The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-11
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Agricultural Miscellany

Agricultural Miscellany
Hungarian Grass or Millet, may be
sown now or later. Prepare the land
thoroughly, pulverize and roll it. Sow
the seed in drills or broadcast bush
ell to an acre-and :oll again. A good
plan is to SOW the seeds, harrow again,
and then roll. If sow now, it will be
ready to cut by the middle Of August.
Rough treatment to break up a sitter
is cruel, injurious and unnecessary. AL
that is needed, says the Poultry World
is Imprisonment in a strange place: "a
few days rest in this way does the fowl
good, and she will return to her laying
greatly benefited. Bear in mind that
this is an effort at reproduction, and
this very obstinacy makes q frst-class
sitter which you priced SO highly early
in the season."
But one can live we'll on vegetables,
and set q beautiful appetizing table.
Vegetarianism implies abstinence from
flesh and blood, leaving US milk, cream,
eggs, with all the fruits and vegetable
abundance that our seasons produce.
From spring until late in the fall we can
have substantial food from Il own gar
dens, as potatoes in variety. early and
late peas, beans of various kinds, corn
of several sorts with all the dishes made
of it: and all through these months we
can have relishes in greens, spinach,
dandelions, mustard, with lettuces and
other salads, cucumbers, beets, toma-
toes, etc, etc. Indeed, I think that
housewife a very unskilled server of
tables who cannot make her family for
get the fesh-pots during this period.
Fowls may easily be kept free from
all diseases by attending to their com
mon needs. They should above all
things have clean apartments. and such
as will thoroughly shelter them from
wet and wind, The food should en-
brace grain, green stuff and meat or
scraps from the table, and be fed only
in such quantity as will be eaten up
clean each time. Clean water and no
other should always be within their
reach.
Milking is often intrusted to the
hired help Or young boys and girls, who
are apt to be careless as regards this
point. 1t should be insisted upon that
every drop be drawn from the udder.
the last drawn milk is not only the rich
est, but ifany is allowed to remain back,
one time after another, it will surely
lead to a falling off in the quantity.
The safest plan is to have the mixers
go to the cows again as Don as they are
through milking and strip" them thor
oughly.
Sorghum Amber Cane.-A half acre
ofthis was grown as a forage crop on the
farm OF the New Jersey Agricultural
College. The weight grown per acre
was not quite as great as that Of the
best fodder corn, and the stalks are so
hard that cattle cannot eat them readily,
when they are full grown. But by cut
ting and crushing them they can all be
consumed, and the cattle eat them with
avidity and thrive upon them. Sorghum
will make adesirable food crop to alter
nate with fodder corn.
Cucumbers for pickles may be planted
from June Is to 30-about the Goth is
the best time. The writer above al
luded to usually plantsthem on a fresh
ly turned sod, after taking off an early
crop of hay. To produce a good crop
they require a liberal supply of manure,
both spread on, andin the hill. It may
be stable manure or chemicals, both to-
gether or either alone. Cucumbers
should be planted about five feet apart
each way. If attacked by bugs, they
should be busted with plaster and Paris
green. Missing hills should be re-
planted until as late as July 10. Ten
or IL seeds should be dropped in the
hill, and after danger from bugs they
should be thinned to five plants.