Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-06-05
r ECONOMY.
Practical Hints.

Practical Hints.
Fowls attacked seriously with the
roup are hardly worth curing.
To destroy lice upon hogs rub well into
the bristles, along the spine, on the
brisket and beneath the arms and thighs,
. mixture of lard and sulphur we'll rub
bed together
Mr.. f. r. SKINNER, Turnbridge, VT,
says ne cards and brushes his cows
thoroughly every day, and that they
greatly enjoy end profit by the stten-
ton, and "call for it by unmistakable
signs"
For grinding cutlery and edge-tools,
the stone should be dipped in water to
prevent the heating of the tools. Care
ful cutters use oil for polishing instead
of water when using grindstones of small
diameter. 3
A CORRESPONDENT Of the American
Agriculturist recommends persons who
have horses suffering from Inflammation
of the joints or muscles to apply cold
water to the suspected parts; the seat of
the trouble will be found where the
moisture dries off quickest.
KEEP your stock constantly gaining
in flesh. Use the most unfailing vigi-
lance and diligence to secur this. The
moment they begin to 60 down-hill, dol
lars are running out of your pocket,
even though you don't feel, hear or sec
them, and it costs much more to get
them up again than it does to keep them
up if properly attended to before they
begin to fail.
WHILE the mechanic may suffer weeks
of enforced idleness from lack of employ
ment, the thrifty and industrious farmer
never need be idle for want of q job.
While the former is dependent upon
outside sources for even the can of
earning his bread and butter, the latter
has within his grasp and control the
mean of producing his " food in
abundant supply.
PLoUGBING green crops into the
ground, to act a y manure, was long
practised by the ancient Romans. and is
done in Italy and in many other coun-
tries where the soil and climate are ia
vorable. This mods of fertilizing is
specially suited to warm countries where
vegetation is rapid and luxuriant. In
the southern countries of Europe the
harvest is early, and the crops removed
in time sufficient to allow the maturity
of the green plants the same season.
To drain a depression in a field where
a clayey or hard-pan subsoil prevents
the sinking of rain water, an the lay OF
the land is %unfavorable for ordinary
methods of drainage, first dig a hole q,
for a well, through the impervious STRAIT
UNI at the bottom hollow, fill it up tc
the brim with refuse stones, remove the
excavated earth 70 as to allow the sur
face water free access to the pit, ant
standing water will never iniure thu
grass or grain crop in that part OF tn
field Exchange.
In ar old agricultural paper of forty
seven years ago, we learn that it is
good plan to put a piece OF chalk in tn
pen with the young calves. They vii
lick it and thus correct the acidity o
their stomachs and assist digestion ant
prevent dyspepsia, which often leads Il
scours. There is no doubt but that thi
is a most excellent practice. Prepares
chalk is often prescribed by doctors as
remedy for heartburn, which is a syMI
) tom Of dyspepsia, and for a diarrhea
, The crude chalk Carbonate of lime) il
, unquestionably, a good preventive an
: remedy for similar disorders in stock
The prepared chalk is the crude will a.
the gritty particles worked out.-Rue
NeW Yorker.
A WRITER in an Illinois journal, tn
3 Lincoln Herald, says that the averag
hog of the western country is kept IN a
| open field with partial shelter or none 9
r all; that there has been, during the Ia.
and as many changes from warm 70 col
8 and back again, accompanied with hig
4 winds and frost; that his food exclusivI
!! ly of one kinds mostly thrown on IL
e ground, and that he eats in the mu,
. drinks in the mud and sleeps in the mu,
In view of these conditions it is no woI
d der at all that the porcine constitute
n breaks down, that health fails and tn:
t the papers continue to contain frequel
reports of fatal ravages of the so-calle
. "hog cholera"
A FARMER of Stark county, Ohio, r
d ports some interesting experiments wit
sowed fodder corn. He believes tn.
one acre of fodder corn will produce
e much and as good cattle food as three
four acres of hay. In the experimen
reported the yield was five tons of Dire
. fodder per acre. The seed, the comme
corn, was sowed the first of June, at IL
rate of two bushels per acre. There ",
4 no cultivation, and the stalks were o,
when the lower Joints turned a brigl
yellow color, or about September ]. F,
this a self-raking reaping machine VI
used, and the stalks were bound I'M
sheaves and allowed to stand about t.
days, when three were bound in small,
bundles and shocked. The fodder cam,
be housed, but is allowed to stand in Il
field until used. 1t is argued that tn
; crop will succeed where hay will no
4 and that as a forage crop it has no sup
q rior.
The deep can system of setting mil
9 has many advantages over the shallo
: pan system. 1t 10 very economical
i space, it permits a much more effecti'
cooling by means of cool water, and
exposes q much smaller surface of Il
milk to the atmosphere. Even were v
to admit that the butter is not increase
in quantity and improved in quaiit,
Q which VI do not by any means, the
advantages are q sufficient inducemel
3 for dairymen at least to experimei
: with it. In a large dairy shallow ps
setting would be impracticable for wal
. of space. The Cooley system consists
the use of the ordinary deep cans, :
inches deep and 8 inches in diamete
. with the addition of q cover which
like an inverted milk pan. This GOV,
s has faring sides, and Is fastened dow
. into the can. The can 10 placed in q r
frigerator, the cover is fastened dow
: and water cooled with ice is poured il
4 90 that the cans are completely sui
8 merged. No air can then reach ii
8 milk, and being cooled down to As d,
: grees the milk and cream are kept pc
fectly sweet. It is found that ut tn
low temperature all the cream rises /
twelve hours or less, so that but one 81
of cans is needed, and as the milk do,
: not sour, the cans may be filled as COO
as emptied. without any washing. tt
: skim-milk is also sweet.