Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-09-10

IT Ii q rood plan to burn potato vines
| after the tubers are dug. That will
dispose of the potato rot fungus If there
IL any upon them.
THIs is about the time of the year to
SOW white turnips. There il plenty Of
time to secure . good crop before frost
comes.
In France dealers sometimes give an
irritable or wicked horse two ounces of
laudxnum in q pint of brandy, to calm
it, nerves before being shown.
In view of the late ravages BY grass
hoppers In the Pacific states, It ID pro-
posed to import and naturalist the mi
gratory quail Of SoutheEa Europe there.
IT il bad practice to pillow up pastures
for re-seeding. The older the pasture,
- . rule, the better the grass. If . pas
ture fails to top dress it viii we'll decom.
posed manure.
The stems of all fruit trees cannot be
too frequently washed, a by this means
old dead bark, which affords q hiding
place to many noxious insects, will be
removed, a. we'll ~ moss and fungi,
which absorb the juices and consequently
hasten the decay of the tree.
In showing how extremely sensitive
butter and milk r to foreign odors,
and how rapidly they absorb them, DR..
Nichols states that he has known a
choice pan of butter spoiled by q farmer
walking into the daily room, with his
cow-stall boots on, covered with animal
excrement.
In selecting an animal for breeding or
~fattening, obtain one having a large chest
the part containing the lungs, heart
and the larger blood vessels, all Of which
have m important function to perform
in the process of nutrition. 1t ID well
known among cattle men that animals
with small chests do not fatten readily,
and they are remarkably susceptible to
the influence of exciting causes of dis
ease.-C hautauqua Farmer.
PASTURES which are not closely grazed
send up seed stalks early in summer, the
ripening of which exhausts the soil and
plants, and prevents the animals from
reaching the fine grass beneath. By
passing the reaper, set ten or twelve
inches high, over the pasture as soon as
these stalks n thrown up, all the above
mentioned bad effects are prevented,
and q handsome, even surface of green
heritage is presented to the eye.
ANOTHER enemy to wheat-growing is
reported in the shape of a weed some.
what resembling cookie. In some parts
of the east it has become 30 abundant as
to cause serious alarm; especially 10 in
North Carolina, where it springs up ST.
~multaneously with the grain, and nearly
smothers it. 1t has q white blow, and
bears numerous pods, in each of which
are four seeds. The people have given it
the name of "Dutch cookie"
A HEAVY loss in the decay of out
buildings, roofs, gates and fences and
tools, would be prevented In a cheap
way by the use or crude petroleum. It
Is more efectual than paint, as it enters
the pores of the wood freely and does
not cost over q tenth ~ much. 1t is
rapidly put on with q whitewash brush
by q common laborer, the only care re.
quired being to cause the wood to soak
in a. much of the oil "a practicable, and
to spill a. little as may beconvenient on
the ground.
PRoF. HARRINGTON, in a summary oil
the experiments begun in 1870 by the
Maine agricultural college to ascertain
which has the greatest value u q food
for swine, cooked or uncooked meal
says: "We have, by an experiment
which hiss been continued from three t.
four months of each of the nine year,
since its beginning, obtained evidences
that all the money and labor expended
in cooking meal for swine is more thar
thrown away"
;. AND now comes q genius from Swede,
who claims to have invented q machin|
for separating cream from milk, b!
which means fresh milk is put in at ON
end, cream drawn out of n hole ant
skim-milk of another at the other end
} This little institution only costs $125
! and requires but two men to run it
It is said that it does its work perfectly
and only leaves three-tenths of one pc
cent. of cream in the milk-which is al
, additional reason why everybody shoul'
, get one
} A GOOD practice adopted by som
, farmers to escape the ravages of the corr
cut-worm, and which is applicable t
: any place where this insect is trouble
some, is the adoption of the followin
!. rotation: WheaS, clover, corn, barley
2 9 clover. The wheat il sown on well in
! verted clover sod, pulverized with
Shares harrow or two horse cultivate
I by passing several times; the clover pre-
. ceding the corn is we'll top-dressed wit
autumn manure, which ID turned undo
with the clover Just before planting; tn
barley year may be spring wheat, Q
+ peas, but most farmers who adopt thi
. course object to oats.
t IT il said that thick lime whitewasf
hinned with strong tobacco juice, an
; pplied to young fruit trees in the fall
9 an efectual preventive against thei
Q being gnawed by rabbits. A pailful
sufficient to cover 200 trees. We hav
!, seen 10 many orchards ruined by thes
I pests that it is with some emphasis tina
L We say, don't neglect some protection
d either this or something else-for you
: young trees. If they have been un
t molested thus far, so much the create
will be your loss if they are ruined here
! after.
l The effects of the drouth and winter
killing of autumn-sown wheat may b
] prevented, and . strong impetus givel
I to the succeeding grass crop, BY tor
dressing with short manure, after til
!. land is plowed for seeding, narrowing
well, and then drilling the grain. Tn
! manure will tend to keep the surfac
: moist, and greatly assist in the germina
: tion and growth Of the grass seed. Thi
; end will be still further assisted by
coat of straw spread over the surfac
= - nm II
; open winters, BY protecting the youn
plants from cold winds and p~reventin
winter-killing.
AGENTLRHAN who has had some ez
4 perience in onion raising, writes to tn
Maine Former that he leveled of . spo
twenty feet square, where q COW ha'
been yarded, and spread ON it = bushe
or more Of wood ashes, and mixed theu
. . in with hoe and rake. He planted il