Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-01-28
4 NOTES.

A STEER ut Rensselaer,, Indiana, TWEEN.
months old, weighs !, 7OopoundA
A McKEAN county, (PA) man pos
sesses . sheep that weighs $50 pounds.
Ir 10 said that one buahel Of beets add
ed to niue bushelsof apples makes Z cider
richer and Of q superior favor to that
made Of apples alone.
GIVE the fowls = yariety-corn,
wheat, oats, buckwheat, cooked vege-
tables of all kinds, fruit, refuse Of the
table, raw cabbage in winter, grass Of
any tender variety in summer.
RACK feeding of horses ID wasteful.
The better plan Ia to feed with chopped
hay from . manger, because the food Is
not then thrown about, and il more
easily chewed and digested.
THE most satisfactory results with
bees may be expected If abundant stores
of honey can be found within two miles.
They will work more freely upon bios
SONS ut some little distance from the
apiary than upon those close by.
A COW that has accidentally eaten her
fill of meal should be kept In the stable,
and not allowed to drink. A soon a.
discovered she should be given q pound
or two of epson salts, repeating the dose
till q movement of the bowels IL obtain.
ed.
THERE II no question but that stock
must have water, and in abundance, also
of good quality. Most farmers will
claim that stock do not know the differ.
ence between good and bad water, but it
can well be proved that they do, by any
one who has studied their hAbits.-
Turf, Field and Farm.
A FARMER neal Bangor, Me-, noticing
that wheat was being picked from the
heads Of standing grain, and, finding
Hocks of yellow birds flying about, shot
some of them. On opening their crops
he found only three grains of wheat,
and, BY actual count, $50 weevils. 1t Is
better that farmers know whether they
kill friends or foes.
THE West Chester, (Pa.,) Village Re.
port says: "The Farmers Club fix the
rate Of temperature for scalding hogs at
from 146 to 1856 degrees. Townsend
Speakman states that he has succeeded
we'll with the water at 145 degrees. J.
Hubbard Bartram, of Westown, uses
three parts boiling hot water and one
part cold spring water"
PROT. BEAL objects to the practice OF
scraping the trunks of apple trees, and
thinks that, as the rough bark protects
them from the intense cold of winter, it
IL worse than time thrown away. He
remarks that old trees do not receive
nourishment through the bark, but
through young twigs and leaves, and
that moss on trees is not q parasite suck
ling.
BRAN is a valuable food for horses in
reducing the inlammatory effects OF
stimulating food. Made into mashes it
has q cooling and laxative effect, but
used In excess, especially in . dry state,
1t IL apt to form stony secretions in the
bowels of the horse. Stones produced
from the excessive use of bran have been
taken out of horses after death, weigh
ing many pounds.
JAMES WATERMAN, of Williamstown,
Mass, once had q COW, q cross of the
Durham and Jersey breed, which yielded
him in eleven months 528 pounds of but.
ter, besides furnishing what milk his
family wished to use. He since then
has kept q COW of the same breed, which
COW, when three years old, yielded 407
pounds of butter per year, and now
annuity yields 500 pounds of butter be.
sides milk for the family. The first COW
gave thirty-eight pounds of milk pei
day, and the latter forty pounds.
some one wrote tn the Rural New
Yorker to know if kerosene would not dc
to prevent bark lice. This brought q
reply from a Mr.. Charles Downing, who
says: 81 have not had any experience
with kerosene, and would not like to
risk it. / have found potash dissolved
In water q good remedy-one pound oil
potash to one and a half gallons of water
put on with q paint brush; and now il
q good time, when the leaves are of, OF
any times before the buds begin to swell
in the spring. The trees should be wash.
ed as far up - there are any insects
even to the ends of the branches"
THE barn.yard il the fsid for winter
work. Much NAV be done here nv skill.
full management. Manure. m long a,
it 10 frozen, remains UNCHANGED,
auu Guo Debt pl0p2I8ClOQ o.
the manure in the best manner for use
in the spring makes no progress. Make
. central heap in the yard, and BY mean.
of q few planks and q wheelbarrow move
the manure from the stable each day te
this heap. If the heap is built ur
square, and made four feet high, 1t will
Keep warm In the coolest W0at00f, anu
while warm it will ferment and rot.
100000. -. A.. C.v.--n a.
ua-s~ .sre. 49, s~Js -. 1.
made clean by 4 little labor and atten
ton IN this direction; II is about a
important 70 clean the grass aelds a
those devoted TO hoed crops. MY door
YARD was at q tim overrun with
thlsties. lkllled them in . single season
~ cIi.,ng 'nsm on ~ ,ne sniiace, snc
no AllwlIg .neM 20 sno~ tnCmseive
.oIs enougu 70 axe pres.n' 1ncy afe
Wy :ussomsls 70 zeal VIZ, Dn' ~ 10y
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