Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-22
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Cal.
THERE are hogs in Missouri that suck
cows, sitting on their launches to per.
form the operation.
In Santa Clara county, Cal, q farmer
raised ~thirty-eight tons Of pumpkins
and 800 bushels Of corn on seven acres,
without irrigation.
PRAlRIE fires in western Nebraska and
the northern cattle regions, set by In
dams, are reported to have burned over
such extended districts as to cause we'll
grounded fears that thousands Of cattle
will be starved before the new grass
comes.
THE Colorado Cattle Growers Asso-
citation will hold a meeting in Denver on
the 18th of January. 1t will be largely
attended by representative cattle men
from Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and
New Mexico. They propose to organize
for self-protection.
The first importation of American
meats into Germany, some years ago, re-
suited in failure. The last season 3d.
DOC, 900 pounds were imported there of
beef of the best quality, sewn tightly in
thick canvas, and kept while on board
in cases constructed for the purpose, and
kept cool.
The London agricultural Gazette says
the council Of the Hereford Herd Book
Society have come to q decision in all
cases as to the reception or rejection Of
entries, and hope to be able very shortly
to place it in the hands of the printer.
Certificates of entries for volume 10 are
$50 bulls and 1888 cows.
AT a late meeting of a committee of
the Suffolk Stud Book Association in
England, il was resolved that entries for
the first volume of the Stud Book should
be closed on March l, and that the list
of subscribers to whom alone copies
would be issued Except with permission
of the committed would close at an early
date.
MEssRs. d. TALMADGE's Sons Il Co.,
New Orleans, in their annual circular,
report a larger area of rice planted than
usual in Louisiana. The yield is hardly
up to earlier expectations, but the aver
age quality will be better than last sea
! son. The crop of 1878 was 143, 600
7 barrels; this of 1888 il estimated at
, 1856, 900 barrels.
!, THE hulless-oats fends are again in
the field in those sections were live
/, newspapers are not taken. The men
= who do not believe in "book farming"
= are the ones swindled with this new oats
I at $40 bushel. They have been known
! in the west among reading farmers fol-
= forty years, and discarded as of no prac.
! teal value; but that makes no difference
q to the o reading farmer, whose cupid
q ity tempts him to put faith in oily gam
: mon sharks Prairie Farmer.
The best whitewash for poultry
houses: Into the whitewash pail drop q
Y tea-cupful of soft-boiled rice, and mix
thoroughly. Then pour into a quart OF
/ cold water, say ten or twelve drops OF
crude carbolic acid. Mix this into the
rest and swab the interior of your hen
q house with it. For outside, use rock
= salt dissolved instead of boiled rice, and
>. dispense with carbolic acid. No othel
t preparation of whitewash equals this fol
poultry houses.
In no other business does filthiness
. and negligence work so much mischief al
in the handling of milk. Wooden pail,
: are unfit for use in the dairy, because il
. is next to impossible to keep them clean
> while tin pals are easily kept clean
8 Sugar of milk, when dried into a gum
; is very difficult to dissolve and can only
= be removed by careful washing anC
scalding. The fumes of stagnant slops
! when conveyed to the milk, carry with
q them the seeds of destruction, which
/, : readily multiply and destroy it.
ONE of our readers sends us the fol
lowing, clipped from a local paper, an'
asks, "Who car beat it." "Mr. Ma
thias Wellendorf, of st. Mary's, Ell
county, Pa, has an acre of ground from
O which he this year produced $50 bushel
of %turnips, ITO bushels of potatoes, G.
bushels of corn, II bushels of beans ant
two loads of pumpkins. The turnips a
e 40 cents a bushel are worth $50; tn
corn at rs cents, $45; the beans at 81
n 50; and the pumpkins at 81 a load, 81
which makes a grand total of 5000 as tn
e proceeds of one acre."-Practicdl Farmer
4 A "HANDY THING" to have in tn
!, house is a jar or bottle of lime-water
= Pour water over unslacked lime 9TH
quantity is not important, as only a Gel
!. tain amount will be slacked), and corl
up for use. A spoonful of clear liqui,
. stirred into milk, cream or bread spOng
) in danger of souring, will prevent tina
catastrophe. 1t also ~cleanses bottles
etc.. that have an unpleasant odor. 4
= person who needs milk, but whose diges
ton is so weak "A not to manage it, will
y find no inconvenience if into a glass O
the tactical fluid is stirred a wine-glass o
y lime. water. The difference in taste
) not perceptible.
LIVE HOGS are now worth but from
y 81 to 4 cents a pound in our market, an
It yet we are importing bacon and ham
from the east, and it costs the consume
Is from 16 to Is cents a pound. 1t woul
seem that here is a margin for good prof
n its to those who have the means to bu,
hogs and the skill to convert them int
e the articles above-named. That just a
e good bacon and hams can be made il
p California AZ in any other coun ry, ha
n often been proven by the doing it, an
yet We have but few regular slaughter
It ing establishments in the state, wher
" Strengthening is carried on systematically
k and where bacon and hams are cured 70
It general California Pope,
) IT may afford a crumb of comfort u
= American agriculturists who are dread
ing the results of overproduction, t.
know that English writers like Mr.. Cairt
have forcibly summed up 1.-The brad view
u of the present state of matters, whel
they tell us that quite one-half of eacl
loaf consumed in England is Of foreigl
origin; that one-fourth part of thei
whole meat and dairy produce comes Il
q them from across the sea, and that almos
the entire additions which may hereafte
be sought to fill the ever-multiplyinl
mouths of their dense population mus
be drawn from other lands.
IT is a fact, we'll known by experienced
d grape growers, that very rich and highl,
MANFRED land rarely produces a Crap
TINT Ia rich In faSfa or nil uiold a hinl