Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-02-01

been exhibited Weighing over ~ and %
pounds the pair respectively.
TIN pigs should be killed early in the
winter, % later keeping ID expensive:
besides Il gives more room for the few
that are reserved for breeding.
I. A RARMRA Of experience in wool grow
ing says that there il more money In
growing wool even At twenty cents per
pound than in loaning money at ten per
cent. interest.
WMrERrNa bees in cellars appears TO
be an improvement over winterinR them
outside. The bees consume less honey.
have less loss and are healthier in the
end.
PEAR blight has in several instances
been arrested III affected trees by syring-
ing them with aweak solution Of potash.
and in some cases il has proved pre-
ventive when applied to the Healthy
trees.
WELL-FED early chicks make good fall
and winter layers. 1t is not uncommon
for them to begin by the middle Of
October and give seventy-five or eighty
eggs each before the lapse Of one hum
bred days.
OLD hens lay little. If any, in winter.
and but sparingly at any time; hence
never keep hens for layers after three
years Of age, and it il more profitable to
sell them ct the end OF their second
year.
IF eggs are desired in winter--and
they always are in demand-the fowls
will require q warm place and plenty
of food and water. Lime, in some form,
as powdered oyster shells, old plaster.
ing, etc., will be needed to furnish ma
terial for shells.
THERE have been many thorough ex.
periments made to test the value of
winter shelter for swine, and they all
show that pigs to winter well must have
warm place with clean bed, and feed
enough to be comfortable. They are
not to be fattened, but amply kept in
good condition.
PRoF. w. J. BEAL, having tried sew.
eral ways of killing quack grass, says he
succeeded best by blowing late in the
fall and cnltivatiHg as soon az the
ground will admit in the spring until no
traces OF the grass are seen, which will
usually leave time for late crop of po-
tatoes or rutabagas in the same season.
The horses will generally have an
easier time during winter than in the
busy months Of spring and summer.
They should not therefore receive a light
food and less care, but SO kept that they
will be in excellent trim when the spring
opens. Horses that come to the heavy
work Of spring without accumulation OF
flesh, or stored up force are unit for the
work, and have not been properly and
therefore probably wintered.
STABLES should be warm enough 40
that horses may be comfortable without
blankets, then the blankets will do good
service as coverings when the animal is
left standing out in the street. The
practice of covering horse with blan-
ket in the stable, to be removed as soon
As he is taken out, is like man wearing
bis overcoat indoors and taking it OF
when he goes out in the open air.
THERE are not many things to be done
in the orchard at this season of the year.
Manure may be carted, or, better, if
there is snow, drawn ont on a sled
among the trees. Cions can be cut, tied
in bundles. labeled and stored in saw
dust or sand. The clusters of the tent
caterpillar can now be cut away, thus
saving the tree from the attacks OF the
worms that hatch from them in early
spring.
FARMERS are often ut q loss how to
siaen an old pork barrel, making it fresh
a ssIs., sws We have seen the following
Che tainted cask or barrel with fresh
earth; let it stand couple of days,
when this should be emptied ont and
more earth put in. After two or three
days empty this out, and to make assur-
ance doubly sure, invert the barrel and
burn under it some bits OF cloth satu-
rated with solutions Of sulphur birthstone.
SERIOUS injury is done to many
horses, by boing exposed to cold winds
after hard drive, and when they have
become much heated. All drafts Of cold
air should be avoided at such times,
and the body Of the horse covered with a
blanket. Sweaty horses that are taken
at once to warm stable, seldom need
the protection of blankets, and If they
are used it makes the animals more gus-
ceptible to chills when hitched out OF
doors.
A sw1LL barrel ON the farm, where
every waste substance is thrown to sour
and rot, is piece of furniture we have
little respect for. There il no place for
it in the house, nor in the dairy room,
nor at the barn, nor have we found quite
enough room for one out of doors. II
draws flies, breeds moulds and maggots,
smells badly, and not unfrequently
spoils the good food put into it. Meal
may be- more digestible after baine
soaked and soured to certain extent,
but risk Of carrying the fermentation toe
far, together with the disagreeablenese
attending sour swill barrel, is such
that it is far better to abolish it entirely
or else keep enough swine to consume
all the waste Of the kitchen, dairy and
farm in fresh condition.
THE COW stable should be kept nea
and clean. Unless this is done tn.
milk can not be perfectly pure. Tn,
air Of filthy stable will faint milk tina
10 drawn in It, and when the air 10 fou
the COWS, under such lack Of care, vii
be more or less dirty, and some Of thil
filth will find its way into the pail.
careful mixer will remove by brushing
all such matter that might, in part
otherwise reach the dairy room or tn
consumer Of the milk. Milk il valu
able product, and the satisfaction o
producing it % well - the pleasure q
using in the household economy depen'
upon IT'D purity. At no time 10 the yea
il II more valuable or more di6fcnlt /
have it pure than in the winter; there
fore the one Who does, by proper care
produce it now. gains in more ways tina
one. The COWS should not only be ker
clean, but well sheltered, fed and vi
tered.
| THE mistakes that occur from lack (
| experience and Judgment in every d.
psrtment Of farming are almost Is nj
merous g are the cu1tivatOrs Of the sol
A writer in western contemporary Say
he lost q. 900 in trying TO establish
fruit farm on uncongenial soil, and wo
sio6 hisMna1f 0v,av-hno6o1 1,ofrrn IA ri;