Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-11-26
Park HINTS.

FARM HINTS. |,
CABBAGE supplies an excellent auxil-
AIRY for the winter feeding Of chickenA
IF the wool Of q sheep will pay the OF.
penses Of care and Keeping, h not the
carcass increase clear gain.
Do mot let your lambs breed the frst
year, but give . little extra care the first
WxAN your lambs at i've months old,
and see that the ewes bags do not spoil,
but milk them twice 1.-THE second and
fifth days) after weaving.
A RICHMOND (Ill man made in one
year, from 100 hens, $3.50 dollars net
profit, besides supplying eggs and poul-
try for home consumption.
To cure q horse from paving in the
stable, fasten = short piece of log
chain-say FIVE or six links-by means
Of = light strap TO his leg, just above the
knee.
srAaNANr and impure water which
cows drink while at pasture h q Of
the most prominent causes Of bad odors
in milk.
TAKE care of the health of your
your sheep. Put q little pine tar in
your feed tr0ughs in winter, and give .
little sulphur occasionally with their
salt.
The little " greasy Merinos," ~ they
are sometimes derisively termed, though
possessing fewer attractions for the eye
Of the casual observer than most other
breeds of sheep, are the backbone of the
wool growing industry of more than one
nation.
A FARMER in Streator, Ill, attempt
ing to smoke vermin out Of his hen
house with q bunch of hay, could not
| get enough Of what Wa left Of It to build
his kitchen fire. He Is going to read .
good agricultural paper nov, 20 - to
6nd out how to keep the new hen-house,
when built, clear Of the pests.
| SAVE the potato seed. We do not
mean the tubers, but the seeds within
the balls or fruit. 1t IL from these that
new varieties are produced. They may
Be planted in the greenhouse or asunny
window now. Little tubers will have
formed ere another planting season rolls
round.
DR. HORNE said: "Never pet q bull
under any circumstances" In this he
is very much mistaken. There il no
domestic animal but what is improved in
condition, docility, and more easily
handled and controlled BY petting.
And q bull Is no exception to tho rule.
Mr.. BENJAMIN p. WARE recently
remarked at the Farmers Convention
held At Auburn, N. T., that heavy corn
land was good for onions, and better the
second year than when first devoted to
the crop. The manure should, If posi-.
bic, be applied in the fall.
Gov. JOSEPH GALE, who resides in
Eagle Valley, Union County, Oregon,
farmed sixteen acres of ground this year
and on that raised 5000 pounds of beans
of different varieties, 10000 pounds of
onions, about $4,000 pounds Of peaches,
1900 pounds of tomatoes, $50 bushels
of potatoes and q vast amount of
squashes.
EVERY kind of litter and waste matter,
except weed in seed, may be gathered
and spread in the yards. Abundant
litter of the stables and pens will be val
liable. Straw 10 worth tOo much for
feed to be trodden under foot. If the
straw and chat after threshing are in
the way buy some thin steers, or take
some cattle for feeding OF shares, but
give something besides the straw.
If you would feed proitably you must
hpSnN tho Snafrpn into Tho ~vc1ln-.
Summer feeding pays better than win
ter, because cattle need less to keep up
the natural heat of the body in summer,
and their blood is kept cool by the grass.
These elements of uccess car be brought
into winter feeding by warm houses and
the use of roots and oil-cake.
THE Nbydskd Farmer recommends a
new kind Of wheat: "Tally one more for
grass wheat" Farmers in this vicinity
report that chinch bugs, which have in
jured other kinds of spring wheat, have
not disturbed grass wheat. It is GER
tsinly the surest kind of wheat for this
soil and climate, and is fast becoming a
general favorite.
The Massachusetts, POwQhms0M recon-
mends a. q proper remedy for infamed,
hard or caky udder in cows, the follow.
ing: A pound to q pound and . half of
Ell som salts, according to the size of
the animal, dissolved In water, adding
two tablespoonfuls of ground ginger,
should be given, hot water applied to
the udder twice . day, the parts to be
wiped dry with asoft cloth.
EVERY farmer should consider the
conditions of his soil and surroundings
before he decides what il best for his
particular farm; for that practice which
may be best for n farmer may be ruin
Gus to another. There are few II any de.
~partments Of agriculture where rigid
rules of action ~ be laid down. The
successful farmer mSst necessarily be a
thinking, observing man.
A FARMER writes that in dealing with
the cabbage louise his Ian, In the garden,
Ia too look over the young plants in about
ten days or = fortnight after planting,
and to hold the leaf In one hand and to
rub 1t over with the fingers of the other
hand just hard enough TO destroy the
louise. When the reserves come up and
the leaves are larger he uses an old
toothbrush always with good effect.
THE most profit from . aheep is to
raise a lamb that will sell for moro then
the mother is worth. This can easily be
done by caring we'll for the earliest
lambs. A lamb, ninety days old and
we'll fattencd, will often sell for 90 in
the cities, and half that in the country
villages. A half breed Ootswold lamb
fed with q little mixed oatmeal and
bran, and sucked by a native eve, will
mako m excellent market lamb.
CIDER il preserved in Normandy BY
putting half q pint Of sweet oil in the
cask and plugging the bung-hole with q
wad of cotton. The oil, being lighter.
does not combine with the cideS, but
forms . thin covering which prevents
the oxygenof the air coming in contact
with 1t. The cotton filters the ar en-
teriBg a. the cider is drawn Of, 20 that
no insects or impurities can pass. Cider
In bottles is put in the cellar, the bottles
being covered with q few inches Of earth
which keeps the cider at nm euuable