Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-06-18
GRICULTURA

IRON nails thrown into the drinking
water will make a good tonic for the
fowls.
A FARMER who has tried it, speaks
in the highest praise of gas tar for paint
ing wagon wheels, stating that it tight
ems tires and spokes better than anything
else that can be tried.
The best soil for beans is a mellow
clay or sandy loan. Prepare the land
as soon as for corn, Fl tied in the incest
manner. Plant ten days or two weeks
after planting corn. Marrow beans re-
quire one and one-eighth bushels of
seed per acre; mediums, three-fourths of
a bushel; pea beans, one-half bushel;
kidney or other large beans, more, in
proportion to size. A fair crop is twenty
bushels per acre.
IHAD a a some years ago that had
q large wart on her side where the har-
ness rubbed it sore. In su the
flies made it worse. To prevent this |
put On a good daub Of tar, and in a few
weeks the wart was killed and disap-
peared. l have frequently tried it
since on cattle and horses, and seldom
had an occasion to use a second applica-
ton. The remedy is simple and effec-
tual.-- Corr spondence Prairie Farmer.
PoTATo water, or water in which po-
tatoes have been boiled, is now recon-
mended in various quarters as not only
an effective but an immediate remedy
for lice on cows and other cattle; also
for ticks. The affected parts are to be
bathed with the potato water; one APP
~plication is generally sufficient. This
remedy (if remedy it proves) has the
merit of being exceedingly simple, easy
employed, and without danger of injury
to the cattle.-Nev York World.
THE use of a COWS milk in nervous
disorders is very highly recommended by
our best physicians. They prescribe it
to be used at all hours, and recommend
the patient to drink as much az four
quarts per day if agreeable. The con
slant and exclusive use of this article
after a time becomes very tiresome, and
the milk acquires an unpleasant taste.
1t may in a degree be avoided by heat.
ing the milk and adding enough salt
to flavor it, in this form doing as much
good as in any other.
A CoRREsPoNDENT in the Rura
World shows some points of difference
between British and American methods
of feeding stock, as follows: In great
Britain turnips are cut, reduced to 8
pulp and mixed with cut hay OF straw
and allow to ferment. Hay and straw
are always cut up and mixed with meal
Stock raisers in England buy oil cake
which Americans consider too expensive
They wet and use it with cut hay and
straw and 4esl and pulped turnips
The manure s,om such feeding is regard
ed as of great value.
EXPERIENCE with the Colorado beetle
should prompt the early planting of po'
tatoes; also abundant manuring and
good preparation of the soil. The latter
often doubles the crop. An extra l0C
bushels of potatoes per acre are well
worth working for. 1t does not pay to
plant large seed. Small well ripened
seed will be most profitable when its cost
is considered. After much observation
there appears no difference in the crop
from small and large seed. Of course
there is a limit, and potatoes as large as
hickory nuts are not referred to.
REGARDING borers il peach trees, says
the Country Gentleman, it is useful to
heap a peck of dry Stacked lime about
the peach trees after the grubs had been
picked, and before the earth is drawn
back to the tree. The lime kills any
grubs that may be left. If a live grub
is thrown into the dry lime, it will soon
die; this may be tried to satisfy an in
quiring mind. Having used lime in
this way in 1877, the writer found no
borers at all in his trees in 1878, and
therefore has confidence in this means
of representing the depredations of this
pest.
LORD DERBY is now one of the half
dozen wealthiest men in England in the
sense of having an enormous amount of
spending money. His income is little
short of a million. He is childess, and
his wife has a jointure of $4,000 a year
FROM her late husband, Lord Salisbury.
Unlike many other great noblemen, his
resources are not depleted by having
various places to keep up, for except a
villa at Kent, he has no rural abode save
Knowsley Hall. He has, moreover, no
expensive tastes, cares nothing for sport,
and rarely enters his stables. In fact, he
is Just one of those who would have been
as happy or happier a. an active, hard
working professional man.
MUCH clover seed is wasted by sowing
too early and also by scattering it upon
the surface without covering. All seed
should be covered, although under very
favorable circumstances they would
sprout and grow, ven If not covered.
If you harrow your wheat, that should
be done as soon as the ground is dry,
then SOW the clover Immediately after
the harrow, the gradual leveling down
of the little burrows made by the harrow
teeth will cover the seed. When clover
seed is sown on the surface toe early a
warn rain will sprout it, then a frosty
night will destroy the yonng ~rootlets
which have not yet penetrated into the
ground and the seed is wasted.
A MASSACHUSETTS farmer thinks a
line around a cornfield is a relic of q
barbarous age. He does not want to
keep the crows out of his cornfield
where he considers them among his best
friends, as they destroy the cut-worm.
He tars his corn 80 that they will not
touch it, his method being as follows:
To one peck of corn take mi pint of tar,
put the tar into a kettle, turn in three
quarts of boiling water, stir it one min
ute. This will dissolve the tar, when,
as quickly as possible, add the corn
(don't be afraid of hot water); stir it all
the time it is in the water, which may be
one minute, or possibly a tri1e more;
then drain off the water; add a little
plaster of Paris to the corn; string it
will separate the kernels, 80 that it is as
good as good dropping as u~nprepared
corn; then spread is just 70 it will not
heat.
FARMERS should spare the birds.
While it is undeniable that they are
symetimes severe on the corn and sprout-
ing grain, it is nevertheless a fact that
that they compensate for it by destroy
ing insects that might do more damage.
The swallow, swift and nighthawk are
the guardians of the atmosphere. They
check the increase of insects that would
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