Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-10-04
FARM AND GARDEN.


MORE sweet corn is canning in Maine
this season than ever before.
TMoTHY is doubtless the most nutri-
tious and valuable of all the meadow
grasses.
A YANKEE hen stole her nest, laid
twenty eggs and Matched out nineteen
chickens.
A SINGLE town of New Jersey has sent
million and half quarts of blackber-
ries to the market.
MIR. G. A. BLAKEsLEE, Galien, Mich.
threshed this year 697 bushels G. wheat
from seventeen acres.
AN Indiana gardener strongly recon-
mends the setting of currant cuttings in
the fall as soon as the leaves drop.
Do not try to milk COWS, especially
heifers, too rapidly; milk with steady,
continuous movement, and not by jerks.
A MARYLAND farmer whose farm is
situated in woods credits COWS with
keeping his potato field free from bee
ties.
BLrNDERs on harness are character
lied by the Lancet as useless, ugly and
to some extent injurious to the horses
eyee.
YOU'VE heifers should not be given
fattening food before they have their
FIRST calf. Hence oats and bran are bet
ter than corn.
AN Iowa creamery collects the cream
in circle whose diameter is thirty
miles, and pays out IS, 900 each month
for the cream.
CIDER from late apples is of better
quality and possesses more body than
that from early apples. 1t will also
keep much longer.
IT has been suggested that clergymen
ought to take special interest In gardens,
since the failure Of the first one made
their profession necessary.
MAINE, it is reported, has hardly ap-
pies enough to supply the home con-
sumption the present year, notwith-
standing it is the odd year.
RECENT shipments OF American Me-
rinos to Australia-one lot OF 116 rams
and eight ewes-indicate the growing
popularity of our sheep on the great
island.
Mr.. DANIEL Roor, Hudaon, Mich,
who has had several years experience
in the business, will equip his sorghum
sugar works with about 81, 900 worth of
machinery.
AN experienced dairyman says that q
teaspoonful of saltpeter fed COW daily
will prevent the unpleasant favor i'm
parted to the milk by feeding on turnips
or cabbage.
AN English company is said to have
organized, with o capital Of G1O0, 600,
for the cultivation Of beets and the man.
ufacture OF sugar, "south OF the Mime.
sofa River"
A GARDENER in Baltimore, who has a
large number Of hot-houses for growing
early cucumbers, keeps hive OF bees in
each house for the purpose Of distrib-
uting the pollen.
Mr.. B. F. CUE, of Des Moines, cred
its the Iowa Farmers Protective Asso-
citation with the effective work OF reduc-
ing the price Of barbed wire from ten to
six cents per pound.
A CORRESPONDENCE writes: Farmers,
destroy the wild carrot, root and branch,
before the seed natures, and don't for
get it. 1t is most to be drended Of all
weeds, and one Of the hardest to de-
stroy."
PROFITABLE culture of lucerne in
Utah ID mentioned by the Salt Lake
Tribune. "The yield averages about
two tons per acre each cutting, and in
good seasons three or four crops are
harvested"
THERE will be great show of horse
flesh under the auspices Of the National
Horse Show Association at Madison
Square Garden, New York, October 22d
to 26th. There will be over $I1 900 Of
fered in premiums. ats.y.
TAKE care, farmers, that the weeds do
not go to seed about the hedgerows and
fence corners. 1t costs less to prevent
than to cure; ergo destroy or prevent the
maturing OF weed seed and save the
labor OF eradicating weeds. p
A PENNSYLVANIA farmer recommends
orchard grass on land infested with
daisies; the grass smothered them out
by the third year. He would SOW two
bushels Of orchard grass, four quarts ol
red top. four quarts of timothy and four
pounds OF clover.
A MASSACHUSETTS man has tried the
experiment for twenty years, and is con.
vinced that man can support a family
OF six or eight acres of land, cultivated
properly. At first he thought the farm
too small, but now he 1nds it land
enough.
CONGRESSMAN RAY, at late grange
meeting in New Hampshire, advised the
farmers not to be ashamed of their call.
ing, as the farmers were worth more tc
the United States than all the profes.
sional men in the country, to which we
may add, not, excepting even members
OF congress.
A New YORKER heats linseed oil
PLACES it in a shallow dish and turns the
wheels of his wagon while the iellot
passes slowly through it. The oil fill.
the pores of the felloe, swells them, ant
prevents the loosening of the tires, anc
at the same time preserves the wood il
its best condition.
IT has been suggested that the heavy
rains at the period of apple bloom las
year was the cause OF lack of fruit
Trees and varieties that bloomed late
after the rains bore well. It seems no
improbable that heavy rains at such times
might wash off the pollen grains or de
stroy their vitality. 7
A SANTA FE (New Mexico) paper says
"The alfalfa crop in the plaza is being
harvested for the fourth time this sea
son. This little green spot in the hear
of the city displays inaforcible degree
the possibilities of New le1ico's soil
and if the signs read correctly, alfalf'
will in the near future be one of tn,
principal crops of this region"
Mr. SAMUEL MILLER, Bluffton, Mo.
tells the Germantown Telegraph that
fresh fodder corn is stacked with straw
wheat or oats-in alternate layers of
foot of the latter to three inches of tn
former, there is no danger of spelling
as the juices of the corn are absorbed b,
the straw, and the latter is rendered 81
palatable that cattle eat it all greedil,
without waste.
A New YORK orchardist reports to tn
Country Gentleman that he wrapped tn
trunk of his apple trees with tarre
building paper thirty-two inches wide