Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-06-28
FARM AND GARDEN.

40 ioHoWs: une ~, the Hamlltons
June %, Williams and Hamilton; june
29, i. C"rwin Anderson, all at Dexter
Park, Chicago. October l7,,&W Will r.
King. Marshall, Mo; October "a ant
%, Theodore Bates, Higginsville, Mo.
In setting an orchard it is well to ge,
it on upland, not only on account ol
better drainage, but also because tree.
set on allnvial soil make n growth o]
wood and leaves rather than fruit. Or
low ground the fruit will often be large.
but not SO well colored or highly favored
rs on upland, where the wood growth is
smaller aud both leaves and fruit have q
fuller exposure to the suns rays.
SIX TO eight tons of Hubbard squasbes
to the acre may be fairly counted on, ii
soil and culture are right, and the bugs
are kept down. There is nearly ALWAYS
a demand for this crop at paying prices,
and the quantity farmer may grow on
small patch can be readily sold in his
own neighborhood. Much depends on
having pure seed, which is difficult tc
obtain, as the squash intermixes very
easily.
Tie milk war in New York City has
brought out the fact that farmers who
produce the milk get little more, and in
some cases no more, for it than it would
bring as butter by the best creamery
processes. In such cases the advantage
is all in working up the milk at home.
The butter can be sold where and when
the owner chooses, ond with the use OF
the skirn-mllk as feed for pigs, or for
other purposes, the profit is consider.
ably increased over that secured by milk
selling alone.
A SANDY grayelly, limestone or rocky
country is best to glow up the sure
footed and leg enduring horse. Start
with sound horses ip the breeding
on such soil, give the right sort of food
to colts to make ivory bones, tough
muscles and sinews, keep them duly ex-
ercised while growing, and you may be
sure then to raise first rate, serviceable,
long-enduriDg stock; and when this is
accomplished, be able to sell them Mt
extra high prices, thus being well paid
for all extra care bestowed in raising
them.
JUDGING by chemical composition
alone, sorghum meal is almost identi-
cal with cornmeal. But in practice there
is a decided difference. Prof. Cook, of
the New Jersey Agricultural College,
first fed three COWS, known rs steady
mixers, q mixed ration os brewers
grains, cornmeal, corn stalks and bran.
After time sorghum meal was substi-
tuted for the co1nmeal. There was a
marked decrease in The yield of milk.
The cornmeal ration was then restored
in place of the sorghum meal. An in
crease followed the change. The differ
ence amounted to at least per cent.
WHERE weeds are too large and they
stand too thick for good work in the or
dinary way with cultivators or shovel
plows, an effective method is to run a
turning" plow along the rows of corn,
the bar side next to the row, running as
close Hspossible, throwing. u very shall
low turrow away from the corn. Then
clean out tho bills with hoes and oy
hand if necessary, and iua few days com
mence cultivnting in the regular way.
The weeds or the corn must be de-
stroyed, and we have known instances
where it was impossible to get rid of
weeds abont bills of corn without using
extra hard work.
REGARDING tho value of birds to the
farmer, Prof. Stearns, in q paper read
before the Connecticut State Board of
Agriculture, states that young robin in
the nest requires daily supply of food
more than equivalent to its own weight.
The swallows are the natural enemies Of
the midges aud similar smaller insects
that prey on grain. It is estimated that
the nestlipgs of single pair of swal-
lows viii in three weeks consume balf a
million insects Blue birds protect
fruit trees from insects. The king bird
is strictly insectivorous and great pro
tector. The wrens can beinduced to
remain nearhouses If suitable boxes are
provided, and they war without ceasing
upon catterpillars.
WE hear good deal about the small
average yield per acre of wheat in this
country in comparison with that in Eng
land, but in this matter we are as great
a percentage ahead of the English
colonists OF Australia as the mother
country is ahead of us. According to
official figures the total area under wheat
in 1881 in New South Wales, Victoria.
South Australia, Western Australia,
Queenslana,t Tasmania and New Zea-
land was 3,36l. 500 acres, against 1885,
SCI acres in 1871. In 1881 the yield
was 30, ,675, 800 bushels-an average of
s 50 bushels per acre. That was very
good wheat year, too, as the average
yield OF several years is onlyS3 bushels.
As labor is about as dear in the Aus
tralian provinces belonging to Great
Britain as III the United States, there
does not secm much likelihood that we
shall be greatly injured by Australian
in foreign markets. Tho
main advantage the Australians have is
IN tue extra quality of their wheat,
which secures higher prices even than
those paid for California wheat.
The subject of farm drainage, which
was some years ago much discussed, is
receiving u good deal of attention in
states where the need of it is most felt.
In one county in West Virginia there
are said to be over 100000 feet of tile
drains, which have improved the laud
many fold beyond the cost of the work.
The land lies along the Kanawha, and
much of it was almost valueless until
brought into productiveness by artificial
drainage. In Ohio and Indiana the
good result of money expended in this
way are everywhere seen. Mr.. Il. NJ.
Harrison, at a recent meeting of the
Ohio Drainage Association, said that
The profit on good drainage is flom 25 to
LOG per cent a year. He spoke of one
county i'll Indiana where the yield of
wheat had been increased by draining
from 81 bushels to 10 bushels, and from
81 bushels of corn to II. Atthe same
time there was fully 60 percent decrease
in malarial diseases. Among the good
results Of drainage Mr.. Harrison said
it is of incalculable benefit to the pub
lie roads, it does away with much OF the
mud about the farm buildings, and,
most important of all perhaps, it drives
away mortgages from farming commu-
nifty.
A WRITER in Vick's Magazine says:
st is evident that the wood aud buds
Of grape vines suffer winter injury more
from drying than from intensity of cold.
For when we lay them flat upon the sur
lace of the soil, weighed down go as to
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