Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-08-09
FARM AND GARDEN.
II the cucumber bugs attack you,
vines, sprinkle them with SCOT.

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the supply-pipe run to the bottom of the
cistern.
A PINT of white hellebore mixed with
a peck of sifted coal ashes will kill the
currant worm if scattered over the
bushes.
CARRIAGES are grown in some parts of
England as forage crop, and are con-
sidered one of the best green feeds to
stimulate milk production.
PENNSYLVANIA is to have state ex-
perimental farm, the appropriation for
that purpose having passed both houses
and been signed by the governor.
PARIS green should be used more
sparingly on squashes, cucumbers and
melons than on potatoes. A teaspoon
full is sufficient for pail OF water.
| ONE hundred and forty varieties of
corn have been planted at the New York
state experimental farm, under varying
conditions. The results cannot fail to
be of great value.
REMOVE the seed shoots of the rhu-
barb plant as fast as they appear. Al
lowing them to mature greatly weakens
the plant, which shows itself in subse-
quent years by the slender stalk.
Do not allow plants to be robbed of
both food and moisture by worthless
weeds, and more of them can be de-
stroyed in one day, when they are small,
than in ten after they are we'll rooted and
cover the ground.
DIR. MAXWELL T. MASTERS writes the
New York Tribune that he has often
seen the experiment tried of thinning
potato tops by pulling out all the small
er stems, leaving only two, or at most
three, OF the stronger ones to the hill,
and never knew an instance where the
result was not larger tubers and fire.
quently heavier total crop.
The prospects for the hop cror in
Ontario are poor, and the yield will
probably be far below the average. The
cause lies IN the ravages of the small
green flies, which have almost stripped
some of the weaker yards. The average
this year has considerably increased, but
the aggregate yield will be small.
THE Kansas state board of agriculture
have issued pamphlet on "Kansas: It's
Resources and Capabilities, It's Position,
Dimensions and Topography" 1t is
full of valuable information for those
seeking homes or Investments in the
west, and is printed in Euglish, Ger
man, Swedish and Danish. A COPY
will be sent free to any address desired.
The Boston American Cultivator rec:
ommends the use of salt on the manure
heaps "both for summer and winter.
In warm weather it attracts moisture
and keeps the manure from fre-fangtug
or burning from excessive fermentation.
In winter it keeps the heap from freez-
ing solid, and at any season it makes the
manure more soluble. ~
COZ. F. D. CURTIS writes the New
York Tribune that he has "tried all
kinds of experiments in killing Canada
thistles. Seeding heavily with clover
and moving it, is one of the best. The
poorest way to kill them, and the best
way to spread them, is to put the land
i'm hoed crops. Every little broken
Joint makes new thistle and starts a
new bed. Hence the less they are dis
trrbed the better, unless the ground is
plowed so frequently that they can not
out Of joint with ones inclination that
tits seldom done. ~
/ A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati
Gazette tells how he has succeeded in
keeping clover hay in stacks:i "Make
good long ricks, widening all the way
from the ground to as high as you want
to build. Then fill the center up until
4 the sides slope just like the rafters of a
\ house. The rick can be rooted over,
like shingling house, by beginning at
the caves, with old hay, straw, corn
fodder, or by freshly cut timothy.
When the rick has been carefully
widened from the ground up to the
caves, and then carefully covered over
in, the manner mentioned, clover hay
will keep nicely for any length Of time. :"
The production of sugar cane is in
creasing in Mexico. The climate and
soil are reported as well adapted to it.
4 It is stated that there is nothing in the
form OF sugar cane in Louisiana which
can compare with the luxuriant growth
tobe found in Mexico. Many of the
largest sugar districts in Mexico bave
abundant water, which can be utilized
for machine power as we'll as for irriga-
tion. AS for facilities for transporta-
ton, Mexican sugars are put up in. small
packages of conical shape, which are
easily transported by pack animals to
any distance required. The molasses is
converted into rum, and finds home
market. "a
II In removing hay from the field, says
an eastern exchange, that portion known
as rakings should be allowed to remain,
for two reasons-one is that it. will not
pay for gathering it up; the other, that
it does pay, snd twice over, in being
scattered. over the field and acting us a
\ |mulch to the exposed roots of the stub
!, Eble. These rakings keep the roots cool
and moist, and will add largely to, next
years yield of timothy or orchard grass,
as the case mny be. Many first class
farmers pursue this method at all times,
but there are so many who do not that
we regard it worth while to remind them
of the advantages of it, and ask them to
give it q trial.
& MIR. ROBERT HALL, an Ohio butter
inspector, says that where butter is
properly churned, both as to the time
and temperature, it becomes firm with
very little working, and it is tenacious;
but its most desirable state is waxy,
when it is easily nodded into any shape,
and may be drawn out considerable
length without breaking. It is then
styled gilt-edge. 1t is only in this state
that butter possesses that rich nutty
: favor and smell, and shows up rich
i golden yellow color which imparts SO
high degree of pleasure in eating it.,
and which increases it's value many fold.
!! 1t is not always necessary, when it
smells sweet, to taste butter in Judging
lit. The smooth unctuous feel in rub.
bing little between the finger and
thumb expresses at once its rich quality;
the nutty smell and rich aroma indicate
a similar taste; and the bright golden,
glistening eream.colored surface shows
it's height of cleanliness. 1t may be
necessary at times to use the trier, or
even use it until you become an expert
in testing by taste, smell and rubbing.
Bursting Of Water Wheel. =
[From the Grass Valley tCal.) Union.] z
On Tuesday last an eight-foot -Pelton
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