Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-03-20

watched and shoveled over when undue
heat is liable to be generated, the pro.
cess will add to it's value for the spring
crops, as the manure becomes decom.
posed by fermentation and It's particles
are separated and mingled with the
earth used as deoderizer and its crude-
ness is changed SO as to be readily avail
able for the gro wing plants.
THE Wisconsin Experiment Station has
been making series of interesting ex-
periments to ascertain the value OF sweet
milk for feeding pigs. Two lots of pigs
were fed separately, one lot upon corn
meal, the other lot upon milk, the latter
being given all they would take. After
twenty live days the milk.fed pigs had
gained 50i pounds against 4Oa made by
the meal-fed lot. The lots were then re-
versed, the milk-ied pigs put on meal.
and the meal fed lot being given milk
for twenty-five more days, at the end of
which time the milk-fed had made gain
OF 79 pounds, asd the meal.fed only Ga
pounds. The weights of both lots OF
food were recorded, and showed that
500 pounds of corn meal made pound
of pork, and that 1900 pounds OF milk
made the came quantity of pork, live
weight, so that when live hogs are worth
five cents per pound, milk is worth
about half a cent per pound.
GRATING the grape vine is now prac.
ticed on a gigantic scale in Europe,
where the continued inroads OF the phyl.
loxera have carried devastation and de.
struction over an immense area of vine.
yards, once thrifty and blooming. Graft.
ing stock Of American descent is given
the preference, having been found to
adapt themselves in nearly all kinds OF
soils and exposures. The Rural New
Yorker says: The results OF grating the
European vine on American roots has
not only proved satisfactory as a means
OF resisting the phylloxera, but also in
imparting greater vigor to the European
vine. The matter of grating the grape
vine has many other points of interest.
Thus new varieties may be tested earlier,
By grating on vigorous stocks, we gen
orally obtain bearing wood and some
times even fruit The first year. Besides,
We are also enabled, by grating, TO turn
old, vigorous vines which We do not
prize, to good account, as by the loss of
DuV Suo year We Gail CuauRe CQem INTO
some desired variety.
In Italy irrigation has been in vogue
since the early days of Rome, as Cato,
the earliest Roman writer on rural af-
fairs, gives us to understand that it was
practiced in his day. More science is
employed in the construction of irrigat-
ing works in Italy than in any other
country on the globe, and as a result
there is in that country the most perfect
system of irrigation in Europe. The
whole business. is regulated by law, and
government engineers 'superintend the
construction of all works for such pur-
poses. The entire system OF, irrigating
canals in Italy is estimated to furnish an
aggregate Of "a, 600 cubic feet of water
per second for irrigating purposes.
About /, 800, 900 acres are supplied with
water for irrigation by this system of
canals. Some of these works are on a
gigantic scale. The Ticino Canal in
Lombardy was built in the twelfth CEN
tury, and has from th1t date conveyed a
volume of water equal to 1900 cubic
feet per second. This water supplies
and to great extent makes the country
over which it spreads one of the richest
and most densely populated in the eworld.