Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-03-20
FARM AND GARDEN.

A BOZ ten by ten inches will have q
be ten and three-quarters inches high
to hold g half bushel.
ovRR 1000 head Of two and three.
year-olds are being full fed in the neigh.
borhood Of El Dorado, Kan, and are
being contracted for at s5 and S5. so for
spring delivery.
WooL-aRowERs in the Pawnee Valley.
KAN, and contiguous regions are talk..
ing about establishing central wool
house whe-e their wool may be gathered
and stored for shipment in bulk.
THE agricultural editor cannot pub.
lish all the communications sent him on
roads, seed corn, etc and it is probable
IN some cases the worthy ones go to the
waste basket with the unworthy.
HE churches, school buildings. ssy.
lums and public buildings of all kinds,
exempt from taxation, in the United
States, according to the census report.
are valued at over two billions of dol.
lars.
1T is now the proper time to look out
for bogus seed corn advertisements. See
that the man is either responsible. or
know personally that the corn is of the
right klnd, and that it will grow before
you purchase. g
CHANuTE, Kan, Times: Mr.. Hem.
niger killed hog few days ago that
weighed $50 pounds, and from which he
obtained % pounds of lard. This is q
pretty good showing for pig only thir-
teen months old. L =
IHE politicians want to know what
business agricultural editors have to
mix politics in their writings. Well.
now, just look here, ye sweet political
sages, what business have YOU readino
agricultural departments ?-Bennett.
J.. I. LovErT, Mammoth Nursery.
Little Silver, New Jersey, has issued il
connection with his business this spring
beautiful, and at the same time a yery
useful catalogue. It is furnished free.
On tbs subject of the choicer small fruits
it is especially instructive.
Ono farmers employ sleds with run.
ners six or eight inches wide for draw
ing all sorts of loads over bare or muddy
ground. They are extensively used for
drawing out manure in the spring.
They injure grass sod less than the
wheels OF wagons or carts do.
The Spirit Lake Beacon says: Every
farmer of whom we have Incurred re-.
ports his stock in excellent condition
Good shelter has generally been pro.
vided, and there is an abundance of
good prairie hay, and these are the msiu
essentials to the successful winterinr Of
stock. ~
If you are going to set new orchard
this spring, remember that it is an ex.
cellent thing to prepair plan of the or
chard, showing the position of each tree,
Its variety, etc. If q tree dies it can
be replaced by one of the same sort.
Some fruit-raisers keep book in which
they register the age and variety of
every tree in the orchard, together with
any items in regard to their grating.
productiveness, treatment, etc. which
are thought to be desirable.
( THE Nebraska farmer says: AS the
season advances the prospect for No.
2 corn grows better. A great deal of
corn that was supposed to be too wet to
freeze dry, has, owing to the continued
cold, dry weather, dried out, and unless
warm weather comes much earlier than
usual, there will probably be one-haIf
the corn in the state that will grade No.
2. while the other half will be fed. 40
that on the whole there will be about
the usual amount!of marketable corn.
"AMoNa my letters" says Fanny
Field, sis one from woman who wants
to know how to tell which eggs will
hatch pullets and which ROSTERS Yon
can't tell blessed thing about it. and
nobody else can't either, Oh. yes T
know all about tho long eggs and the
shorteggs, and the wrinkles and the air
bubbles, and I'll spare you the trouble
Of getting up and repeating the stnff
Tried it all myself and know all about t.
When you can tell whether the next
baby will be boy or girl you can tell
whether any given egg will hatch a
rooster or pullet, but not before" )
A PRACTICAL farmer who has done q
good deal of tile draining, says that he
has two fields, apparently alike origin.
ally, one of which is drained in lands
ten paces apart, with drains 2l feet
deep. The other is drained in fourteen-
pace lands, with tile laid 81 feet in the
ground. It is many years since the
draining was done, but the deeper drains
have uniformly carried off surplus
water best. They have besides deepened
the soil. The roots of clover in the
deeply drained soil are larger and %
farther than in the other. Although t6e
first field is reckoned pretty dry, he has
serieus thoughts Of taking up every other
drain that is put down 81 feet and sink
ing it foot deeper.
EVERY farmer who raises stock has
some it will not pay to keep longer.
just as soon as stock reaches maturity
they should be sold. tits daily loss
to keep them longer. They soon cal
themselves up, thas is, they will soon
consume their own value in food. Hogs
that are nine or ten months old should
be fattened and killed. Cows that are
getting old should he aold off. Two or
three year old steers should be sold.
Ihe flock OF sheep should be culled out,
and the Oldest well fed and sold as soon
as got in order. Horses that are not
needed should be put in marketable
shape and sent to market. Get rid Of
the poorest, and feed the balance with
what they would have eaten. Hold on
to the best and continue to make them
better still.
ONE of the surest places to look fol-
5counterfeit butter is among the fancies,
though they are found among the lower
grades too. This is point that large
masses fail to see. A considerable quan.
tity of the best butter which comes on
the general market is bought by the
manufacturers Of imitation goods. This
is mixed, according to their own show.
ing, with two, three, or four times as
much Of some cheaper foreign commod-
ity and the whole is returned upon the
market nsas merchantable' and attract.
i've condition as at the first, and often
even more 80. It is put up in every
style; that the choicest fancies are, from
the large oaken frkin to the tidiest little
prints for the lunch counter and the res.
taurant. It requires only TO compare
the reports of4receipts and shipments to
see that there was more butter shipped
out of Chicago last year than was
shipped in. That is, the butter brought
into Chicago was extended more than
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