Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-03-24
FARM HINTS.

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THE demand for heavy horses far ex-
,eeds the supply, and is likely to for the
next ten years.
SHOULD the frost come out during the
month the truck patch should be manur-
ed and plowed to save time and labor in
the spring, when the busy season comes.
THE chinch bug, 80 destructive to the
wheat crop, and the bed bug both belong
to the same order, yet one has wings and
the other is wingless.
KEEP a good supply Of old mortar, or
crushed oyster shells, where your fowls
can help themselves, and see that the
gravel box is kept full.
To destroy pin worms in horses, give
an injection Of salt and water two or three
days In succession, then administer o ball
consisting Of half an ounce Of aloes and
one drachm Of calomel.
BUcKwHEAT is recommended as the
best remedy for the wire worm. Two or
three crops sowed in succession will COM
pletely starve them out, as they will not
eat it to any extent.
MIXED husbandry is what we need.
The farmer who grows something OF
everything adapted to his locality will
be safer and in the long run will save
more than he who devotes his energies
and land mainly to n or two crops.
In France butter is sent unsalted to
market, since in this condition its flavor
and aroma can be best tested. Salt hides
many faults in butter. The wholesale
dealers salt and barrel it up Immediately
for expectation to England and Brazil.
BucKwHEAT straw, which has hereto
fore been considered of little value, has
of late been utilized by some of the wes-
tern farmers by chopping it fine and add
ing meal to it. A small quantity fed to
stock occasionally would be relished, no
doubt.
If a stock OF bones can be secured,
pack them in a barrel with a quantity Of
unleached ashes, and keep the whole
moist but not wet. After a few months
break up the bones into fine powder.
This will possess every fertilizing quality
of the best bone dust.
A GOOD test Of the hardness of any
variety Of forest trees is found in the rip
ening of its seeds fruits. If a tree does
not perfect it's seeds in q given locality,
it is good evidence that it is not sufi-
GENTLY hardy to be generally cultivated
in such sections.
PRoF. SHELTON, of the Kansas Agri-
cultural College, favors September calves,
because, dropped in that month, they es-
cape the trying heats of summer, can be
pushed during the winter with grain, and
in spring are ready for grass as soon as it
appears.
EaGs intended for Matching should be
promptly gathered two or three times a
day. It is not known how much chilling
al egg will bear and still retain the life
Of the embryo. But it is not safe nor
desirable to take any unnecessary risks
in the matter.
AN Indiana farmer asks this pertinent
question: els it not better to feed corn
to my cows, every bushel of which will
make three pounds of butter, worth from
IL to 20 cents per pound, giving "a cents
per bushel for my corn at the door, with
the manure left on the farm, rather than
to sell it at from 80 to 35 cents and i'm
poverish my farm?"
The raising of thirty bushels of wheat
to the acre will remove from the land
fifty IL pounds of nitrogen, twenty-fouI
pounds Of phosphoric acid and thirty
nine pounds Of potash. This could be
replaced by sixty pounds of sulphate of
ammonia, Ill pounds of superphosphate
of lime and seventy-six pounds of chic.
ride OF potassium.
KEEP the stables clean. Clear out
the manure every morning and scrape o,
card off all filth from the animals. The
stable should be made SO warm that the
manure will not freeze ut night. Alowel
temperature will either demand a larger
amount Of food o. the animal will fall of
in condition.
While the ground is hard or covered
with snow, the IN heaps can b.
hauledt to the fields with the least trouble
Those who have profited by our hints
for the last few months, will have the
manure in good condition for hauling
out now; others will have it lying AROUND
loose and frozen, and consequently use
less for some time yet.
An exchange says: The rhubarb plant
requires SO little labor in its cultivation,
and is at once SO healthful and delicious
that every garden should contain a sup
ply for home 8 With the exception
Of forking up in the spring, and working
in manure ono every season, rhubart
plants require little attention until they
have remained in the same spot five o.
six years. At the end of this time they
should be divided and put in new soil.
THE dairy business in California ii
largely in the hands Of the Swiss. They
generally settle together and form small
colonies, helping one another, SO that il
n few years each one has a small piece o.
land and several cows. They reverse the
usual order-instead of requiring from
four to sever acres to keep q COW, keeE
from four to seven cows on an acre. They
practice soiling almost exclusively.
The finest manure is made by turning
the heap over twice. To d.
this begin at each end of tn,
pile, and throw off the manur.
to q distance of three feet, building NJ
the new heaps, and placing the coarses
manure in the center. Then proceed un
til two heaps are made. These will soor
heat, and a month or 30 afterward thu
process may be reversed and the two
heaps made into one again.
MANY dairymen complain that theil
COWS are hard mixers, and ask for {
remedy. A COW generally milks easier
as she grows older. Some recommend 6
wire sharpened or a knitting needle fol
probing the teat; but nothing Of the kline
should be allowed, since such treatmen,
might tend to close the orifice or even K
produce Inflammation, which would be
serious. Again, a leaky teat might be
the result. In the care of O good COW
the dairyman can afford to spend a few
moments more in milking; if a poor one,
getting rid Of her is advised.
You can hardly give too much burned
bones to your hens to provide the neces.
sary amount Of lime for egg shells, and
the next best thing for that purpose ID
oyster shells, which can be obtained by
the barrel land generally without cos
except taking away at hotels and restau,
rants in the nearest city. Ny new tenan'
goes eighteen miles for them, and con
siders them cheap enough at that. Tn,
hens eat them when pounded into frag
ments as easily as they pick up the she'll