Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-05-08
FARM AND HOME
se.sonable Hints.

FARM AND HOME
S~easonable Hints.
PLANTS from greenhouses need to be
kept near the light, and free from all in
sects. # u sea
EIGHTEEN cubic feet of gravel or
earth before digging make twenty-seven
cubic feet when dug.
GRATED horse-chestnuts, mixed with
ten times their bulk of water, will expel
worms from the soil in pots.
SEEDS of very fine and delicate annu-
ais ought to be sown in pots and then
transplanted to the open ground.
DEcAYING vegetable matter about the
houses, around the walls and in the cell
lar, are prolific causes of disease in the
farm house.
ONLY well rotted manure should be
used in the flower garden. If the soil is
of a strong loamy nature, it will be bene-
fitted by an application of sand well
mixed with the soil.
In growing cattle, the most popular
breed ought to be that sort capable of
producing both good beef and plenty of
good, rich milk, the more of both on the
least feed, the better.
In the crowding of the spring work,
don't neglect to keep up the farm ac-
counts, note down all sales, purchases,
and other transactions on the day and
date. Interest some of the boys and
girls in it, and it will be beneficial to
them and valuable to you.
HENS like q variety of food, besides
all sorts of grain, raw or. boiled, and
mashed boiled potatoes. They are fond
of chopped cabbage and onions once or
twice a week, and when they cannot get
grass they will eat finely cut hay. Raw
bones chopped into fine pieces they will
eatgreedily.
AS soon as your hyacinth is done flow
erlng In water, you can transplant it to
a pot of earth, and 70 leave it to dry of,
when you will lay it away till autumn.
Offshoots should be removed as O as
they appear, and be put in small pots,
when they will soon get roots, and in
time form Towering bulbs.
In early spring all trash should be
raked from the grass yard, and while
soft, run over with a roller. This will
force back any roots, and fill up any7cav-
tiles. The first moving should begin as
soon as there is anything to clip, as this
Will cause the grass plants to spread over
vacant places and produce finer spears.
ANY farmer that has a small pond OF
stream on his farm, or a n%ever-failine
spring, so situated that by damming up
the gully or hollow below it, a pond can
be formed, may give an acre or two thu.
located the most profitable part of his
premises, by stocking the water with
fish. This can now be done with little
expense through any of the state fish
commissioners.-Prairie Former.
MATURE well your plans ahead as tn,
season advances; work with the heat
pays as well as with the hands, and Otter
better. The successful farmer reads hi
agricultural papers, and exercises hi
judgment in adapting suggestions to tn,
benefit of his particular interests. T,
read, think, and work is a happy comb
nation, as essential and as profitable t
the farmer as the merchant or manufac
turer.- Western Ag,iculturist.
In transplanting, remember: Di,
wide hole; cut off all broken or MARE,
roots, spread out the roots in a natura
position, set the tree a little above it
previous depth, fill in with good soil en-
manure), work it between the roots wit
the hand, do not pull the tree up an,
down, and press the earth firmly down
!, and if there is a likelihood of dry weathe
spread a mulch oyer the surface. Bea
t in mind that plants are injured if thei
roots are exposed to the light and win
for even a few minutes.
SoOT is a valuable fertilizer. As to
dressing to grass its effect is excellent
On peas, asparagus, strawberries, rasl
berries, and indeed on nearly all grow
ing crops the application Of SCOT rrt
e duces wonderful results. When SOW
broadcast some of the ammonia in it e.
capes into the atmosphere and is WASTED
1t should, therefore, be mixed wit
water, say at the rate of twelve quarts I
d soft to a hogshead of water, and used
a liquid manure A mixture in tn
e above proportion makes a powerful fe
~tilizer.
: GARDENERS who intend to follow lie
tuce and radish in their hot beds, shoul
j, lose no time now in transplanting a hi
OF cucumbers under the center of eac
sash. Pinch the ends to induce equ'
growth, as they begin to run, and gi,
' them room as needed. Water occasion
, ally with weak, liquid manure, if they {
r. not grow satisfactorily, and you will
amply repaid with an abundance
i. fruit, fully six weeks before they apes
out of doors, and they will continue
\ i bearing until those transplanted outsid
- five or six weeks later are in bearing
!. Prairie Farmer.
THE seed Of broom corn, which b
hitherto been considered useless exec
t, for planting and an inferior article
y food for cattle, has been discovered TO
valuable as a breadstuff. 1t was fir
used as a substitute for wheat in 1S'
and 1871, but, like many other got
II things, was lost sight of, and its man
It facture was never carried to success, al
d never became even partially known un
about three years ago. The yield
flour il about one-half in place of tw
thirds from wheat. The bran is also
a valuable as wheat bran as a food for ar
a mails. The -four cannot be told fro
st wheat flour, and the bread, cake, etc,
delicate, inviting. and delicious, al
/ easily digested. The yield of broor
corn seed is also enormous, a single spe
often producing pint of seed, and Il
yield has reached 500 bushels to the acr
while it is safe to estimate the averal
v at 100 bushels.
d ACoRREsPoNDENT of the Rural NJ
n Yorker gives his method as follow
ave have learned a new method of Gu
Is tivating potatoes. A shallow furro
was plowed, in which potatoes we
dropped, two pieces in a hill, three fe
u apart. Another furrow covered the
nicely. The third furrow from this "
l planted in q similar manner and 80 CO
+ tinued, dropping potatoes in one furro
re and leaving three until the field W
plowed. They came up rather slowl
but grew finely. and this fall showed