornmeal stirred up with
water ~ is done in the case of chicken
feed.
A SOMEWHAT curious result of coup.
ling two parents Of different colors il
mentioned by a correspondent of the
L ,ndOn Agricultural Gazette. A sow of
the small black Suffolk breed, having
had two litters to a pure boar of her own
race and color, was put to a large white
hog of the form and strain exhibited in
the large breed classes. When in farrow
divers speculations as to the color her
produce would be we're ventured by her
owner and his herdsman. A neighbor
was strong on the certainty of parti.
colored pigs. The actual result is a
litter of twelve, of which six are en-
tirely black and six are entirely white;
not a spot mans the uniformity of either