Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-08-27
AGRICULTURAL.

week.
The value of q COW depends much
more upon the length of the milking
season than upon the quality of the milk
given for q few weeks.
For throat distemper in q horse CRATE
fine q small green wild turnip, or, if dry,
give q heaping spoonful, mixed with
bran or oats. 1t lever fails. Good for
cough, also.
IT is said that every ton of dried to-
bacco leaves carried of exhausts from
the soil, in mineral matter, as much as is
contained in fourteen tons of the grain
of wheat.
The following rule in blowing is re-
commended: Never turn up over one or
two inches of unfertile subsoil in one
season, and, when 30 turned up, the land
should receive a dressing of manur
BEANS should not be hoed when the
vines are wet, a. it is said to make them
rust. Plant refugee for late crop, es.
pecially for picking. Pinch the stem
of limas of, when they reach the top of
the pole.
CRors must eat as we'll as the owner,
and therefore the coil should be we'll
MANFRED. Crops which leave land bet
ter than they found it make both the
farm and the farmer rich. The best fer
tilizer of any soil is a spirit of industry,
enterprise and intelligence.
A WASHINGTON COUNTY pa paper
thinks that the prize system at county
fairs has never accomplished any go.<,
but, on the contrary, has run the 5cie,
ties in debt very often and crer@oo eao
feeling, and should be done LAY WIN.
1t recommends in its ster< 'ne giving
out of diplomas or medSr
HENS do much beka when allowed q
free range outdooEansl wnea Gonnneo.
In France it b. oeen iouhu 1nat with
twentv Kent. only of their eggs fail
w hstc,ff with less freedom forty per
cert |Hiled, and in close confinement
60 per cent. were not Matched.
"A PERSON who has tried it says that a
handful of tobacco stems placed in the
box in which the dog sleep will entirely
rid him of heas, and that a leaf or two
OF the same weed put in a setting hens
nest keeps vermin at q respectful dis
lance. These are two more things to-
bacco is good for.
TOADs live almost wholly upon slugs,
caterpillars, Aeetles and other insects,
making their rounds at night while the
farmer is asleep--and the birds, too
and the insects are supposed to be hay
ing their own way. English farmers
understand these facts so well that they
purchase toads at so much a dozen and
turn them loose.
The farmer who has a supply of roots
O. hand with which to feed his stock is
now reaping the reward of good manage
ment. Roots fed at this season. not ONLY
serve to increase the flow of milk and
give color and flavor to the butter from
fresh milch cows, but cleanse the blood,
tone up the system and place all classes
of cattle in a generally healthy condi-
ton.
BEWARE of drinking too much cold
water while you are working in the sun,
and do not plunge suddenly into a cold
bath. If you are near a brook, wet
your head, put leaves into your hat, and
frequently put the hands into water,
letting them remain there for a.consid-
cradle time. The effect will be soothing
upon the whole system, and it will reduce
thirst.
A FRENCH veterinary surgeon, to
prevent the attacks of flies about the
of horses, advises painting the in
side of the ears, or any other part es-
pecially troubled, with q few drops OF
empyreumatic oil of juniper. The odor
is said to be uncomfortable to flies, and
that they will keep at q distance from
the parts 80 treated. Drivers will do
we'll to make a note of it.-Pyairie
Farmer.
PROF. L. B. ARNOLD recently stated
that he had taken the milk of three pat
rons of a cheese factory, in October, who
were feeding nothing but grass, and the
milk of three others who fed nothing
but corn sown broadcast. He took an
equal quantity of the milk of each, and
curdling it with the same amount of
rennet, at the N temperature, found,
after drying the curd, that the milk of
the c0rn-fed COW gave six and one-half
Fer centum in favor of corn fodder over
grass.
ACCORDING to the Maine Farmer. a
leveled of twenty feet square
a pen where COWS had been yarded,
spread q bushel or more of wood ashes,
prepared the ground properly, sowed it
to onions, watered them just as they
up with tepid manure water, and
gathered twenty bushels. This would
be about two and half pounds of onions
to every square foot, or ut the rate of
about 2,15O bushels per acre. A big
story, but not impossible when all con-
ditions are favorable.
Cows will quickly fall off in their
unless they have plenty Of clean
water within convenient reach. They
will suffer considerably from thirst be-
fore, they will travel long di tances for
water, until they become feverish, they
will drink too much, and this going
from one extreme to the other will affect
unfavorably the health of the COW and
cause q decrease of milk. Cows are kept
for producing milk, and any un-
nececessary exertion that they are
obliged to make to procure food or drink
will divert jvst 50 much of their energy
from milk production.-Amherst Bee.
LET any farmer try the experiment of
a lot of second crop clover while
the stock is yet green, or about the time
it is fairly in bloom. Let it be well
cured without rain, if POSSIBILITY and
away under some good shelter
for the use of his hogs in winter, and II
his heart ~rejoices in the happiness of
Gods creatures, it will do him good to
zee how his hogs enjoy a feed Of clover
a day--how they will pick out the
heads, leaves and small stems, n leave
but the coarsest portion of the
He will then find little difficulty
N agreeing with us that stock hogs
a little roughness in winter as
we'll as other stock, and therefore should
,ot be confined exclusively to solid
grain.
A GREAT many farmers make a mis-
AXE in buying their c~urry-combs. They
,uy them in the spring, at about the
lime when they get a new hired man.
The proprietor tells the man to cleanse