Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-08
FAKM AND GARDEN.

FARM AND GARDEN.
RouaH handling makes nervous and
excitable horses.
TuHNp-FED sheep are said to make
the tenderest mutton.
The most valuable part OF manure is
that which is most soluble.
A VIRGINIA farmer protects his melon
patch with steel man-traps.
The counterfeit butter business is the
greatest fraud of the time.
The wool. growers of the country are
organizing to protect their interests.
HORSES hard at work should have
water if possible more than three times
q day.
To keep up the supply of horses in
the United States 100000 must be
bred annually.
SUDDEN and extreme changes in meat,
butter, cream and milk injure their
keeping qualities.
SOUTHERN competition has injured the
busineas of gardening in the vicinity of
the Eastern seaboard cities.
MICHIGAN raises nearly one.haf of the
worlds crop of peppermint. The annual
yield of oil varies from 10000 to 10000
pounds.
a GERMAN paper states that the pene-
tration of roots in drain tile, which some.
times occasions much trouble, may be
prevented by covering the joints in the
vicinity of trees and shrubs and red
clover with earth in which little coal
tar has been distributed.
UNLESS you are able and willing to
personally superintend the scalding of
your milk-pans, says the Tribune and
Farmer, it would be better to use earthen-
ware. Nothing but boiling water and
plenty OF it will remove the germs of dis
ease that lurk in the half-washed tin
vessels.
FATTEN stock in the stall. Turn them
out for exercise, but never feed in the
yard. The animal that is obliged to
fight for its food among the herd and eat
it after it has been fouled and trampled,
cannot thrive up to its fullest capacity.
There is also an enormous waste of food
when given in this manner.
SPRUCE butter tubs are the best; hem
lock makes sweet tub; acids from the
the oak color the butter and iniure it's
appearances; white ash gives the butter
q strong favor if kept long and increases
liability to mold; maple smells and
cracks badly. Soak all tubs four or
six days in brine before using.
ANEcEssARY precaution when roasting
large and fat loin of mutton is to cover
it with paper during the earlier stages
OF its roasting. Caution should be taken,
however, not to get hold of the family
denominational paper, for it is SO dry
that it will absorb all the juices of the
meat. at.-Batrtingto Free Press.
FoR the prevalent disease of scaly
legs in fowls, caused by minute insect,
rubbing the legs with an ointment Of
sulphur, kerosene, etc., it advised. The
remedy is good enough, but better
one is immersing the feet and
legs in tomato can of kerosene. Do
this every three days until cure is ef-
fected.
NOTWITHSTANDING the low prices in
England, Australian farmers are ship
ping g.ain in large quantities. In Jan-
uary from Melbourne, Adelaide, Sidney
and Queensland shipped 400, 900 bushels
OF wheat and 300 tons of -four. For the
corresponding period last year 10000
bushels OF wheat only were forwarded,
though prices were then higher.
In feeding calves by hand great care
should be exercised to have the food OF
the right temperature nearly as pos
sible that of milk fresh from the udder-
and to feed often enough to prevent the
calf from getting excessively hungry,
and then overeating. By neglect of these
precautions promising calves are often
seriously injured, if not killed outright.
EXPERIENCE teaches us that it is q
good place, no matter what size of
fowl you prepare the nest for, the safest
and cleanest place in which to deposit
| eggs, and which affords the surest pre-.
ventive against the hens eating their
eggs or those under the sitter, and the
safest place from disturbances, is some-
where in the dark or in the darkest and
the most secluded part of the hatching-
room or hen-touse.
WHEN meal is fed plain to COWS, they
often pass it with but half digestion, or
In this shape it is apt to pass into the
intestines without being returned with
the cud to be remasticated. This Gre.
ates loss, and to prevent it mix the
food with wet cut hay, straw, fodder or
other coarse feed. 1t is said that meal
fed dry, If not mixed with rough feed,
will be better masticated than when it is
fed wet. = Western Agricutturist.
AccoRDING to DIR. J. @. Peters, it is
filth that causes most of the diseases of
domestic animais. He mentions partic-
ularly the habit of allowing bedding and
manure to accumulate under the horses
and other animals in stables. The i'm
pure air thus generated is peculiarly
well adapted to iniure the health
of the ANIMALS compelled to breathe it.
/ A WRITER in the Rural New Yorker
contends that by planting corn at the
earliest safe moment we not only in
crease the chances that the crop will
receive the necessary number of degrees
of accumulated heat during the warm
season, but the number of hours of sun.
shine as well, and, what is of nearly as
much importance, we advance the epoch
OF blossoming several days, and by so
doing hasten maturity by several weeks.
| AN agricultural writer, speaking OF the
best methods of feeding cornfodder and
other coarse foods, calls attention to the
fact that since these are in themselves
incomplete foods, lacking the nitroge-
nous and fatty elements, they should in
variably be supplemented with some
food which will supply these. He re-
CARDS cottonseed cake or linseed- oil cake.
as among the best, as they not only
supply the needed elements, but also
greatly enrich the manure.
!, ATTENTION of drivers is invited by the
National Stockman to a horse fact worth