Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-10-11
FARM AND GARDEN.

tector.
THE silk crop in France and Spain is
short.
THERE is nc, better food for chickens
than skim milk.
The buckwheat crop in the es.stern
states is reported light.
DRY weather in Central Illinois is re.
tarding the fall plowing.
THE best authorities assert that COWS
should go dry at least SIX weeks before
calyiug.
DEAD meat is now shipped to Eng.
land from Russia as we'll as Australia
and America.
A WRITER in the Prairie Farmer, after
extended experiments, is convinced that
wheat is generally sown too deep.
GREASE is said to be sure remedy
for apple tree bark lice. It should be
applied cautiously, however, for it in
jures the twigs.
The advantages of having early ma
turing corn have never been so we'll de-
monstrated as this year. Bear it in mind
In saving seed for next year.
The exhibits at the fairs in the north
western states this year are reported as
fuller and better than in previous years.
The attendance has also been good.
The potato crop nearly all over the
country is reported to be unusually fine.
In eastern Pennsylvania some pbenome-
hal yields are rereported. In Bucks Coun-
ty many fields produce 800 bushels and
more per acre.
DEAtERs in wool state that the num-
Der of sheep that are washed before
shearing diminishes every year. The
practice is regarded as cruel by most
shepherds, and as unsatisfactory to both
sellers and buyers of wool.
THE twentieth annual exhibition of
the New England Agricultural Society
was held this year at Manchester, N. H.
The agricultural exhibition, as a whole,
was very even in all departments, very
creditable, and an excellent representa-
tlon OF the fine stock of New England.
A DELEGATION of Irish members of
parliament represent that large guam
tlty of the butter which passes through
the Cork market is "grossly adulter.
ated, and a combination of spectators
is held responsible. Earl Spencer plain
ly states that unless the corporation of
the city undertakes to carry out needed
reforms the government will take the
matter in hand.
HE price of apples, dried in evapo-
rators and bleached, is SO much higher
than that of the best dried by the old
process, that the latter cannot be profit
ably followed. In some large fruit
growing localities nearly every farmer
has an evaporator, and there should be
at least one in every neighborhood. The
evaporated fruit" commands double
the price of the sun-dried.
The Gardeners Chronicle relates an
instance where apples and pears were
planted in heavy clay, which had been
trenched down to can iron hard pan."
The trees made no growth, and moss and
llchens grew on them. The orchard was
then thoroughly drained. In six months
the lichens began to disappear, and the
next year fine growth was made. The
soil had been warmed by the drainage,
and the fertility had been made accessi-
BILE to the growing roots.
IF is time and money lost to raise COM
mon geese when there are breeds that
are vastly more profitable. Emden and
toulouse are the most popular breeds.
A poulterer, in one of our exchanges saws
that the produce of Emden geese crossed
by Toulouse aander lays on sound
flesh rapidly. Goslings may be put to
fatten at five or Fix weeks old; then sew
en- weeks should bring them to perfec-
ton if properly fed. Wheat and barley
grain and barley meal with brewers
grain are good fattening food.
AN eastern editor described a second
crop of clover on farm where pasturing
has been entirely abandoned for the last
four years. He says if farmers will quit
pasturing their tillage land entirely aud
adopt the solling system, their farms will
in ten years double their present pro-
ductiye capacity. The field of clover
was 40 per cent. better than any other
seen since harvest, and was better be-
cause it had not been pas stured for
number Of years. The corn and other
crops are also good, and the'fertilty and
productiveness are almost entirely ow-
ing to the soiling system as practiced by
the owner.
The power in the corn kernel to re.
germinate after drying enables us to
plant more shallow than is sometimes
required for the securing of permanent
moisture to the seed in the spring.
While some corn seed used have the
power to push up through eight inches
of heavy clay soil, yet our results last
year showed quicker vegetation, and,
as we imagined, better stand from seed
planted one-fourth of an inch deep than
deeper. Hence it seems quite reason
able to reason that the compacting of a
fine soil about the seed is of more ilh-
portance than merely the depth OF plant
ing.-Dr. SturteUa7at.
A WESTERN newspaper says: "For
the last two years a couple of buck
mountain sheep have been running with
Mr.. Balley's flock in Bull Run Basin,
Nevada, and there are now between
twenty and thirty half-breed lambs in
the lot. They are mostly covered with
hair, although there is some wool inter-
spersed with it. They carry their heads
like the wild sheep, but are as easily
herded as their half brothers and sisters
Of pure domestic breed. They are Of
no account for shearing, but are said to
make excellent mutton. This is the
only instance of which we have ever
heard of the crossing of the wild and
domestic sheep.
The hog, like the horse, has no extra
stomach to store away food, therefore if
fed but twice day and what he will eat,
he overloads his stomach, and if the
food is not pushed beyond the point
where it will digest. thestomach is filled
so full that a considerable portion of the
food fails to come in contact with the
lining of the stomach, and thus very
large proportion of the nutriment in the
food is lost. Experiments prove that a
hog thus fed wastes more than one-half
of the meal given him. We have no
doubt the same is true of the horse,
when fed large quantities of hay and
grain, and fed but twice day.-Massa-
chusetts Plo,Uman.
FARMERS in New Jersey use goats to
protect their sheep from dogs. Two
goats cap drive away dozen dogs, and
two are about all each farmer puts with
his sheep. AS soon as dog enters a
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