Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-24
FARM AND GARDEN.
OATS suit moist ground the best of all

A WRITER in the New York Tribune
gives the good advice in two words how to
cure an egg eating hem" Eat her"
A DYING Scotch squire said to his son !:
(" Be aye stickin' in n tree, Jock-they'll
be GROWN while your sleepin'."
Corn alone is not a sufficient food for
fowls, some oats, wheat, bran in the form
of thick mush aud some vegetables
should be given.
WHEN growing sweet corn for fodder
use the old reliable Stowells evergreen.
No variety will produce more fodder.
CoMpARATIvELY few who grow peach
trees have learned the law, that neither
foliage nor fruit can be produced from
wood of more thana single years growth.
Do not be allured by few balmy
breezes into laying aside too much
winter clothing. There is plenty of time
yet to don gauze underwear.
FARMERS often gauge their profits by
regarding whatever they feed out of their
own raising as costing nothing. This is
erroneous bookkeeping.
PoTAToEs are made scabby by wire
worms. The best preventive is to grow
tuc CIOp Ou luliOW BiOuuu WITHOUT
manure CT with fertilizers. The worms
are encouraged or brought in by the
manure.
SAYS Ben Perley Poore, the great
secret in retaining young people on the
family homestead consists in making
rural homes something beyond the abode
of hard toll, cloudy visages aud COM
pound interest.
THE losses of swine from all causes
during the past year amount to about 6
per cent, according to returns OF CORES
pondents. They are very large in the
south, and less than in some former
years in the western states.
ALL rinkled peas are superior to.
more delicate in flavor, and remain
longer in season than the smooth sorts:
for as in sugar corn, the wrinkled appear
ance indicates a greater amount of sac
charine matter.
The mulberry tree is not without use
fulness and profit, and is no doubt sus-
cephble of great Improvement in the
way of varieties. But an exchange tells
us of species that on the second day
after planting produces ribbons and silk
stockings among its branches.
PROF. w. Fl. WILEY, of Perdue Uni
versity, Lafayette, Ind, has been ap-
pointed chief chemist of the department
OF agriculture, in place of Prof. Collier,
to whom the sorghum interest of the
country is so greatly indebted.
AN eastern potato grower advances the
idea that the crop from seed potatoes
that are cut in pieces will ripen ten to
twelve days earlier, ii the pieces are cut
ive-weeks before planting, busted with
plaster and lime and spread on boards in
the cellar and frequently stirred to keep
them from heating.
NUMEROUS reports of an ominous char
acter regarding the coming wheat crop
have been received from various sec.
lions Of the country. The recent cold
spell has undoubtedly done some dam.
age, but SO long as NewJersey and Del
aware remain silent there is not much
cause for apprehension.
WHEN potatoes are planted to be
"strawed place them at the usual
depth, and when they are coming
through the ground use a shovel ploN
and hill them up, as fiat culture will moi
do with strawed potatoes. The straw
may be put four or fiye inches upoa tho
ground.
WHEN you plant your watermelon
seed select light sandy plot or com
paratively poor soil. A vigorous star
should be given the young plants. an6
to do this a hill of rich earth is needed
If very large fruit is desired, pick off al
| but one melon.
A MAJORITY have no relish for garlic
a bulbous-rooted plant with strong
| penetrating odor, but it is much es
teemed by some for havoring soups
stews, etc. The plan of cultivation
varies but little from onions. When the
leaves turn yellow, take up the bulbs
and dry in the shade, then store them il
dry place.
For washing hands that have become
cracked or blackened, there is nothing
better than Indian meal rubbed on witt
the soap. 1t not only removes the dirt
hut softens and whltens The hands AZ
well. For men and boys doing farm OF
shop work it is excellent and should be
kept always at hand.
GBERKINs, used for picking, are
very small, oval shaped, prickly variet,
Of cucumbers, having somewhat the ap
pearance of burr. They are growI
exclusively for picking. They are til,
smallest of all varieties, and should al
ways be picked whenyoung and tender
The seed ge1minates slowly.
BEN PERLEY PooRE says young mel
from the farm have flocked to the citie
to engage in trade, although statistic
show that among one hundred mer
chants not more than three acquire in
dependent fortunes. While 1t is rar,
that young man who devotes himsel
to practical agriculture ever become
bankrupt or dies destitute of property.
| The boys who are fond of parched 20
| popped) corn should not forget to plan
a few dozen hills when the field corn i
being planted. There is very hand
some variety called rice; the ears ar
short, kernels long, pointed and resem
bles rice. The color is white, and it is
prolific bearer. 1t is used entirely fo
parching, for which purpose it has N
superior.
A LITTLE grain will make proportion
ately more growth when pig runs in
| uclo tinu WHSu " lS CoulueO Ill pen,
does not cost half as much, and til
flesh is hundred times better food. TIL
question is not one of weight, but O
health and profit. If two hundre,
pounds cost oil they will bring, and on
hundred cost only half, which is tn
most profitable
The Lady Washington grape is of re
cent origin. 1t is said to be stron
grower, with good foliage, productiv
and hardy. The clusters average large
than the Concord, color yellowis
white. The flesh is tender, sweet an
good. 1t generally ripens with the Cor
cord though sometimes later. Judgin
from many predictions one may conclud
that it has future, aud will prove valu
able acquisition in many places.
The Burbank's Seeding potato is
white skinned, medium early variety,
Seeding of the early rose, of fine forr
and good proportions. 1t has few eyes
which are but little below the surface
Either boiled or baked it is dry an
foury, while the flesh is of fine grain an
excellent flavor. The vines are very Wig
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