The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-12
Farm and Garden Notes

A ranchman says it costs about 81 per
head to raise a marketable steer in the
Indian Territory.
Nature works the best when she feels
her co-worker putting forth his best en-.
d%eavors. MS
A gardener in Baltimore who has a
number of large hothouses for growing
early cucumbers keeps a hive of bees in
each house for the purpose OF distribu.
ting the pollen. -ctI -
The Farm, Field and Fireside states
that when %turnips, potatoes and other
vegetables are chopped finely and fed to
fowls they will sometimes be refused:
but the difficulty can be obviated by
sprlnkllng the vegetables with corn
The Michigan Farmer figures that the
cost Of importing a Jersey COW including
handling on the island after purchase,
transportation across the Atlantic, and
care during three months detention in
quarantine, is $3.50. l2jr IN s
A waiter in the New York World says
that he had a variety of sweet corn with
tall stalks and ears set high. BY select
ing only the lowest ears formed on the
Stalks, regardless of their size or general
appearance, he has produced a corn in
every way equal to the original, but
with the ears set comparatively low on
the stalks. The fodder part of the plant
has also been materially reduced in size.
An experiment was tried some years
ago in England as to the relative value
OF horses and oxen for agricultural labor.
The oxen ate $50 pounds Of turnips "a
day, each. Each horse ate sixteen
pounds of oats daily; both having oat-
straw ad lib. The Conclusion arrived at
was that there, on farms, horses should
be employed exclusively. ais
The Davenport, Ia, Northwestern
says that there are eight hundred
creameries in Iowa, and that Iowa but
ter is eaten in nearly every civilized
country on. the globe. The highest
priced farms are found in those parts Of
the country where creameries most
abound and milk-farining is one of the
chief pursuits. f6
"a writer says: Sheep often go a
| long time without drinking, especially
if in a pretty good pasture, and the
! 6ews are sc heavy that they can fill IL %
with wet grass in the morning; but when
they do want to,dripk water it is neces-
sary to their health and comfort as to
that of other animals. Therefore keep
a supply of pure water in the sheep
pastures as much as in any other, and if
the sheep do not drink from it give
them q little salt once a week. They
should have salt as often'a as once q week
under any circumstances.
The Husbandman makes a suppose.
ton which is worthy of consideration,
as follows: Suppose a farmer who
keeps a half dozen or more cows, and
has not been in the. habit of raising
roots, were to sell one of his COWS and
use the entire proceeds for raising beets
for the remainder? If he could thus
sell just as much milk or butter as he
otherwise would from the whole num-
Der, he would certainly saye the cost of
fodder and the labor Of milking and
caring for the COW sold. These items
would provide in advance for the next
crop Of roots, and so on indefinitely"
A Canadian writer makes the some
what alarming statement that at the
present rate of consumption the supply
of pine and spruce in the United States
: will be exhausted in less than seven