Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-09-15
seAsONABLE FARM NOTES.

more readily than with a derrick.
BRAN or middlings mixed with whey
nd fed to pigs keeps them in excellent
ealth,
In feeding bran to stock we obtain a
eturn almost equal to its cost in the
quality Of the manure
pRovIUENeR never hides a smiling
.'ot1ntenanee from those who manure
cultivate often and seed literally.
If a groove is made in a hen roost
ind Rllsa with d mixture Of latd md
the fowls will not be troubled
With lice.
Hoes allowed to run in orchards from
the time the fruit begins to fall destroy
many pests Of the orchard by eating
wormy, damaged fruit, &c.
The pride Of the farmer should be in
his fields. In their beauty, Ia their
order, IN their pfodhct he should place
qualification Of his humble and
ambition:
HARVEY b. piEacn, Of North Dart
mouth, Mass, sticks to it, after. twenty
years experience that stopping the boles OF
borers in fruit trees with hard solp will
kill the borers.
DALMATIAN insect powder, said to be
as good as the Persian and not so costly,
is, according to some authorities, made
from what is known in this country as
ox-eye daisy, but called in Europe
chrysanthemum leucanthemum:
CLEAR brhn alone should never be fed
to fowls on account of its swelling and
caking i'll masses in the crop, and prov
ing fatal to the chicken life not unfre-
quently. 1t will sodden and increase in
bulk very rapidly, before digesting,
causing rupture of the crop, if any great
quantity has been eaten.
In Denmark, where large quantities
Of butter are made for export, they chutn
their cream for butter for the home and
London markets when slightly sour; but
for expectation TO tropical climates it is
churned from sweet cream. The butter
is not washed either in water or brine,
but is put into tin canisters of various
sizes.
ALWAYS set the hens after dark, cover
ing them from sight for u day, and re.
move the cloth or covering at night.
Thus, if the sitting room or nest is new
to the hen, she gradually grows familiar
with the surroundings al day approaches,
and will be very likely 10 conclude to
stop for few weeks in her strange quar-.
tiers.
A FRENCH paper relates the following
experiment: ga COW was MIXED three
times q day for eleven days, and yielded
ITO quarts of milk. With two milkings
daily she gave only 148 quarts in the
same number Of days. Analyses more.
over showed that the milk in the first
case was richer in butter globules by
more than o~ne-seventh than in the second
CASE"
DID you ever notice, in crossing a lawr
of considerable extent-where a heavy
mower with a roller is used, round and
round the plot-Eow the stubble on one
side, all leaning n way, as the roller
rolls it, will turn your toes that way
and when you come to the part that was
moved the other way yotir toes vii
twist that way In spite of you? The
movement is a queer one.
RYE is notso valuable crop as wheat
but it has the advantage over wheat o.
doing well on poorer soil. 1t should be
borne in mind that q soil that is ricl
enough to grow a good crop of rye can,
by a dressing of $50 or 800 pounds OF
fertilizer, be made to produce a mucl
o profitable crop Of wheat. If the
rye is grown for the straw, in specia
cases, the rye crop may be more valuable
than wheat; but as a grain crop the
wheat takes the front rank.
AN exchange advises selecting for seed
corn even-rowed ears and ears whose
rows are straight and irregular on the
cob. "Ears that topper are the best be.
cause better protected by the husks, anc
then, too, the silk-the female part Of
the plant-remains alive longer. The
reason for selecting the top ear for seed
is that it is always more fully developed
more uniform, and more vigorous in it,
g~ermination, having been better fertile.
ed when in the silk"
EVERY year we are told by rotation
writer's that grain makes better -four il
cut before it is ripe. / never heard any
good farmer say so, and SO far as / have
observed, have always seen that too early
cutting shrinks the kernel as rust does
nor or less. Some years since PROBES.
sor Isidore Pierce, of the university o.
Caen, France, determined to test THU
question and found a daily increase O
nitrogen and phosphoric acid up to the
period Of full maturity. We want to cut
early enough to avoid waste by Smelling
FROM numerous practical tests il
feeding it has been found that SKINNED
milk at n quarter of a cent a pound, vii
be equal to corn at one cent a pound: sc
That where corn costs Sc cents a bushel
skinned milk may be worth half a cen
a quart; but the milk is more easily di
gestible and contains more nitrogen
than the corn, and by adding the two
together in the right proportions til.
milk adds to the nutritive value of thu
corn. Besides pork made from corr
and milk is Of better quality and
worth more than corr feed.
RATS, mice, and insects will at once
desert ground ON which a little chloride
of lime has been sprinkled. Plants ma,
be protected from insect plaques by
brushing their stems with q solution O.
it. 1t has often been noticed that 6
patch Of land which has been treated il
this way remains religiously respected
by grubs while the unprotected beds
round about are literally devastated
Fruit trees may be guarded from the at.
tack Of grubs and ants by attaching t.
their trunks pieces Of tow smeared. will
a mixture Of chloride of lime and hogs
lard.
PROFESSOR LozENBY saws: "Afte,
numerous experiments and very careful
trials in fighting the cabbage-worm WIG
can recomend the following remedies,
knowing them to be safe, cheap and ef.
fective. First, a solution of one pound
Of whale oil soap. applied two or three
times during the season. Second. tai
water, prepared by placing a few quarts
of tar into a barrel Of water, and apply
ing this mixture during the season.
Having no whale oil or tar at command.
use suds made as follows: To one quar-
of soft soap add a teaspoonful of crude
carbolic acid, stir and mix thoroughly,
Then to a bucket of water (soft water il
preferably add one third of the soap,