The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-09-28
HOUSE AND FARM.
Drevities for the Farmer.

HOUSE AND FARM.
Drevities for the Farmer.
For every cent lost on account Of the
Jerseys smaller carcass, there are two
cents gained on account of her better
butter and large annual yield. 'i5
In the breeders pasture along with It's
sisters and brothers, its cousins and its
aunts, is incompsrably "a better place
to select a pig than in any show-pen
found in Playground either east or
west. .a.tgl.,,i n q, /. ,.tl... !; ,,-s,yl, &
It's folly to turn under weeds that
have gone to seed, for the seeds Of most
weeds, no matter how deeply buried,
will retain their vitality and make rapid
growth 80 soon as they are brought
near the surface. b.
h Colonel Gillett says that we bave
passed the time when there is any prof
it in growing steers first and then fatten-
ing them afterward. ~ 'a.t
(, 1t has heretofore been supposed that
the Holstein COW was superior for milk,
though not great butter producer; but
Mercedes" a Holstein COW, for thirty
days averaged three pounds and FIVE
ounces of butter for each day, or about
SO IL pounds for the whole period. The
yield was made in competition for q
prize cup offered by the Breeders Ga
zette. her owner has been challenged
for test against Jersey COW which
has an excellent record.
"The man in charge of herd of cat
tie or Sheep" says the American Dairy
man, ''that cannot tell when some mem
Der is absent without counting the whole
lot had better 60 into some other bust
ness. We have heard the owner of q
drove of near a thousand head of cattle
at the West say he could tell if single
animal was absent simply by allowing
the herd to pass him." We would be
inclined to take any mans statement to
that effect with degree of allowance.
The following has been found one of
the surest cures for chicken cholera, be.
ing highly recommended by great
many: Give hyposulphite of soda in a
dose of half a level teaspoonful of crys-
tails dissolved in as little water as will
make solution. If the fowl will not
drink or partake of it in any form, pour
it down the throat. 1t will cure at once,
says correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker, and, though a strong dose and
purges violently, is not dangerous, and
has been found sufficient to kill the germ
which produce this disease.
Early indication pointed toward an
immense crop of apples, but later devel-
opments proved otherwise, and some
growers commenced to cry a very linn
tied one, but they forget that many new
orchards, both here and in the West,
are just commencing to bear, consequent
ly no great dearth will be likely to re-
suit. ~
Corn stalks out up make good mulch
for Strawberries. Clean the beds now
thoroughly and apply the mulch after
the first hard freeze. This mulch is not
to be removed in the spring but left,
first to protect the berries, and then to
become Incorporated with the soil. I'm
like straw or hay or manure, it contains
no seeds to terminate and interfere with
the strawberry plants.
1t were we'll if the growers of north
ern cane or sorghum, could assure them
selves of good large crops this season,
for, according to the Louisiana Sugar
Bowl, the ribbon cane crop, as whole.
may be regarded as permanently in
jured. A cold, backward spring, a long
spell of rainy weather, and lastly a
drouth, with September rains in pros
pect of tim- when dry weather is need
ed, leave but poor prospect for the
':sweets crop" of Louisiana. Bee keep
ers and sorghum culturists may rest as
sured that their products will all COM
mand good prices before midwinter.
Cassius M. Clay, thus eulogizes the
country in the Rural: The luxuries of
cities enervates; the luxury of the
luxury of the country builds up brain
and nerve. Here rests the securities of
liberty and the independence OF nations.
The city rises and falls, grows and is
swept away by fire, sword and decay /;
but the features of the country remain
forever. I return after being absent for
years. to the city; it is no more the sa ne,
the old body and the soul are no longer
there. I know not it's streets nor its
houses, and the inhabitants know me
not, themselves unknown. I wander
over the wide world, I return to the
scenes of my childhood; there are the
same hills, and dales. mountains and
plains, and eternal features of nature
are as in the days of the years that are
gone; the trees have grown only into
more lovely development! In the for
ests more sacred than temples wrought
however grandly by man, let the setting
Gun go down in harmony with nature
and in trust in God!