Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-09
AGRICULTURAL

ing rats by means OF AlcOn0l mixed with
cheap molasses. Rats love sweets and
will indulge in molasses, despite TIE
alcohol, until they are & drunk that
they cannet move, and are easily caught.
A GILL of raw (unboiled) linseed oil
given to 4 SOW Just before and after
narrowing will prevent the disposition
to eat her offspring. This habit il an
acquired one and Is caused by keeping
the now with others of her own species,
who worry and annoy her. Perfect
quiet and isolation are considerations
which should not be neglected.-Nev
Orleans Home journal.
FoR scours in sheep give pulverixed
alum In wheat bran. Prevent by taking
great cart In changing dry for green
food. II lame examine feet, clean out
hoofs; pare hoof, If unsound, and m
ply tobacco boiled with blue vitriol, IN
4 little water. If the weather IL not
too cold, shear at once, sheep beginning
to shed, and carefully save pelts Of those
that die. Have some good book on sheep
to refer to. It will put money in thy
purse.
WI ferment manure for the same
reason that we decompose bone-duat or
mineral phosphates with sulphuric acid
and convert them into superphosphate,
or for the same reason that We grind
corn and cook QUIZ meal. These
processes add nothing to the amount of
plant.food in the bones or the nutri.
ment In the corn. They only increase
its availability. So in Terminating ma
nure. This process lenders the plant
food in the manure more Immediately
available.
CHICKEN cholera vas very bad here
last spring, and I will tell you readers
how we cured it. For every forty fowls
VI took piece of assafetida the size of
a hickory nut, broke it in small pieces
and mixed it in about q pint Of corn
meal, wet it thoroughly with boiling
water and placed it near the roasting
place, 80 that the chickens could eat Of
it the first thing in the morning. If
they were not too near dead to eat, .
cure was certain.-Lher to Ohio Farmer.
A MILLER of Halliday, ILL.,, writes
the Prairie Former that, having lost
severely from hog cholera for years, in
feeding hogs on swill of bran and shorts,
he finally adopted the plan of starving
sick hogs until they would eat dry bran
slightly sailed. Since that time, he
says, he has not bees troubled with fatal
diseases among his hogs. Another cor
respondent claims to have succeeded
equally well by giving the swine access
to what salt they wished, in q clean pas
ture.
THE farmer who is habitually care
full with his seed-grsin, 50 as to get only
the best, is doing much toward advanc-
ing the products of his fields, not only
in starting his crop-in which it is 50
important--but throughout its entire
growth, including the berry which is to
form the seed for the succeeding year.
This is apt to be plumper and sounder,
and much the better calculated for the
next sowing and an improvement upon
the last. l include with the grains the
seed also for the forage plants.
Always the best growth should be select
ed, the greatest difficulty being to OBJ
tain clean seed and keep It clean, on &C.
count of the foul condition of the land.
ONE leak on nearly every farm may
be found in the neglect of the agricui.
tural implements. In travelling over
the country it is no unusual sight to
see plows, harrows, wagons, sleds reap.
err, mowers, ETC., piled in the fence
corners, in the fields, lanes, barnyards
public highways. Whenever you see
things piled around in this way, says
the american Rural Home, you can set
it down that there is at least one leak
on that farm. An excuse might be
found for some farmers of limited
means, that they are not able to build
shelters for their implements; but We
find the same leak on farms where they
count their acres by the hundreds and
their dollars by the thousand, and, of
course, the larger the farm the greater
the leak. We believe a careful estimate
of the annual shrinkage thus incurred
by some farmers would astonish them,
and show why farming does not pay.
COLO is one of the most fatal dig
eases horse flesh is heir to. The symp-
toms of collie are readily detected. The
animal scrspes with his fore feet, kicks
at the belly, and shifts about, turns
around, smells the floor, crouches, puts
the nose to the tanks, lies down, rolls,
for q time on the back, and
breathes heavily throughout. But there
is q ready and safe means of relief and
cure in every homestead in the land-a
means and method recently brought for
ward at q meeting of the London
Farmers Club, by MI. Frederick Street,
gentleman of great skill and expert.
ence in the training and management
Of horses. When the horse shows the
of an attack of collie, apply
1t once, says Mr.. Street, q horse cloth OF
WOODEN rag, wrung out of boiling water,
to the belly and up the sides, and cover
with another couple of cloths, to retain
the heat. As they cool renew the cloths
rs often as needful. A large bran
poultice, ~ hot as can be borne, is
effective, and retains the heat
Corn slower cut earlier and properly
cured is quite An aid in preserving the
hay NOW; but there a. . wide difference
the estimate of farmers as to it's value
Like many other questions of the farm,
each person thinks out q conclusion for
as to whether 1t will pay him to
10 o and 80, and does not bring the ques.
lion to the proof of experiment, 80 q to
give answer in precise terms, because to
20 is both costly in time and money.
Some farmers express the opinion that
THAT the cows eat of the slower will pro-
luce a. much milk a hay, which under
.ome circumstances may be correct.
From 10 to 10 per cent. of well cured
odder is all that cows will reject. If
ve amuse the higher estimate, then,
rom . ton of slower, the cattle consume
ome 1900 pounds, leaving 800 for waste
II bedding. If We permit . larger
vaste, which sometimes may be profit
BILE, and only ask the COWS to eat 800
ounds of the ton placed before them,
! would appear that farmers willing to
$50 3 ton for hay, should be willing
. pay at least $15 q ton for the stover.-
Exchange.
The 0oelet MILLIONS.
Peter Goelet, bachelor and million
ire, owns more real estate than any