Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-12-06
FARM AND GARDEN.

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BEAR III mind that wool, like all ami
NAL product is made from food.
OVER three hundred patents on chnrns
have been taken out in this country.
IT is said that Connecticut farmers are
buying oleomargarine and selling it for
dairy butter.
The Dalrymple farm produced 15O,-
600 bushels Of wheat and 40, 600 bushels
of oats this year.
In the British market 1, 400 and 100
pounds are the standards for beef and
mutton carcasses.
GREAT BRITAIN has one-half as many
sheep and one-fifth as many cattle as
the United States.
IT is estimated that there are between
zoo, 900 and 800.0 cattle on the Black
Hills ranges in Dakota, and not less than
900 horses.
An Ohio farmer has found that q
bushel of timothy contains $1,000, 900
seeds, or about eight seeds to every
square inch if spread uniformly over an
acre of land.
The centrifugal process of making
butter is becoming quite popular. A
machine now in use in Pennsylvania has
q capacity of about 1000 pounds of
milk per hour, and is run by water power
at a speed of nearly 1000 revolutions
per minute.
BUoKwHEAr intended for seed should
be hand thrashed. In thrashing by ma
chine many of the grains are SO bruised
and broken that they will not germin-
ate. As buckwheat is very easily hand
thrashed it makes job for men in win
ter when other work is scarce, and it is
good policy to save it for then.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Bee Journal
reminds young apiarists that they
must not expect to have heavy
increase in the number of swarms
and large crop of honey at the same
time. Many base their prospects on
the number of swarms they possess,
Ignorant that excessive swnrming 30
weakens the bees that they gather little
surplus honey.
The Live Stock Monthly, speaking of
ensilage, says that while theorists are
still endeavoring to show the insignifi.
cant value of ensilage for feeding to
milch COWS, the practical farmers con-
tinue to build silos, fill them with ensi-
lage and double the number of cattle on
their farms. Scientists cannot prove
impossible that which exists as a tangi-
BILE, practical fact.
The Farm and Garden yeminds those
who are allowing themselves to be car
ried away by enthusiasm on the poultry
subject that because man keeps twelve
hens year and makes profit of $12,
it by no means follows that he can keep
1900 hens the same time and clear
$1,000. With large focks comes almost
invariably the crowding of them into
close quarters, and the consequent de-
velopment of disease.
In making roosts for fowls let them
be level and on line. If they are 80
arranged as to have some of them high
and others low, the fowls will crowd to-
gether on the higher perches, leaving
the lower ones unoccupied, which is not
only waste of space, but cause of
store feet and other ailments, as the
heavier fowls cannot easily get on or off
the percbes when they are very high.
The lower they are the better, provided
the coops are ventilated at the top and
warm and dry near the floor.
| Hon. GEo. F. LORD, of Elgin, keeps
100 COWS on 300 acres Of land, and has
noS raised pound of hay for years.
The corn is sowed in drills 81 feet
apart, and about the time it blossoms it
is cut with self-raking reaper, cutting
one row at a time, the machine throw
ing it off in ganels. When sufficiently
wilted it is bound and set in large
shocks and allowed to cure standing on
the ground until winter sets in, when it
is hauled to the barn. He secures a
yield of about seven tons of cured fodder
to the acre, worth as much as the best
hay. He is one of the most successful
dairymen in Illinois.
The secretary of the British Farmers
Association says he does notknow bet
ter method of packing butter than that
adopted by the consignors of Brittany
butter. Tons are sent to England week
ly in rough pine boxes, holding two
dozen pounds each. The butter is made
up in two-pound rolls, and is wrapped
in muslin with an outside covering of
clean, white paper. The boxes meas.
ure fourteen inches in length, ten and q
half by nine and o half inches deep, and,
as the Jumps of butter are made of uni.
form length and diameter, twelve of
them Can be easily, but closely, packed
on end in each box. This butter ar
rives in London beautifully fresh, per-
fectly clean, unbruised and uninjured in
any way.
A RECENT writer says that a good
Short-horn OF Hereford bull will sire so
calves year for ten years. A
common scrub stock years old
will make one thousand pounds
live weight, worth 3 cents pound, OF
$50. A half-bred Short-horn or Here.
ford grade steer years old will make
l,4O0 pounds, or $40. 1t costs some.
thing less for one years less feeding and
herding, say S5. The difference in val.
ne, then. is $45; and multiplying the
annual product Of fifty by forty-fve and
we get $2,250 as the yearly gain, OF
1872, 500 in ten years. If the stockmar
is satisfied with so per cent. on his liz,
vestment, he can afford to give exactly
$3.50 for his bull. This sum produces
: Sl,S75 every year, or S18, 750 in ter
years, and this, with the price of the
bull, makes the total sum mentioned.
The profit for good Ayrshire Dutcl
or Jersey bull in dairy would be still
more.-Ohio Farmer.
The Breeders Gazette makes the fol
} lowing suggestions for the care of colts
"It is hard treatment to take q coli
which has been having its dams mill
and good grass, and when cold weather
comes on deprive it of the milk anc
force it to depend on accustomed dry
l food. tits better to wean them while
still on grass. if of reasonable age, nc
customing them to grain at the same
time, if this has not been done before
as it should be, wherever this is practi
cal. Oats we count the best food TO,
colts; but corn may be mixed with thil
5 without injury. A healthful colt viii
withstand good deal Of i'll treatmen
? without seeming the worse for it. bu
this is not sufficient reason for expos
ng them. Colts and young horses car
!. be kept in fair condition in ,vintar of