Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
FARM AND GARDEN.

THIRTEEN per cent OF tie sheep in
Tennessee were killed by dogs in june.
TuRNtr seed may be sowed during
this month, the best variety for late
sowing being the red.top strap-leafed.
1t is a good plan to begin to fatten
swine this month SO as to get them to
market eaely and thetehy get higher
price,
SHEEP and wool growing has increased
more rapidly within The past few
years than any other industry of the
country.
The Navsio Indians have taken TO
sstaock.growing, and will this year sell
500, 600 pounds of wool, besides band
ling large amount of beef cattle.
A VERY small white bug has injured
the Wheat harvest In some, parts of
| Michigan. It eats the stalk, and all
above whete it works fails to mature.
OLD COWS should now be dried off 80
that they will fatten on grass. One can
make beef great deal cheaper than on
grain. Fatten and sell off scrubs Of all
kinds OF stock,
| Ir is found that if rye is grazed, 80
| closely as not to allow seed to form it's
roots will live several years and form a
turf: The root penetrates deeply, and
the leaves while young are greedily eaten
by all kinds of stock.
A SUCCESSFUL farmer makes il rule
to always raise twice rs many potatoes as
will be needed for his home demands;
then if the price is high he has them to
sell, if low, he gets good value for them
by feeding them otit.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western Ag.
riculturist says tablespoonful of salt
peter dissolved in gallon of water, apd
the solution applied to the grape vines,
will check the ravages of the rose bug.
This remedy might be worth trying.
III will pay on any farm to clean up
the weeds along the sides of the road. In
many places labor needed in doing this
is allowed as an offset against toe road
tax, and were it not, it would still pay to
prevent weeds from spreading seeds over
the farm.
WITH improved baling processes, Iowa
farmers now ship their hay to New York,
and oven to Europe, when prices are ia
vorable. By the use of wire for baling.
one-third more weight is put in the same
bulk than is possible whom wooden hoops
are used.
WHEN the house is located upon suffi.
GENTLY high land, rubber hose attach
ed to the sink-spout will enable the farm
er to supply plenty of water to the gar
den, almost without cost, and the soap
suds will prove first class fertilizer for
all garden crops.
THE Illinois Legislature has given the
state veterinary surgeon, DR.. N. Fl. Pea
sen, authority to suppress the gIanders,
which has proven very destructive in
more than twenty counties of that state.
illinois is one OF the most extensive
horse breeding states in the Union.
The importance OF keeping farming
tools and wagons well painted and oiled
is more manifest in summer than at any
other season, as the wood dries up more
rapidly under the rays of the hot sun,
and the pores being open they are filled
with water by the showers and decay
faster that at any other time of the
year.
FARMERS often make mistake in not
having corn enough to feed their hogs
befo,e the new corn ripens. A bushel
fed in August and September will pro-
duce as much pork as five pecks fed in
November, or as bushel and half in
December. Therefore begin early to
fatten all animals intended for slaugh-
tering.
The important advantage of sowing
rye on corn and potato ground is that
it is not injured by the Hessian fly, as in
the case with wheat. Itmust, therefore,
be sown earlier than would be advisable
for wheat. If sown by the last of August
it will make a complete mat over the
soil before winter, and SO late as this it
will not injure the growing crops OF corn
or potatoes.
A RAIN of onc-half inch depth is equal
to lSG hogsheads on an acre of land.
This shows the advantage OF using ma
nure as top dressing, during the summer
especially. A very little rainfall will
make this manure available, whilc If the
manure 1s buried at the bottom of a fur
row, nothing less than thorough soak
ing of the soil will suffice.
IT is a good plan to burn sulphur in
cellars where milk is kept, especially if
they are damp. The sulphurous acid
evolved destroys the mildew, which if
not checked, will inlure the flavor Of the
cream and butter. In many damp cellars
the mildew wastes the cream SO that the
butter product is seriously decreased,
besides the injury to quality.
Slow milking of cows never secured
the full product The COW becomes
tired of relaxing the udder muscles, and
after time resumes the more natural
position Of contracting them. This
makes much stripping necessary, and a
slow milker will never have patience to
strip long time. Partial milking soon
dries the COW, and greatly reduces her
value.
The Lancet stoutly opposes the prac-
tice of putting blinkers on horses. 1t
says: cit seems to us that they are
useless, ugly, and, to some extent in
furious to the eyesight. The most
beautiful feature of a horse is the eye
If it were not hid from our gaze, it
would serve to denote sickness, pain, or
pleasure. Many time would the driver
spare the whip on seeing the animals
imploring eye."
NEWLY seeded fields should be care
fully looked over at this season. In
many places weeds will appear that
make it unadvisable to keep them in
grass another year. The worst weed in
young clover is the broad leaved plan
tain, Us it is not easily smothered out.
1t is often sown with clover seed, aud
too much care cannot be ss:rken to pre-
vent it from getting possession of the
fields where it appears.
THE suggestion that the clover worm
may be starved out by the farmers in a
neighborhood refusing to SOW clover for
several years will not work. There is
always in clover growing districts more
or less clover from seed dropped on the
wayside and in corners of fences.
Wherever clover seed has at any time
been grown, some young clover will ap-
pear after every seeding of grain for
many years thereafter. We have seen
this year fair catch of clover where no
seed was sown last spring.
The wet season in many sections has
made a heavy succulent growth of spring
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