Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-11-15
FARM AND GARDEN.

OF the 56,650 square miles in Illinois,
only $50 are water,
|, TIP plants of raspberries should be
set out in the spring.
BEFORE cold weather stock barns
should be made wind proof.
MANURE applied to pear trees in the
spring is liable to produce blight.
The best of honey is said to be made
from the flower of the catnip plant
SouRs in sheep may be cured by liz
tie linseed meal mixed with their food.
IT is said to be more difficult to breed
white turkeys than those of any other
color.
An Ohio dairyman estimates that 100
pounds of skim milk will make three
POUNDS of pork.
THERE is no cure for the sheep killing
habit in dogs that have once tasted the
kidney fat of sheep.
FIFTY thousand people are employed
IN rice culture in Louisiana. Before the
war but little rice was grown there.
AN Eastern farmer makes the state
ment that plantain dies out if kept from
going to seed two years in succession.
SPADED in among the roots of trees
wood ashes will kill the insect eggs that
harbor there. 1t is also an excellent fer
tilizer.
D. D. 7. MOORE says that the best
grape vines he ever saw were supplied
with the blood OF chickens and hogs
slaughtered for family use.
CONNECTICUT has stringent law
against farmers allowing wild carrots to
grow by the roadside. There have been
several prosecutions this season tor yio-
lation of the law.
WITH straw that cannot be otherwise
made into manure it is sometimes advis.
able to burn to make the ashes readily
available. This is particularly the case
if the straw contains the seeds of weeds,
Burning on plowed land before sowing
wheat is found to increase the yield.
Burning the stubbleis less advantageous,
as that is turned to the bottom of the
furrow.
IT is found that seeds from native ap.
pies produce more vigorous fruit trees
than from the finer varieties Of cultivat
ed fruits. In the latter, the excess of
eatable fruit, which makes it valuable,
80 encloses the seed as to greatly dimin-
lsh its productive vigor. Nursery men
usual, obtain their apple seeds from
cider-mill pomace, where only the small.
er fruit is used.
The frequent failures of grain and
cultivated crops in any section are an
admonition to farmers that the land
needs rest, or changed rotation. More
clover and other crops to be fed on the
farm, more sheep aud dairy products,
and less sales of wheat, corn and pota-
toes, will, in the long run, be more
profitable wherever grain crops are not
a certainty every year.
In almost every dairy herd there are
one or more COWS whose product does
not pay cost of keeping and expenses.
If the milk is sold or taken to cream
cry these Improbable COWS are quickly
discovered and weaded from the herd; !;
but IN ordinary farming, where the milk
is mixed with that of other COWS. it is
not easy to decide which animals are
profitable and which are not.
A KENTUCKY paper says that the
breeding OF fast horses has been much
condemned, but it has done immense
good to agricultural interests. It has
turned the farmers pot-bellied, bang
headed, stumbling, staggering plug into
smart, bright, quick-stepping horse
that can do twice the amount of work
his predecessor was capable of, and trot
of to market or 10 church in quarter
of the time.
A BULL and COW on Hiram Houck's
farm, in Warwick township, Chester
County, Pa, recently fought, locked
horns, became separated from the herd,
and were not found for i've days, during
which time they remained united by
their horns. The bull was almost
starved, but the COW, being able to eat
grass, was frisky and fat. 1t was neces-
sary to saw off the horns of one of the
animals to get them apart.
In a single county OF California (Obis-
po) there is one ranch of more than 5O.-
600 acres, four of more than 1000,
two containing over 80, 600 and less than
40, 900 acres, four between 10000 and
10000, and nine between 10000 and
10000. In some counties there are
tracts of 100, 900 acres in the possession
OF sheep herders who live in a 6x1O
shanty, without book or newspaper,
little above the sheep in intellect.
One bushel of medium sized wheat
per acre gives fifteen grains to every
square foot. Two bushels to the acre,
the quantity most frequently sown, gives
thirty grains. 1t is evident that much
OF this seed as ordinarily sown does not
grow. With shrunken wheat the num-
Der OF grains per acre is greatly in
creased. 1t is worth while to test wheat
before sowing to find how large a pro-
portion OF the seed will germinate.
THREE hundred and fifty acres OF
onions are grown annually on the onion
meadows in Orange County, N. Y, a
tract of land that thirty years ago was q
bog and supposed not to be worth any
thing. The crop this year will be 200
barrels per acre, and it is expected that
they will bring $500, remarkable in
come from any farm land. 1t is worth
while for farmers everywhere to try ex-
periments with their apparently worth
less land.
The Pittsburg Stockman saws;
There is no excuse ..or decency in hav-
ing filthy pig-sty. This should and
can be as clean and neat as the abode of
any other farm animal, and when found
otherwise, our word for it, there is some
thing wrong with the farmer. We have
seen pig.stys SO scruprlously neat and
clean that person could go into it and
lie down, without injury to his clothes
or discomfort to himself, and we have
seen those that were an abomination to
olfactories when several rods away, let
alone coming near enough to see the
filth. This is certainly poor policy,
poor for the hog and poor for the hog
eater"
THE relative profit is much greater
from small flock than large one, says
the Rural Home. The grain farmer, no
matter how few his acres, can make
money by keeping few sheep. There
is always room for them somewhere, and
they consume and turn into money food
that otherwise would waste. But he
must be careful not to overstock. To
illustrate, suppose the farmer cultivatee
only eighty acres, raising grain chiefly.