Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-10-16
RURAL ECONOMY.


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valuabls Hints.
The safest bank of deposit or loan for
. farmer Is amanure bank.
LIQUID manure does its work 1t once;
solid manure requires time, yet it is
certain in its effects.
BURY your dead animals at the root
of your fruit trees. You will find that
1t pays . good per centage.
ROTTEN wood, leaves and forest clean
ings make excellent plant food when
plowed into the ground.
He has fat cattle who feeds them.
And he has fat acres who ministers to
them with a liberal hand.
IT is said that DR.. Chevalier, of Nor
folk, England, observing some very fer
tile ears in a crop of barley, separated
| them from the rest, and, by sowing the
grains separately, gradually propagated
the variety which goes by his name. Its
prolific quality has been tested by the
extraordinary fact that $50 stems have
issued from a single grain.
The use of dynamite for slaughtering
purposes is meeting with much opposi-
ton in Europe, since such a method
damages the heads of animals valuable
for sale as food, besides the time occu-
pied in arranging its application and
the risk of injury to persons and prop.
erty render the system less expeditions
than that of killing by the old method.
AFTER many experiments, a certain
and speedy remedy for burdocks has
been discovered in kerosene oil. If a
small quantity be poured into the heart
of the plants. directly after cutting, they
will disappear entirely, roots and stalks,
leaving no trace of their existence save
a small hole in the earth where they
stood. Refined or crude oil will accom-
plish the purpose equally we'll.
M%ANILIUs, Onondara cornty, N. Y,
farmer writes that last fall he sowed
twenty-eight acres of wheat, applying
225 bushels of damaged salt, and this
season he has harvested from the same
land 1920 bushels of fine wheat, averag-
ing forty bushels to the acre. He keeps
eight horses, twenty-five cows, a large
flock of sheep and forty-seven hogs. and
believes in genuine grain growing, stock
raising h~usbandfy.
To secure the total destruction of
the tobacco fly, sprinkle the plants with
q decOction of one-sixteenth of an ounce
of strychnine, dissolved in twenty quarts
of water. This application has been
known to destroy the fly absolutely, and
cause no injury whatever to the young
plants. An indefinite quantity will be
found to work no injury whatever to the
plant. 1t can be applied with perfect
afety.
THISTLE seeds are frequently carried
by the wind several miles on the land,
while they have been seen at sea twenty
to thirty miles from land. What should
We say to any man who dare SOW seed
weeds broadcast over our land? And
yet, practically, those who permit this
ties to flourish and bloom unheaded,
either on their own or their neighbours
property, are guilty of a suicidal neglect.
In England q landowner recovered dam
ages and costs in an action brought
against a neighbor who refused the land
owners application to have the thistles
cut down.
In passing over the country we have
observed that the fox-tail grass, which
several years ago supplanted the crab
grass, is now disappearing and crab grass
is taking its place. 1t has now been
about thirty years since the fox-tail grass
became common in our fields; before
that time crab grass grew on all cult
waited crops, much more so than the fox
tail grass. Stock were very fond of it
and fattened on it, but would not touch
fox-tail. Now We find stock eating fox
tail. Which of the 1900 kinds of grass
which is said to grow in this country
shall we have next, or shall we have
something altogether new?-PerryviNe,
No., Farmer.
PROF. ARNOLD says the quality of
milk varies with the quality and supply
of food. If it Is very succulent the
water increases in the milk; but the in
crease of water cannot 20 beyond a GER
tain limit, and 9O.5 water with 9.5 solids
is the extreme limit he has ever met
with through succulence and moisture
in the food. On the other hand, by the
use of food rich in the elements of milk,
and other circumstances favorable, the
extreme limit in the opposite direction
has been 81.5 water and 1875 solids. The
former occurrence in June, with q feed
of grass and brewers grains; the latter
in the fall, with after-feed and meal.
Mr.. FooTE, in Massachusetts,, has
traced the tap root of a common red
clover plant downward to the p~erpendic.
ular depth of nearly five feet. The Hon
J. Stanton Gould followed out the root
of Indian corn to the depth of seve
feet, and states that onions sometimes
extend their roots downward TO the
depth of three feet; lucerne, fifteel
feet. The Hon. George Geddes sent tt
the museum of the New York state 50
ciety a clover plant that had q root foul
feet two inches in length. Louis Walk
hof traced the roots of a beet PLAN
downward four feet, where they entered
q drain pipe. Prof. Schubart found tn,
roots of rye, beans. and garden peas II
extend about four feet downward; o
winter wheat, seven feet in q light sub
soil, and forty-seven days after planting
The roots of clover one year old wer'
three and q half feet long; those of two
year-Old plants, four inches longer
Scientific american.
~O2A0Dt4C A0tt0I0s
To SELECT BEEF.-In selecting bee
take that which has q loose grain, easil!
yielding to the pressure, of dark rex
color, smooth, with whitish fat; if tn
lean is purplish and the fat is yellow, i
is poor beef. Grass fed is the lightest
or is the best, and next the heifcr.
Observation-Disclosures are mucl
more careful about bones than Ameri
cans. They not only scrape the bon'
once but twice, reserving the fragment
produced by the second scraping TO
making omelet savory, and then crack
ing the bone and boiling it in the soup
kettle.
CHOCOLATE KIssEs.-Three heapin,
t~ablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, ons
pound of granulated sugar, the whites
of four e0Qs: beat the epvs In a froth