Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-06-09
s~rAsoNAslE FARM I

10 nix weeks Of age.
Coal ashes are always eo00 AndAsrls
.eem 70 delight in scratchingsndpichpg
hem over. Il
orr drop Of sulphuric acSd&
heart Of . plantain or other weeds Wnl
destroy them completely. Care must be
exercised in it, use.
VIZ. J. HsAnCz, Hendricks county.
Ind, has . lamb 81 thirty days old that
weighs fifty-hve pounds. Il il q cross
OF the Cottswold and Southdown breeds.
A FARMER in Montgomery county,
Tenn, drove the bugs from his tobac-
eggplant beds by treating them to . dose
Of rotten eggs.
LETTUCE is p quick crop and occupies
the ground but . short time, therefore
farmers frequently make early planting
on land afterward given wholly over to
melons, cabbages and the Ike.
RYE sown this month viii make an ex-
cellent summer pasture for mich COWS
and give o larger return of rich milk and
butter than the wild and coarse grasses
and weeds of the woods.
This is the season that leeks grow in
the pasture, which il eaten by the COW
will give the milk an onion taste. If the
COW il well fed with ground feed she win
not eat the leeks.
A cH1CKRN fancier says that he stuck
court plaster over an egg found broken
in the nest after the hen had been sit
ting q week, and in due time it gave q
chicken as sprightly as any Of the brood.
SATURArMo ashes with kerosene and
applying q handful in a hill, will keep
the striped bugs from cucumbers. It is
not the bugs that recommend the recipe,
but the people who have tried them.
EVERY needed means for the approach
ing harvest should bemade ready. Now
ers, rakes, scythes, barns, stack bottoms,
ETC., should all be examined and put in
order. Whatever help may be required
should also engaged beforehand.
WHITE Cochins should be kept only
by persons in granite districts, where
there is much white OF hght-colored
sand, and not in clayey or muddy locali-
ties, for the beauty Of their plumage de-
ponds upon their clean and unsullied
condition.
A NEW YORK farmer kills the cabbage
worm by sprinkling the plants with COM
mon black pepper from an ordinary tin
box-a pound to $50 plants-sometimes
previously sprinkled with soapsuds from
the weeks washing.
IT is said that an English grade grower
stopped the profuse bleeding of a thrifty
young vine by forming q sort Of hard ce-
ment over the cut ends by repeated dust
ing at short intervals with Portland
cement.
GREEN crops for manuring should moi
be plowed deeper than four inches; il
they are turned under more than this
they will not receive enough of solar
heat and atmospheric air to ensure rapid
decay, and when covered too deep thei,
full beneficial effect cannot be realized
till the next blowing, when they are
brought nearer the surface.
THERE is a general agitation in the
live stock papers looking to the produc.
ton of beeves, sheep and hogs yielding
. fine quality of marbled meat, rather
than huge masses of indigestible fat.
The present tendency Of fat stock shows
is decidedly favorable to the sear1ng Of
animals Of less service to the table than
TO the lard-rearing industry.
IT is said that the best way to manage
sickly plants is to turn them out of the
pots, shake OF wash off all the soil from
the roots, and If any are decayed cut
them of; also prune the stem and branches
severely, and pot again in fresh soil. Sci
them away in a shady place, after giving
water sufficient to settle the soil, adding
a little from time to time as returning
health and growth appear.
THE Chinese and japanese excel ali
other nationalities in the culture Of early
vegetables. This arises from the fact
that they use only liquid manures, hence
the growth Of the plants is most rapid,
and as o natural consequence the vegeta-
bles are very brittle and tender. Let.
tuce and radishes they force rapidly,
giving the plants a sprinkling once q day.
Tobacco and the tea-plants are also
treated in a like manner.
In the principal dairy districts Of
France many OF the dairymen milk theil
cows thrice daily. A French paper al.
luding to the marked advantage oven
the practice Of milking but twice daily,
says: SIN al experiment with three
milkings q day, for eleven days, a COW
gave 10 quarts Of milk. With two
milkings the same COW gave only lac
quarts in the same number of days.
Moreover, analysis showed that the milk
in the first case was richer in butter
| globules than that in the second case in
the proportion Of Al to 3.5."
BLAcK1NG the outside of horses hooft
to make them shine and show well, is M
injurious practice, for If done, as il
usual, with . mixture of grease and
lan1pblack, a. oon v the horse il
brought ont on the road, dust begins te
adhere to the hoofs, which are NATURALLY
porous, and thus stops the circulation q
air in them, causing disease. The best
treatment for the hoof is to Keep itclean,
and leaye it to show its own natura'
color.
THE scales which fly of from iron be.
ing worked at FORCES, iron trimmings, FL
ings, or other ferruginous material, j
worked into the soil about fruit trees, o.
the more minute particles spread thinly
on the lawn, mixed with the earth O
flower beds or in pots, are most valuable
They are especially valuable TO the peacl
and pear, and, in fact, supply necessar,
Ingredients to the soil. For colorel
flowers they heighten the bloom and in
crease the bril1iancy Of white or nearl,
white flowers Of all the rose family
american MacAjaist.
A FLOCK Of sheep ought not to b,
robbed Of it, wool until the weather i
warm and nettl0d. or burdenAd with i