Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-10-01
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STRAWBERRIES set now, in rich soil
and covered we'll throughout the winter
will give . large crop next season.
To cure scab in sheep, rub it with
pure petroleum with . sponge three
times . week. Dogs can be cured Of
mango In the anne way.
LAND laid down with clover is better
then money in bank, drawing more in
terest then any bank can pay, and COM
pounding the interest oftener.
IT is . bad practice to pillow up pas
lures for reseeding. The older the pas
ture, as . rule, the better tho grass. If
= pasture fails, top-dress IL with well
decomposed manure.
Nor only have trees about the farm.
yard, but have them in the pasture, by
the watering place, near the barn and
wherever cattle, horses and sheep are to
be provided for.
As q general thing, it is cheaper and
more convenient to get seeds
Of the regular seedsmen than to
save them. But If any are saved, let
them always be Of the earliest, fairest
and best specimens.
BEING the last of the warm months
September is overrated. It is q matter.
of-fact sort of month, in which shrewd
people discount the remainder or the
season and prepare for the comforts of q
long, cold winter, 10 far as they may.
A CORRESPONDENT of tho Poultry
Journal has discovered that q very
strong decoction Of peach-tree leaves is q
specific for chicken cholera. l do not
know of q single failure when used
In time. Dose, one-half teaspoonful.
THERE is more money in good poultry.
raising, considering its cost, by one-haif,
to be had annually then can be realized
from the pigs or the sheep on the farm.
And yet the latter are fed and housed
and bred everywhere, to the entire neg.
lect, almost, of fowl stock.
WILD carrots can be exterminated
with little labor. 1t yields to moving
in two or three years, if the seed is not
allowed to ripen, being only a biennial
whose seed germs must either sprout
soon or perish. Cattle will eat some of
it, and think sheep would eat it all.
For q kicking horse fill an old sack
with hay and suspend it from the loft by
means OF q rope, in such a manner that
the horse will be able to kick it every
time it swings against him. Let him
kick until he stops of his own accord,
and you will have no more trouble with
him that way.
TRY your wild cherries in glass cans
and let any half invalid or we'll per.
son swallow the juice of q few at each
meal. If, to keep the land productive,
we must feed it, 90 we must attend to
feeding the body with the native relishet
which are plentiful, and 90 save 30 much
bother with manufactured medicine.
ONE of the most important matters in
the care of hogs in the autumn, not only
with stockers, but fattening hogs, |,
that they be kept dry under foot, have
plenty Of the best food, and especially
that their sleeping quarters are dry and
warm, and at the same time we'll ven.
tilated.-Praiyie Farmer.
PROBABLY the very best way to pro
tect wheat in the bins from the weevi
is to thoroughly fumigate the bins with
burning sulphur. This should be done
before the grain is put into the bins
and repeated in the course of q month OF
70 after the grain is stored. Some per
sons use lime and salt, but there is moth,
ing better than sulphur Chautaugud
Farmer.
A VERMONT farmer recommends the use
OF sawdust, Is q bedding for cattle, to
keep them clean and to absorb the
liquid manure. An experience of t~en.
ty years in using on q large farm shows
that it does not iniure the soil, being
freely applied ia this way. Some soils,
no doubt, would be improved by the
addition of sawdust; others might be in.
jured somewhat until the sawdust de.
cayed.
An old stock breeder says: In my
opinion the best COW ever bred for milk,
cream and butter is highgrade Jersey,
. mixture of Jersey and Ayrshire breeds,
say seven-eighths Jersey and one-eighth
Ayrshire. Such q grade will produce
more milk, cream and butter of equal
quality than any other thoroughbred
Jersey.
IT is believed by many that red clover
is n of the best of soiling crops. A
half acre will keep one COW throughout
the months of June, July and August,
II cut and fed at the stall; while more
then twice the amount if grazed, accord.
ing to experiments in England, will
will barely subsist a COW during the
same time.
In order to keep their butter over the
period OF low prices and hot weather,
California dairymen seal up their pro-
ducts in tin cans, sinking them in the
bottom of cold streams. Butter made in
April comes out in October in good or.
der and continues to keep fresh in the
cool weather of winter. Forty.four-
pound can are commonly used.
WHITE Belgian carrots do blast badly
where the land was freshly MANFRED.
Where rye MANFRED last August was
plowed under, the foliage remains un-
touched. This kind of carrot has q habit,
also, of growing out of the ground now
and then In q way to interfere with cut.
ting the top with . thrust hoe before
blowing the roots out.
A WEsrYIRLD, Mass, farmer ID trying
an interesting experiment, to see If high
cultivation will successfully produce
three crops In one season. He oegan
cutting last week, = fine crop Of TO bacco,
!" set about the Goth of June, upon land
from which be had Just cut q crop of
grass. July 18th, turnip seed was sown
between the rows of tobacco, and present
appearances indicate . favorable termi.
nation Of the experiment.
Coax is the cheapest food that Amer.
lean farmers ~ grow for feeding stock.
The Euglish who grow turnips 90 largely
would diminish their root crop ne.half
or o If their climate would grow
corn. Even with the disadvantage of
having to buy corn, and pay transpor-
tatiOn across the ocean, they are every
year using it more largely. In nutritive
value, American corr can be afforded
more cheaply than English farmers can
grow it In turnips. Our summers are hot
and dry, - ill-adapted to roots a. En-.
glish summers are to corn. Still we
need roots, not a. food for stock, for We
can get that moro cheaply otherwise,