Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-12-06
FARM AND GARDEN.

. NO UIecu VI lOHuS VIII fklI1V6 unQel
bad treatment.
BEAR in mind that wool, like all ami
NAL product is made from food.
OVER three hundred patents on churnf
have been taken G'ut in this country.
1T is said that Connecticut farmers arr
buying oleomargarme and selling it fol
dairy butter.
The Dalrymple firm produced 15O,.
600 bushels of wheat and 40, 900 bushels
of oats this year.
In the British market ], 400 and 16O
pounds are the standards for beef and
mutton carcasses.
GREAT BRITAIN has one-half as many
sheep and one-tifth as many cattle as
the United States.
IT is estimated that there are between
700, 900 and 500 1000 cattle on the Black
Hills ranges in Dakota, and not less than
1000 horses.
AN Ohio farmer has found that a
bushel of timothy contains 81, 900, 900
seeds, or about eight seeds to every
square inch if spread uniformly over an
acre OF land.
The centrifugal process of making
butter is becoming quite popular. A
machine now in use in Pennsylvania has
capacity of about 1000 pounds of
milk per hour, and is run by water power
at a speed of nearly 1000 revolutions
per minute.
BUCKwHEAT intended for seed should
be hand thrashed. In thrashing by ma
chine many of the grains are SO bruised
and broken that they will not germin-
ate. AS buckwheat is very easily hand
thrashed it makes job for men in win
ter when other work is scarce, and it is
good policy to save it for then.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Bee Journal
reminds young apiarists that they
must not expect to have heavy
increase in the number of swarms
and large crop of honey at the same
time. Many base their prospects on
the number of swarms they possess,
ignorant that excessive swnrming so
weakens the bees that they gather little
surplus honey.
The Live Stock Monthly, speaking of
ensilage, says that while theorists are
still endeavoring to show the insignifi-
cant value of ensilage for feeding to
milch COWS, the practical farmers con-
tinue to build silos, fill them with ensi-
lage and double the number of cattle on
their farms. Scientists cannot prove
impossible that which exists as tangi-
BILE, practical fact.
The Farm and Garden reminds those
who are allowing themselves to be car
ried away by enthusiasm on the poultry
subject that because man keeps twelve
hens year and makes profit of S12,
it by no means follows that he can keep
1900 hens the same time and clear
$1,000. With large focks comes almost
invariably the crowding of them into
close quarters, and the consequent de-
yelopment of disease.
In making roosts for fowls let them
be level and on line. If they are 80
arranged as to have some of them high
and others low, the fowls will crowd TO-
gether on the higher perches, leaving
the lower ones unoccupied, which is not
only q waste of space, but cause of
store feet and other ailments, as the
heavier fowls cannot easily get on or off
the perches when they are very high.
The lower they are the better, provided
the coops are ventilated at the top and
warm and dry near the floor.
Hon. GEO. f. LORD, of Elgin, keeps
100 COWS on 800 acres Of land, and has
noS raised a pound of hay for years.
The corn is sowed in drills 3! feet
apart, and about the time it blossoms it
is cut with self-raking reaper, cutting
one row at time, the machine throw
ing it off in ganels. When sufficiently
wilted it is bound and set in large
shocks and allowed to cure standing on
the ground until winter sets in, when it
is hauled to the barn. He secures a
yield OF about seven tons of cured fodder
to the acre, worth as much as the best
hay. he is one OF the most successful
dairymen in Illinois.
THE secretary OF the British Farmers
Association says he does not know a bet
ter method of packing butter than that
adopted by the consignors of Brittany
butter. Tons are sent to England week.
ly in rough pine boxes, holding two
dozen pounds each. The butter ia made
up in two-pound rolls, and is wrapped
in muslin with an outside covering of
clean, white paper. The boxes meas
ure fourteen inches in length, ten and
half by nine and half inches deep, and,
rs the Jumps of butter are made Of uni
form length and diameter, twelve of
them Can be easily, but closely, packed
on end in each box. This butter ar
rives in London beautifully fresh, per-
fectly clean, unbruised and uninjured in
any way.
A RECENT writer says that good
Short-horn or Hereford bull will sire 30
calves year for ten years. A
common scrub stock 4 years old
will make one thousand pounds
live weight, worth 8 cents pound, or
$50. A half-bred Short-horn or Here
ford grade steer 3 years old will make
Il 400 pounds, or $40. It costs some
thing less for one years less feeding and
herding, say SIS. The differenc ce in val
ne, then. is $45; and multiplying the
annual product of fifty by forty-iv and
we get S2,250 as the yearly gain, or
S22, 800 in ten years. If the stock1nan
IS satisfied with so per cent. on his in
yestment, he can afford to give exactly
81, 750 for his bull. This sum produces
$3.50 every year, or $18, 75O in ten
years, and this, with the price of the
bull, makes the total sum mentioned.
The profit for good Ayrshire, Dutch
or Jersey bull in dairy would be still
more-Ohi0 Farmer.
The Breeders Gazette makes the fol-
lowing suggestions for the care OF colts:
1t is hard treatment to take a colt
which has been having its dams milk
and good grass, and when cold weather
comes on deprive 1t of the milk and
force it to depend on accustomed dry
food. 1t is better to wean them while
still on grass, if Of reasonable age, ac-
customing them to grain at the same
time, If this has not been done before,
as it should be, wherever this is practi-
cal. Oats we count the best food for
colts; but corn may be mixed with this
without injury. A healthful colt will
withstand good deal Of i'll treatment
without seeming the worse for it, but
this is not sufficient reason for expos.
ng hem: Colts and young horses can
be kept in fair condition in winter Of
tentimes without shelter, but it is usual