Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-09-17

THE partial failure Of the grain crops
An France has caused farmers there 70
utilise the tender portions of forest trees
= forage.
CoLEus SGD sown early In spring, say
n March, will make plants, which, II
pfopGI1v cared for and grown, may be
bedded out In Juue.
GIVE your hogs . rubbing post in
some accessible part OF their enclosure.
II facilitates their keeping clean, and
seems to afford them much M~tisfaction.
GARAGE should never b allowed to
accumulate. All that h not led TO fowls
or animals ON the place should y kept
In q closely covered receptacle 6pd car
ried away frequently.
Coon feed whether it b good grass in
summer, OF good hay and grain In win
| ter, with pure water always within
| reach, will always give good returns,
whether theoutcome expected be meat,
milk, butter or cheese.
In all our cropping and planting we
| ahould remember that the farm 10 our
capital, and that increasing it, produc-
ine capacity means adding to our princi.
| plc, while reducing It 70 taking away
the means by which We i've"
A aooD country fair, among al its
other merits, is IN evidence Of thrift on
the part Of the farmers Of tho county.
A poor farmer cares nothing about them.
| he has nothing to exhibit and he dislikes
to attend, for he il reminded BY the ele-
CANT products which his neighbors dis
play what failures he and his farm
are.
BoTFLuEs trouble horses and colts at
this season. A very little T win pre-
vent them from doing much harm. A
moment will sufAce to catch the dies
when they como around to deposit eggs;
and . washing with kerosene, will, We
believe, destroy the vitality Of such nits
a. adhere to the animals legs. A little
prevention, in this respect, will be worth
: great deal of cure.
IF moderation ia needed anywhere on
the farm, it Is in the driving of COVE.
A boy OF . dog that will hurry and
therefore worry the cows a. they are
taken to and from the pasture should be
TO put it mildly-attended to. Boys,
do not run the cows home, wen If it is
getting late, especially if it Is on the way
TO the yard and their udders are full Of
milk.
PoTATOEs suffer more from weeds then
any other crop. One weed will take up
and evaporate q good deal of moisture
from the soil, and rob the crop of what
It greatly needs. This loss Of moisture
IL not often thought Of in considering
the effects of weeds, but it Is very impor.
tant. When to late to be killed by cul-
tivation, the weeds should be hand
pulled.
The Nashville Rural Sun says: "The
best way to keep butter is to exclude the
air from it and keep it in a cool, sweet
place; but the frst Is most important.
If the butter is in . pail, tub or jar,
cover 1t one or two inches with the
strongest brine, made from the best salt.
Remember, it will not do to simply Gov
or 1t with salt; the air will not pass
through the brine. If the package has
q tight-ftting cover 20 much the bet
ter.
DILUTED carbolic acid is found to be
q complete exterminator of the potato
beetle, and other insects infesting crops,
and it should be used In preference to
Paris green. But it is destructive to
plant life unless it Is sun ciently diluted
with water; n pint of carbolic acid to
100 parts of water. This important fact
should be borne In mind, and, doing 80,
there IL perhaps no insect destroyer
known.
ME-. RIVERS, the great English fruit
grower, has found the American Alex.
ander peach TO be not only the earliest,
but large and fine In every respect. He
Is afraid that the sefriEerating process ON
board the steamers may be the means Of
inundating the English market with
American peaches, and therefore, the
English farmer, to compete against
transatlantic orchards, must select sorts
that will ripen before the American
harvest begins.
ACCORDING to the Maine farmer q
cultivator levelled of twenty feet square
of . pen where cows had been yarded,
spread q bushel or more of wood ashes,
prepared the ground properly, sowed 1t
in onions watered them Just a. they
came up with tepid manure water and
k6tACAO0 bWCuey UunuOASs 4n16 WOAAu
Be about two and . half pounds of onions
to every square foot, or 1T the rate Of
about 2,1tO bushels per acre. A big
story, but not impossible, when all con-
ditions are favorable.
In packing apples for market, . COM
mon mistake ID made in not pressing the
fruit compactly into the barrels. The
jar on the wagon and car settles tho fruit,
and then, when it IL handled, it bruises.
We nav the difference between good and
poor packing in Chicago, last week, in
apples of the same variety picked from
adjoining orchards. One commanded
so cents more per barrel than the other,
simply from the way in which they were
packed. 1t IL BY paying attention to
these minor details that the fruit-grower
A MISSOURI farmer statistician has fg-
ured out the following relating to dogs
and sheep: "In thirty-two counties
1O,602 sheep have been killed BY dogs.
The number Of dogs In thirty-tw0 coun-
ties ID estimated at $4,000. A hog will
thrive ON the food necessary to support
An able-bodied dog, and at the end Of the
year weigh 200 pounds; thus If the food
avs enOc0 1VA,VVV uO8o W00t ~ WuO 0O8c
it would make 90, 400, 600 pounds Of pork
worth, at 6 cents . pound. $5,50O,00O-
nearly twice the value of all the school
houses In the state, and moro than twice
the amount used BY the state for school
puIposea"
8. W., BARHxRvnLEO O., inquiries In
the number of July 10th how to getrid Of
Nce on his BeHkshireas In answer, /
would ny he must get rid of his Berk.
shires. l speak from experience and
observation. I never saw 6 lousy hog
until l purchased Berkshires. / visited
quite . number of men, who kept this
breed of hogs, and in every instance /
found them lousy. I believe it il -
natural for them to be lousy - 1t b for
coarse wooded sheep to have ticks. /
disposed Of my Berkshires, and have
not had . lousy hog since.-Cbsmtry
GeMtlemaH.
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