Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-12-20
FARM AND GARDEN.

coarse manure put it where the fowl,
can reach it. They will not only scratch
1T to as fine condition, but be benefited
by the exercise.
In the five years ending with 1856
more than ], 500, 600 sheep and 2OO. .OOO
horned cattle were boiled down simply
for their tallow in the colonies of New
South Wales and Victoria.
r. WHINE pumpkins cannot be recon
| mendea as fat-producipg material, they
possess excellent milk-producing qual
ities, and, being cheaply raised, may be
counted as valuable food for mich COWS,
l-sNeW York World.
IT is good plan to go through g
young orchard and fasten to stakes ali
trees which are getting into a leaning
position, which will destroy their sym:
metry. This is particularly necessary
to trees just set, which are not firmly
rooted. Wind bit OF cloth about the
tree to prevent chatting the bark where il
is tied to the stake. s.-.
NORTHWEST Farmer: If your wife is
cross at meal time, take an observation
of the wood pile. The woman who can
go out ir storm of sleet and dig soggy
wood out OF the snow to cook her kue-
| bana's dinner, and still wear a Cheerful
countenance and speak honeyed words
is more than human.
WHEN fowls are kept for eggs it is es-
sential to success that every autumn the
stock be replaced with pullets matched
early in the spring. By no other means
can eggs be relied on. The only excep-
ton to this rule is in the case OF Cochins,
Brahmas or Famburgs, which will lay
through winter up to their second and
sometimes third year.
In the stalls and Btyes the aim should
be to induce fattening animals to eat
| Just as much as they can assimilate.
There is more money in getting March
pig to weigh 300 before the ground
freezes than in any other way Of pork
making. Fattening sheep and cattle
should be made just as comfortable and
kept as quiet as possible.
A CORRESPONDENT OF the New York
Tribune recommends tub largest Mt the
bottom and tapering at the top, of suf-
ticient size to contain years supply, rs
the best package in which to store pork;
if ifpacked properly the meat will not rise
in the tub, being held down by the
slant of the sides. 1t should be put
down edgeways, in layers as solid as
possible.
MILKING in the barnyard, says an ex-
change, is an old fashion that should be
abandoned. It is inconvenient and un-
clean. 1t should go with the wooden
pail and the hairy butter, and never be
heard of any more; gone and forgotten,
too. 1t is a wonder that any farmer
would permit it, and still more wonder
that farmers wives or daughters
would consent to it.
The Iowa Register says it is not all
sunshine and prosperity with the Iowa
creameries. There have been several
failures, which will go far to shake con-
tidence in such enterprises, but which,
on investigation, have turned out to be
made by parties who entered into the
business with no capital to do business
on. But yet the truth is evident that
the creamery has come to stay
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER rode
down to the Potomac flats early in the
summer, and when he saw the heaps of
mud he expressed great dissatisfaction,
saying it was an unsightiy place and he
would try to remedy it. When he re-
turned to his Office he secured lot OF
sunhower seeds and sent man down
to the mud heaps to SOW them. Soon
| there was quite a supfiower garden
there.
Mr.. ISAAC GARTHE gives the North
west Farmer the following directions for
making o bushel crate for shipping ,po-
tatoes to market: For the ends use inch
boards, cut twelve and one.half inches
square. For Stats use half inch stuff,
three and one-half inches wide, putting
three Stats on the bottom of the crate,
and three on each side. The crate, when
finished, should measure twenty inches
long, outside measure. These crates,
MIR. Garthe claims, are the most con-
venient size for loading wagon box.
an English exchange, Land and Wa
ter, in commenting on the dairy show
held in London in October, thinks the
reason why English cheese has deterior-
ated in quality and quantity is because
farmers wives and daughters have got
above their business" and no longer
personally superintend the dairy de-
pt@iIhASh1o3 anu VIC Utlat
before English cheeses become rs fam.
ousas they were of yore, certain Of the
fine arts will have to give place to use.
full knowledge, in the farmhouse at
least.
HIRE are glad tidings to huskers ac-
cording to correspondent of them. Y.
World: None but the laboring man
who has suffered actual pain while Lusk-
ing corn can appreciate what cure for
cracked and chapped hands means. Dc
not;wash your hands during cold wealth
er oftener than can be helped. Grease
them In the morning with clean sleeps
tallow; melt it and rub it in thoroughly;
the more grease you can rub iu the bet.
ter. At noon give them another greas-
ing and at. hight wash the hands. My
word for it, by this plan man can husk
corn with pleasure. "a
stroyer has been discovered in France
by DIR. Nessler. he recommends q
mixture of soft-soap, consisting OF
four parts; extract of tobacco, six
parts; lamylic alcohol, five parts;
methylic alcohol, twenty parts; and
water q Thousand parts. German gar
deners are said to have great liking TO,
this destroyer OF insects. This is the
rationale of the process. The extract oi
tobacco is made by combining equal
parts of rolls of tobacco and soft-soap;
and water is added to make up for what
is evaporated. When the soft:soup is
dissolved, the other ingredients are put
-in.~eG Good stirring is required before
use. psaf fy-,5 fsea
sGERMANTowN TBLKaRAPH: The sue.
cess of many farmers is owing in part,
at least, to the way they have of doing
little things at the proper time and in
the right way, This being the case,
may be pardoned for describing 30 small
a matter as wagon jack. The one
will describe is NOT new or original with
me, though never saw one made ex,
acily ikesmy own. The one described
below is intended for buggy and light
wagon; for heavy it would have to be
made stronger. Make lever of hard
woel,g2 feet long, 1x1s inches; stand
iard same length, f1x3 inches. Connec
the two thus: Cut notch 1x3 inches
in end of standard, and make three pin.
| holes about of an inch apart Ito vary