Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-10
FARM AND GARDEN.
soounED wool shrinks about one.thirt


III manufacture.
W1scoNsIs's hop product this year is
about 10000 bales.
IHE premiums Of the Royal Agricul-
tural Society OF England are Sl7, 500.
SEE thet all live stock have easy ac.
cess to good water during the winter.
THE Rural World says no feed 70,
sheep will make as tender mutton as
turnips.
In many parts of Germany there are
above 300 colonies of bees kept to the
square mile.
ALL proyident ranchmen now keep
enough hay in store for few weeks Of
severe weather.
IT is feared that fall wheat has been
injured in Central Illinois by the dry
and warm autumn.
IT costs less to transport wool from an
Australian ssaportto England than from
the Missouri River to the Atlantic.
PLEURo Ro-PNEuMoNIA has broken out in
Holland, and Germany has prohibited
the Importation of cattle from there.
OsKALoosA Herald reports the results
of recent experiments to be that sor-
ghum is equal in feeding value to sound
corn.
RICHARD KING is having pasture en-
closed on the gulf coast and lower Rio
Grande, in Texas, that requires eighty
three miles of wire fence for two sides.
1T is believed that spectators have
stored away millions Of eggs which they
will be obliged to sell for less than cost.
The eastern states are importing eggs
from Europe.
The Princess of Wales spends houfs
together in the dairy-room at Sandring-
ham "a assisting in making up the but.
ter with her own fair hands, as an Eng
lish paper puts it.
WHEN horses are compelled to remain
exposed to storms at this season the use
of rubber blanket, with flannel lining,
will be of valuable assistance in the pre-
vention of colds and lung Diseases
THERE is vast difference in the flavor
of eggs. Hens fed on clean, sound grain
and having good, clean grass runs, pro.
duce finer-tiavored eggs than those hay
and eating all kinds of filthy food.
The Holstein COW, Echo, owned by
Fred @. Stephens, of Attica, N. Y, has
Just completed a years milk record,
which makes showing of 1S,1203
pounds. This is II pounds more than
that of the famous COW Aggie. Echo
is 10 years old and weighs ], ,6lO pounds.
The best soil for currants is q good
strong loan, quite deep and rather
moist, but not vet; but sandy soil will
do, if made rich and cultivated deep.
Bearing bushes on sandy land should
have annually good dressing of old
manure worked in about the roots in
spring.
A PHILADELPHIA florist has paid 49,,
$50 for the exclusive privilege of grow
ing the new rose named the William
Francis Bennett in America. One con-
dition Of the contract is that no cuttings
are to he sold during the first four
years, the florist depending upon sales
of blossoms alone for his profit.
AN Indiana fruit-grower says he put
five moles in his strawberry patch of five
acres to catch grubs, and they did the
work SO effectively that he had not q
dozen plants injured by the grubs and
none hurt by the moles. Perhaps if the
experiment was tried more generally the
results would be found fully as salts
factory.
PHILIP SNYDER, vineland, N. j.,
thinks that poultry will not protect
fruit trees from the attacks OF curculio.
He has tried to induce his hens to eat
the curculio, but even when the latter
were temptlngly displayed on clean white
plates the aesthetic fowls disdainfully re.
fused to have aught to do with the little
curled-up pests.
DELos HoToHK1ss, of Cheshire, Conn.,,
has on his land an apple tree which is
reckoned to be 1S6 years old. MIR.
Hotchkiss, who is SO years old, says he
has picked up and measured 125 bushels
of good, sound apples for one years
product of this tree, and he estimates
that it has bOrne from 10000 to $4,000
bushels up to this date.
IF kept sheep In different pasture,
writes a correspondent, would protect
them from foxes by poison. which may
be rubbed inside the bullock's head.
Nothing but fox, wolf or similar ami
NAL will then getat it. a few grains OF
strychnine rubbed into the interior of q
fresh beef's head or sleeps head will dc
more to protect flock from wild animals
than any law or any shepherd dog.
IT sometimes happens that valuable
brood SOW acquires such bad habits as
lifting gates or breaking fences. a cou-
pie of rings in the nose of such an ami
NAL will put hero n good behavior the
most effectually of anything ever tried.
So also SOW that is vicious or cross to
other hogs; good ring in her nose will
prove to be wonderful tanner. A stock
boar, if inclined to be unruly, should be
troated the same way.
TILE Germantown Telegraph makes O
suggestion which will probably seem to
many old farmers novel if not unwar.
ranted, when it says that in arranging
farm buildings it will pay well to look
almost as much to the preservation oi
the manure as of the hay or grass, and
those whose buildings have no provision
for this purpose cannot spend $25 or S5C
better than inputting up shed under
which the manure-heap may be pro
tected against these adverse influences.
One of the most annoying pests with
which growers of plants bave to contend
is the green-fy. On geraniums, cycla.
men, and primulas it does not often ap
pear, and from them can be easily
washed. For plants on which insects
appear dip into tobaeco-stem water
will be found an excellent thing. Fo,
plants in bloom u fumigation by burning
tobacco stems in barrel in which the
| plants have been placed will be found
efectual. Frequent fumigations, but
| not too strong, are found to be best.
The Angora goat is now successfully
bred in California, Texas, Georgia, Vir
ginia, Kentucky and several Other
southern states and western territories
4 Experiments in crossing the Angors
upon the common goats of the country
and thus grading up the latter to prof
liable woo.-bearipg animal, have proved
quite promising. It is claimed that thu
climate of California suits these animal.
SO well that they improve after few
generations and become harder and bet
ter than in their native mountains il
Asia.
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