The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-15
FIELD AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farming Notes,

Mrs. Hayes poultry yard at Fremont
is said to be the best in Ohio.
The abolition by the Patrons of Hus-
bandry of "Grange No. 49," of Boston,
with which the Commissioner of Agri-
culture was connected, is characterized |
by The Maine Farmer as "a triumph OF
principle"
Mr.. Robert Burch, Fairport, N. y,
buys manure largely, we learn from The
Midland Farmer; keepsthree assistants;
%culiivntes on the extensive system, n
gets an ave age annual return OF S5,4OO
from his twenty-seven acres, mostly de-
voted to cabbage and onions.
A correspondent of The American
Stockman thinks very we'll indeed of
the pretty jerseys but suspects that The
elite are rathe OVERRIDING the boom to
the injury of the breed, and suggests
that the following course may become de-
sirable. elf things 20 on in this direction,
gathering volu1e as they go, it will be a
question if it would not pay Jersey
breeders who understand their business,
to buy all the jersey stock of the insur-
ance men, dry goods merchants, doctors,
lawyers and the kid glove gentry in gen.
eral, and hire them to keep out of the
business"
The country is suffering from a ire
mendous overstock of dog supply. Five
per cent. of the CANNES in the United
States could do all the business.
1t is estimated that there are now in
the United States 10 0O0.090 milch cows.
and that there are made annually 1,300,-
100000 pounds Of butter and 450, 900 900
pounds Of cheese.
Attention OF drivers is invited by The
National Stoekmen to a horse fact worth
remembering, especially in spring:
"Don't thiak your horse in best condi-
ton to endure a lonctrip ora hard drive
because he has stood in stable Tor weeks
and done nothing. If there is ever Il
time that he % 'soft'it is after a long idle
spell, but many unthlnking men do not
realize this, and horses of standing and
staying qualities are often injured by be-
ing brought TOO suddenly from idleness.
DR.. G. II. Fernald, State College, Or.
onto, Me-, finds ga vast amount ofamuse-
ment and instruction" in observation of
insects. Here is an example. from Home
Farm: ''Under another jar put a fam
lily OF grasshoppers, and the amount OF
SIlSS ltlNISC HSpui llN.kAAo Y w % Scb4S-
thing marvellous. II was interesting,
nevertheless, to sec one of those six
legged savages stand up on four hind
legs and hold a blade OF grass in his two
fore legs and chew away on 1t till 1t was
all devoured."
Tr. F. M. Hexamer mentions two in.
stances of this increasing danger which
recently came under his personal obser'
walton. In one c sc, canned peaches, eat
en- by a strong, healthy boy, produced
severe pain, vomiting and diarrhea
in the other, canned Deans poisoned ar
entire family, Il nursing baby ever being
affected through its mothers milk. The
symptoms we're exactly those eff poison
ing from some zinc or copper salts, ant
serious results might have followed bu
for the timely assistance of q physician.
Mr.. Adam Hood, Markham, Canada
has according to the Toronto Globe
practised for two years a successful plal
for saving ,urnip plants: "Ih,
scout turnip is first sown in drills
and then the white turnips ar
sown broadcast between. The latte
comes up first and is relished best b.
the flies, and by the time the whitt
turnip is eater the scout. has becom
too tough TO be relished bv lis insect
enemy, and $ escapes with compare
lively little injury"
Mr.. Joseph Harris decrihes his econ
omical culture of carrots, by which HI
raised a satisfactory crop with no MOI
outlay of labor than is required 70
potatoes; ''the plants anne mp thicl
from seeds sowed in rows twenty-on
inches apart; the cultivstor was run
ming within En- inch of the plants, whic
kept down the weeds. and the carrot
grew with astonishing rapidly. 81
they must be thinned, or the Gro
would be worthless, go the men We,
through the patch with hoes and CT
spaces clear across, the width of til
hoe, leaving lunches of o U or tie
young carrots. The cuitivator was kel
going, and after harvest the weet
which ESCAPED were cut out by han,
The roots were diverse in size, bat II
whole crop was larger than where reg
aarly thinned."