Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
FARM AND GARDEN.

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4 PRoF. STEWART states that ten
pounds of turnips, with one and a half
pounds of corn will fatten young sheen
or lamb faster than three pounds Of corr
alone.
/ A MIXTURE Of sulphur and lard is q
safe and harmless remedy for the exter-
mination of lice on cattle. Rub it along
the back and brisket, and anoint parts
here and there wherever necessary.
PRUNING fruit tree while dormant
will tend more to promote growth of
wood than the production Of fruit.
Pruning after the tree has come in full
foliage promotes fruitfulness, by giving
a check to the growth, just as root-prun-
ing does.
Usage orange leaves, when fed to the
silk worms, prodEce silk of the very
finest quality-so fine, indeed, as to
challenge the applause of the foreign
silk buyers and silk experts Of Lyons,
France-which is the center of the
world for silk.
NOTHING is more susceptible to for
eign matter than bad butter. If q
farmer be not sure OF this let him place
q pound or 80 of butter near piece of
ordinary soap, or few onions, and ex-
clude the air for few days, and he will
be convinced.
Col. F. d. CURTIS says that the fancy
dairymen, by allowing their cream to
sour too much before churning, have
made their product simply Limitation
oleomargarine." "They have" he says,
''invited the public palate-especially
in the cities-with their rich-made but
termilk- favored butter, and created a
market for oleomargarine compounds,
and now they are running q neck-and-
neck race with the oleomargarine manu-
facturers."
SHEEP are profitable in several ways,
says the Farmers Call: First, from
wool; second, from mutton, and third,
from manure. The gain from the last
source is not susceptible of change,
whether the price Of wool and mutton
be high or low. A sheep gives returns
in these items for its keeping, and in
balancing the returns the gains from the
accumulation of manure should be con-
sidered as well as the weight of fleece
and carcass.
MOST Western corn-growers fully un-
derstand why the crop failed last year :;
late planting, poor seed, seed grown in q
wrong latitude, and early frosts. They
cannot hasten the advent of spring, or
| put off autumn frosts, but they will bs
likely to see to the seed part of the busi-
ness this year. It will take at least
three or four good corn crops to render
them again careless in this matter after
that the forgetful may again look out
for a corn failure.
The largest producers of tobacco are
| the states of Kentucky, Virginia, North
Carolina and Tennessee. The quantity
produced during 1882 was 512, ,O77, ,5S3
pounds, grown on 671, 1929 acres, or
about 1, 0OU square miles, and valued at
S43, 1s9,95l. The average value was
s 2,5 cents pound, or S64.32 per acre.
This is more profitable that wheat or
corn growing would be in the same dis
tricts. In 1883 this country exported
tobacco to the value of S22, ,O95, 229. and
imported to the value Of $l1, IT'S, sos, or
over so per cent. of our exports.
The Department OF Agriculture of
South Carolina has recently issued q
volume on the agricultural productions
and resources of that state that is a
credit to the "New South" None of
our emigrant-inyitirg Western states
have placed within the reach of inauir-
ers the information they seek as fully as
does this book. Accompanying it is @
large geographical, geological and topo-
graphical map. This work cannot fail
to attract the attention of agriculturists
aud capitalists to the splendid natural
i advantages of South Carolina.
II. IT has been proved that it takes eight
teen pounds of good hay per day to
keep alive n steer weighing 1000
|:pounds. A 1000 pounds steer will
take 36 pounds to keep him alive and
from shrinking; or in other words to
furnish heat, and repair the waste of
tissue that is constantly occurring in
the animal economy. 1t will be seen
| that the longer the animal is kept, the
larger the per cent. of its food which
goes to furnish merely the food of sup
port. 1t is also evident tho per cent.
diminishes as The days of existence are
lessened.
WHILE we do not wish to lay straw
in the way of progress in Gne dairy COW
breeders, and while we admit the ex.
cellence of jersey, Ayrshire and Holstein,
we do protest against the constant re-
yllement OF our native COWS. No ami
NAL on the farm is treated worse.
Struggling among ragweeds in almost
grassless pastures, furnishing blood for
flies in the blazing heat of midsummer,
the effect of wrath, hail, snow, sleet,
rain and polar winds, she still survives,
ever patient and returning good for
4 evil. II our abused native COW was
treated half SO we'll rs her foreign cous-
ins, perhaps she would be as famous as
they.-Farns and FsreSide.
/ Mr.. w. ID. PHmBR1ck says that as
early cabbages need the most stimulat-
| ing manure of any garden crop, it is
customary to plow under a very heavy
dressing.o horse manure, about twenty
cords per acre, and in addition give a
dressing of eight to ten loads per acre of
nlght-soil, each load measuring about
eight cubic feet. But last year he had q
piece of land ready for cabbage all but
the land-soil. He ordered six loads OF
this, but only two came. Spreading this
as far as it would go, on the remainder
he used bag of XII phosphat applied
I in the drill. 1t cost HIM less than half
the price of the night-soil, and the cab.
bage grew and headed full as well.
| An ingenious writer in the Agricultur-
Gazette england argues thai the polled
cattle are the original type. He cites
the fact that all horned breeds produce
at times polled cattle, thus showing a
tendency to revert to the original type.
He thinks the horns are the result of
feeding on soils that have superabund-
snce Of bone-forming material, and puts
I the date of the appearance of horns far
\ back in the mythical past. He cites the
4 tact that the Zebu has both the polled
and horned forms, and that both forms
appear in the Egyptian sculptures.
4 He thinks the polled form is most CON-
4 mon on the eastern shores of England,
j because it comes from the Baltic, and
the original type has been less disturbed
than in England.
IL AS is known bees become irritable if
4 handled after gathering ceases in the