The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-12
co.opsration In Blood Stock

lnefe Is no better method by which
farmers may cooperate than in the mat
ter of selecting stock. If q few farmers
in each community would organize, and,
with a small contribution from each,
procure thoroughbreds for improve.
ment, the expense borne by each indi-
vidual would be but little, while the
benefits to ali would be very consider
able. Individual effort is often insig-
n~ificant, but cooperative effort is pow
erful. By union farmers may easily
procure the finest specimens of Short
horns, Devons, Jerseys, Holsteins,
Herefords and Angus; the best strains
of thoroughbred Clydesdale, Percheron
and trotting horses; the fne-wooled
Merinos, the massive Cotswolds and the
elegant Shropshires. They may resort
to the Berkshire, Essex, Chester
or Poland China for improvement
of their swine IS they may pre-
fer, while all the advantages per-
tanning to farm machinery may
be secured and the cost of production
made easier, and the crops increased.
In fact, there is no limit to cooperation
and the subject is well worthy the at
tention of farmers of all classes. To in-
vest . few thousand dollars in q horse
OF well-known merit is not always with
in the province Of some stock-raisers
and farmers; but when by cooperation
the Investment becomes of q proportion
ate sum, the venture is an easy one.
The small amount contributed BY each
becomes q factor in augmenting the
wealth OF the entire community, 30 as
no estimate can be placed on the value
of an animal used for the Improvement
ofstock, the results attained Immediate
ly being followed by others that are last
ing and permanent. By cooperation
the value Of our horses of ali classes
may be increased, the yields Of milk
greater, the clippings Of wool larger, the
carcasses of mutton and pork heavier
and the general productions of the farm
be more satisfactory in all other re-
spects.-Farm Field and Fireside.
Accumulation of Rubbish In the House.
Rural New Yorker:-At arecent sale
OF the effects of q broken up household,
I was astonished to see the accumula-
ton of trash, that for 40 years had been
gathering in the attics and lobbies ot
that house. There were broken chairs,
bottomless baskets, broked-down bed
steads, old tinware, and a large closet
full of garments worn by the ancestors
of the family, whose original owners
had. full so years ago, returned to their
mother dust; and the relics had been
preserved as heir-looms, to perpetuate
their memory. They were exposed to
the gaze of a thoughtless crowd, and
struck off, by the a~uctioneer's hammer,
to the highest bidder. Divested of the
best claim to veneration or respectful
memory, they were sold for the SUM Of
rs cents. The question arose, why such
good-for-nothing articles of furniture
should be kept, to cumber q
house? When q chair or bedstead
is broken, and cannot be repaired,
why is it not burned and got ont Of the
way, and not kept to gather dust, and
occupy room in o dwelling? If any
thing can be mended and made useful,
why of course it is best to save it but il
it is past redemption, there is no use in
keeping it longer. Old baskets are
neither useful nor ornamental. and the
best use that can be made of them is to
kindle fires. Tin dishes, too, are Of nc
account when they are rusted 10 that
solder cannot stop the leaks, and why
they should be kept safe is q mystery.
Cast-of garments only breed moths in
a house and gather impurity in the air,
and are much better in the rag-man'e
cart than hanging up in the way. Econ.
omy il essential to prosperity, but there
is such q thing as carrying It to excess
and this gathering up fragments tina,
are OF no earthly use, is folly. Ole
worm-eaten boxes and barrels are fal
better burned than preserved, for they
can be turned to account in that way
I would not sdvise to waite anything