Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-07-14
sEAsoNABLE FARM NOTES.

10AAcScuS III Ono uOuI Tue pain W0S gone,
and he left fOr his home in ST. Louis.
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sEAsoNABLE FARM NOTES.
A NEW variety Of grape, of superior
quality, and three weeks earlier than the
Concord, il announced by D. M. Day Of
Killingly, Conn
The moving machine ougnJ not to be
gagged to cut low. If grass is cut too
short the succeeding crop is much in
jured, especially if the summer is a dry
one.
In Gibson county, Ind, 1900 acres, it
issaid, have been p1antedto watermelons.
and il u estimated that over 1900 car
loads Of fruit viii be shipped from that
section.
MANY persons fail to grow crisp, per-
feet radishes because their soil il not
right. Radishes delight in a sandy
loam-in fact, as fine radishes as we
have ever seen or tasted grew in o sand
bank.
A FEW applications of air-slacked lime
upon currant bushes is considered to be
very effective in destroying, the currant-
worm. Not morethan thre, applications
are necessary for the season, and the
lime will injure neither bush nor fruit.
ACCORDING to the average of thirteen
analyses made by Professor Emile Wolf,
OF Germany, green grass contains 90 per
cent. of nutrition. If cut while in bloom,
it will contain but 81 per cent, whereas,
If not cut until the seeds are fully FORM
ed or ripe, it will contain only 81 per
cent. of nutrition.
ROBERT McKMsTRY, of Hudson, New
York, is believed to own the largest
fruit orchard in the United States. It
contains "a, 900 apple trees, 1,7O6 pear;
1000 cherry, 500 peach, 200 plum, 200
crab apple, $1,000 grapevines, 5000 u r
rant bushes and 500 chestnut trees. AS
many as $4,000 barrels of apples alone
have been produced in u season In this
gigantic orchard.
PRoF. KEDzIE, of the Michigan Agri-
cultural college, in a fate address, said
that cane sugar is two and one-half
times as sweet az grape sunRr, closely
allied to it, and differs 80 lNRe from it
that some persons cannot distin-
guish it. By cooking, the zane sugar
may be changed to grape sugar, and
thus lose its sweetening pOuer. Some
women put the sugar in with q mass of
acid fruit to be cooked, and keep cook
ing, and adding sugar while it keeps ON
growing sourer.
PRoF. KEDzIE, of the Agricultural
college Of Michigan, an expert chemist,
recently said that a paint or wash made
of skim milk, thoroughly skinned, and
water brine would render wood uninflam-
mable, and he proved it by experiment.
He said this paint, or whitewash; is du-
rable, very cheap, impervious to water,
Of agreeable color, and as it will prevent
wood from taking fire, he urged Ito use,
particularly on roofs, outbuildings,
barns, etc.
HrcH prices are producing an immense
increase in our imports. The United
States furnishes at present q most excel
lent market for products Of foreign man.
ufacture, and the languishing industries
of Europe are not slow to avail them
selves Of the opportunity offered. If we
are not careful we will find ourselves in
the heal furture burdened with another
foreign debt, which we will be compelled
to pay, as we did the incurred during
the years of imitation, by selling our pro-
duce at ruinously low figures.
THE last Iowa Legislature passed a law
providing that a lawful wire fence shall
be n whose posts are not to be more
than two rods apart, with two stays be-
tween, OF one rod without stays: top wire
not to he more than R~ftv-forr ;ncfes ~
less IMAM fnrty-eioht inches from The
Ground. wires 10 he secnreIv fastened to
the nosts. h he three wires harhe1 Nv
fonr w;res two of which shall ha. hs,baJ
with not less han thirtv-s;x harris With
fnnr no;nts each 70 the rod TRa oct
GOES into eject INV 4 newt
1T requires conslderable pains to
destroy some large weeds, as burdocks,
muiiens, and canada tnlstles. The
staiKs must De cut several inches below
the surface OF the ground, or they will
tnroW up suckers IN the same q as
trees AND bushes; a sharp spade or a
narrow steel blade fxed TO- handle Is
the pest Implement 70 use Tor d pur-
pose. After the stalk ~ cut and re.
moved, it is well to drop q handful OF salt
As5ror ~ ac;d ann,;a5 90 tLc
and II. s+;cI = a4fact,,ai ~ Jos+. un .ao
tha iifa ~ tSa rnots ~ waods St..nss
;re d. r.aon ~ Ioma~r m..r O. nns
g. ~ srenIovsJ ~ tha .apa u nay
w;tb m,st arco{lsrt re.rIts r. i oil.o.D
hast 70 msIo .,,n, vorI Nth Ia.@a ~
tronhIe.o,na vaeds ~
VERY q grass and clover should be
cnt before danger nom lodging occurs.
Almost any forage crop - injured very
greatly ~ Delng IN contact with the
sround- The Dor OF cutting them
while IN this position - very great. and
their value a. Q comparatively small.
~ cuttang rank grass and clover early
danger Of injury by lodging is avoided
and the prospect o. securing another
crop increased. II - eas,er TO cut and
cure two crops OF grass or clover that
stands erect than that il lodged.
~ q altermath u Q excellent