Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-06-12
FARM AND GARDEN.

/ ShAAAA AMI UkAIhDGNs q.
GLASS eggs are the best for nest
eggs.
The French cultivate sorrel for
salads.
LINsEED meal ia said to cure scours
in sheep.
The cheese production of Canada is
increasing.
Two American colleges have forestry
departments.
WILD hogs are becoming quite numer-
GUS in Nevada.
JAPANESE farmers cultivate all crops
with alarge chisel.
ENGLIsHMEN own one-sixth of the
cattle in Montana.
NEARLY one-half the butter sold in
New York is an imitation.
The maple sugar crop in New En-
gland was small again this year.
MORE than 100000 skunk skins were
brought to market in this country last
year,
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, is the great
point of shipment for Southern straw
berries.
AN ear OF corn containing 1,1OO we'll
matured grains was grown in the
Crosse Tete, La.
The widest colts, if properly han
died, often become the quietest and
safest, generally developing into the
most enduring horses.
FARMERS should not be prevented
from planting their usual acreage of
potatoes by the large crop and conse-
quent low prices of last year.
EVERY farm should have root crop
as part of rotation. A root crop cleans
the land of weeds and furnishes an
abundance of food for farm animals.
The Chinese farmer soaks all his
seed before sowing in liquid manure
diluted with water. A correspondent
says egg plant, squash and melon seed
may be thus treated to great advan-
tage.
| CHOICE horse steaks sell in France
and Germany for about eight cents per
pound. 1t is regular article of diet
among the poor in the large cities of
these countries, and is said to be both
| PesiuoAD2O uaSA Auul1UlOlSs
| KEEP the horse collars clean. The
dust and dirt which adhere to collars
when they are wet with sweat works in
to Jumps and ridges, and sore shoulders
are the result If the collars become
hard wash them clean, pound them and
apply oil.
POULTRY should not be allowed to
run on the same plots of ground year
after, without proper precautions for
renewing, refreshing or disinfecting.
1t is mistake to neglect these things,
and to allow the accumulation of drop
pings for weeks and months mithout
removal. Poultry-keeping without
pains. taking is proftless.
JACOB TAYLOR, of Spireland, gives
the Indiana Farmer his remedy against
the dangerous ailment, milk fever, in
young cows. After losing several COWS
he learned of the remedy, which he
says has not failed of cure in single
case. AS soon as the calf is born give
the COW bucketful of dry bran, in
which a tablespoonful of gunpowder
has been thoroughly mixed. He finds
this an excellent thing to sivea COW
just before calving time also.
SORGHUM, for fattening cattle, is high
" recommended by DR.. Kedzie, of the
Michigan Agricultural College. It has
been found by some who have tried it,
he says, to possess wonderful fattening
properties, and produces beef of very
superior quality. But he adds that the
sorghum must be fed cautiously at first
until the cattle become used to it, on
account of eating too freely of the ma
terial, causing securing, etc. The seed
of cane are equal in value, pound for
pound, to oats or corn.
A V1RG1N1AN, writing to the New York
Tribune, wonders that the custom of
naming the homestead, SO universal in
the "0ld Dominion" is not more gen.
eral throughout the Union. "Mest of
the old places" he adds, 'bear very at
tractive and expressive Manassas Bose
well, Shelly, Ford, Eagle Point, Elm
Wood, Marlfeld, Oak Lawn, or the
Cedars. 1t was good taste also to re-
tain Indian names. When farms have
no proper names they are sure to re-
ceive very undesirable nicknames."
Col. T. D. CURTIS says that good
crop of peas will afford from forty to
sixty bushels to the acre, and bushel
of them will go further in making
growth than a bushel of corn, because
peas, being nitrogenous, supply all the
wants of the system, and make health
full and firm flesh, whereas corn goes
more to fat, which is not SO good for
food and makes softer pork with more
waste in the cooking. He sows black
eyed marrowfats, with ground in good
condition, broadcast or with drill.
using two to two and one-half bushels
per acre.
A WRITER says that q years expert
ence with broad wagon wheels is con-
elusive as to their value. A four-inch
tire will carry two tons over soft ground
with greater ease to the team than a
two and half inch tire will carry one
ton. The wheels are not so much
strained by stone and rough tracks on
the road, and the road is not cut up,
but, on the CONT lary, is packed down
and keeps smooth. The prevalent idea
that the draught is increased by wild
ening the tire is altogether baseless;
vi oho SoholaIy,u u W1oe GlIe IeuuCeS GQe
draught. The extra cost of the tire is
repaid many times over every year in
the extra work that can be done by q
team.
THE experiments conducted during
the last session at the Missouri State
Agricultural College fully demonstrate,
says the Rural World, the advisability
of mulching potatoes. We believe
every experiment SO far reported gave
a similar result. The cost of the ma
terials for mu1ching is usually very
small, leaves or straw being plentiful
and cheap upon the farm. The mate.
rials manure the ground, and mulchine
saves hoeing. The potato requires
a cooler climate and moister soil thar
our latitude affords. Mulching tends
to secure both. The result in every
case has been largely increased Yields
of superior quality.
A CoRREspoNDENT of the Husband