Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-08-21
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
seasonsbls Hints.
A FARMER, after careful experiment,
has concluded that to card steers is to
make them lose fesh. Two yoke fed ex-
actly alike, the one carded and the other
not, showed q gain for the yoke mot
carded. The name result occurred when
the carding wa changed to the other
steerA
MopERArELY fat animals are the
most profitable. Every excessively fat
animal has been fed at q loss during the
latter part OF it, feeding. When an ami
NAL is ready for market, sell it: II there
ID feed left, buy some more lean animals
and feed them. "The nimble s~ixpence"
brings the profit.
THE labor required to kill . hundred
weeds, well1grown and firmly rooted,
viii kill 10000 when just sprouted. 1t
il easier in every respect to 60 owe your
ground three times when weeds are in
the earliest stages Of their existence,
than n 6 after they have become firmly
established.
IT has been found by chemical analy-
sis that mornings milk is not nearly 80
rich and nutritious a. evenings milk,
and will not yield more than half as
much butter to a given quantity. The
fatty matter increases as the day pro-
crosses from two and one-quarter per
cent. in the morning, to three and n
half at noon, and five and one-half at
night.
The Gardeners Monthly gives this adj
vice in the packing of choice pears for
transportation: "a pear should be put
in clean paper and lain in dry moss. An
inch in thickness Of moss should be be-
tween each pear, and after all are in,
then the box filled tightly with moss.
If n decays then the moisture Is
quickly absorbed by the dry moss, and
the others are not affected. Besides the
moss gives an elasticity-breaks the
shock of the blows of the baggage
smashers, who seldom deliver a box with
out first !" knocking the spots" out Of it.
A HERMAN nays in the Plouqhman /:
~ wa so much annoyed with the little
pests, hen lice, that I could not go into
the hen-house without being covered
with them. was told that stramonium
(called by some henbane or stinkweed)
would clear them out. ] got the weed
and hung it on the roosts and strewed it
about the house and in the nest boxes,
and to my great JOY they o disap-
peared, and have not seen one since. 1t
Is now six or seven years since l COM
menced to use it. l cultivate this weed
for the purpose of using it in my hen.
houses"
Mn. SCHULZ, of Little Falls, N. Y.
estimates that the land in pasturage and
hay requisite for the support of q COW il
is three acres; pnd this is the estimate
for moderately good dairy farms in Eng
land. In Belgium ten acres Of land sup
port two cows, heifer, and one year
ling or calf; but when the calves are
sold of young, and cows in full milk are
only kept, the proportion is two cows t.
eeven and one-half acres. Colman est
mates three acres of pasture a. requisite
for q COW in Berkshire county, Mass.
while in some towns two acres of pastur
age are sufficient. Nj. Harrington, il
the report of the American Dairyman'
Association, thinks that on the averags
four acres are required per cow, for sum
mer and winter keep; while X. A. Will
lard thinks that in Herkimer county, N
Y, one and one-half to two acres of pas
ture per COW will answer, and in some
exceptional cases one acre.-Scaentif
Farmer.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the New
England Farmer that he finds air-slacket
lime applied to the potato tors will Kill
the Larvae of the Colorado potato beetle
This is also the experience of q CORE
spondent of the Mirror and Farmer, VIII,
says: "To years ago the Colorado bee
tie attacked my potato crop. After try
ing various things without success,
stumbled on a cask of lime that had BIZ
come air-slacked. l commenced to dus
it on the tops, and wherever it fell o.
the slugs they turned black and 500
dropped off and died. l passed over tn
field three times between, hoeing an
blossom time and found it not only sur
death to the larve, but a material benz
fit to the crop. Last year / tried tn
same remedy in another part of the tow
with the same good result" We read Q
a man who placed 200 potato bugs in
bottle and sprinkled lime over then
Within one hour not n was left alive
On the following day he sprinkled linn
over his potato patch, and on the mex
morning found tens of thousands of bug
living dead. The experiment is at leai
worth trying.-American Rural Home.
AN article Of diet of almost universs
consumption among the poorer classes i
Russia is the variety of home-mad
cheese known as "Tworog," of whic
more than 1000, 900 pounds are sold al
nually in st. Petersburg alone. II
mode of preparation is very simpl,
Sour skim milk is placed over night in
warm oven, and poured the next da
upon a sieve, where it is allowed to r,
main till all the whey has run of. tn
curd is then packed tightly in q woode
vessel, and covered with q lid made to &
exactly within it. On this heavy weight
are placed, no ~ to keep up q constan
pressure on the mass OF cnrd; and tn
space between the lid and the top of tn
vessel is filled with cold water, which
frequently renewed. Tworog cheese il
in fact, nothing more than hard presse
curd. In the northwestern and southern
governments of the empire it is oftel
made from sleeps milk, and in Besss
rabia a superior quality made from tn
whole milk is prepared, which possesse
far better keeping properties than tn
ordinary sort, and which is exported i
considerable quantities to Wallachis
Moldavia, and even to Austria.-Amev'
can Daiyyman.
FoR ounce and plum trees salt is al
that is required to keep them in
healthy vigor. In crops like barley
oats, wheat, clover, and all the grasses
there il Al apparent value in its use th,
first season; mot ~ much the second, be
cause salt II an absorbent of ammonia