The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-13
Agricultural Miscellany.

As pigs grow older the more feed is
required to make o pound of growth.
The German feeding tables show that
a pig 2 Oh 3 months old, weighing fifty
pounds, needs daily 81 pounds of feed
A pig 8 to IL months old, weighing $50
pounds, took So pounds of feed. Pigs
at intermediate ages took like proper
tions. Professor Miles shows that it
requires 3.S pounds of corn meal to
make nj pound Of growth on pigs 2 to
3 months old. Stewart says two pounds
can be put on a young pig with the
same feed required to make II and q
half pounds on an older shoat.
A correspondent of the London Gar
den who by planting early, and again
in June, has sweet pea flowers until
November, speaks of them as Charm
ing at all times" and offers this edvice
for securing q constant supply: The
treatment given to ordinary culinary
peas suits them admirably. If stakes
cannot be had, they may be allowed to
scramble on the ground, when they will
form a tangled mass oflovely color and
fragrance. Mixed seed, which produces
flowers of every hue, is very satisfactory,
and although many might have the
means of growing every kind by itself,
to many this would not be as pleasing
as a mixed mass.
In transplanting, where the land is
abundantly fertile, a wet cabbage set in
moist earth is good enough, but if the
soil is not quite so rich as it should, be
then pudding the root in COW manure
is beneficial. This is q German method
and is taught to boys in the common
schools there. A German lad I had last
summer practised this manure pudding
while We set beets, turnips and cabbage,
aud he made holes in the soil for the
plants with his finger. He knew his
business. He was entirely Indifferent to
the leaves upon the plant; when set
they withered and died but new ones
fourished wonderfully.
The following are some Holstein but
ter records: Messrs. Smiths & Powell's
Jannek made % pounds 6 ounces in 10
days, and their Netherland Queen, 90
pounds in seven days. Snowflake, bred
by Hon. Gerrit S. Miller, made 81
pounds s ounces in 10 DAYS. Mr.. Mitch
ellis Frieda made 6 pounds 8 ounces in
two days. Mr.. Thos. L. Wales, Jr.'s,
Jantje made 90 pounds s ounces in 81
days, and his Mercedes made in 30 days,
90 pounds 81 ounces of unsalted butter,
thereby making the greatest butter
record known, taking the Breeders Go
zett's challenge cup, which was open to
all competitors, and standing champion
of the world.
A company has been formed for the
purpose OF stocking a ranch in Dakota
with pure bred cattle and with good
mares. The latter will be mated with
Percheron stations. All the cattle on
the ranch will bepure-bred. T~heprofts
from such a venture will no doubt be
very large, as the company will be able
to sell the increase Of its herds for $3.50
to $500 each as soon as the calves can
be taken from their dams, or at least at
a very early age, whore they would
have to wait three years for a market
for ordinary beeves at $50 to $40 each.
The cost Of raising the pure-bred stock
will be but little more than that of
raising the scrubs, and even if this
should be made double the cost OF the
scrub the profit would still be enormous.