Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-24
FARM AND GARDEN.

The Muscovy duck is native to South
America.
| THE forests OF Australia are fast dis.
appearing.
| BLAoKBERRIEs require good soil.
The roots run very deep.
NONE but very wealthy people can
afford to burn green wood.
A WARM stable, good bed and q
warm blanket are due every horse.
IT is the belief in Europe that hog
| cholera in America is caused by tri.
chime.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Prairie
Farmer reports hog cholera in Will
County, I'll.
SHOULD you be keeping large flock
of hens and the choice lay between feed
ing the milk to pigs, decide in favor of
the hens every time.
Mr.. JONES, Ontario, Canada, is cred
tied with having the largest bee farm in
the world. This seasons produce is set
down at 10000 pounds.
FARMERS intending to underdrain will
often save money by having an expert
lay out a system for the whole farm,
that any mistakes may be avoided.
ARE you wintering any COWS which
will not pay for their keeping? If go,
fatten and sell them; or sell them any
way. Apoor COW runs its owner in debt.
1T is estimated that the value of the
garden products of Massachusetts,, ex.
elusive of potatoes and beans raised on
the farms, equalled S5, 10000 last year.
LET the horses litter be dry and clean
underneath as well as on top. Stand
ing on hot, fermented manure makes
the hoofs soft and brings on lameness.
AN eastern farmer advises the use of
kerosene for the determination of horse
nettles, pouring it on the stalks and let
ting it run down the stems into the
roots.
AN old farmer says it is his opinion
that bad results will always follow SOW
| ing wheat on land into which the green
growth of any crop had just been
turned.
FRENCH shepherds find that salt dis
solved in water and sprinkled over the
rations of sheep gives them an INCREASED
relish for their forage and contributes to
their health.
AT the Toronto Fat Stock Show the
shorthorn Champion, weight 1850
pounds and 1,342 days old, won the
| special prize, a cup valued at 500, as
best of any age.
Mr.. GREEN, of New Albany, Ind,
says he finished the borers in his eight
cen acre peach orchard by scalding them
with hot water, poured on from the
spout Of teskettle.
ENGLISH beef, which is largely made
| by feeding roots, is said not to be as nu-
tritious as American beef, which is made
from corn and grass; but the English
beef is regarded as the best favored.
SAYS the Iowa Register: cone hun
dred bushels of corn will shrink to nine
| ty III the crib, and to an extent more
than that, depending on the openness of
the crib and the honesty OF the neigh
bors.
In California considerable fruit is
canned in the orchard where it grew,
the canned product bearing transporta-
ton better than that which has to be
| shipped even short distance from the
| factory.
The editor of the Breeders Gazette
has been feeding mich COWS and young
stock with millet. He finds it profitable
to himself and acceptable to the cattle.
They will leave good timothy or clover
at any time for it.
IT has been noted by members of the
Kansas State Horticultural Society that
insects injurious to fruits are more nu-
merous about the railroad stations.
The average loss in that state by the
depredations of insects was "a per cent.
The American Cultivator says that ii
barley has not germinated the fact of its
having been slightly stained by wet is
no actual detriment whatsoever, the
grain is not really injured and ought to
bring to the farmer just as much as the
bright samples of equal plumpnoss.
N. j. SHEPHERD says that he finds
great help in fighting insects in tie gar
den is to have the soil rich aud mellow,
SO that the plants make strong and
rapid growth, which takes them out of
the way OF the worst injuries by the
bugs.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune says that any one who allows
his fruit trees to slowly starve to death
and then adds insult to injury by blam-
ing them for not rewarding his Incidence
with bountiful crops, deserves to be de-
barred from good fruit the remainder of
| his life.
THE American Cultivator suggests
that one great reason why so much dilap-
idated wire fence is seen is because the
wires are stretched too tightly. Cold
contracts iron, making the wire shorter
in winter than when the fence was built
at q milder temperature, and something
has to give way.
The Pittsburg Stockman, in noting
the fact that for three successive years
the corn crop has been more or less OF a
failure, says the fault is not to be laid
entirely to the unfavorable seasons, but
to the planting of inferior seed, selected
from the immature crop of one year for
planting the next.
THERE are in Ohio 25, ,7I4, 421 acres of
farming land, valued on the grand dupli-
cate for 1883 at $706, ,275, 1854, while the
cities, towns and villages contain real
estate valued at $424, 7S3, ,U99. The valu-
alton of chattel property in the state is
S542, 207, 121, making the total valuation
for taxation 81, 1,673, ,265,S71.
The American Cultivator thinks ma
nure may be proftably applied to wheat
all winter, if the ground is frozen. The
more finely it is spread over the surface
the better. The manure must be we'll
rotted and thinly spread. Coarse ma
nure will help to smother the plant, es-
pecially if there is much snow during
the winter.
THE Gardeners Monthly says weakly
and weather-beaten evergreens are i'm
proved by cutting. But in their case
the leader must be cut at the same time,
even if we have to train up side branch
to make a leader. Evergreens some
times show little disposition to make
leaders, but they will do it if they are
severely pruned.
IT is stated that dressed sheep are
quoted at chihuahua. Mexico, at sew
enty-five cents apiece at the present
time, twenty-five cents for hind
quarter, and twelve-and-a.half for fore
quarter. The pelt of the sheep is worth
seventy-five cents. From the tallow is