Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19

regard 20 turkeys that an extra large
young fowl will always bring higher
price per pound than one that is
smaller. The bronze turkeys are gen.
orally conceded to make the largest
fowls. They are also rather more
hardy, though while very young all
turkeys require good care.
The Massachusetts Ploughman rec
ommends wire nettings four and one
half feet wide as the best material for
poultry-yard fences. It does not shut
out the light and air. and hence is well
adapted to small Enclosures. In max
ing yard of this material the posts
should be quite small at the top, and
not come above the netting, and there
should be no railing, but let the netting
make the fence, then the hens not be-
ing able to see the top will not attempt
to fly over.
THE farmers who spend most
thought about getting the very highest
prices do not usually succeed best. AS
rule, they get no better price than
their neighbors, and therefore all the
time and thought they give to this
might be much more protitably directed.
Ii :armer has average, or more than
average crops, he can safely sell when
ever the price will give him profit on
cost of production. Sometimes when
his crop has been far below the average,
he had better not wait even for this.
MUCH that we read in agricultural
papers about the advantages of old past
ures comes to us from England, where
they have successfully practiced the
plan of keeping land unplowed for
nearly or quite 100 years. In this
country, except on river bottoms an
nually overhowed, we have little or no
old grass land. Somehow, when the
grass is at its best, or at least as soon
as it begins to fail, the average farmer
bethinks himself how valuable this sod
would be to plow under for manure.
SATISFY is not generally grown, at
least not in farmers gardens. 1t is as
easily managed as parsnip or other
roots. The root is rarely more than
an inch through at the larger end. By
giving it rich soil ana thinning to
five or six inches apart in the row, the
size may be increased. This is often
called "oyster plant" or vegetable
oyster" A soup made from it has
somewhat the flavor of oyster soup. It
may be cut into inches and stewed, or
boiled tender, dipped in batter and
fried.
WHILE it is extremely hard to avoid
the streaked appearance in butter when
worked only once, yet it is equally hard
to rework it without damage to the grain.
If the butter ever becomes "set" and
hard and has to be warmed up to re-
work it, the grain will surely be injured.
1t is best to learn to do all the work at
one operation. The great art of butter
making is in the working, and it is in
that respect that the Danish butter
makers SO greatly excel us. The
keeping quality is almost solely de-
pendent upon the skill with which the
butter is worked.
SOME poulterers affirm that fowls
cannot be fed too much, that liberal
feeding is essential to large egg produc-
tion. 1t depends somewhat OIL the way
the fowls are fed and the breed. The
Asiatic varieties used to be excited to
exercise, and unless they get it in se-
curing their food they will become too
lazy and fat to lay eggs. The nom
sitting varieties can hardly be fed too
much for profit, especially if wheat be
the staple grain used. No matter how
low wheat may go in the market, it is
always worth dollar or more per
bushel to feed to laying hens.
A COUNTRY merchant, says a CORE
spondent of the American Agriculturist,
noticed that one of his customers
brought in full basket of eggs every
week all through the winter, when but
few eggs came from other quarters. On
inquiring it was found that he had
warm quarters for his poultry right
over the pig pen, which was only high
enough for the tallest hog to stand in.
The warm air rising from the swine
through the crevices kept the hens so
comfortable that they laid in the cold
est weather. While it may not be nec-
essary to keep fowls in a pig pen, they
should be made us comfortable as pos.
sible both summer and winter, in order
to have them prove profitable.