The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-30
Choice Farming condensataon..

IOun8 SOWS tnaG are to come IN should
be put in the best possible condition.
A young SOW not fully matured is still
in a growing condition, and as she must
provide growth for her embryo litter as
well as herself she must not ouly be
fed with q view of being kept in good
condition. but must be made comfort
able in every other respect, as the care
of the little after birth is a greater tax
upon her than would be the case where
she an old sow.
To getrid of the cabbage-worm I have
successfully used butter milk and water
the last two years-about one-third Of
the former to %two-thirds Of the latter.
My cabbages YER also badly infested
with lice, but two applications freed
them completely. The brown and yell
low stripped bug, the great pest to Gu
cumber and water mellon vines, will do
no damage if the vines are occasionally
sprinkled with the mixture; but think
they require sprinkling oftener and with
a stronger solution of butter milk than
the cabbage.
The true inwardness of the opposi-
ton to the trade in western slaughtered
beef seems to be that the railroads have
a large interest in continuing the pres
ent system of live stock shipment, with
all its barbarities. The feeding If the
stock is one of the perquisites of the
railroads, and is very profitable, hay
costing SO per ton being charged to the
shipper at $50. Besides, two carloads
of live cattle can be put into one car
when slaughtered, at reduction of one
half the freight; and so q cry is raised
that western slaughtered beef is IN
wholesome; that diseased cattle are
killed for beef, that could not be sent
forward alive, and that the gases used
in tho process of refrigerating injure
the meat. Truly, we may say with old
Jack Falstaf, Lord! how men are
given to lying!"
Farmers DO not consider the profit
there is in rearing horses for sale; a 1900
pound horse will sell in the market for
$3.50, or about 20 cents a pound live
weight. At three years a horse is earn
ing his feed and paying back for his
previous cost. At five years his work
has left him out Of debt, and if sold for
$3.50, this is clear profit. Compared
with q three-year-old steer weighing
1900 pounds, and selling for six cents
per pound live weight, the horse shows
an exceedingly greater profit. Maine
farmers always had a reputation for
s%hrewdness, and when the agricultural
reports from taat state show a large in
crease in the business of rearing horses,
for sale in the Boston market, it shows
the reputation is not got u~ndeservedly.
A New-Englander says he has lived q
poor man forty years and grown pre-
maturely old on a stony farm, some of
the objections to which he names in
The Manchester Mirror:
eff one has to clear the land Of stone,
the cost viii generally be more per acre
than the price of the land, and on many
farms, after the surface stones are re-
moved, it will be necessary to pick off
the loose stones after each ploughing.
The land is lowered by the stones re-
moved so that the plough run deeper,
and by the action Of frost the stones
are constantly rising to the surface.
Such lands are more expensive to
plough and to cultivate, wearing out
0 tools and requiring more time and
strength. On such lands at least double
the amount of labor is required"
A vell-known nlinoisian reports as a
fact that 500 will just now buy 1000
bushels of potatoes in Illinois. At this
price twill pay to feed potatoes to stock
Of all kinds. A few are exceedingly
useful to horses, and especially to those
suffering from heaves or broken wind.
When potatoes are fed to cows the tub
ers should be boiled, by which any irri-
tation to the bowels from indigested
starch granules is avoided. Raw pota-
toes will effect the flavor OF milk, and
Of course that of butter, but boiled pota-
toes, fed cold, are easily digested, and
if mixed with a little bran and lightly
sailed, r very palatable and nutri-
oious. Potatoes contain 20 per cent. OF
starch; corn contains go per cent; then
if corn is worth 50cents a bushel, pota-
toes are worth about IL cents a bushel
to feed. But they are worth 10 cents a