Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-02-05
AGRICULTURAL

tCHS VI Hall o uOLcHy tudu any mctuOu
Of stalling or tying up each sheep.
IT is a singular fact that this season
nearly a many hogs were packed for
the six warn months as for the six
cooler ones.
A FARMER must be something be-
sides a laborer. He must be a man Of
resources, and raise by his OWL energy
to any emergency.
PICK up the odds and ends that are
going to waste around you. Hides,
horns, hoofs, bones, wax, moss and many
other tribes have a cash value.
of all the banks in New York failed
their failure would not infict 30 great a
loss on the nation as the failure of
dairying for a single year."-Er-G Coo
ern0r, 81 ymeur. 81
Do not grumble at the low prices of
your products. 1t don't help the mat
ter q bit. Just 20 to work and see If
you a ont lessen the cost of produc-
ton 80 as to leave you a margin for
profit, ever at low prices.
SHEEP growers in England claim that
a feed of cotton seed and turnips is not
only the safest for f~attening sheep, but
will put on the most fat and make the
best mutton at the least cost. 1t also
produces the strongest manure.
Do not attempt to keep too many
fowls together. One hundred In a
single yard will not produce half the
eggs they will ifdivided into four parts.
1t will cost no more to feed, but it will
be a little more trouble to attend to
them.
TREES received in q frozen condition
should be placed, without opening the
packages, in a cellar or similar place
where it is cool but free from frost, until
perfectly thawed, when they cansbe un-
packed, and either planted or placed in
a trench until convenient to set them
out. .
1T will take a long time to make any,
thing like q radical change in our style
of farm horses, but it will be done SO
surely az men have sense enough to see
that a 400 pound horse costs no more
to raise or keep than the veriest scrub.
If adjacent farmers will allow their
boys. to exchange labor" change
works." in farm parlance-the result
will be to create a spirit of emulation
that will make the boy love his home
and endeayor to excel in the work he is
to perform.
The manure made from a ton of corn.
meal Is estimated as worth sc IS, and as
the meal is now worth only $40 per ton,
the value for feeding would be reduced
to $l3.35 per ton, at which price it would
almost pay to feed to hogs, even at q
very low price of pork. t
The manure from a ton of clover hay
is estimated to be worth 1854, or about
as much as the hay is worth in many
places. 1t should be well understood
that clover hay ought to be fed on the
farm and never sold; if any hay is to be
sold let it be the English meadow, the
manure from which is only about hall
As much.
The average age of sheep is ten years
Cows have an average of fifteen years
Hogs have been known to live forty
years. The average of the horse is
twelve years. The elephant lives to
a very great age. There is a white ele.
plant now living in the Imperial
l,Menagerie in Russia that is said to be
, over $50 years old.
In many parts of England sheep are
extensively employed in m~aintalnine
I tae fertility of extensive breadths O.
; light soil, by directly consuming on the
ground the common grasses, as we'll q.
the ordinary green crops, in conjunction
with grain and linseed cake. Thi,
practice might be adopted with remu
nerative results in many parts of Penn
sylvania.
, WOMEN are beginning to be success
full rs farm managers. Why not? Be
cause farm work is the %prerogative O.
the male sex? Now we have a high re
spect for the woman who, at the ex
: pinse Of hard hands and sunburnec
cheeks, goes into her fields and directs
the labors of her employers. We arr
proud to record the fact that they are
Usually successful. "May their tribe
increase"
, , THE Indiana Farmer, relative to tn.
fat short horns exhibited last fall a
the Indiana state fair, says: eve
ere informed by one who can vouch fol-
the statement that some of the winnin,
short-horn cows at that exhibition from
another state had not been bred for foul
years. They were kept in hat condi
tion solely with a view to winning
prizes, and were shown at different stat,
. and county fairs throughout the fail
season."
A FARMER of experience says tina
the feet of a horse require more car,
: than the body. They need ten times q
mnph fpr in pno raaDont %hau orpo1rnr.
the entire horse. All the groomin,
A that can be done won't avail anythin,
, if the horse is forced to stand where hi
: feet will be filthy. In this case the fee
$ will become disordered, and then tn,
3 legs will get badly out of fix, and with
bad feet and bad legs there is not much
else OF the horse fit for anything.
. FARMERS are a queer sort Of folks
: As soon as they hear that pork is goins
! down in market, into town they rusl
, and try TO engage theirs before it get
down any lower, and 90 they help t.
! make the market duller by overstockin.
it, whereas, if they would stay home, ii
would not be long befor butchers would
be coming to them and bidding up tn.
> price. This suits the butchers who
help to growl and run the prices down,
; while they expect to double their money
invested. There is no reason why pori
should be 30 low in price, except the
panicky pressure made by the farmers
themselves.
To aid farmers in arriving at accur
acy in estimating the amount of lane
in different fields under cultivation, tht
following table is given: s yards wide
by 96S long contain l acre; 10 yards
wide by 4S4 long contains I acre; x
yards wide by 242 long contains l acre
40 yards wide by l2l long contains
acre; 20 yards wide by 69l long con.
tains acre; so yards wide by 604 long
contains | acre; 60 feet wide by 72s
long contains acre; ITO feet wide by
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