Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-19
FARM AND GARDEN,

thirty pounds. from, 4-year-old ram
owned by L. P. Smith, of Cary Station.
The process of condensing milk is
really very simple, and consists in heat
ing the milk in q vacuum pan kept ex-
hausted by an air.pump until it is re-
duced one-fourth.
PURE, clean water should ut all times
be accessible to the dairy COW, and is an
essential for health and profit as feed.
and without both of good quality and
liberal quantities the best results will
not be obtained.
DAIRYsIEN say that COW should be
capable of producing 200 pounds of but
ter annually, in order to be profitable,
tits believed, however, that the average
yield per annum of mich cows does not
exceed $50 pounds.
GROUND oats are said TO form one of
the best feeds to promote flow of milk.
either IN COWS, ewes or in breeding sows.
The oats will grind better if one bushel
OF corn is mixed with every two or three
OF the lighter grain.
HORSES at hard work should have in
the middle OF the forenoon and afternoon
a pail of water in which handful of oat-
meal has been stirred. 1t has a remark.
ably stimulating and STRENGTHENING ef-
feet, and is much better than the water
without the meal.
y. nj. STUDEBAKER, of the firm of
.Studebaker Brothers, at South Bend,
Ind, has offered as special premium,
at the next fat-stock show, one of their
finest top-spring wagons, to the exhibi-
tors showing the five best Hereford
calves under Year OF age.
NANCE itch may be cured by scrub
bing the horse With coarse brush and
then washing with CASTLE soap aud
soft water, drying carefully. AS soon
as thoroughly dried, apply an ointment
made of four ounces of sulphur. ten
ounces of lard and one-haif ounce OF car
bolic acid, well-mixed.
HARDENING of the skin frequently re.
suits from pressure of the harness and
from cutting the integuments and SUBJ
cellular tissues with the calks of tho
shoes. Make mixture of one ounce of
acetic acid, one ounce OF pulverized can.
tharides and five ounces of water. Alter
allowing the mixture to stand two weeks,
filter it through linen, add one ounce
spirits of wine and apply with sponge.
THE sheep is close grazer, and even
prefers short pastures. 1t is scrupu.
lously clean, though not very select in
the choice of the herbage ON which it
feeds. Wool, being highly nitrogen
Gus substance, requires larger supply
of albuminoid food for sheep than other
ruminants demand. Wool being the
chief profit of sheep farming, it will be
economy to feed oats or oil cake pretty
freely to secure liberal growth of this
staple.
AN old dairyman thinks finely fla /.
vored, aromatic, sweet butter can only
be secured through the use OF Il percent.
age of new mich COWS in the dairy at all
seasons. Darlington, the famous Phila-
delphia butter maker, milks his COWS for
butter only three or four months after
calving, then diverts their milk to cheese
or to the supply of the city milk trade.
Butter made from the milk of farrow
cows is inclined to crumble and taste
cheesy.
PROFESSOR HENRY says: 81 would
urge that our farmers feed moro oats to
young stock, colts as we'll rs calves.
There is no food easily attainable that
will so well correct acldity of the stom-
ach and keep the whole system in good
order. To those who wish to raise
calves on very little milk, / would say,
use oats and oil meal freely, and by
studying the wants of the calves you
will be able to raise fine animals on a
small allowance of milk"
MOST OF the troublesome weeds in this
country have come from Europe. The
ox-eye daisy, Canada thistle, pursIane,
shepherds purse, mallows, wbeat-thief,
pig-weed, dock, chick-w weed, dandelion,
mustard, ETC., are all foreign weeds.
But few native plants have become
troublesome. The ox-eye daisy, one OF
the most troublesome weeds in the east
is gaining ground quite rapidly in Ohio.
The southern limit of the much dreaded
Canada thistle is SAID to be not far from
Columbus.
To straighten lap horn, put brass
knob on the end of the horn which j.
bruised, and a, pully above the head aud
one over the back of the calf; put core
through both pulleys and fasten to the
horn, putting weight of three or foul
pounds on the back end of the cord, &C
cording to the size OF the animal. Oil the
horn near the end, which will soften IT
and keep it on. In little while the horl
will be where it is wanted. After the
horn is straight, there will be ridge left
take 1asp, file it down and sandpnpel
it afterward.
The honey crop OF the country abou
Austin, Texas, promises poorly. SO fa
bees are making little or no honey. Re
ports from parts of New York say tina
up to the first week of June the sprin,
was cold and windy, ana where bee
were not in good condition at the begin
ming they have done badly. For thos,
who have bees the prospect is now fair
as the fields are covered with clover
From Kentucky come reports that th,
white clover crop is immense. 1t is pre-
dicted that the largest crop of hone,
ever harvested in Kentucky will be gath
cred this year.
An Iowa fruit-grower thus describes
an easy way of raising Strawberries: Ii
the spring we plow as for potatoes, fur
row out three feet apart each way
and set one strawberry plant in eacI
hill. We cultivate as we would pota
toes for the first year, after which tn
plants take care of themselves, excep
that we NOW the weeds about twice
year, and let them lie for n mulch.
now have q bed white with bloom tha
/. has stood four years, and another tina
was set last year. L do Tot know Sba
variety have, but have had it twelv
or more years, and it has never failed
The berries are large and good, though
not as big as belleaower apple.
A MINNESOTA farmer says that yea
ago he sowed in drills amber sorghum
cane and early Minnesota sweet corr
for forage, and commenced feeding i
early. HIS stock, both horses and cat
i tie, preferred the corn and ate it frs
when both were fed at the same time
When the corn was in the milk he cut i
all up and cured it. His horses woul
leave their oats and eat the cured cor
fodder up clean before eating the oats
The brood mares grew fat on the cor
fodder while nursing their colts II
SAYS: "For feeding colts. after takin