The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-09-14
FIELD AND FARM.
Farming Hints.

If pulverized charcoal forms part Of
the ingredients of q poultice Of any kind
for man or beast it proves one of the
most cleansing applications for an old
sore, or a fostering and painful wound
that can be used. 1t will ettectually pre-
vent the growth of proud lesh," and
leaves the edges of the sore as bright
and clean as a new cut. 1t may be used
in connection with fax seed, slippery
elm, bread or cracker poultices; just add
finely powdered charcoal enough to
cover the poultice after it is spread.
If the farm don't pay, as many farm
ers assert, it is because it don't owe you
anything. The soil is very prompt in
tiauidating all its just obligation, and
throwing in a good round sum as usury.
treasures to those who in justice have 40
claim upon it. 1t has not much to give
awayssin support of idleness, anu in this
1t Is llstitiable.
\ note in the Country Gentlemen says
the Hplstein COW Violet 743. has pro-
duced 1926 los. of milk in about ten
months, and at six months made 10 lbs.
. ~. Of butter in seven days. She has
| given S6 lbs. IL or. of milk in a day. Sup
pose a man had fifty such cows in a dali
rS. he would nave to rent another farm
to handle the milk on.-Farmer.
The Omaha Bee says that city is to
have stock yards OIL the largest scale Of
any outside OF Chicago, and mammoth
beef packing and refrigerating houses,
backed by capital which is practically
unlimited. Stretching along the Union
Pacific track for a distance of over four
miles, and extend tng southwark to the
Missouri, the Omaha stock yards will
have the advantage OF two through lines
OF railroad to bring in their cattle from
the far west and transport the manutac-
tured product to eastern consumers.
Forty Thousand cattle will be jared for
in them the coming winter. This new
project will afford employment to 5000
men.
We know Of a rich farmer that had
rather pay a loud-mouthed, boastful,
snowy, eye-serying, rascallv. ingenious
old farm hand twenty dollars a month,
than a true, steady going, trustworthy
man twenty-five dollars. Three OF his
men have already been obliged to leave
his place or the state, having been de-
iected in various threats and other mis-
demeanors. We have no patience with
farmers who are mean enough to econo-
mize in this way. and we believe that
they are no more to be trusted than the
Jail birds they employ. Don't contide
in any n who has no appreciation Of
faithful service.-Rural New Yorker.
There is no chemical change in either
salt or ashes when they are given to
sheep as a remedy for worms in the in
testines. Tins mixture is given for a
double reason-the salt for the effect OF
the chlorine in it upon the worms, and
the ashes for their mechanical effect
ters as fine iron filings, tin filings, very
finely powdered glass, the rough seeds
of ccwhage or ''cowitch" are all given to
| destroy worms in the intestines of ami
mails, and wood ashes or very fine sifted
coal ashes would have q similar effect.
But wood ashes have much the same eff
feet chemically or incidentally as salt,
on account of the potash they contain,
and which acts as the salt does, to ir.
ritate and destroy the tender skins OF
the worms. So that this popular mix
ture has a reasonable ground for its use,
and at any rate is better than metal
filings or glass, as it will not he injurious
to the animal.
The Dairy, published in New York
city, thinks the Jersey business is rather
overdone, the big prices inducing PEG.
pie to buy anything and everything
called a Jersey. In its last issue it says;
"What is the average yield of the Jersey
COWS? There are doubtless 5000 pure
bred Jerseysin America-one in 1,0OO o
the whole number of COWS. OF these
1900 there are not more than one pei
cent. that are at all remarkable for any.
thing but their beauty and the richness
of their milk. Perhaps the average pro
duct in milk of the Jerseys altogether
may be five quarts of milk a day and
five pounds of butter in a week. We
know of one COW recently bought at s
sale ofimported stock for more thar
$4,000, and which was a fresh COW, ant
milks three quarts g day and makes
three pounds of butter a week. A hero
of fashionable bred Jerseys known t.
us averages about this p. oduct. But in
Justice tothese Jerseys it must be sait
that only about one per cent. of thei1
owners know how to keep a cow ant
get the best product out of her"