Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-01

| l00 pounds OF ash wood cut in January
contained 20 pounds Of water, while the
same amount cut in April contained SO
pounds OF water; 100 pounds of syca-
more cut in January contained SO
pounds of water, and 40 cut in April,
White pine cut in January contained 25
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The American cultiyator fsminds us
that it is not economy to make garden
too many years in one place. The soil
becomes exhausted for one kind of crop
growing, and insects become abundant.
We have known farmers to spend twice
the time fighting insects that their more
enterprising neighbors did, and because
they persisted in keeping the garden in
the same old place. The same is true in
regard to weeds. y
LIKE their followers in many other
parts. of the West, California sheep
owners are now obliged to own or rent
land for their ranges. Formerly they
could invest all their money in sheep
and pasture them on Uncle Sans land.
However, lands suitable for sheep past
gre at the foothills are still low-priced.
The large focks are being broken up,
and the smaller flocks kept on smaller
ranges and on cultivated farms. The
wool product of California has increased
wonderfully in thirty years, aggregat-
ing in 1854 but $4,000 pounds
in 1860, 1885, ,325 pounds; 1870
to 20.072, 600 pounds; 1880, to 49,
O74, l54 pounds and in 1883 de-
Ginning to 40. .S4S, 500 pounds.
The Farmer and Fruit Grower con-
cludes long article on the culture of
fruit trees and the effects of the past
winter, as follows: ''The conclusions
may be stated briefly as follows: Gut
tings and seeds should be planted, when
possible, where it is desired the tree
should stand. Trees should be propa-
gated by budding or grating on whole
stocks, and if to be moved, tie removal
should be done while the tree is quite
taken entire. Planters generally prefer
to purchase nursery trees that are quite
young and small. Such trees usually
give the grower much better satisfaction
than older and larger trees, which al
most always have their tap roots, if they
have any, removed in the process of
transplanting from the nursery row."
The ash OF the apple-tree contains II
per cent. lime. That of the pear and
peach nearly as much. This fact, taken
with another, viz. that it is rarely
thought necessary, and still more rarely
practiced, to apply lime as fertilizer
to fruit-trees, will be quite sufficient to
account for the wretchedly miserable ap-
pearance of many old orchards, as we'll
as to explain why orchards that are
planted upon lands rich in lime are 30
thrifty and bear. such handsome fruit.
If we should follow reason anfanalogy
| in respect of the managementof of orchards,
we should apply lime every third or Of
fourth year. with liberaity. Good far
mers dress their fields once in five years
with fifty bushels Of lime per acre, as an
encouragement of the clover; why, then;
should we not profusely lime our or.
chards which require SO much of this
element, when clover, which contains
less than half as much, is 30 iberally
treated?--Neao York Times.
FRENCH farmers commence to adopt
the German plan of dealing with the
wool clip-that is, several owners asso-
lciate to classify aeeces according to fine
ness. Generally five classes are made.
Lambs are shorn at six in preference to
eighteen months old, but then there is
a special demand for their wool for cash
meres and melinop. The Romans were
so particular about excellence of fleece
that they covered their best sheep with
skin jackets to protect the wool from ex-
ternal injury. The plan rendered it fin
or mora 90 oi1xy orI 5ua7 o,,tJ ~
fetched higher price. In respect to
washing sheep France to. day adopts
some Of the practices of the early Gauls.
In the formation of flock of South
down or any other breed of ewes, says
an English writer, great care and judg-
ment are, OF course, most essential. Uni
formity of character, so that the ewes
look as much alike as ''peas in peck,
should be your first object. If you de-
sire to judge of the general character of
q flock of SonthdoWn ewes, and to see if
they have, as it were, family likeness,
have them driven short distance from
where you stand, and then suddenly
wheeled around 80 that their heads are
\ thrown up and their faces seen at a
glance. This will enable you to detect
any marked want of uniformity, if there
be any. In word, the eve should be
matching" to the eye. When drawing
ewes and separating them into lots for
the rams, you must exercise great judg-
ment in the selection, carefully noticing
individual formation and peculiarities,
SO that the ewes in each lot are as much
alike as possible, and adapted to the
4 style OF ram you intend to put to them.