Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-09-03
RURAL NOTES.

A FRUIT journal says q mlXtuIe OI
soap suds and Paris green Is good for
dipping the roots of young peach trees
when setting them out. That kills all
insects.
FoR windgalls use q padded bandage,
with astringent lotions, applied two
hours q day at first, adding two hours
. day after, until it is kept on continu-
ally, is the usual remedy. Rest from
work is helpful to q cure.
ANEW JERSEY farmer allows his hens
that insist on sitting when they ought to
be laying eggs, to stand in . tank Of va
ter about three inches deep. They can
not sit in water, and when taken out
they are almost invariably broken of the
sitting fever.
SHEEP owners are advised to put q
small bell on say every tenth sheep, to
protect them from sheep-killing dogs.
Dogs usually attack in the night, and
the sudden and simultaneous jingling of
the bells of the frightened flock will
strike terror to the dogs, their instinct
leading them to fear exposure.
To make a good harness polish take of
mutton suet two ounces; beeswax, six
ounces; powdered sugar, six ounces;
lamp-black, n ounce; green or yellow
SOAP, two ounces, and water, one-half
pint. Dissolve the soap in the water,
add the other solid ingredients, mix well
and add turpentine. Lay on with q
sponge and polish of with q brush.
The National Live Stock Journal y
A slop made Of corn and oats, ground
in about equal parts, with q little oil
meal added, makes the best food for the
SOW while sucking, to increase the Aow
of milk; and this, with clover pasture
and plenty Of soaked corn during the
summer, will promote q healthy and
rapid growth of the pigs.
THE AgrtcaHurist says: When hogs
are put up to fatten and fed on dry corn,
it is the practice to give them but little
water; but they require some. 1t would
not be possible for q hog to live for
weeks without water or other drink
when feeding on dry corn, although
when fed on new soft corn, a very small
quantity of water will be sufficient and
possibly, if the corn is very soft and un-
ripe, water might not be indispenible."
AN ~unfeeling correspondent recon-
mends the cruel method of splitting the
tongue of a COW that sucks herself.
Rather than adopt the barbarous treat
ment We would dry the COW and fatten
and sell her for beef. We have publish
ed better remedies than this, and here
We give another: Make q bride, with a
medium sized-wire for a bit, and fasten
upon the head of your self-sucking COW,
and she will quit the habit.
CARROTS seem to have some peculiar
effects on the health of horses, rendering
the skin especially glossy and healthy
looking. For mich cows carrots are val
liable for the golden butter. They are
also more n~ourishing for cows then tur-
nips are. In feeding carrots, care should
be taken that the pieces are not cut in
such a shape Va to choke the animal.
Cut large carrots lengthwise, not
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 sufficiently diluted
with water -one pint of carbolic acid to
100 parts of water. This important fact
should be borne in mind, and doing 30,
there is, perhaps, no better insect destroy
er known.
In the care and management of the
dairy COW the milking should be done
with exact regularity - to time, and
each COW MIXED by the same person, and
in the same order, from day to day, if
possible. No change of mixers or
change of time should be allowed, except
for the most urgent reasons. Above all,
never allow intemperate-dispositioned
persons to milk, very slight causes often
cause q shrinkage In milk which cannot
be brought back.
AFTER the meadows have started to
grow q second time it Is the custom of
many farmers to turn their cattle on
them to devour the clover. Sometimes,
when the clover is wet, 1t causes the
animals to bloat, and frequently kills
them if relief is not afforded. The bet
ter way is to prevent the attack, and this
may be done by pasturing only while
dry, and then but q short time, until the
cattle get used to the succulent food.
A CORRESPONDENT in the Country
Gentleman, who has been experimenting
in corn culture on a clay loan, hiss
come to the conclusion that a good sod
turned under is equivalent to m increase
of ten bushels of corn to the acre, and
that it is not wise to use manures the
anne season, but apply them the next
season. He found that potash fertilizers
did not do much good on clay loans, but
the result from the use of bone dust,
which contained much phosphoric acid,
was more satisfactory.
CoTToN.sEED meal is one of the rich
est vegetable substances used As cattle
food, containing q large percentage of
nitrogen and phosphoric acid; and this
il why the manure of animals fed on it
isso valuable, The process of digestion
consumes the oil and other ca~rbonaceous
matter in the meal leaving nearly all the
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash to
be present in the excrements. In well
known English experiments it has been
found that while the manure from feed.
ing q ton of hay is worth $40, that made
from feeding q ton of cotton.seed meal
is worth $18.
THE stock kept upon q farm affords
the owner q ready contingent marketfor
all the grains and grasses raised, and
this market is never overstocked, but the
demand is always greater then the sup
ply. Cultivated fields are subject to
wear and tear, and, like the man, require
with food. The best way
to furnish It to consume all that is raised
on the farm; in fact, this is the only way
to make the land respond literally 70 our
behests; hence the farmer has q double
inducenent, and should act upon the
suggestions that point out the right
way.
Me-. JAS. j. DAVIDSON, farmer, Pick
who has always doubted the fertil-
iEing qualities of salt, has suddenly be-
come converted to its efficiency an
application to land. He sowed five bar
rels of salt OF = portion of his barley
field, and on coming to harvest the bar.
ley, found the contrast no great ~ to
give the quietus to the doubts