Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-03-27

SeesonAble Hints.

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days may be spent in chopping the WOOD
for next summer. i,
If wheat appears poor in spots, it Will
nav to 20 over it now with fine manure
or a good fertilizer.
EvERGREENs transplant to best al
vantage al a time when their buds are
beginning to swell for a new set OF leaves
LEAVE the sunny situations OF your
flower beds for g%eraniums, hellotroPes
and such plants as need the direct rays
of the sun.
IT is fallacy that land needs bulk in
manure. A hundred pounds OF one ma
terial will be more e~tfectual than a ton
of another kind.
MANY seeds that have been kept over
for the garden from last year should be
tested. 1t will not do to risk sowing
them unless they are such sorts as Will
keep well for three or o years.
ALL the spare hours should now be EN-
ployed in repairing, painting, and getting
tools, implements, etc, ready for active
work in the spring, that no time may be
lost when time is of the most value.
COMFORT in cows promotes secretion
of milk, hence groups of trees in a pas
ture are invaluable during hot weather,
and entire lack of trees should be sup
plemented by artificial shelter of some
kind.
SALT cannot be used largely as a fer
tilizer, but it helps to kill lice on cab
hages, helps to induce "curling in" or
heading, and on onions and cabbages a
moderate use of it induces moisture and
promotes thrift.
CoRN-CoBs are among the richest OF
vegetable products, in potash, known.
Hence they are valuable as manure.
They are difficult to break down except
by burning. Their value as fuel renders
burning economical.
In arranging your garden, long rows
which may be plowed and cultivated by
the horse, are preferable to the old-fash-
toned beds which have to be spaded up
and worked by hand. 1t looks better,
besides, and the labor is lighter.
If American %dairymen would. resist
the the encroacbments of oleomargarine,
they must one and all do what they can
to improve dairy butter. The average
consumer would rather have handsome,
yellow, "patent butter" than white,
jsrdy looking butter.
FEED your land before it gets poor.
Give it all the manure you can get or
haul, and it will enrich you. Starve it
by getting off crops continually and re-
turning nothing, and it will bankrupt
you. Feed the land literally and it will
feed and clothe you.
The best mangold for cattle is the yell
low globe. Farmers, save a piece of
ground for this valuable crop; it will
pay a heavy interest On both land and
money invested. Many farmers consider
roots poor feed, but they should look
into the matter more. If roots do moth
ing more than help digestion they are of
great value. Fed in connection with
other food, they are the life of the ami
NAL.
To prevent honey from candying after
being strained from the comb, put it in
a pot over the fire, boil it gently, and as
the scum rises skim it off until it be-
comes clear, when it can be turned in
the vessel you wish to put it in, where it
will keep clear and fresh without candy
ing. There are many persons who can
not eat new honey, but when 70 pre-
pared, no injurious effects will follow.
PEAS and beans, corresponding more
with the elements of fat than the vari-
Gus grains, are better adapted to the pro-
duction of wool than either wheat, corn,
rye, barley, oats or buckwheat. There
latter, together with the rutabaga tur-
min hosnr noo,v1tor1~y oIortal fN Tho npn.
duction of fat, should be used mostly
for the feed of sheep when undergoing
the process of fattening.
AN Ohio farmer grows over 500 acres
of sweet corn annually. The drying
house employs 80 persons. The fresh
ears are steamed five minutes "to set
the milk" the grain is then cut off rap
idly with cutters having C faces;
then spread ON perforated zinc tables,
and head applied four or five hours from
long furnaces, stirring constantly; then
slowed in barrels, three bushels in each,
for shipment. Great care is required to
have the orn of the right age, and to
have it dried enough to keep well. Four
bushels of corn on the cob give one
bushel dried, the wholesame price of
which lie $40 and $22 per barrel.--Ou
american Farmers.
EXPERIMENTS on a somewhat extend.
ed scale have been begun in Canada for
the Production of beet-root sugar. Silesian
beet roots have been planted, and found
to produce an average of from twenty to
twenty-five tons of beets per acre. Some
tons of the roots shipped to Germany
have been found equal in sugar-produc.
ing quality to the beets grown in tina,
country. The Quebec government ha.
granted a bonus Of $4,000 to aid the es-
adjustment of a beet-sugar factory in
that province, and a proposition is under
consideration for the establishment Of {
similar factory in Ontario, with
capacity Of $50 tons per day, and at
cost of $3.50, 600. Such an establishment
would employ 600 workmen.. The ex
pertinent is likely to be tried in botl
provinces.
THE farmers who lifted" the mort
cages from their land during the t1usl
times caused by the var were the fortu
nate ones; while those who went int
debt have generally failed. In view O
the prosperity of the farming class dur
ing the past year, it is well to remembe
this experience. A combination o
causes has produced fair prices, in cor
1 junction with an immense crop. Blu
the Rural World reminds the farmer
that the European war will not las
always; that next year perhaps ther
will be q larger crop in Great Britai
than has been produced in fifty years
that but a very small portion of u crop
may be wanted abroad, and that in cor
sequences the very lowest prices ma
prevail for all III farm crops" To b
! f~orewarned is to be forearmed. Fal
ers, therefore, who take in money fo
, their crops this year had better pay thei
debts. Instead Of mourning new debt
: pay of the old ones. Get in an ind,
pendent condition. The farm will a
: ways make the industrious farmera goo
living. Resolve to owe no man q cen
; Pay as you go, and peace of mind tbs
> the debtor cannot enjoy will be yours.
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