Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-04-17
FARM AND GARDEN.
Prov heavy soil in fam and winter. .

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The value of the butter sent to New
York City last year was 800, ,627, ,579.
Use the curi y.comb lightly, for when
applied rapidly it 10 a source of great
pain.
ILLINOIS has 412 butter and cbeese
factories, most of them in the northern
counties.
LET the horse have some exercise
every day, or he will be liable to fever
or bad feet.
MONEY spent in paint for farm build.
ings and implements is not to be
counted loss.
A BLANKET of good manure during
the winter will start rhubarb off iiyely
in the spring.
BARLEY water will stop diarrh@ in
calves if the disease has not. become too
deeply seated.
HAY is best sold from the churn or
cheese press, or when in fat, sleek, hand
some steers or oxen.
SECURED wool shrinks about one
third of its own weight during the proc
ess Of manufacture.
SALT added to poultry droppings pre-
vents this valuable manure from drying
up and burning the plants.
WHEN you have good COW, keep it !;
when you see good COW, buy it when
you have poor COW, sell it.
FROZEN cornstalks retain so much
moisture that they cannot safely be
piled in heaps or stored in barns
l.. II. BAILEY says he can make more
money out of apples at twenty five cents
per bushel than from wheat at one dol
lar.
LOOK often at the horses legs and
feet. Disease or wounds in these parts.
if at all neglected, soon become danger
ous. {
The noon meal for working horses
should be principally grain. 1t can be
quickly eaten and will not disturb the
stomach.
The Mississippi Valley Cane Grow
ers' Association will hold its fifth an
nual meeting in st. Louis, January 16
to 1S, 1884.
BURY hard cabbage heads down.
Stand the soft heads on their feet in the
trenches, and they will likely harden up
before spring.
Give the young pigs run out of
doors if you want to keep them healthy.
Young animals must not be confined in
| close quarters.
The Japanese reduce their manures
to liquid, and are exceedingly careful
about saving whatever will strengthen
the crop and soil.
THE effect of short manures on light
soils, and long manures on heavy soils,
are to improve greatly the physical
character of each.
Cows that have not been wintered
we'll need q little extra care Just now,
A warm bran.slop with little ginger
feed daily will produce wonderful re-
suits.
AN Ohio farmer says he cured his
horses of coughing by using oil of tar
and camphor gum. He put in all the
camphor gum the tar would cut and gave
a teaspoonful on the tongue three times
day after feeding.
CoPPERAs is a splendid medicine to
keep on hand for poultry. When they
have the roup wash their heads with q
solution of it and put some of the solu-
tion in the drinking water as tonic. It
provides them with soluble iron, which
is necessary.
THERE is no better food for horses
than oats. A mixture of oats and bran
is healthy and strengthening, and is bet
ter than any other known food for
horses. An exchange says: "Chemists
have long ago discovered aveneld,
nerve stimulant, in oats, and to this may
be attributed its good effect on horses.
Farmers had long ago discovered the
same thing, only they had not given it
name."
Mr.. NJ. e. HNKLEY, q practical horti.
cultur1st, writing about strawberries in
the Dakota Farmer, says there are no
settled rules which may be given the
beginner that will hold good in all
localities, but that there are certain
general rules which should always be
borne in mind, to wit-thorough cult
ure, a moist situation, careful watch
ing and love for the business. With
out these success is impossible.
On the opening of spring many farm
ers would do well to open accounts. Fix
q price on your own labor, and that of
each hand and assistant on your farm,
and keep an accurate reckoning of days
works, cost of horses feed and use of
seed, implements, etc. a simple state
ment of receipts and expenditures
| throughout the season will enable the
farmer to know how he is prospering,
and ''going it blind is not wise proc
ess, either for farmers or spectators.
'"THERE are so many breeds of Sheep"
says an old hockmaster, Sand 80 much
said in favor of each, that some men may
delay, not knowing which to take; and
others may be led to believe that some
one breed is the one, and neglect good
opportunity to purchase some other.
But If q farmer will select from any flock
he can find, few wide-breasted, broad
backed, deep-bodied, not too long-legged
sheep, and put Southdown ram With
them, he will not make very great
mistake"
LANDRETH & SoNs recommend the
following wash for fruit trees: To
bucket wo-thirds full of ordinary stone
lime whitewash add one pint Of gas tar,
one pound whale.oil soap dissolved in
hot water, or one-haf pound potash, or
ono pint of strong lye. Add clay to
mako the .mixture thick enough to be
applied with large brush. Apply in
early spring and late in autumn. Re-
move the earthat foot, down to the collar,
and wash the tree from earth to as high
up as can be reached.
FRUIT trees that have been girdIed by
mice may be saved by process de-
scribed in the Country Gentleman.
Take twigs from fourth to half an inch
in diameter (the large size being best if
the tree is large enough to hold them),
sharpen them to wedge at each end,
and make an opening in the bark above
and below the girdled part with NOR
row chisel to receive them. The twigs
are first bent like bow for entering,
and then brought nearly straight when
in place. They should be bound to keep
them firmly in place, and the points Of
insertion covered with grating wax.
The editor says he has always done this
work in the spring before the buds
opened, but it we'll performed thinks it
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