Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-10-15
1ARx HINTS.

GULL your fowl hockA.
RAISE your own feather beds.
KEEP tho best pullets for layers next
season.
WH1rxwAsa the poultry houses before
cold weather comes.
Look out for . IMPLY Of gravel before
cold weather sets IN.
THE north side of . tree il said to
furnish the strongest timber.
RooFIHG-YELT ID generally liked by
those who have used 1t in the poultry
house; Il II claimed that the strong odor
OF tar keeps of vermin.
An exchange Ays coal ashes do vel
- . fertilizer for tomatoes Make your
ground half soil and half coal ashes and
the result will be surprising.
MAKE the soil your savings bank, and
remember that rich farms make rich
farmers, and poor farms make poor
families
The English AgyiexAasa1 Gazette is re-
sponsble for the statement that q game
cock was recently sold for $500. Who
aays poultry don't pay9
THE average stride of the horse at q
fast gallop Is twenty-four feet; that of
the trotting horse, ct his highest speed,
seventeen feet.
SMALL farms with good cultivation
yield q better revenue than great estates
lily cultivated. 1t may perhaps be bet
ter put by saying that every farm, large
or small, should possess a good farmer.
MOLD Ia indispensable in every soil,
and . healthy supply q alone be pre-
served through the cultivation of clover
and grasses BY the turning in of green
crops, or BY the application Of composts
rich in the elements of mold.
He who would have healthy hogs
should give them q variety of clean,
wholesome food, pure water, good natu.
raj or artificial shade to protect them
from the heat, and a place to root in the
soil.
SHALLOW blowing operates to impov.
erish the soil, while in decreases produc.
ton. Subsoiling sound land, that is
not wet, Is also eminently conductive to
increase production. Deep blowing
greatly improves the productive powers
of every variety of soil that is not wet.
A MI. CHAUHCEY EDMUHDs, OF Ed
mundsburg, Mich, states that peach
leaves or turnips boiled in water, to
which an infusion of peach leaves is add
ed, is . preventive, as we'll as q sure cure
for cholera, and now the question recurs,
what is the use of the turnips anyhow.
THERE il more in the feed than in the
breed-the fowl that has been we'll fed
and we'll cared for from the shell to
slaughtering time, will make the best
table meat; If you want chickens that
will be good eating after they are dead,
see that they eat we'll during their lives.
IT is with people as with trees. If you
lop of their finest branches, into which
they were pouring their young life-
juice, the wounds will b healed over
with some rough boss, some odd excres-
ence; and what might have been . grand
tree, expanding into liberal shade, Is but
. whimsical miahapen trunk.
An old poultry raiser, who believes In
milk for FOWLS says: ats meat and
drink both. Some of the best chickens
/ ever saw were raised upon the free use
of milk with their food. Hens lay a.
well, or better, when furnished with this
than upon any known article offered
them"
THE result of late experiments in
England show that lot quarts of milk
of short horns is required for a pound
OF butter. The same amount was pro-
duced from 102 quarts of Ayrshire milk,
81 quarts of Galloway milk and 81 quarts
OF Kerry milk, the milk being produced,
~ nearly ~ possible, under the same
conditions.
FoR the cleansing of outbuildings,
sheep barns, COW stables and hen roosts,
n well as pig sites, there is no renovator
or purifier like lime. A coat should be
spread over the inside of these buildings
at the close of the summer season in
order to destroy all vermin or eggs that
remain secreted in the crevices and
cracks, ready to prey ON the animals,
when they come home to their quarters
In the chilly autumnal nights.
Sow the graas seed on the wet ground
at any time of the year that IL con-
venient, 1t does mot matter much when.
Red clover wants to be sown early in
spring; but timothy, red top, blue gram,
white clover, lawn and orchard grass can
hardly be sown amiss. The land really
should Be pastured when the seed Il
sown. Hogs, however, are bad on all
such land the first year unless the pasture
is very large and the number Of hogs
small.
Hoe manure Is an excellent fertilizer
for corn, and even If it il carted to the
field In the fall and placed in q pile,
exposed to the storms Of winter, it will
not suffer In comparison with fresh
stable manure In its effects. Where the
hog manure, which was made up largely
of sods that the swine had worked over,
was used, the corn IL fully ~ large again
a. that where the green stable manure
with all its juices and strength was used.
MANURE applied broadcast to meadows
early In autumn, or later If it has not
been done sooner, increases the luxuri.
ance OF the growth before winter, and
gives the grass an early and luxuriant
start In the spring. Manure which was
too coarse or fbrous early in the season
has rotted enough, If piled In heaps, to
spread well. An equally beneficial 70
suit will follow top-dreming grass lands
intended to be plowed and planted with
n next season. Evenly spreading
ever the surface II essential.
The horns of our COWS seem to be
neither ornamental MOI useful. As q
means of warfare they can only have
consideration, but warfare and goring Is
precisely what We want to keep away
from the barnyard. English farmers,
where herds are probably more precious
and closer confined than In America,
have introduced the practice Of unborn.
ing cattle BY clipping the small projec-
tions In calves, when half an inch long,
using simple . strong pair of shears. Il
is true 1t hurts the calves somewhat.
There will be = little bleeding, but that
will stop In IN hour or two, and the
calves will soon resume eating.
A DRY, cold airy loft Is the best for
to store onionA Do mot let them lie
more than two OF three bulbs thick. and