Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-03-13
FARM AND GARDEN.

Great Britain is prosecuting seyera
cases OF alleged forgeries of pedigrees.
ONE facotry in Maine put up, last sea
SOD, 10000 cans of pumpkins. The
season has been a good one for this crop
BY canning or drying, pumpkin pie!
may be had the year through.
PROF. SANBoRN, of the Missouri Agri
cultural College, claims to have proven
by long practice that corn fodder ha.
a practical feeding value of two thirds tt
three quarters that Of good hay.
AN experienced stockman says: Cat
tie drinking shale water are not subjec
to the blackleg, while cattle drinking
surface water from creeks or pools arr
at any time liable to take the disease.
Snow should not be allowed to &C
cumulate on evergreens. If 60, and i
partly thaws and then freezes, it canno
be removed, but will catch the snow anc
wind, often to the entire destruction O
the tree.
IT was very possibly good policy fol
many western farmers to sow whea
among standing corn, and leave tn,
stalks to fall down for protection agains
severe winds, which are more destruc
tive than we are apt to think.
A FROST proof vegetable house is de
scribed as made with walls Is inches
thick, double boarded, the space be.
tween the boards being filled with saw
dust. The ceiling is also boarded, with
about ten inches Of sawdust between the
boards.
DURING severe cold weather COWS will
often refuse to drink as much water as
they should if it is filed with ice and is
nearly down to the freezing temperature.
1t Is really better that the water be slight.
ly tepid and the COWS be induced to drink
more of it by making thin mash with
bran and meal.
If pigs are kept from the wet and al.
lowed plenty of straw they will see to il
that no serious injury results from cold.
The one thing that hog will not endure
IS wet bed III cold weather. Yet this
Is mistake often made by farmers,
though not SO commonly now as was the
case formerly.
ATa recent bee-keepers' convention,
every member agreed that there was
most profit in small packages of honey,
one pound in section or trife over.
Such parcels, it was said, sold better
than larger packages. but offerings
smaller than one pound each were OBJ
iected to by consumers.
EXPERIMENTS made by the Danish
government with the centrifugal sepa.
| rator show that more cream was OBJ.
famed than by any other method.
There were differences of opinion, how
ever, in regard to the flavor of the but
ter as compared with that made from
cream separated from the milk in the
natural way.
One of the most successful Illinois
dalrymen keeps 100 COWS, but neve,
raises pound of hay. He feeds his
cattle on corn fodder, cut when in bios.
som, bound and set up till cured, or I'LL
winter, when it is removed to the barn.
He gets seven tons of this dry fodder to
the acre, AID claims it is worth as much
as the best of hay.
THE folio wing remarks from the Mark
Lane (London) Express seem gu to
people in this country: ''For people
troubled with liver-and every one
seems to be conscious of possessing that
rebellious organ nowadays-the free
consumption of tomatoes, raw or.
cooked, is better than all the doctors
stuff in the world"
CRIBS for corn may be made rat.proof
by setting the building on posts with q
tin pan shelving out on every side from
the top, OF course the crib should be
detached from all other buildings, and
not touched by any fence. By clearing
out all the corn once year in such a
building, neither rats nor mice will be
come very numerous.
ENOUGH bedding should be provided
for sheep kept in warm easements, SO
that when lying down their wool will not
come in contact with masses of their
own excrement. Not only does it eoii
the wool, but the heat which is thus en-.
gendered is hurtful. The pile of ma.
nure should be cleaned out several
times during the winter.
SOME small-fruit growers think that
they can destroy the rust on blackber.
r!es and raspberries by liberal use oi
potash. Experiments are needed in this
direction. In many places where the
rust Is prevalent growers undertake to
grow only three or four crops of berries
before the briars are rooted up, and q
plantation made in new spot.
AN exchange suggests, if farmers
would go to their barn on wet day and
spend their time in making an caves.
trough for the barn or stable, and there.
by carry away the drip which would
otherwise fall on the manure pile,
causing q waste of the elements of plant
food contained therein, they will make
more money that day than they could
any fine day in the field.
The report of the chief inspector OF
stock of New South Wales, made from
the reports Of 35 sub inspectors, shows
that in fourteen days they made 2O9 in
spections, and found over l,OOOOOO
acres infested with rabbits, which 21O
men are employed to destroy. Nearly
81, 500, 600 has been spent by the gov.
ernment of three colonies, and immense
sums by private persons, but little
headway seems to be made.
On the subject of sulphur to remedy
the rot In potatoes, a correspondent OF
the Elmira IN. W Husbandman says:
"A Vermont farmer rolled his potato
cuts in fine flour of sulphur, at planting
and, again, he busted the shoots as they
appeared above the ground-and nei.
ther rot, worm nor insect touched them,
though all around him potatoes were
badly damaged. he added that he
never saw finer orsmoother tubers."
The quantity of food needed by stock
varies even among animals of the same
age and breed, and it necessarily varies
to greater extent among animals OF
different breeds. Upon this subject a
farmer in England says it is sufficiently
correct to reckon sheep consuming 2s
pounds of green food, an OK or COW
$50 pounds, a calf 40 pounds, and a
yearling so pounds daily. At this rate
on OK or a COW consumed as much as five
sheep. The latter will require 10, ego
pounds, or nearly five tons apiece, the
former 54,750 pounds, or nearly twenty
five tons of green food, for its yearly
maintenance.
THE Country Gentleman says two
things are necessary for the growing OF
good asparagus, namely, plenty of room
for the plant to grow and copious ma
nuring. The latter is best applied to
thick beds by covering the whole sur.
fo no will, ,,,ap,,ra kI,.a.