Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-03-27
OID plaster and ground oyster shell

OLD plaster and ground oyster shell
are important ingredients in the forma-
non OF good, strong egg shells. Hot
food aud table scraps for eggs, Secret
nest boxes, well cushioned with soft
hay, for the safety of the eggs. Coal oil
on the perches, and Persian insect DOW.
der, now and then, sprinkled into the
feathers on the backs of the occupants.
to prevent lice. A cleanly kept house.
not over crowded, and plenty of fresh
alr Tor their health. h.-Fdncier's Gazette.
The Manchester Pross reports the
shipment OF butter from that city in the
month OF February at II $3.50 pounds,
and quotes prices there as follows: The
market for butter has been trifle bet
ter this week, the advance being from 8
to 4 cents per pound over last quota.
lions. Unsalted may be quoted at ~ to
" cents, and 29i cents has been paid in
some instances of extra choice; good to
choice dairy packed, 90 to 80 cents:
creamery, 81 to 35 cents; at Elgin Tues
day prices advanced to 81 cents over
the previous week, with sales of 80. $50
pounds; cheese, 10 to 10l cents.
A FARMER on Long Island, N. Y,
who has farm of 5S acres, raised on ii
last year the following: Strawberries.
$4,000 quarts: early cabbage, $4,000
heads; early potatoes, 1000 bushels:
early beets, 100 bushels; potato onions
66 bushels; onions from seed. 8 100
bushels; late potatoes, 1900 bushels:
carrots, II 800 bushels; corn in ear. :.
50o bushels; white beans, 16 bushels;
potato onions from seed, 25 bushels;
Brussels sprouts, 400 bushels; onion sets.
LOO bushels; hay, 5 tons; cabbage seed,
IL pounds; carrot seed, 25 pounds; onion
seen, 100 pounds; Brussels sprouts seeds.
2 pounds; cabbage plants to carry over
200, 900.
bow many well-to do farmers have
sold their land, moved into town, and
started into some mercantile business.
only to find themselves at the end of
year or so in debt, insolvent and in de-
SPAR. Few farmers seem to realize the
value of good land possession. Rail-
road stocks are treacherous, trade is q
lottery In which many fall and few sue.
ceed, horses and cattle may die, but the
farm, properly worked, is the most last
ing OF human possessions-its title is
good while society stands. It's owner.
undisturbed by the harrassing cares OF
business, may enjoy the fruits of his in
dustry, and, in his old age, sit content
edly beneath his own vine and fig-tree.
The London Times says that stats.
tlcians have pronounced the United
States to be not only potentially but
actually richer than the United King
dom. Counting the houses, furniture.
manufactures, railways, shipping, bull.
ion, lands, cattle, crops, Investments and
roads, it is estimated that there is a
grand total in the United States of s49.-
77O, ,000,0 900. Great Britain is credited
with something less than $40, 600, OOO.-
600. or nearly 10000. 600, 900 less than
the United States. The wealth per in
habitant in Great Britain is estimated
at 81, 160, and in the United States at
1895: With regard to the remuneration
of labor, assuming the produce of labor
to be 100, in Great Britain fifty-six parts
go to the laborer, twenty-one to capital.
and twenty-three to government. In
the United States seventy-two parts 20
TO labor, twenty-three to capital and
five to government.