Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-07
FARM AND \ ! GARDEN. ].

ANY one having seed corn can tell lust
as well now as they can next May If it
will grow.
Ed. EMERY says that from 45O to 900
per. cent profit'is what the west is pay
ing eastern publishers for school books.
ENGLISH papers say that the run on
Hereford cattle by American buyers at
this time is phenomenal, and the like
was never known before.
1T is said that tilling, or thorough un-
derdrainage, warns the soil to- suoh a
degree as to amount to the same thing
as moving $50 miles farther south.
THERE are evidences that the corn
root worm is rapidly increasing in all of
the western states, and that serious
| alarm is felt for the next crop in some
localities.
ONE hundred and fifty dollars pre-
miums on seed corn for each of the
northern, central and southern divisions
of the state are offered by the Illinois
state board for their next state fair.
The farmers in Maryland and Della
ware raise tomatoes for the canning fac
| tories, from which the farmers derive
500 per acre year. This vegetable is
canned there to supply the Iowa gro.
Gerry stores. Is this not h pretty kettle
of fish? And we will raise wheat at a
gross product of 81 or So per year, to
pay for these tomatoes.
RICE contains more starch than either
wheat, rye, barley, oats or corn. OF
these grains oats carry the least starch,
but by far the largest proportion of Gel
lulose. In nitrogenous substances wheat
leads, followed by barley, oats, rye and
corn, while rice is most deficient. Corn
leads in fat, and oats in relative proper.
ton of water. Wheat leads in gum and
| rice in salt.
The president of the Elmira Farmers
Club tells the husbandman that his crop
OF sorghum got caught by the frost, and
too much injured to be of value as
sirup-producing substance. But he fed
it to his COWS which ate it greedily, and
soon began to gain in milk. He thinks
he got about as much profit from the
crop as if it had been devoted to the
original intent.
ALL manures deposited by nature are
left on or near the surface. The whole
tendency OF manure is to go down to the
soil rather than to rise from it. There
is probably very little if any loss of nj
trogen from evaporation of manure,
unless it is put in piles SO as to foment.
Rains and dews return to the soil as
much ammonia in a year as is carried Off
in the atmosphere.
CONVENIENCE for farm buildings is an
important aid to good farming, especial
ly where much stock is kept and there
are many chores. Water should always
be provided in the barn-yard, the feeding
boxes should be near where the feed is
kept, and the buildings should rot be
| very far removed from the house. II
this results in more neatness about
barns and barnyards than has been
thought necessary, it will be another
important advantage gained.
THERE is yet serious agitation in and
near all our eastern cities about the
price which the farmers get for their
milk. They generally get about three
cents per quart, which the huck-
sters retail in the city at ten cents. The
great trouble there, as well as else
where, is that the farmers will not con-
centrate in unions and regulate the
price. 1t will take several centuries yet
before the farmers will protect them
selves and their interests as all the other
industries do.
r. G. Dunn & Co., in their annual
trade circular, after recounting the num-
ber of failures in 1883 and the number
In each branch Of industry, make this
gratifying statement: 'tThe single cir.
cumstance that the mortgage indebted
ness on the farms of the United States
has decreased Is per cent. is full of the
utmost significance. In o country whose
chief strength is founded upon the pros
perity of the agricultural community,
this fact is of high import, as not only
Indicating the welfare of the farmers
and planters themselves, but prosperous
condition for the enormous number of
people dependent upon them."
FARMERS Call: The experiments
conducted during the last season at the
Missouri State Agricultural College full
ly demonstrate the advisability of mulch
ing potatoes. We believe every expert
ment so far reported gave similar re-
suit. The cost of the materials for
mulching is usually very small, leaves
or straw being plentiful and cheap upon
the farm. The materials manure the
ground; and mulching saves hoeing.
| The potato requires cooler climate and
moister soil than our latitude affords,
Mulching tends to secure both. The re.
suit in every case has been largely in
creased yields of superior quality.
The more expensive greenhouses with
| glass and heated by furnaces are not
likely to soon come in vogue with most
farmers. 1t Is comparatively easy
matter, however, to make small hot
bed with two or three loads of horse
manure Cd the sheltered side of some
building. Here plants for early cabbage
and tomatoes may be grown, and small
corner reserved for lettuce will supply
the table long before anything can be
| gathered from the open garden. It is
none too early to be gathering q few
loads of manure, and making the neces.
sary sashes now. The glass should be
| painted white, to prevent burning the
plants beneath by unobstructed rays of
the sun.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
| Tribune remarks: "Of the use of oat
meal for COWS, mention is not often
made in this country; but when spoken
of it is always with praise. That it is
better than corn meal there can be no
doubt; 1t is richer in both albuminoids
and fat; and the usefulness of these two
nutriments, and especially the former,
for making milk is shown not only by
the results of numerous careful expert.
ments, but the acknowledged usefulness
of oil.cake meal. Where this meal is
used freely there is less use for oat meal;
but under some circumstances it might
be adyantageously substituted for the
bran in the favorite mixture for COWS of
Indian meal and bran.''
| A WRITER for an English paper, the
Garden, London, says that for plants
under glass, infested with CUB and scale
insects, paraffine has proved most
efficient remedy, and will do more in an
hour than could be effected in day by
Isponging and brushing. But its power.
full nature should never be forgotten,
and it must not be applied too strong,
or without continual stirring. The cru
dest and least pure oil, being heavier