Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-03-27
FARM AND GARDEN.
TrsssssEE has 800, 600 dogs.

IHEPAkE for the spring campaign.
TEE Mennonites in Nebraska dam th,
ravines for water.
HE California wool crop Of 1888 wa,
Al, 600, 600 pounds.
OVER 5000. 900 trees were planted in
great Britain in 1882.
HORSES that are driven on lev road,
should have sharp shoes.
Stock should not be forced to eat
snow as substitute for water.
A SINGLE mahogany tree, after being
cut into veneers, brings $4,000.
The Irish Farmers Gazette saws the
silo Is gaining favor in that country.
In selecting trees from a nursery see
that the roots are not all on one side.
IT is as important to have the lates,
conveniences in the house as on the
farm.
EIGHT hundred thousand bushels q,
wheat are used every day in the United
States. 0>
The Western New York Farmers
Club thinks eggs should be sold by
weight. ~
A BALTIMORE farmer is INTRODUCING
the Japanese persimmon tree into this
country.
Do NOT apply tar to wounds on fruit
trees, as we see recommended by fancy
agricultural paper.
The Preirie Farmer regards compo.
sition of clay and fine gravel as best
suited for stable floors.
WIRE fence should not be stretched
too tightly. The contraction of the ilon
In cold weather breaks many wires.
An English authority says boiled DO.
tatoes. mixed with cut hay or straw, are
wholesome and economical food for
horses.
The average whest crop of the world
is estimated to be over 1000, ZOO, ,OOC
bushels, one.half of which is grown in
Europe.
If the seed corn question has quieted
down in the papers, it is hoped the
farmers are not neglecting this important
question.
The New York World is responsible
for the statement that the manure OF
fowls, if properly applied, will pay fol
their food.
ENGLAND has one head of cattle to
every fifty-two acres, Ireland one to each
four acres, and the island of Jersey twice
as many cattle as acres.
PUT few ears of corn in the oven and
let them remain until reduced to char.
coal. Feed this to the fowls, and notice
the increased egg production.
IF you are troubled with white worms
in your flower pots, stick in the earth
half q dozen or more unlighted matches.
points down, it will kill them.
S1LEs1A, in Germany, has always been
famous for the quantity and quality OF
its wool, but the number of sheep there
has fallen off SO per cent. in the last ten
years. ~
BohDEN's standard-of eight end five
eighths pounds per gallon-is now taken
and accepted as the standard for milk,
not only in our own country, but in ali
Europe.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western
Rural feeds ground bone dust to his
COWS as o preventive of abortion. Be-
fore he used it he had lost many COWS.
but none siuce.
IT is very unwise policy to starve
stock at this period in the spring, for the
reason that corn is dear and scarce. II
stock lose flesh, it will cost more than
corn to restore it.
The latest typhoid fever theory is that
the germs were scattered in milk cans.
It is possible. Almost anything can be
found in milk cans nowadays almost
anythingsbut milk.
Mr.. A. @. HAWKINS, of Lancaster.
Mass, has 6,0U0 pens. Each twenty.
five has an apartment 12x20 feet, with q
separate yard. The buildings occupy
one and half acres.
The cranberry crop of 1883 was dis.
trlbuted as follows: New England, 1885,.
600 bushels; New Jersey, 125,O0O
bushels; Western states (mostly Wis.
consin), l45, 900 bushels.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Prairie
Farmer says he cured balky horse by
drawing rein and stopping him when
ever he showed any inclination to stop.
By letting him stand minute he never
failed to start at the word go,
Or the bulls and bears who live and
flourish around boards of trade, Beechel
says: "He is devourer of men-a man
whose soul sits down on the dunghill oi
filth. Gods angels hold their noses
when they look down on him."
AN Austrian chemist gives this recipe
for detecting false butter: Melt little
Of the suspected article; soak a wick II
it. When again SOLID, lishtit like can.
die; blow it out. It it smells of blown
out candle, it is oleomargarine; if OF fresh
butter, why, butter it is.
A GERMAN journal states that the pen.
etration OF roots in drain tile, which
sometimes occasions much trouble, may
be prevented by covering the joints in
the vicinity of trees and shrubs (and
red clover?) with earth in which little
coal tar has been distributed.
THERE is no season of the year when
it is more imperative for q farmer to be
at home and watchful. This is the sea.
son of the year for pigs, calves and
lambs, and they must be protected from
cold, winds, rains or wet bede. Guard
them. Do not let them commence life
on down grade.
|Se IHUf. T.. w. STEWART, III Ills recent
useful book, celebrates the COW as ssthe
most remarkable producer among ami
mails. She gives, at her best, nearly
seven times her own weight per annum
in milk, of food value twice as great as
the beef creature of equal size gains
during the same time.
=. ACCORDING to George Blair, there are
AZ, 600 idle mechanics in New York al
the present time. In this city the mum.
||ber Of idle mechanics will reach several
thousand at least. Since 1882 wages in
all parts Of the country have declined
from 10 to 40 per cent. In good times
wages are advanced by one boss bidding
against another to obtain hands. In
dull times wages decline because one
workman bids against another to obtain
employment. To change these great
losses Dives is as powerless as Lazarus.
-Drouers' Journal.
A PRACTICAL housewife says she has
learned not to mix in cream skinned
the day the churning is done, as she has
found that it will not come with the
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