Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-06-04
RURAL NOTES.

LAST years beets should now be
buried six feet deep. If not, they are
sure to sprout again and give much
trouble.
CAoL ashes do we'll as a fertilizer for
tomatoes. Make your ground half soil
and half coal ashes, and the result will
be surprising.
A SOLUTION of carbonic acid in 300
for scab. A strong decoction of tobacco
is a good wash, also.
Fob throat distemper, crate fine a
small green wild turnip, or if dry, give
a heaping t~easpoonful, mixed with bran
or oats. Never fails. Good for cough
also.
In Holland, where sand is more plen-
tiful and cheaper than hay, it is used for
bedding cows. This keeps the animals
always entirely clean, and the milk new
er takes the odor of the stable.
In Matching turkey eggs, sprinkle
them the two last week slightly every
day with water that has had the chill
taken off. Some moisture seems to be
necessary for turkey eggs.
SALT is valuable as an application
for Swedes, mangels, and cabbages. 1t
is well to apply it as a solution to be alb.
sorbed by dry muck, or as component
in the compost heap.
A suDDEN lowering of the temper
ature of the stable, or the exposure of
cows to a cold rain storm, has been
found in several instances to reduce the
yield of milk from Is to 40 Der cent. in
q few days.
A cow giving milk requires about 80
pounds Of bone material in a wear.
Thus a herd of Is cows will carry of
from a pasture and a ton of bone ma
terisl each year.
THE pea is the most nutritive of the
leguminous crops, and its wholesome
ness as an article of food is attested by
its great use in Scotland-the country of
great men and able bodied laborers.
A FARMER makes no greater mistake
than in supposing he must be wealthy
to have a nice lawn in front of his house
planted with flowers and evergreens;
nor that he can not have pear trees and
grapes and an abundance of small fruit.
KEEP a barrel of gypsum in the stable
where the cows are kept, and sprinkle
the floor with it after the stalls are
cleaned. 1t is a valuable absorbent of
liquid manure and an excellent deodor-
iZer.
LEGUMINOUs plants-peas, beans,
clover-are more rich in nitrogen than
the true grass, and this is the reason why
they are 80 valuable a fodder for sheep,
and why the manure of sheep forms SO
rich a fertilizer.
A CORRESPONDENTS says: "At present
prices of milk, butter and young stock,
there is no margin for profit in farm.
ing, save in the manure pile" There's
just where it is-and yet farmers don't
fail.
If you have to shut your hens up to
keep them out of the newly made gar
den do not forget to throw them an
occasional sod so that they may scratch
and peck it. They will even tear out
the young grass. The exercise does
them good.
A PoRRIDGE made of buckwheat
-four, with a little cornmeal added,
makes a good substitute for milk for
calves. 1t must be fed quite warm.
After the calves are three weeks old,
fill a gill of oats twice a day. These
should be boiled before feeding.
A SUCCESSFUL grower Of green peas
says in the american Agriculturist:
Select as dry and warm a spot as can be
allotted to them, and, applying a fair
quantity of well-rotted yard manure,
SOW on the same day at least two
varieties in rows, as soon as the snow is
gone, and the ground can be worked
without packing.
To raise good tomatoes, say San excel
lent authority, take away a wheelbarrow
of earth from where each vine is 10
stand, fill with half soil and coal ashes
and therein set out the plant. Plants
thus treated will bring out nearly dou-
BILE the fruit of others, and much
smoother and larger in this soil, though
in case of drought the plant require
water sooner, and more of it, those grow.
ing in common soil.
SPRoUTING the white potato will
advance the crop two weeks. They
should be cut so that about about two
eyes are allowed to each piece, and these
should be planted in hot beds with a
very thin covering of soil, or it is better
to plant them in boxes and set these in
a hot bed, SO that after they are properly
sprouted they can at once be carried to
the place of planting.
FRESH MANURE produces but little
effect when applied to crops,
but when it is well rotted it then
contains much valuable soluble matter,
absorbable by plants. In fresh manure
the most important constituent of its
soluble portion is potash, and it contains
but small proportions of ammonia and
phosphoric acid. Rotten manure, on
the contrary, yields to the solvent action
of water large amounts of nitrogen and
phosphoric acid.
Mr.. NELSON RITTER, Syracuse, N. Y,
in answer to the query, at a recent meet
ing of the Onondaga county farmers
club, as to why apples on the lowest
limbs are generally smallest, said that
they don't get enough light and air, and
he mentioned this suggestive circum-
CHS northern spies had run
very small, and he finally concluded to
graft in n~onesuch, and the result of the
very extensive grating was that he had
the finest crop of northern spies he ever
rect lived; that taught him to trim closely
he wanted fine northern spies"
MEADOW or salt hay or we'll broken
is the best material for nests.
Break the straw we'll between the hands,
and use nest boxes moderately deep, say
from eight to ten inches deep, and make
the boxes nearly full of the straw. If
made too full the eggs are apt to be
rolled out on the floor of the house, and
perhaps thus broken when the hen is
the nest. Itmay be taken as a
that any material which packs