Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-20
FARM AND GARDEN.

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You've calves which have to be Kept
confined should be kept in dark stables,
to keep off the swarms of flies, which
greatly annoy and retard the growth of
calves.
| The American Pathological Society
meets in Philadelphia September 18th,
at which Prof. j. L. Budd will read a
prepared d paper on Experimental Hor-
ticulture West OF the Lakes"
AN indianapolis fruit grower plants
twelve moles in strawberry patch of
five acres to catch the grubs, and he
never has any trouble with his plants by
geubs or moles. We would prefer one
mole first as an experiment.
ONE man near Urbana, Ill.,, this wear
raised from clean seed, on clean land,
twelve hundred bushels OF winter wheat,
After it was threshed he cleaned out of
it 400 bushels of cheat, leaving 800
bushels OF poor wheat. A clear case of
spontaneous generation.
WHAT becomes of all the oleomargar.
inc? The factories continue to work
right along, producing the article; but
not pound of the output is ever sold
to consumers. Thst is to say, it is not
sold under the name of oIeomargarine.
That it is sold as butter is evident.
NEVER allow net to be cast in your
fish pond. Teach your boys and girls
to take their fish in the correct manner
"with rod and line." If the. fish in.
crease too rapidly, then have family
picnic; invite your friends and neigh
bors, and have grand, good time cook
ing your fish near the pond, and have
one good days sport beside this best
acre on your farm.
A SUCCESSFUL dairyman says: ".The
length of time that young heifer keeps
in milk, after her first calf, is likely to
measure her staying qualities for all
aftor life. For this reason young heif-
ers should have their first calf in the
fall. By good care and ensilage food in
winter, an abundant flow can more east
ly be kept up the next summer. II heif-
ers calye in the spring, they are very
liable to so dry early in the next fall.
| ANY one who has noticed how weak,
pale, and puny will be the thistles that
grow up in darkened shed can we'll
believe that this weed can be best killed
by smothering. The shade need not be
very dense to greatly help the work of
keeping the shoots below the surface.
After being hoed, crops, like corn and
potatoes, completely shade the surface.
If scattering thistles are carefully re-
moved by hand, they will be completely
destroyed. Too many farmers do the
work early in the season, and finally fail
for lack OF very little labor. E
ACCORDING to the census bulletin, the
number of farms in the United States
was 2.G60,0 in 1870, and 4,O0O,OJO in
1880. Much Of this increase is in tho
new territories, some OF which were but
sparsely settled ten years ago, but the
fact that Alabama Florida and Texas
have more than doubled the number of
their farms in the time, while Georgia.
Arkansas, South Carolina aud North
Carolina have nearly doubled, and Mis-.
sissippi, Virginia and Louisiana have in
creased from fifty to seventy per cent.
show that there has been cutting up
of large plantations into smaller hold
ings.
A GENTLEMAN of Medina, N. Y, evi.
IDENTIFY M enthusiast on the merits of
the Holsteins, has been testing them in
regard to their butter production. He
gives a statement OF the yield of 10
COWS forseven days in which one gives 20
pounds, three nineteen and fraction,
two III pounds, and the lowest IA
pounds III ounces. The daily butter
yield of five COWS was also tested, the
greatest yield being pounds, ounces,
the lowest 2 pounds, 81 ounces. He
thinks list of Holsteins can be made
up that will rival the best Jersey list,
aud that it can be shown that the
Holsteins are the very best for milk,
butter, or beef, or for all combined.
RINGING grape vines is a process to
increase size and earliness. 1t is done
! by cutting circle around tue old wood,
preventing the return of sap to the root.
If the bark is entirely cut through, an
enlargement of the vine will occur on
the side next the new growth. The vine
is not injured by this process, for only
the parts to be cut away in the fall prun-
ing are subjected TO the process Of ring
ing. The grapes, however are not as
good in quality as whore ripened natur-
ally. 1t is trick of fruit growers to
make the fruit look better than it real.
ly is.
THE potato beetle is also liable to at
tack the tomato plant, as many garden
ers have found to their cost. The use of
Paris green is not advisable on this fruit,
which, as it grows above the ground, Is
not 80 certainly freed from the poison as
is the underground potato. When pota-
toes are plenty in the vicinity. few OF tue
bugs will attack the tomato. 1t is a
question of interest, however, whether
potato bugs bred on tomato vines would
not inherit the tendency to attack the
tomatoes by preference. Some experi-
menss accidentally have induced, us
to think this is the fact.
The spring tooth steel rake is an i'm.
portant labor and grain.saving imple-
ment in the harvest field. BY it's uee
many million bushels of grain are saved.
Perhaps tho harvesters are not quite 80
careful in cleaning as they draw in their
loads as they would be were the stub
bles not to be raked; but if they are less
careful it is saving OF time when time
is most valuable. tits mistake to sup
pose that raking the stubbles will not
pay after self-binding reaper. A man
and horse with steel rake can save S5
to $40 worth Of grain in days work,
which ought to pay even in harvest.
i REMOVING the suckers from corn is a
process more often talked about than
performed on large scale. 1t involves
good deal of labor and is of doubtful
benefit. Breaking off the sucker often
INJURIES the stalk, sometimes almost up.
roofing 1t. If an effort is made to se
cure the largest possible yield, regard
less of cost, removing the suckers ma,
be advisable. Otherwise it is doubtful.
Occasionally good nubbin is produced
on the suckers, and in such cases the
main stalk probably would not have
, produced enough increase to compensate
: for its removal. The suckers make
I finer fodder than the main stalks, ant
will be eaten up clean, while the coarsel
parts will be wasted,