Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-03-20
FARM AND HOME


The speediest way TO cure the ~epizootict
and to make q horse thoroughly happy,
! is to give him onions to eat.
, OFTEN breaking up a surface keeps =
: coil in health; for when it lies in a hard
: bound condition enriching rains run OH,
and the salubrious air can not enter.
To brighten rusted steel implements
the London Journal of horticulture al,
yises covering with sweet oil, well rubbed
: in, and forty-eight hours after pollsh
with finely pulverized u%nslackened lime
, TURNIPs, carrots and onions, chopped,
!, are all beneficial to poultry; but better
! than these is either cabbage or lettuce.
Cabbage always forms a welcome addl-
!, ton to the poultry-house cuisine.-Pou'
|, try Bulletin.
MI. MECH, the famous scientific
farmer of England, estimates that fifteen
hundred sheep folded on an acre OF land
for t%wenty-four hours, or one hundred
sheep for fifteen days, would manure the
land sufficiently to carry it through a
four years rotation.
No attempt should be made to put a
colt to work until he is three years old,
and then better not exact any work be-
vond gentle exercising until he is four
and one-half years old. Although this
may not seem to be profitable at first, 1T
will prove so in the end, for it will add
six years to a horses working time.
DRAINAGE, plenty of manure, and
heavy dressing of coal ashes, with fire.
quent stirring, is the very best treat
ment for all soils Of a close, heavy tex
ture. 1t is by such simple means that
We have converted comparatively barren
soil into a high degree of fertility and
production.
PEAS and beans, CORRESPONDING more
with the elements of fat than the various
grains, are better adapted to the produc-
ton of wool than either wheat, corn,
rye, barley, oats or buckwheat. These
latter, together with the rutabaga tur-
nip, being peculiarly adapted to the pro-
duction of fat, should be used mostly for
the feed of sheep when undergoing the
process of f%attening.
Cows giving milk need an abundance
of water. The dry hay usually given
affords little material for milk, and even
with abundance of roots, unless water Is
placed within easy reach, cows will tend
to fatten rather than to milk production.
A great difficulty in cold weather is in
having water 50 far from the yard that
cows will suffer long before going from
comfortable quarters to obtain it.
THE Western Farm journal is of the
opinion that neither cooked nor ground
food promotes growth and increases
flesh in animals commensurate with the
expense of grinding and cooking. 1t
says that there are plenty OF instances
where feeding the whole grain raw has
been followed by as rapid a gain from a
given expenditure as when prepared food
was used. The Farmer is entitled to its
opinion, although there are many stock
raisers who differ with it.
How can l keep my poultry from get
ting the pip-a hard she'll on the point of
the tongue? They droop and lose their
appetites, and all the best ones die. The
pip is only a symptom of some fever like
roup. Wash the birds head with warm
water in which some sulphate of zinc has
been dissolved; feed warm food with
plenty of Cayenne pepper mixed in it,
and have a little fulphate of iron (cop-
peras) dissolved in the water that the
fowl drinks. Keep all affected fowls
away from the flock until well.
HERE is a way we see suggested to
destroy stumps: Bore a hole with a two
inch auger to the depth of six or eight
inches into the stump to be operated on,
and place therein two ounces of saltpeter;
then fill the hole with water and plug il
up perfectly tight. Next spring take
out the plug, pour in a gill OF Kerosene
oil and set it on fire. The stump will be
entirely consumed, ever to the smallest
roots, thus doing away with the trouble
of removing the debris, which would be
scattered about by the other method.
THERE are very few apple orchards,
either in poor soils at the east, or on the
rich lands of the west, that are not
benefited by cultivation or by manure,
and in some soils both are necessary. In
young orchards it is better and cheaper
to rely chiefly on cultivation: in old
bearing orchards top dressing with ma
nure has given satisfactory results, the
manure apparently promoting the growth
of fruit, and increasing productiveness
to a greater degree than mere stirring of
the soil. This has been found out by
farmers who make the most money from
their old orchards.
SOME horses have naturally weak feet.
thin heels and brittle walls, with a ten.
dency in them to split up into layers
where the nails are driven. These will
be greatly relieved if the feet are occas
ionally put into a good wet bran poultice
over night, taken out in the morning
carefully washed, and as soon as they
become thoroughly dry, covered with thu
mixture something like the following
Take equal parts of castor oil, muttor
suet and Barbados tar; melt them to
gether we a slow fire, and when colo
apply over the whole hoOf three or fou.
times a week.
CHAMBERS is one of the worst disease
to which the horse is subject, and it j
readily transmissible to man, in whom i
is almost invariably fatal. 1t is engen
dered by impure air, hard work and 10,
diet. Prevention-The nasal discharg,
may communicate the disease to a sount
horse which is afterward placed in tn
stall formerly occupied by the diseases
Ouc. Auc ulsCudiEt dulicISS W Shc HAL
ger and other parts of the woodwork u
the stall. The cleaning of the mango
and other parts of the stall may be affect
ed by scrubbing them with boiling water
with a strong solution of potash an
soda, and with a solution of chloride G
lime, usinga shovelful of it to a pailfu
of water.
BITTER rot in apples appears to be O
the increase, judging from the nu,nbe
of inquiries made concerning it. Iigh
brownish spots appear in the flesh OF tn
. apple, and these are of the most intens.
ly bitter taste, while the unchanged pc
tons are of their usual character.
any proper Investigations have been mad
-. as to the cause, We have not heard
them. Cases are recorded in which m,
! nuring the trees has teen followed by
= recovery. So far as is known at presen
! we can only work on general principle
I" assuming that there is a lack of prop,
nutrition, it is safe TO see to the gener
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