Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-04-03
FARM AND HOME
ssAsonabls Motss.

In ALWAYS feed your hands - well =
a. you feed yourselves, for the lab0rinI
Is men are the bone and sinew OF the land
u and ought to be well treated.
q, MAKE your fences high and strong g
le they will keep cattle and pigs out. l
you have brush make your lots strODI
{. and secure and keep the hogs from tn
ID corn.
h WHEN rainy, bad weather comes, .
% you can't work out of doors, cut, spill
N and pile your wood, make your racks
n fix your fences or gates, and patch tn
. roof of your barn or house.
Q VEGETATION purifes the air-frstly
because it absorbs carbonic acid; sec
ondly, because under the influence o.
9 sunlight it exhales an equivalent in oxy
gen; and, lastly, because it produces
ozone.
FEED your land before it gets poor
Give it all the manure you can make
and haul, and it will enrich you. Starvt
it by taking off crops continually and re.
turning nothing, and it will bankrupt
! you. Feed the land literally and it will
+ feed and clothe you.
MANY farmers think it don't pay to
!, bother with much gardening; but agood,
large garden, well planted and we'll
worked, will give a liberal profit from
. the sale of surplus vegetables, after sup
plying the home table the season through
with all the vegetables desired.
Do not allow ashes Of any kind to Be
wasted. It will pay to haul leached
ashes several miles, when one has his own
team and . laborer at fair wages. Coal
ashes, when spread around berry bushes
of any sort, or around grape vines, will
aid materially in producing large and
fair fruit.
KEEP your stock constantly gainingin
fesh. Use the most u~nfailing vigilance
and diligence to secure this. The mo
ment they begin to 60 down-hill dollars
are running out of your pockets, even
though you don't feel, hear or zee 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.
A CROP of English hay, weighing two
tons, removes from the soil about sixty.
two pounds of nitrogen, seventy pounds
of potash, and sixteen pounds Of phOs-
phoric acid. From an acre, q crop of
clover hay, weighing two-and-a-half tons,
abstracts sbout It's pounds Of nitrogen,
ITO pounds of potash, and thirty-two
pounds Of phosphoric acid. Two or
three crops grown in succession, and
without manure, would partially exhaust
even the best of land.
FEED sparingly of the common soil
cake" or chambers "scraps," that is
sold for use in poultry yards 10Y a-days.
A moderate allowance-twice a week
is good for them. But over-feeding this,
or permitting hungry birds to have con-
slant access to it, in a mass, is detrimen-
tai rather than beneficial. 1t will scour
them, if fed too freely-and induce lay
ing hens to drop "soft-shelled" eggs,
very freqently. Cooked coarse meal,
alternated with scraps, for artiicially-
fed fowls, is much better than continu-
ally giving them the latter. When they
have a good grass run in the summer, the
insect food they will gather is all
sufficient without any "oil cake" any.
way.
M. COLOGNE, q noted horticulturist
of Bruges, has been very successful with
potatoes by planting whole tubers thirty
inches apart in the row, or cut in half
At twenty inches of distance. The sets
are placed on the surface, and q slight
covering of soil drawn over them. It il
claimed for this plan that the seed
sprouts very quickly, and their develop
ment is also fastened, which is a point
gained in avoiding the destructive potato
disease. The earth is gradually drawn
up around the plants as they increase in
size and a. the requirements of the CROP
appear to suggest. 1t is further claimed
in favor of this treatment, air and heat
have an opportunity of gaining a freel
access to the roots than by any other,
and according to our foreign authority
this method deserves to be fully tested,
not only on account of the acceleration
of growth, but because of an alleged in
crease of yield.
AN English writer in the journal O,
the Royal Agriculture! Society assumes to
have made q discovery in top-dressine
green sward with lime, and its restora-
tive effects, and describes the process
somewhat in detail. Now, if the writer
had visited this country, where English
farmers imagine agricultural science to
be in its infancy, he would have found
that the application of lime to sward OF
sod is q common practice here, especially
upon pasture lands. We have known
sward to afford the very best pasture fol-
fifty years, without breaking up, and 30
maintained by the top-dressing of lime
once in from six to ten years, say of
from thirty to City bushels per acre
These pastures, which mostly abound
in clay mounds, after being grazed down
are restored knee deep with the richest
and most nourishing heritage in from
four to five weeks. The truth il,
nowhere has lime a marked effect and
can be used with more profit than in the
renovation Of pastures.
The successful farmer Is he who pro.
vides c~onveniences for the care of hi
property and the performance of hi
work; he counts time as an important
item in the yearly calculation, and cart
Of all his various effects as q factor in thu
annual returns. When he puts the horss
in the stable there is a place for the har
ness where it will be safe from weather
or any other damage; his wagons and
tools are provided with coverings to pre-
serve them; about his premises will bt
found a little shop or room where HI
keeps saws, hammers, vises. augers, anC
the various tools that are needed to meme
and put in order the different machines
he uses. These simple articles proven
days and weeks of delay, besides addin)
to the length of time implements vii
last. 1t pays to have conveniences, ane
also to get what you do buy of goo<
quality .-Lamcastev Farmer.
TIE Butter, Cheese and Egg Reporte
tells of . Mr.. Benton who keeps clever
different kinds of fowls, and il very sue
cessful in their management. Mi. Ben
ton found weak I've and wood ashes al
e~fectual remedy for the canker. TIL,
doctors recommend chlorate of potash
Ashes are also excellent for the hens Il
wallow in, and he keeps . box in eact
coop for that purpose. This efectually
keeps of lice. The flowers of suIphul