The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-02
Farming Notes.

The strawberry grows all summer to
store up food for the production OF fruit
for the following season. like the onion
or beet. Instead of storing up this food
in the form of a bulb or root, it is stored
up in the plant. l. tho plant is allowed
to waste lis strength in producing ru :
ners, or is depr we'd of the needed food,
the crop will be small in consequence. ii
the roots are injured by cultivating late
in the fall, or wr.nched and broken by
freezing and thawing,. the plant will
make an effort 10 re pair the damage at
the expense of fruit. For this reason it
Is advisable to give the strawberry every
opportunity to do its best and prevent
it trcm injury during the winter.
A correspondent of the County Cen
tleman says 'the feeding of whole corn
and nothing else through the winter
makes weak fowls in the spring. Fowls
will not lay 50 we'll when thus fed. Corn
makes too much fat, and after a certain
amount has been made, disease is prob
able. This condition comes on when
the hens should be pr epared for laying
the spring eggs. AS the warm season
approaches, the torpid state produced
10y the cold weather begins to wear off,
and the birds begin to look about them
with more activity. If the fowls have
been kept high on whole corn, the fact
Will now appear. Excess of fat produces
excess OF heat, and the unnatural heat
weakens the internal organs to such all
extent that they are unable to perform
their required Offices"
The Southern Live Stock Journal re-
commends the growing of peas for hogs.
Peas may be grown and fed to hogs
proftably-either in a green or mutured
state. They should be so xn at different
dates and the hogs turned in on them.
The Massachusetts Ploughman among
other things talks SUCCESSFULLY about the
compost heap, saying that it is a good
plan to have n for the benefit of the
farm. The compost heap may be made
of road sc%rapings, the scourings of ditch
es, the cleanlngs of ponds, clippings
from banks and h~edgerows, scruplngs
and sweepings Of farmyards, garden re-
luse, house refuse, and indeed all sorts
of rubbish may be added to a compost
',eap. Even weeds will decay and then
help to swell the material for enriching
the land. The heap should occasionally
be covered over with a layer of lime,
and q layer Of salt now and tnen is also
u good addition, These materials are
beneficial in themselves. and keep
weeds from seeding. on the top Of the
heap. The compost should be turned
over from time TO time, and which well
mixed the land may be dressed with
1t either in spring or autumn
The weight Of a horse is an important
lite n in estimating his value for draft
purposes. says the Western A griculturist
for the %tine-boned horse with well de
yeloped muscles, may do as much work
as the hen~vler-boned one tor a short
time, and is even better for road puI-
poses, but in plowlng or other heavy,
ste,sdy drawing the night horse becomes
useless. Then, in price. the weight is
an important item. If a good horse
weighs owe 2OUU pou DIS he readily sells
Tor more than a uollar per pound; SUI
to 2UOO pounds, Tor less Than Il dollar per
pound. Under that the price rapidly
declines, 100 TO l5vU pulnu grade horses
selling at 70 and 30 cents per pound,
though it is considerably more than any
ether grade of stock on the farm will
bring. 49, t w a- H