Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-04-27
FARMERS COLUMN,
A%ericuItural Notes.

Agricultural Notes.
1t pays to give currant bushes good
attention. A clayey is betterthana SAN
dy soil, and partial shade and a moist,
though thoroughly well-drained, soil
suits them we'll.
Unless one is prepared to give thor
ough wedding, and at the right time, he
should not attempt to raise onions. 1t
is no fancy work, and there is no ma
chine that will do it. Unless one can go
down on his hands and knees astride of
the row, and remove all the weeds that
are in the rows with his fingers, at least
twice, and sometimes three times, he
will not be much troubled at the har-
vesting.
1t is a good point in the Brahma fowls
shat they are very docile and quiet, and
can do anything with them with
proper management. Sitting hens
should never be left in the house where
others are laying. but should be remov-
ed to a quiet place where they are not
disturbed. To manage this it is best to
have loose boxes for nests, which can be
picked up at night with the hen and re-
moved to a sitting apartment or to a
stable or barn. Then there will be no
trouble.
True Holstein cattle are red and white
and are found in the province of Hol-
stein, which lies north of the river Elbe.
The cattle called Holstein now in Amer
lea are not Holstein, but Dutch and come
from Friesland, in North Holland,
which adjoins the Zuyder Zee. These
cattle are black AID white.
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker gives the following as his plan Of
raising calves: One porringer full of oil
meal is wet in a pan with cold and then
stirred into a kettle of boiling water.
The kettle holds about a palllul. This
meal swelled so when wet that it made
q porridge sufficiently thick. This
made enough for both morning and
night for ten calves. About a quart Of
skinned milk is added to the feed for
each calf at first, but this quantity is de-
creased as the calf grows until after a
few weeks the milk is stopped and n cup
of middlings is added to each feed.
This kind of feeding was begun after the
calves had been fed new milk until they
were about a month old. The result
was very satisfactory.
A Lady With a Broom in HerHand
Young ladies who fancy that there is
anything degrading about homework
make a great mistake, On the contrary,
we consider it %elevating. A young wo.n-
an can be Just as much a lady with a
broom in herhand as reclining languidly
with book in hand in the drawing room.
The truest, noblest and best woman we
know has been trained from her girl
hood to look, practically to the ways of
the household, and yet she is a lady in
every respect, an ornament to the most
cultivated society. When you have
homes OF your own, young women, and
you will be thankful fer the training
you have imposed upon yourself in your
youth, or if it fall to yonr lot to have
servants you will be glad hat you can
direct them; and should they leave you
without any warning, as they are some
times disposed to do, you will be "mis-
tress of the situation" able to take hold
successfully until such time as relief
may come.-Rural New Yorker.
Frightening Children to Sleep.
1t is neither necessary nor defensible
to punish a lie with another lie, bu t
when ghost-mongers and child-scarers
get served with a touch of their own
practice, very few besides themselves
feel sorry. Says a Providence exchanges:
A lady in this city overheard her
nurse-girl the other night talking to the
little child she was putting to sleep, and
among other legends of the nursery in
which she INDUCED was this:
"Ifyoudon't 60 right to sleep this very
minute, a big, awful black bear, with
crdel teeth, will come out from under
the bed and eat you ALL u-p!"
The poor little thing nestled down I'M
derthe clothes, and after a long season
of terror fell asleep to dream frightful
dreams of horrid bears eating her up.
That night when the stolid nurse had
composed herself in her own comforta-
BILE bed and put the light out, there
came a sudden rap at the door, and the
voice of her mistress called loudly
through the panels
maggie! Maggie! for mercy's sake,
get up as quick us you can! There's a
fearful burglar under the bed, as soon as
murder you'll"
at the word burglar the girl sprane
screaming from the bed, tore open the
door and fell in Mysteries into the hall.
n lesson was even more instructive
than the mistress had designed; but
when the girls fears were Gained she
laid to he',-
"You did lot hesitate to tell my little
delicate child, who could not possibly
know that it was a lie, a cruel story of
bear under her bed; now, when 1 treat
you to the same kind of slumber.story,
you are nearly frightened to death. To-
morrow you can 60 into the kitchen and
work; you are not fit IT, care for little
children"
How many children are there who,
every night of their lives, are frightened
to sleep?
Natures Cure For Spring Bilious.
ness.
| Springfield Republican.
For several springs in succession ]
went through a long course of physical
languor and smental ineficiency. My
Easter was the beginning instead Of the
end of dreary Lent, in which there
was no penitentis virtue. I knew that
the root of the evil a the liver. I had
the deepest occasion to believe Pnuch's
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