Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
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AGRICULTURAL.
EXCESSIVE moisture is injurious to
sheep.
CHAMBERS and fancy in horses are
different notifications of the same dis.
ease.
A LINING of tarred paper in poultry
houses is recommended as q preventive
for lice.
In experiments with barley the best
effects were seen where heterogeneous ma
nures were used.
FARMERS this year should make q
determined effort to raise the mortgage
on their farms, whatever else they may
attempt to raise.
The most primitive way Of making
bread was to soak the grain in water,
subject it to pressure and then dry it by
natural or artificial heat.
PoTAToEs cut ten days or two weeks
before planting, and sprinkled with plas.
ter, will sprout earlier and grow better
than when cut and planted on the same
day.
PARsNIPs are used very much in
France for fattening neat cattle and
hogs. Steaming or boiling them is
strongly recommended, especially for
swine and poultry.
1T is reported from Jersey that the
demand for the island cattle is in excess
of all previous experience. France and
America IN competing with England
for any choice specimens.
1T is more honorable and dignifed to
be living independently on a farm, max.
ing good butter and cheese and raising
abundant crops are fine stock, than to
sit in high places and aid in making bad
laws.
OVER 60,OO0,000 pounds of artificial
butter wa manufactured in this coun.
try in 1878, much Of it being sold as the
genuine article. This produce has an
influence in depressing the price of the
poor grades of butter.
/ URGE farmers to associate that they
may have their inspiration kindled,
Farm life develops steadiness of char,
ter; but isolation not only dries up
human sympathies, but the intellect be.
comes moldy, unless a spirit of inquiry
ia awakened at some time of life.-Hon
jas. Wilson.
The island of Jersey, in the English
Channel, produces a remarkable vari
ETY. Of cabbage called the J~ersey-cow
cabbage, which grows to the height OF
three or four feet, and is cultivated fol
fodder. The stalk, which is tall and
very straight, il often made into walk.
ing sticks and when smOothed off and
vanished it is similar in appearance to
bamboo cane
THE heaviest animal ever said to have
come under the pole axe in Ireland, says
the Farmers Gazette (Dublin), was the
short-horn prize winner Jove. His live
weight was {, 696 pounds. 1t would seem
that England has not made great adj
vances in heavy weights, since the fat
Oh Of 1918, after being sick for three
weeks, was slaughtered, his carcass
weighing 1850 pounds, sinking offal.
MANY orchards become unproductive.
To restore them to productiveness SOW
them in clover, and when the clover is
we'll established turn in the hogs and
sheep. Their droppings will fertilize
the ground. They will pick up all the
worm falls, and this will wonderfully
lessen the destruction of fruit by worms.
Top dressing of rotten manure, leaf
mold, ashes, lime, etc, are be nefcial to
orchards that have been in bearing for a
few years, Orchards can only be kept
by good care, good manuring and good
pruning. Labor is indispensable to
success In fruit culture, as in all other
things.
ILATELY had a fine COW that, after
calving, gave bloody milk. I had the
calf suck the COW. As it did rot take
all her milk, we had to put it in the
swill tub. She continued to give bloody
milk for over three weeks. I thought
we should have to lose the use of her.
l asked a neighboring farmer if he knew
of any cure. He said he had heard that
saltpeter was good. / thought / would
try it. / dissolved, perhaps, one. third
of q te~aspoonful and mixed it in a warm
bran mash. Three or four days after /
asked my man if the milk looked any
better. "Oh, said he (being a French
many, ait is all white now" At all
events, we had no more bloody milk
from her. l would not say that salt
peter cured her, but the case is Just as /
state Weekly Globe.
In view of a fact that q large number
of cattle have died in the Platte valley
within the pasttwo weeks in consequence
of the unprecedented severe winter,
and that their carcasses lie strewn over
the ground for many miles, we desire to
call the attention of stock men and
country commissioners to the necessity,
in the interest of the general health, Of
having the carcasses of all dead animals
carefully collected and buried, or better
still, to have them cremated and this
wise and precautionary measure to pre-
vent tnis decaying matter from preg-
mating the atmosphere with poisonous
otal matter to be breathed by people
and breed diseas and suffering in commu-
mites. In view of all the precautionary
measures being taken by all civilized
peoples to prevent the spread of epidem-
les and in the light of scientific investi-
CATION, it neees no argument to convince
our enlightened citizen of the wisdom
and necessity for prompt action by our
authorities Western Mebyaskan.
A FEW years since an experimental
test was made in Illinois with a view of
ascertaining the actual difference in