Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-08-28

= ECONOMY.
ssasonahls Hints.
THE hay crop ID England is like the
hay crop here, one Of the heaviest On
BorsyLrss ars now depoaiting their
eggs on horses. Carefully scrape them
oil with Z knife.
Many vet pasture fields could be
made productive BY 4 little labor given to
drains; and the best drains are
those nearest straight Do not see how
fall you think win do, but give all
you can.
In Prussia it 10 said the potato il cul-
tiysted With peculiar success. As the
stalk grows the earth is heaped up, leav-
ing only three leaves at the top; roots
are thus greatly increased, while the
produce IL said to be astonishing.
Cows should not be kept over eight
years old and ewes e i've. Now il
the time Of year TO determine what dis
position il 10 be made of old stock,
whether to b prepared for the butcher
or continue as at present for anothsr
yeak ~ keasa esf agsgE
FARMERS in England sowing arsen-
icated wheat are, by the recent act OF
parliament, made subject to . heavy
penalty. The farmers poison their seed
wheat to protect it from birds and
insects but the sacred game-birds are
apt to suffer. Hence the penalty.
HIGH prices for the service Of blooded
stock sires have not been confined to the
present century. In l76O Robert Bake.
well, the most eminent breeder Of that
period, let his rams for about $500 each
season, and in 1890 he let one ram for
$4,O87. In one year he made over 1l6, 600.
TEE Michigan Former gives tho record
of a COW owned by Mr.. John Heath,
near Tekonsha, Mich, three quarters
Shorthorn and oue-quarter Devon. The
daily yield of milk for the month of
May and three days in June aggregated
2,O164 pounds. She was MIXED three
times . day.
IT is beginning to be understood BY
breeders that the confinement of stall
lions il detrimental TO their success. We
have always thought that the daily use
of Hamb1etonian as an every day horse
One OF all work, as it were-was . Of
the causes that showed to such great
advantage In his early colts; and it VA,
upon these his fame was made.
IT is said by farmers who has trieG
the experiment 80 often as to be cure o.
his ground, that buttermilk poured oveI
the back of q scurvy pig will e~ntirel,
and speedily remove the scurf. Thu
remedy Is simple. Almost every farmeI
can boast of one or more scurvy pigs
and il bdttermilk will cure it, 1t shout,
not be spared.
Sheep dung decomposes more rapid!
than COW dung, and not 70 quickly q
horse dung. 1t is richer in solid matter
than the former. The pig being almos
an omnivorous animal, its excrement
vary in composition, according to tn
nature of its food. Its dung 10 soft am
compact, and it d~ecomposes slowly. !
is n of the richest kind of anima
manure, but it is alleged hat when use'
alone as a MANURE it gives a disagreea
BILE flavor to roots. On. the continen
pig dung is largely applied to the hem.
crop.
Mr.. J. N. ADAMS, in the Rurat Amx,
ioan thus tells of his experience harrow
ing wheat in the spring of 1877 afte
|, being badly winter. killed, mainly t
secure a good catch OF clover: 81 n
ceived q good catch of clover while
!. neighbor who ridiculed my movement
has ploughed his ground This spring fo
>.r. u cnol,l - @ln oa-,
, manner, the same kind of soil withou
. . narrowing" There are hardly ten farm
. era in eastern Pennsylvania who harrov
their wheat and yet it will increase tn
1 yield from three to ten bushels per acre
besides rendering the catch of Glove
! almost . certainty.
!. DIFFERENCE of climate has a goo
: deal TO do with threshing and sellin
z grim ut harvest or Immediately afte
4 In England more than half the grain
= all varieties remains in the straw vi
{ threaded till the next spring. Oats al
never put in barns at harvest; they Al
stacked very neatly and CAREFUL
matched by . professional laborir
; thatcher. Wheat, barley, beans an
peas are also chiefly put into ricks an
matched, remaining till, stack by STAG
they are required to be threshed for Il
straw quite q much as for the grain, e,
cepting where capital is short.
"FoR seed, orchard grass should
. cut, when ripe, with . scythe and cradl
or with reaper, and tied up in bundle
q are oats. Shock the sheaves on Il
, ground, putting about two dozen bu
dies in q shock, and leave the shoe
uncapped. Let it stand in the fe
iAshaa been wsllawatered; tn.
hsndll IN by hi to the bar,
> Their lfill heSho tstnble TO get Il
seed At 4llet I'd, the prop
sfwayy@ hirkSNs at6haIvest every sta
q and getat1Sy and Uen1ss fire to it.
ii really Of no value" So nays q writ
. IN n exchAnge.
. To estimate the quantity of cord wo'
on IN acpa It wood land requires expt
! ience. a reEson who has Lcen engage
8 in clearing andcutting wood could 81
4 . very .el0se estimate ct . glance, b
> other peEsonA would make the wilde
ogueeams An expsEienced person mi
& proceed - folloWs; Measure ont TO
2 square rods Of ground; that is 80 fe
each way, count the trees, averaging Il
q cubic contenAs as neal "a . possible
the trunks, and adding one-fourth
this for the limbs. Then, - 128 cub
lfeSt make u eOFd, ana The plot 10 or
9 fourth of q Aaele, the result il easi
L fedehed. Fxify good timber la
.. should yield . cord to every four squa
It rodA A tree 2 feet in diameter and
d feet high to the limbs will make q CO
of wood, il IL il growing in close timb.
ot and the limbss are not heavy. If Z
y limbs arss large and spreading, such
3. tree win make II to II cords. A tt
4 one foot in diameter will make only
y fourth n much - M twiee the dian