Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-02-19
AGRICULTURAL

lot Be fed to stock with impunity.
A soFr tirm, velvety skin il nearly
found ON . good COW ,anda thick
lard hide on . poor one.
FEED turnips TO mich cows just after
milking. The milk will not then be
;urnip Favored.
COOKED meat chopped up and mixed
With other feed Is not only relished BY
owls, but gives back the strength lost
the moulting process.
FILL up all depressions in the surface
soil around buildings, 50 that there may
be no standing water, no matter how
much rain may fall.
MIR. MEFHAM, a horticultural of
much experience, says he never saw
blight on pear trees that were white.
waShed. He believes it TO be an absolute
remedy.
BRxEDINa ewes should Be fed . daily
Of about one gill Of corn, or, bet
ter still, about one pint of oats. They
be warmly sheltered from cold
winds and dfepching rains. Such treat.
ment will give strong, healthy limbs.
An excellent farmer says that for
every sheep he kept last year he sold, in
lambs and wool, an average Of IS worth
per head. He said also that his sheep
paid him better than anything else
grown on the farm.
OATS vary in quality with the soil on
which they are grown. The meal made
from oats grown upon clay land is the
best in quality, is the thriftiest,"
keeps the longest and is worth the
highest price,
ANY dairyman troubled with cows
having sore teats should use plenty of
linseed oil before and after milking. He
will end but few, If any, sores abeut his
cows' teats il this be done, Many cows
that are kickers would delight to be
MIXED IL little linseed oil was used
ON the teats.
FARMERS who have young orchards
should lose no time in giving them thei.
attention by stamping the snow around
them quite solid. This has been found
an etfectual preventive against the work
of mice, which are very destructive by
the gnawing of the bark when the snow
lies deep for any length of time.
No animal should be killed for food i'm
mediately after violent exercise. Under
such conditions the meat will keep but q
very short timsy and sometimes H. is i'm
possible to keepit sweet with allthe salt
that can be used. Hogs, especially,
should be be butchered early in the
morning after q quiet rest during the
night.
EVERY farmer may not be able to
reach the maximum of production, yet
he can make his land produce what he
needs and what an accommodating mar.
ket will pay him we'll for, when he has
it inexcess of home wxnts. No farmer
in the land, however poor his soil may
be at the outset, has any excuse for not
making every acre contribute to his own
and the general good.
A GOOD and cheep rack in which ia
place fodder for sheep may be made Of
rough boards nailed at the corners to
scantlings. A good size il 10 by % feet.
Two boards, l foot wide, with q space OF
9 inches.between them, constitute the
sides and ends. The edges Of the board,
next to the opening should be rounded
to prevent Injury to the necks of the
sheep.
NEVER begin until you are ready i,
a good advice in farming as in any
business known. Last spring Henry,
under orders, got his millet in early in
April, and it staid in--or the little that
did come up looked 70 frightened that
late in May the five acres had to be re.
plowed and reseeded, which then only
resulted half q crop.
LOOK out for the low wet places in
your grain fields when the thaw begins
and see whether q few spadefuls of earth
would not let the water out. Such
trifing attention we have known to pay
q bushel of wheat for a shovelful OF
earth-certainly percentage of profit
enough to satisfy the most misery, te
say nothing of the LATEST. The latter
are the greatest usurers.
A SINGULAR chemical change is some
times effected by the mixing of thu
cream of a full mich COW with one vel
along with calf, or If it is not n chem
ical change, what is it? The cream, al
above indicated, has been churned houl
after hour for q whole day with no ap
p~earance of producing butter, ane
finally abandoned Is a hopeless case, blu
upon withdrawal of the cream of th,
COW in calf, the other would make but
ter with no difficulty.
TIE following il q good receipt TO
worms in horses: Powdered popla,
bark, two ounces; powdered sulphur
four ounces; salt, three ounces; mixet
we'll. Divide this mass into twelv,
parts, and mix one with the food every
night. This will not only remove wormI
but also tone up the digestive organs, &
that the parasites cannot find q foot
hold.-Counry Gentleman. Three part,
wood ashes and two of salt, q table
spoonful fed daily with the feed, is 6
simple and ~efectual remedy.-Recor
In NO other business does ilthines
and negligence work 70 much mischie.
As in the handling of milk. Wooden
pals are unfit for use in the dairy, be
cause it il next to impossible to keer
them clean, while tin pals r easily
kept clean. Sugar Of milk, when dried
into a gum, is very difficult to dissolve
and can only be removed by careful
washing and scalding. The fumes Of
stagnant slops, when conveyed to the
milk, carry with them the seeds of de
struction, which readily multiply and
destroy it.
The retult Of experiments made in
mulching winter wheat at the Expert.
mental University farm in Iowa, while
mot exclusive, is favorable to this prac.
tice. Professor Henry n. McAfee says
that, taken with former experiment.
with straw and long manure az mulch,
he feels sanguine that by this mean q
fair crop of grain may be raised at least
two years out o every three, and recon-
mends to farmers generally trial Of
winter wheat in limited qualities, with q
reasonable protection. Care should be
taken not to get the mulch too thick in
spots, a. that cause killed out quite q
lot of the young plants in the expert.
ments alluded to.
In the average English dairy it takes