Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-05-15
FARM AND HOME.
SeasonAble Hints.

s~sasonabls Hints.
PICS need clean, dry pens, and supply
breeding lows with cut straw, chat or
sawdust for litter.
OXEN, when at work under a hot
spring sun, viii suffer from the heat.
Give them frequent resting spells and
water with some bran stirred into it.
FARMERS who have been dairying for
five years say their farms are worth $40
per acre more for crop bearing than they
were before they commenced their pres
ent policy.
ONE hundred parts of pig manure
contain II. l3 per cent water, and 22.87
per cent. of solid matter, while that of
sheep contains 56.47 per cent Of water,
and 1883 per cent. Of solid matter.
BE gentle with the cows. Every *
element that causes the blood to flow
faster in the veins Of the COW, every in
fiction Of pain, and every cause IF fear,
fans in that cow the FIRE which is fed
with butter.
HoT-BEDs and cold-frames, in, which
seeds have been sown, will need increased
care as the sun gets warmer. Let them
have abundant ventilation during the
day, early closing of the frames, and
covering in cool nights.
MORE grass and less grain, more con-
densing Of food on the farm, should be
the motto now. The plan of putting
more of our idle acres into grass, and Of
raising more live stock of a better quail.
ty, will be a step in the right direction.
A NEW YORK correspondent of the
Elmira Farmers Club says he raised 100
bushels of turnips per acre, in the hill
with corn. He does it by manuring the
corn in the hill. When half the load of
manure is on the wagon he scatters two
t~ablespoonfuls of turnip seed over it,
and about the same quantity when the
load is full.
By raising the heifers of our best COW.
the stock will be improved. Every
farmer should aim to keep only the best.
A COW yielding only %eightquarts of milk
a day does not pay for the feed, and
should be replaced with a better one.
We must look upon our live stock as ma
chimes, kept for a purpose, and discard
unprofit table animals.
SPENT lye, from soap manufactures
is valuable for mingling with muck te
make a good compost for application K
land. 1t neutralizes the acid of the
muck, renders it mere soluble, and add.
valuable heterogeneous substances to it. A
large amount Of this spent lye is wastet
about the soap manufactures. which
ought to be saved and used for mucl
composts.
Ny experience in rotation of crops Oh
clay land, for the past eight years, is a
follows: l.. Turn down timothy o
clover sod, before or after harvest, a
the season is, cultivate, and drill il
wheat and it will be a sure crop. TIL
turning under of sod on fat lands afford
partial drainage, and prevents the whea
from freezing out. 2. Turn under tn
wheat stubble for corn, and SOW gra.
} seed on the freshly plowed ground
Philadelphia Practical Farmer.
AFTER q wet piece of land has bee
underdrained it may be best seeded b
: blowing and sowing with oats rattle
thinly. Oats succeed well upon col
moist ground and upon a sod, and
there are no more than two bushels
! seed per acre used the grass seed wi
take very we'll with this crop. A mixtul
!, of four quarts of timothy, q bushel
. red top and a bushel of blue grass p,
acre would be preferable.-American a.
!. riculturist.
Mr.. HoRsTALL, the celebrated En-
' lish dairy authority, feeds his herds !
: follows: Each COW receives nine pount
0 of hay, six pounds of rape-cake, OF
pound each of malt combings and bra
with twenty-eight pounds of roots
cabbage. The food Except roots m
G hay) is given in a mixed, cooked stat
and while warm. In addition to til
y food, a COW in full milk receives tv
pounds of bean meal daily, and cows n,
in full milking order smaller quantiti
;, of this article. n.
No other crop is more profitable tn,
; Ia good root crop. Mangels and .sugs
beets are the most valuable, of the
!. crops. For these the ground should
prepared this month. An improve
yellow Globe mangel and Lanes Imp
Trial sugar beet are the best kinds in Gu
9 Etivation. A mixture of guan0, supe
phosphate of lime and potash salts W
make an excellent fertilizer for the
} Eycrops. The seed, should be prOcur
= now, ready for sowing late this mont
~ if the season is well forwarded, or ear
- . next month. 5.f 5rfH 4p t13
m SOME time since 1 purchased 8 thrt
lmonths-old pig that had become cover
"a with a thick, black scurf, caused pre-
ably by sweating, for there were sevel
in the pig.pen together; or perchance
might have been from eating buckwhe
,e with which it had been fed occasional
70 During the warm days, / have pour
a buttermilk wei its back. and the SCI
is all removed and the pig is doing fine
y The remedy is simple; yet have new
known it to fail, even when the discs
"A wasof 60 long duration that the ANNA
q back was raw with sores.
a THE best cows for a dairy are gra
shorthorns. They give plentifully
u rich, high-favOred milk, and the crea
idoes not rise rapidly upon it. This re
at ders the milk most suitable for shippi
q, to a city OF town market. By good fee
IA ling, these cows are kept in good fe.
and, when failing in milk, they fatt
with rapidity. We cannot see how
milk dairyman can afford to raise calv
Profit is only made from milk, and a d
ID COW soon ''eats her head Off" A 70
supply Of dairy cows il TO be found
y southern New York and northern Per
sylvania, in the region Of the he's
il waters of the Delaware and Susqaehan
he rivers. A good class of stock is k
tn there, bred to supply purchasers.-Amt
can Agriculturisf.
ri IHAvE a plan which utilities all
IN room, with stabling the most ~convenit
ag and economical Of feed, time and lab
e. With q farm Of TIA acres, / had IN
at style barn, 40x50, with barn floor in
IT center, stabling for thirteen head
,e- cattle in stancheons. ! put a IA feet
he dition to each end of this barn, chang
a the barn floor to one end of the ba
VS. which takes IA feet, or n Of the n