The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-19

ODNged 10 SOW lime n Guan0 once, ana
ground bone once, on .au the land, once
in four years. He is not allowed to sell
hay or straw from the farm, but make 1t
all into barn-yard manure, for use on
the place. Rents from Sic to SIS per
acre is paid, and enormous crops are
raised. @
Feeding While at Pasture.
1t will soon be time for the old ques.
ton to recur to the dairyman whether
or not it pays to feed meals to the cows
that are living on good flush pasture.
While it is a fact that, taken alone, there
is no better food for a COW than good
pasture, yet the experience of many OF
the best dairymen throughout the coun-
try is in favor of quite liberal feeding
with'.corn meal and bran, even while
the COW is on the best Of pasture and APP.
parently doing as well as could reason-
ably be expected of her. 1t had been
found that while green grass furnishes
the'fnest of ilavors and deepest of col
ors. to the milk and butter, yet there is
an absence OF richness of fatty matter in
the mix that q moderate supply Of corn
meal to the COW will put into the milk.
1t aiso'hcAps to- enlarge the flow of milk,
4 w. Nfiotnh lIG IoN liuS GpEbAIGullS
been doing her best. When the COW
has been living on grass alone, if she is
suddenly given a heavy iced Of meal
while at pasture she is very apt to slack
EN- up IN her supply of milk. and the
new eXperimenter Immediately comes
to the conclusion that. meal may do for
other peoples COWS while at pasture,
but his COW Toes better without it.
The fact generally is. that
the violent change has dis
arranged the COVE digestion. which
naturally stops the flow of milk. There is
a right way ara a wrong way to do ev-
erything, nd.the right way to feed a
cow meal, not only while she is at pas.
ture but at any fine, IS to begin moder-
ately and increase the quantity gradual.
ly SO that the COW can assimiiate her d.
sestiye organs to the. demand that is
made upon them. The fact may be ob.
served If the meal 10 suddenly taken
away from the COW, only to a more
marked degree.
1t is easy to note the evil effect of a
change OF diet with young animals, US
teaching a calf to live on skinned milk
after having nursed the COW. Such q rad.
zeal change often produces severe at
tacks of d%iarrehma. While the matured
animals are not so violently affected by
changes of food as the young are, vel
they often feel the effect of it, and show
1t at the pail Cows, too, are very strong.
ly creatures of habit, and they are not
! partial to changes of any kind, and even
when the food is improved in richness
in midwinter. the.good efforts of the
change will not be marked, even when
made with the greatest care, until the
lapse of several days, and with some
cows 1T may take weeks to arrive at tneil
best. Too much care in making changes
! OF food cannot be taken, and aiull knowl.
edge of the cows nature is necessary to
prevent often making mistakes that fur.
Their Investigation would have avoided
Observation-Disclosures Dairyman.
Improve the Kitchen.
In.these days of beauty and artistic
effect in houses, we are constantly told
how to decorate our drawing rooms and
bed rooms, but seldom do we hear any
thing said about improving our kitchens.
Some kitchens we have seen, especially
those which were presided owe by the
lady OF the house, were neatness itself.
which always has a charm, but which.
with a little contrivance and very little
outlay, might gain in attractiveness: In
q kitchen, where there is not much
money for adorninent, leta little fore.
thought and as much taste as possible
have their way. and the owners thereof
will be astonlshedto see how much com
fort tired mother and father would take
in the transformed apartment as they
drop down there for a few moments tc
rest. The question is, what shall be
done to the kitchen to make it bright
and attractive, ard the suggestions
given are intended particularly foi
4 country kjtchaur rrhjnh caa,p rs ho -
often the t~horoughtare, if not the
resting place for the family. Vines, OF
course, would be an the way in the sum.
mer, n at that time they are not need.
ed so much, az the kitchen doors are
frequently draped with h~oneysuckles or
morning glories on the outside, as well
as the kitchen windows. But in the
winter, when it is cold and cherries
outside and the GRACEFUL vines have
turned into brown, dead looking stalks.
try to have somthing green and fresh in
the kitchen. Train a vine, if only q
sweet potato vine, on one of the win.
dows, and besides, having saved all the
empty cans from canned fruit or vegeta.
bles; paint a couple of them red; have
w roles bored in each near the top.
through which to run the strings, BY
which they are to bs suspended ovel
che window. In one plant Wandering
lew" or a Tradescantla, so easy to grow
IRON sips, and which will soon run on
the sides, making 1t a thing of beauty,
and in the other, VIII oh must be nearly
full of water, lay al old sponge or piece
OF white cotton, over which sprinkle fax
seeds thickly, Keeping the cotton mois,
where they are In two or three
weeks these will sprout and the cotton
will be covered with a beautiful green
messy looking growth. Save the old
kitchen chairs; cut of the broken backs
close to the seats, also the lower part OF
the legs, to make. them a convenient or
comfortable height. Then making a bag
the size Of the seat, of some old ticking
or other material, and stuff it with fine
shavings or slivered husks, and after
mailing it securely on the seats, cover
with bright c%retonne or chintz. The
former car be bought for twenty or
twenty-five centsa yard, and be forward
ed from a city storJ on sending the or
dor and giving an ,dea of the ground
color wanted. Two or three palm leaf
fans painted a bright red would deco
rate the wall very prettily. If the edges
are worn they can be bound with some
material OF the same color The lower
part OF the dresser would look well, if,
instead of being covered with the usual
pieces OF scalloped newspaper, it were
covered with a strip of crash towe!ing,
the ends fringed out and hanging down
about a quarter Of a yard or SO, and the
center ornamented with a large letter in
cotton or wolsted neutrality-suspicious.
can Agrlculturist.
l.. Utilizing the sparrows.