Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-08-30
FARM AND eARpE,.

ana Wealtn than tho drainage.
YEARS ago, when two farmers com.
menced to law with each other, there
were two well.off farm ere and two poor
lawyers. Now there are two poor farm
ers and two rich lawyers.
IT is all well enough to caution farm
ers against giving fraudulent notes, but
1t W ould be better not to elect q man to
the legislature who favored continuing
the legality of such note ..-ss.9 ~.
THERE are lots of articles relative to
the best COW for the farm, written for
the middle or eastern states where the
advice is all right, copied into western
papers where such adviceis not wisdom.
A WRITER to the Breeders Gazette
thinks a lack of salt Will account for
many of the ills of stock. He thinks a
trough constantly supplied with salt
should always be kept in the pasture
and yard.
A AFARMRR'sintelligent daughter solilo-
quihes as follows about the fair: " High
est prize for fast horse, $3.50; best farm
team, $50; best loaf bread, SIS. How
much more does q director think of a
Efast horsethan he does Of practical
housewife
"A NEBRASKA man says hay is good for
hogs. Cut the hay short and mix with
bran, shorts or middlings, and feed us
other feed. Hogs learn to like it, and if
soaked in swili or slop food it is highly
relished- by them. In winter use for
hogs the same hay that you feed to your
horses, and you will find that it will save
bran, shorts or other fool; it puts on
flesh as rapidly rs anything that can be
given them. -
The persistent use of pure bred males
OF any breed will produce animals not
distinguishable from pure-breds, what
ever the character of the females at start
ing. We cannot positively fix the num-
Der of generations required-ordinarily
four is sutficientj sometimes less, some
times more. This fact, which ought not
to need restating, may givo hope to the
poorest of farmers if he desires to i'm
prove his stock.
I'd. b, SANDERS, ESQ while on his
visit to Europe, visited the international
Exposition, at Ham burg. He speaks of
another diminutive race of COWS, as fol-
lows: AS u matter of curiosity l was in
terested in tho little COWS from Norway.
They are little bits of things, much
smaller than the Angelcn COWS, remark
ably thin, fiat bodied, on very short
legs, white on back and belly, the sides a
light yellow streaked with black, mark
ing them much like tiger. About q
dozen of them were inthc show.
TINS item may serve rs caution.
The Boone Standard says: "Or open
ing the drain from the high school
building, which failed this spring and
caused the flooding of the basement, the
tlling was found, in places where it
passed in the vicinity of growing trees,
to be choked up with masses of root
let's. The roots had sought the water,
and penetrating between the Joints of
the tiling, which had not been cemented
as they ought to have been, they found
plenty of food and grew with vigor,
filling up the channel" @
| IF ever there was a time when the
small, restless, mettlesome horse, de
void of either grace in form or me vement,
and ready for fracas at"the drop of
the hat, J" could be reared at profit,
that time has ceased to be, and with
but small probability of its return. AS
o rule the industrial classes are moving
toward another plane, and Improvement
is the watchword all along the line In
every department of industry, as well as
in the intellectual callings, there is the
greatest amount of unoccupied space
sat the top. Cabins.
SAYS Prof. Roberts of the Cornell
University experimental station: Thin
seeding frequently does we'll, until the
freezing and thawing OF early spring,
when it suffers more than thick seeding.
If the weather of late spring is not IA
vorable, the thin seeding does not tiller
as it should, or tillers so late, that there
is aslarge number Of small heads on
short stalks, in the standing grain. One
bushel OF good seed would be ample for
an acre, if all the conditions were most
favorable; but they seldom are, and it
is wiser to give liberal sowing of the
grain than to run the risk for the advan-
tages of thin seeding. 80
A KANSAS farmer rises to remark that
"When cholera got among my hogs 1
put corn on brush heap and burned it.
The hogs ate the ashes and the charred
corn. Then l put coal oil in milk, o few
spoonsfuls to every hog and fed that to
them. | have not lost hog. The
hogs were sick with the cholera, and re.
coyered.under that treatment. An In
diana brother, per Contra, who has never
had cholera among his hogs, furnishes
the following common sense recipe:
"To prevent hog cholera among your
herd, adopt and adhere strictly to rules
of cleanliness. Keep the pens and hogs
clean. - Chicago Tribune.
IT is poor economy to sell all the eggs
off the farm, because they. bring good
price. There is nothing more strength
ening and nourishing tkan eggs as an
article of diet, and farmers certainly,
ought to indulge in the luxury of eating
them. -Four eggs contain more nutri-
ment than q pound OF beef-steak, and
will give more strength; and person
will not tire of egg-diet as quickly as
they will of fresh meat. They never
distress the, partaker, and if properly
cooked can be eaten with perfect safety.
Omelets, poached eggs, or boiled eggs
over them, are splendid substitutes TO,
meat,at breakfast.
The aggregate losses OF cattle on the
plains says the Stockman, every year is
enormous. The pecuniary loss is made
| up by the profits upon what are saved,
but what a vast amount OF animal suf
fering is included in this loss of three O,
FIVE per cent. There are probably five
million cattle kept on the plains. Fou,
per cent. Of this is 200, 900. The cruelty
which is concentrated in the deaths Of
all these cattle by starvation or thirst
is sufficient to make one mourn. If Q
farmer were to deliberately starve one oi
his COWS to death by turning the animal
out without food or water, he would
very quickly meet with adequate pun
ishment, but as it is The fashion just
now, the greater the crime, the less il
becomes amenable to the law and the
less apprehension it meets with.
| A aARKET gardener had q very fine
COW that was nilked week after week by
hired men. He observed that thu
amount of butter he carried to marke
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