Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-07-17
RURAL Economy.


BRAHNAS ara Aa10 10 eat more pOt4UOi
beetles than any other breed Of fowls.
MAHURING corn in the hill has the
effect on poor soil of pushing the crop
forward in the start.
Fowls liks newly cut grass; give them
all they want of it. The clippings from
q lawn mower are just the thing for
L1IE hA bd used for apple orchards
Yith Sfeat heSe6t at the rate of twenty
Bushels per acre. One who has tried u
for many years deems it very beneficiS,
as his trees have been very productive.
WHEN turkeys are two months old
] they a successfully Withstand the
severest weather, if dry. In wet weather
they should be confined in a yard under
cover.
To maintain a herd of cows success
fully it is we'll to have one-sixth OF them
two years old, one-sixth three, and the
same number of the ages of four, five,
six and seven years.
THERE is no reason why green peas
| should not be eaten during the entire
summer. The majority of the people,
however, who have gardens content
| themselves with one or two paintings of
this wholesome and delicious vegetable.
The poultry keeper who succeeds the
best is he who exercises the most Judi
cious supervision of his flock, allowing
natural poroclivities TO take their course,
and who checks the sitting ~propeusities
of aged fowls by death.
THERE are in good new milk 545 grains
eff carbon and 43f grains of nitrogen in
the imperial pint, while in good skim-
med milk the quantities are 437 and 49,
grains. Skinned milk has more value
as food than has usually been accorded
| to it.
sure of return for labor as agriculture.
The risk of manufacturers and middle
men is three-fold that of farmers, but
their enterprise is * great that they sell
dom succumb'to pressure till it becomes
crushing.
MANY growers do not consider a very
early and vigorous growth of the hop
| vine as indication of a bountiful yield,
as the vine often becomes hollow, and
sends out unhealthy arms. Some pro-
ducers are in the habit of removing the
earliest shoots to give place to later and
more solid ones.
| A WRITER in the Poultry World says
that the effect Of suntiower seeds in
CLOSING the plumage of fowls that eat
them is very noticeable. Another adj
vantage in this feed is that of breaking
the shell to get at the kernel, which they
soon learn to do, is useful exercise, and
diverts attention in confinement from
egg-eating, feather-plucking and similar
mischief Of idle hens.
/ SEE a number asking what will de-
stroy the gooseberry and currant worm.
/ will give them a SUR remedy, although
a little too late to ave them this year.
Make: a strong brine, strong enough to
keep meat, and sprinkle the bushes we'll.
The brine kills the worms almost in
stantly. This has been the result with
mine, and others have tried it and call it
a sure cure.-Philadelphia Practical
Farmer.
PLoUGHING green crops in the ground
to act a. a n was long practiced by
the ancient Romans, and is done in Italy
and il many other countries where the
soil and climate are favorable. This
mode Of faxtilixing is espoeially suited to
warm countries where vegetation is
rapid and luxurious. In the southern
countries of Europe the harvest il early
and the crops removed in time sufficient
to allow the maturity Of the green plants
the same season.
DIR. SYLVESTER, of Lyons, N. w.. a
very successful and extensive cultivatpr
of guinness, plantson a moist-not wetA~
but porous soil. He applies salt sown
broadcast to the soil, about the extension
of the roots, at the rate of three or four
quarts to each bush, for full grown ones.
1t would seem a large quantity, but the
ounce is a native of maritime soils, and
is well known to thrive away from the
sea coast under the conditions of mois-
ts1re and saline applications.
THERE are farms in our older states
that have been cultivated for 200 years,
that are richer to-day than ever before.
Many farms in England yield twice Is
much now as they did a century ago.
This is the result of study, experiments
and inventions, which have been made
possible by the education Of farmers,
and which have been encouraged by
farmers societies and public fairs. The
farmers of Kentucky should, even in the
next decade, have better farms and make
more money, instead of wearing out
their lands, and going to new states.-
Marion Ky Reporter.
EVERY piece of horse radish grows; If
we take u piece of root about an inch in
length, about the size of a large bean,
and put it an inch below the surface of
the prepared ground, a short piece will
come to the surface and form q crown,
and another portion will descend and
probably fork to form a root; but in
stead of this, II we make a hole q foot or
70 deep in the ground with a.dibble and
let the little pieces of root drop to the
bottom, a clean straight sprout will come
up to the surface, and this will in time
make as clean and thrifty a market piece
a. could be desired.
THE best time to cut wheat, according
to q Missouri farmer, is "when it Is
passing out of the stiff dough, or when
the kernel is plump yet soft enough to
mash with the hand; but when 80 cut
it must not lay many hours in the hot
sui to cure, but shouid be bound inn
mediately and set.up in shocks very soon
after. II wheat stands on the haulm4
until dead ripe it will make less and
inferior -four, because the bran will be
thicker and harder and will cut up , in
grinding, thus giving the -four . darker
shade. The sheaf should be made Of
medium size and should be laid by the
binder either to right or left a. need be,
10 that four or five swathes are thrown
together, which will save much time in
shocking
A WRITER in the Southern Farmer
says that his COW gives all the milk that
is wanted in a family Of eight, and that
from it, after taking all that is required
for other purposes, 260 pounds of butter
were made this year. This is in part
his treatment of the cow "If you
desire to get a large yield of rich milk
give. your COW every day water slightly
warm and slightly sailed, in which bran
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