Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-04-10
FARM AND GARDEN;

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WOMEN do tttield work. in England.
and az class are uneducated and COS.
sipy, if not worse.
BOILED barley is quite generally fed
horses in England. It is said to have
one-third more nutrition than oats
+ TIE Virginia creeper. on account Of
Its quick growth, is favorable vine for
planting around outhouses and trellises.
BE careful not to grow potatoes
near the peach trees is the advice of
one who is familiar with peach grow.
ing.
ASHES are shipped from Canada to
New Jersey, where the farmers are
glad to get them for 80 cents Der
bushel. -
The Director of the Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station tests the vitality of
seeds for farmers of that state free of
charge. =
PRoF. Brown, of the Ontario Apri.
cultural College, thinks raw peas 80
per cent. better food for pigs than In
dian corn. = =
< ENGLISH sheep-breeders have found
out that mutton pays better than wool.
and that fat lambs bring better return
than mutton.
FIFTEEN hundred dollars worth of
feathers were gathered from the eighteen
Ostriches on the Auahem farm in Cali.
fornia, last year.
THERE are now in this country over
QUO horses able to trot mile in less
than 2:3O, and 250 that can trot mile
in 2:20 or better.
A NBw YORK farmer claims to have
brought the peachblow potato up to its
former standard Of excellence by care
full selection of seed.
Cows that have not wintered well need
q little extra care just now. A warm
bran slop, with little ginger fed d ally,
will produce wonderful results.
ENGLISH shepherds, speaking from ex-
perience, say that ensilage is never
more useful and valuable than when the
lambing season has commenced, it being
highly beneficial to milking ewes.
In Michigan and New York they spray
their whole orchard with a solution Of
paris green, and kill the larvae OF the
codling moth, 80 that they have apples
free from worms.
A VERMONT dairyman SAYS Young
calf should be fed three times day.
Overlooking at long intervals, and es-
pecially with cold food, kills a good
many valuable calves.
WHEN it is desirable to have young
trees and hedges grow rapidly, cut them
back in the spring before the buds start;
but if you wish to check too rampant a
growth in larger trees, prune after the
leaves are open.
HORSE radish yields from two to four
tons per acre, and sells at from five to
ten cents per pound. The worst draw
back to its culture is the difficulty of
eradicating it when once it gets firm
hold on the land.
"a WRITER in Hygiene Partique states
that boots and shoes may be rendered
waterproof by soaking them for some
hours in thick soap water. The com.
pound forms a fatty acid within the
leather, and makes it impervious to
water.
IT is curious fact that wasps' nests
often take fire, as is supposed, by the
mechanical action of the wax upon the
material of which the nest is composed.
Many of the fires of unknown origin in
haystacks and farm buildings may thus
be accounted for.
( If seeds are to be kept over wear
they should be placed in cool location
and exposed to the light and air. Keep.
ing them in the darkness weakens vitali.
sty, perhaps from tendency TO grow
which darkness incl.ee, but unaccom-
panied by moisture enough to put forth
leaf and root.
A GOOD egg food for feeding poultry
once or twice a week is to boil quart
of beans to thick soup. Then thicken
with meal; add salt and pepper. Feed
warm on cold mornings; the fowls will
eat it quickly, and the beans furnish
quite large proportion Of nitrogen for
the albumen of the eggs.
: SPRUCE butter tubs are the best: hem
lock makes sweet tub; acids from the
oak color the butter and iujure its ap-
pearance; white ash gives the butter a
strong favor if kept long, and increases
the liability to mold; maple smells and
cracks badly. Soak all tubs four to six
days in brine before using. american
Farmer. ...'1 -
DoN'T forget the dust bath. This is
made by mailing together four boards in
the form of square. No bottom is
needed. Place in a sunny corner and
fill with fine dry loan or road dust.
/ There is. nothing equal to q good dust
bath to keep the hens free from lice. If
they are very lousy bushel of wood
ashes may be added to the bath.
ACCORDING to- DIR. ). 9. Peters,sit is
filth that causes most of the diseases of
domestic animals. He mentions par
ticularly the habitsof allowing bedding
and manure to accumulate under the
horses and other animals in stables. The
impure air thus generated is peculiarly
we'll adapted to iniure the health of the
animals compelled to breath it.
|. NEARLY level culture, hand-hoeing,
slightly 2hilling but once, and keeping
the cultivator running, was recon-
mended at the recent Waterbury, Conn.
meeting as the best for potatoes. It
was said that the SECOND killing induced
o second growth of roots higher up on
the plant which produced small tubers.
If this is not done the additional growth
will make large potatoes.
[ Mr.. SToBART, a large English cattle
owner, last November made some care
full experiments with ensilage as com.
pared with turnips and hay for fattening
cattle. He made two selections from
his herd, each of four steers and two
heifers, feeding one nothing but ensi-
lage and the other hay and turnips. AT
the end OF thirty-two days the ensiIage-
fed cattle showed forty-nine pounds
greater gain.
IT is certainty shat raising poultry
for egg production pays the farmer. As
general thing the fowls that the farmer
keeps in his barnyard, and on which he
expends but little, pay best of all his
live stock, but when attention is
specially paid to fowls, properly fed,
housed and attended, after deducting the
cost of keeping, care, interest per cent.
from the amount for which the eggs sell
there is in nine cases out Of ten, larg,
er balance on the credit side of the ledg-
er than is found in connection with any