Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-10-09
RURAL ECONOMY.
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Ssasonabls Hints.
Provide good pure water for live
stock.
SPRINKLE air-slacked lime on turnips
to destroy the " turnip hea."
PULvERIzED charcoal has a wonderful
effect upon bloated animals.
The temperature of a stable should be
sixty-ive degrees, and free from mois-
ture.
"SCALY Lex" in fowls may be cured by
carbolic soap suds or sulphur and lard
mixed and rubbed on.
IT is asserted that tomatoes as food for
cows improve both the quantity and
quality Of the milk, and give the cream
and butter q rich golden color.
CUT your corn and shock it as soon a.
it is glazed, and thus avoid damage
from early frost and secure good corn
fodder.
PLANTS for winter towering should be
kept in pots all summer. They should
be brought in the house and placed in
their position before the winter fires are
made.
A DRESSING of linseed oil will serve to
prevent iron and steel from rusting, and
mixed with lead and applied will prevent
the decay of wood of farm implements
and machines.
The great want in farming is more
stock and more manure. Exhaust all
your home resources in barnyard manure
and materials for the compost heap
before investing largely in artificial fer
characterization CNltivdtor.
TOP dressing moving fields as SOU as
possible after the hay is removed is at
tended with excellent results. The stub
bic and roots are protected from exces-
sive drying BY the hot sun, and the grass
is stimulated to q vigorous growth.
As soon as a tree is cut down, if intend
ed for mechanical purposes, it should be
stripped of its bark, raised from the
ground, the sap wood taken of, and the
timber reduced to its required dimen-
sions.
MAKE a calculation as to how much
corn and other grain crops you will re-
quire, raise good crops, and you will soon
see the folly of using three to five acres
to pasture q COW when she can be soiled
on a half acre.
Soils in cultivation require constant
stirring, then they do not harden on the
surface; and do not become too compact
for the proper admission of air, rain and
heat, and for the free growth of the
ibrous roots.
AN Austrian journal states that cows
have a great liking for celery, and that
I" in many districts" the leaves are fed
to them either scalded or cut fine and
mixed with bran-mash, and that they
are preferred to red clover and bring " 9
far richer and sweeter milk than any
other food"
DON'T allow weeds about your door.
yard, barnyard, roadside, in the hedge.
Of your fields, in the garden where you
have taken of a crop, 10 ripen seed; mol
should you put ripened weeds, full o.
seed, into your pigstye. Neglect mo-
these hints and suggestions, lest yor
should ere long be inquiring how t.
eradicate weeds. prevention is better
than cure" is an old adage.
A CORRESPONDENT of a Philadelphi,
, paper says that milk set and kept at
temperature of forty degrees will no
sour, but the cream will become bite
before it is ready to skim, and milk sc
at q high temperature, say seventy de
, grees, will soul in twenty-four hours
A proper temperature for setting milk j
between fifty and sixty degrees, will
which fact, do doubt, the majority o
. dairymen are familiar.
A FARMER of experience says that tn
. feet of a horse require more care thai
, the body. They need ten times as much
/ for in n respect they are almost tn
entire horse. All the grooming that ca,
: be done won't avail anything if the hors
is forced to stand where his feet will b
q filthy. In this case the feet will becom
t disordered, and then the legs will ge
badly out of fix; and with bad feet an
/ bad legs there is not much else of tn
K horse fit for anything.
BLEEDING a horse is generally done i
the vein with a broad bladed lancet; an
8 when the vein is sufficiently presse
u and secured, 50 as to cause it to swell
then the point of the lancet is sent i
e with the left hand, and, cutting upward
makes all the opening necessary. Whe
g sufficient blood is taken, the cut ough
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with a pin. By pressing the vein belo'
- the wound the blood will shoot out in
stream and fall clear into the bucke
. ready to receive it.
A YOUNG ma starting out in farmin
q can not do a better thing than to plar
an apple orchard if his land is With
: the apple belt" Don't rely on th
gnarled and decaying old trees; the lii
Of an orchard, under favorable cond
lions, is only about that of a maj
Nothing will lift q mortgage, or run u
the profit side Of the account, like
prime orchard in its first years of bea
ing. Go for the standard varieties, {
, such as experience has proved do we'll
n your locality and soil. Theories al
:, good in their place, but a day spent
/ driving through your town and findir
out what fruit-growers have actual
learned and done, is better. Get you
q trees from some reliable nursery-tl
nearer at hand the better-and use yor
u own best care and other peoples exp
{ rience in planting them.
l. The Household.
y CRULLERs.-Six tablespoonfuls
~ melted butter, six of sugar, four of SOU
milk, three eggs, one tablespoonful
soda, and two of cream tartar.
- BUTTERMLK PIEa-One cup suga
= wo cups buttermilk, two eggs, two tabl
i poonfuls -four, two tablespoOnfuls blu