Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-29
FARM AND GARDEN.


| BARLEY water is recommended as a
remedy FOR diarrh9a in calves.
The Chester Whites are the favorite
breed of hogs in Pennsylvania.
VENT1LATE the dairy early in the
morning when the air is coolest.
A MINNESOTA town has purchased
$25 worth of poison for blackbirds.
BEETs and carrots can be safely sown
as soon as the frost is out of the
ground.
Those breeds of fowl that are tho
largest layers have great appetite for
animal food.
THE Tribune and Farmer says blue
grass and clover makes the best past
ure for hogs.
Hoes in the Chicago markets are
from 81 to So per cwt. lower than last
spring at this time.
There are farmers who claim that it
is more profitable to feed clover to
hogs than to cattle.
| ONO hock-masters estimate that
three sheep per acre can be main
tanned in that state.
! A NOTED agriculturist says he always
knows good farmer by the way he
cares for his manure.
AN old horseman says if rock salt is
kept in horses manger for six days
he will be freed from worms.
A QUART of oatmeal in pail of water
will freshen horse after hard driving
and prepare his stomach for more solid
food.
IT is said that horse nettles may be
destroyed by pouring kerosene on the
stalks and letting it run down into the
roots.
SOME of the best dairymen milk their
COWS three or four times day, and
claim they get more and richer milk
from the frequent milkings.
MARL is valuable as a fertilizer on
light sandy soils that are presumably
deficient in potash, but for heavy soils
tits of comparatively little value.
LIMA beans are grown more success
fully if planted in rows, seed six inches
apart, than if planted in hills. The
rows should be about three feet apart.
PROF. STEWART states that ten pounds
of turnips, with one and half pounds
of corn, will fatten young sheep or
lamb faster than three pounds of corn
alone.
ENdLIsHMEN carry melon seed in
their pockets some days before plant
ing them, thinking the heat commune
Gated by them from the body helps to
perfect them.
ENGLISH wheat prospects are report
ed good. The price of home grown
wheat is about five shillings per quar-
ter, or ID cents per bushel less than
last year at this time.
The color of eggs for sale in the markets
of the country, being now darker than
twenty years ago, simply proves that
Asiatic blood has been largely intro
duced through the country and that it
has its effect on eggs.
SECRETARY CHAMBERLAIN, of the Ohio
Agricultural Board, recommends the
use of glazed tiles for under-drainage.
They will last much longer than the
unglazed, and the water enters the
drains mostly at the joints.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture
has purchased additional land to add
to the new fair grounds to give them
more frontage and better shape.
These fair grounds now consist of SO
acres. Plans for new buildings are be-
ing prepared.
AGRICULTURAL exhibitions are quite
as expensive institutions in England as
in the United States. The outlay for
the Royal Show at York last year
amounted to nearly $4,000. Still the
treasury of the society was enriched
by more than $4,000.
In 1883 California produced $780,
900 pounds of dried fruits, besides 125,-
900 boxes of raisins, 20 pounds to the
box, 100000 pounds of almonds, and
100000 pounds of walnuts. The fruits
were apples, peaches, pears, apricots,
nectarines, plums, and French prunes.
CoTToN seed huls are now utilized
for packing journal boxes of railway
cars-another profitable use fol the
products obtained from the parent
4 plant. Hulls are found to answer we'll
this new use, and effect saving of
fully one-half the cost of cotton waste.
| OFFICIAL reports from Ohio say
plowing is further advanced than usual.
The probable total bushels of wheat,
with fair season based on an average
of the last five years, will be "a, ,531 ,S32.
The condition of other crops is as fol-
lows: Rye 92; barley 81; moving
lands 80; pastures SO.
/ THIRTY-FIvE per cent. of the cattle
OF illinois are classed as "high grade"
by the Department of Agriculture. By
high grade is meant those having more
than half blood OF some of the recog-
nized pure breeds. The Commissioners
estimates the increase of value from
this source alone at $20,000,00O.
WHEN nursery tree is taken up it is
deprived of half or more of its roots.
The full top is left, because the nursery
man knows that the inexperienced buy
er will judge of the tree by the size
of the top, 1t is important that each
branch be cut back to diminish the de-
mands upon the roots before the plant
ing is done.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER says the way
to get rid of the Canada thistle is to
plant it as regular crop for profit
when it will soon be found that worms
viii gnaw it, bugs will bite it, beetles
Will OOlC ~, oEliCAo Will WcU III UlTuS Will
peck it, heat will scorch it, cold will
freeze it, raius will rot it, and blight
and mildew will cover it.
WITH the exception of now and then
an outbreak of some mysterious disease
like the one at Monmouth, ILL.,, the
health and condition of farm animals
were never reported better in spring
than now. The condition of cattle,
sheep, and hogs arriving at the great
markets substantiate the reliability of
individual. state, and the national re-
! ports.
| A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
World has long practiced charring ref
use corn cobs for his hogs. When
thoroughly blackened he sprinkles the
cobs with salt. This induces the hogs
to eat them greedily. His herd has
never been troubled with "hog chol-
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