Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-08-14
RURAL ECONOMY.


GREEN Rye il not suitable for mich
COVE
HALF-BRKED Jerseys or Attorneys an
among the best Of the dairy cows
A WEAK solution of ammonia 10 one
Of the best invigorators Of all kinds Of
plants.
CLOVER 10 - good for pigs rs it is fol
COWS. Pork can be made cheaper in
summer than in winter.
Sow . hundred pounds Of plaster, OF
some good fertilizer, over young grass
lands Is soon - cut. 1t will pay largely
WKKDY meadows may be turned oveI
this month; pillow corn stubbles and cul.
tivate two or three times before winter,
The crop il raised. Do not let it be
wasted either owing 10 heat, rain, or by
lodged grain. Act with energy to ave it.
THoUsANDs of bushels of grain are
ruined every year by bad stacking.
Only N remedy-keep the middle Of
the stack full enough.
FATTENING pigs should be pushed on
as rapidly a possible before the cold
weather. A pound of fat made now
costs less than that made next month,
and that costs less than the same made
in December. Remember that cold
weather wastes fat.
GROUND for oats should be fall-plowed
and left ridged, so that the cultivator or
harrow may fit it for seeding in early
sprin. The land for early potatoes
should also be plowed and MANFRED.
Spread the manure upon the pl0wed
ground and leave until spring; then pillow
under.
THIsTLEs and many other weeds may
be destroyed by cutting just before or
while in full bloom. They should be
cut as closely as possible, and in the
ase of thistles, if cut just before q rain,
all the better, as the hollow stems will
ELL with water, which is said to rot the
roots.
You've fall pigs should have plenty
Of milk, and, if the food is made milk
warm" they will thrive the better for
it. Small potatoes, boiled and mashed
in skinned milk, with a little bran, will
make them grow rapidly. Feed a little
at a time and often. The young pigs
stomach is very small, and overlooking
causes indigestion and prevents growth.
SOP ground for corn may be literally
top-dressed with coarse MANURE now, but
not plowed until near the time for plant
ing in the spring, when a dressing of
artificial corn fertilizer will be sufficient
for a good crop. Better employ an ex-
ira team in spring to pillow for corn than
turn a sod now. There is other and
much nor pressing work at this season.
THERE is . good deal of nourishment
in many of our weeds, and hogs will
thrive on them; but, asks some one,
don't the seed get into the manure and
SOW to the land again? Not if the
manure is piled and worked over twice
and allowed to heat between the work
ings and again after the second working
before spreading-the fermentation viii
efectually destroy the vitality Of all
seeds, and the manure made fine and
mellow by the process.
WHAT eats the Colorado potato beetle
Crows, quail, rose-breasted grosbeaks,
ducks, chickens, Guinea fowls, skunks,
toads, black snakes, granddady ~longlegs,
yellow mites, ladybirds, rust-red social
waspe, tiger beetles, ground beetles,
bugs, tachina flies, asilus flies.
Cut this oat, and post it where you can
see it, and don't destroy any such
friends, for they destroy many other in
sects a well.-Quincy Wnstern Agricut-
COMMENTING on q report against the
COW mixer published in the New
York Tribune a fortnight ago, the Toron-
to Globe remarks that " it scarcely needed
the emphatic condemnation of an assem-
bly, of practical farmers to show the in
v~ention up in its true colors," As moth
ing is better known than that it is a
matter of exceeding difficulty to keep
clean India rubber tubes through which
milk flows, and this objection alone il
ent to n~eutralize all the good
that the milking machine could accom-
:
1T is a fact first observed and made
known by an English farmer and agri-
cultural writer, Mr.. John Hannah re-
deceased-and widely confirmed
BY many experiments during several
years past, that the later stages of the
process diminish the proportion
IF -four and nutritive value of the wheat.
The time to secure the best grain il
when the kernel is still soft enough to
be crushed, but is comparatively free
from moisture, and breaks into meal
between the thumb-nails. - american
A~gricuhuyist.
AS to top-dressing grass land, q writer
in the Country Gentleman says: When
the land is thin and the grass intended
for hay or grazing, ! know of nothing
equal to q liberal dressing with we'll
manure, applied during the early
months. If . sufficient quantity
Of manure can not be obtained to give q
beral dressing to the entire tract of
land, go over q portion of it, and finish
the next winter. For red clover | top
dress with lime and salt, mixing one
part salt to two parts of good slaked
lime, and sowing broadcast earlyi the
Eve or six bushels OF the m xture
to the acre. l hsve found this mixture
to be an excellent fertilizer for all kinds
of grasses and wheat"
A VERY successful plan for q scare
crow has been tried by placing in Mr..
Crows way q number of grains with a
run through them. He il
bound to swallow one, and his note OF
alarm is soon sounded. 1t Is Impossible
for him to dislodge the grain, and If he
can be watched for q sufficient length Of
time, he will be seen to cut his own
throat by scratching at it. His usual
note is changed, and l can assure you
life to him 10 such q misery he would
even wish he were dead. It has been
noticed that after the note of alarm hai
been sounded, ali the crows in the vicin.
ity will leave that field, and approach il
no more that season. It IL . simple
thing, yet all who try it will find it 4
success.
Gull out undesirable fowls, and keel
only good ones. Pure-bred fowls are y
profitable, in their way, ~ other pure
bred stock. Feed young pullets with
boiled potatoes, mashed in the watel
they have been cooked in, and mixed,
while hot, with corn meal and cracked
wheat Feed this warm. and every
week give them some of the Imperial
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