Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
FARM AND GARDEN,

THERE ls an animated contest going
on by experiments in the harvest fields
between the twine and, wire sell-bind.
CTS. All other reapers are neglected.
lT is reported that two large eastern
mix condensing factories refuse to nc.
cept milk from dairymen that are in the
habit OF feeding ensilage. They say the
product does not keep.
CORNELIUS FRANTz, a Wabash County.
H., farmer, recently clipped from nine,
teen sheep, sixteen of them last wears
lambs, 227 pounds OF wool that sold nj
~ cents per pound. His sheep are pure
Cotswold.
The Drovers' Journal is of the opin-
ion that board of trade as conducted is
more genteel than secret and covert
gambling house, but confesses it's ina.
blilty to discover the difference in the
principle between the two.
"a. LIE protection of grapes by bagging
should be attended TO carly. Paper
bags known to every grocer as "tWo-
pound bags, should be used. After
the sack is in place over the bunch one
pin will serve to fasten it there.
A COW belonging to David Jacobs, OF
Heth Township, Harrison County, In
diana, fell distance of tifty-one feet
into cave one day last week and re-
mained there for one day and night be-
fore discovered. She was hoisted out
alive. t-
Thus far this year, says the Dodge
City (kan.) Globe, our, stockmen have
placed on their stock ranges south of us.
about 5000, 600 worth of blooded bulls.
which will show marked Improvement
IL blood among our young stock for the
next few years. &
THE men who made the bright pages
OF American history laid the foundation
OF their brawny character in natures
fields. The merely artificial fields have
never produced great man. The nat.
uraltields bring regular harvests of them,
Fuller.
The export trade in fresh beef is
reaching unusual proportions this sea-
son. Up to May 3lst, this year, 60, ,S7S,-
91O pounds, valued at sc, 539, ,GG9, had
been exported, while during the cores
ponding period of 1882 but 6,253 ,495
pounds, valued at S2,454, l46, were ex-
ported.
The barb wire syndicates and its fun.
erai gathering last week in Chicago was
solemn affair. Washburn generously
offered to ''come down" on his ROYALTY
tax to most any sum the licensees would
give him. Ii any of them pay him one
dollar they are fit subjects for the Asy.
lum OF Feeble-Minded idiots.
stead.
In these hot summer days, while mer-
chants, bankers and professional men
hue away to watering places and cool re-
treats, the farmers have to be Ill their
harvest aud corn fields, ers::r;aa pros
perity to the county. But there is com
tassin knowing that while the former
fashionable classes are prominenG char
actcrs III bankrupt courts, the farmers
can pay their debts and have enough to
eat and to wear.
IT is stated by one who has been very
successful with ensilage thst the proper
weight for silo is 130 pounds per
square foot. Barrels of fine loan or
road dust make very good weight for the
sllo, and the dirt can be utilized as an
absorbent IN tue stable as the packages
are removed i'll taking out The fodder.
This Is better than handling several tons
@ stone that must be gGttcn out of the
way again i'll the sprin,.
STATIsrIcAN j. r. / u, calculates
that the country loses nearly 5000 900
sheep each year-mostly op account of
dogs. Exposure to storms and severe
cold in the west kills great many, aud
southern thieves take come, Scab,
foot-rot, paper-skin, dysentery, and
scarcity OF grass are also destructive
These causes bar extension OF llocks, and
IN some sections almost annillilate this
otherwise profitable rnrai pursuit.
Miss JENNIE CoRsoN, the Montana
madc her Start i'll life as IL
compositor III n Jacksonville (Wis. J
printing Office. She went to Montana
abontaye year ago and bought IL band of
sheep and a ranch near Okla, McagLcr
County, for 5000 cash. She las mau-
aged her business entirely herself, aud
now has as good a sheep ranch as there
IS III Montana. Her sheep and ranches
are said to be worth $27, 800 more than
they we're year ago.
A JUDICIoUs system of mixed husband
ry, made up of dairy, stock raising,
grazing, hay making and fruits, careful
ly followed, will seldom fail in the most
disastrous year we are apt to have, in
returning to the producer q handsome
income. Taking the present season and
the last one as examples of the most un-
favorable kind, the whole disaster, in
both cases, has fallen entirely on the
corn crop, while the dairy, stock grow
ing, and indeed any branch of husbandry
that can be named, have all been pros
porous. s.-E. II. Caikins.
The Farmers Magazine thus says re
garding sunfowers: "The sunlower
yields more seed than corn. A busbel
seed will yield gallon Of oil, and the
reslduum Is equivalent to that of linseed.
The flowers make good dye, and fur
nish bees with material for wax and
honey. The stalks make excellent fuel.
and furnish fine fiber for working with
silk. The leaves are good adulterant
for Havana filters, and eaten by stock.
AS food for the table the seeds can be
ground into -four and made into pal
atable, nutritious bread"
Hon. j. d. G. NELSON says Of red. top
grass, as it has proved in his farm expe-
rlence: 1t Is only adapted to low or wet
lands, and even, those had better be
drained and sown in timothy or orchard
grass if for meadow, or orchard and blue
grass If for pasture. Red top makes
poor pasture and is not enduring for
meadows; besides, it takes too much of
it for ton of not very desirable hay,
as it is Of a tough, flexible nature, and
not particularly nutritious. Cattle will
not tear down a ten rail fence to get to
astack OF it if clover or timothy is with.
in their reach, and they are better Judges
OF good hay, sometimes, than their own
ers.
A CLUB Of 14-year-old boys in Web
ster Parish, La, has been organized to
compete with one another IN the cultiva-
tion of one acre of corn each. The lad
who produces the largest crop of corn
on his acre is to receive five bushels of
corn from each of the other members of
the club. Each selects his own acre
and manures and cultivates it to suit
himself. Suppose there are twenty