Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-22
FoH blowing gardens there is nothing

like swivel.plow. With that, odd fur.
rows, bungled last year, can be laid
whichever way they belong without
loss OF time; not saying that,m.a botch
can't do poor work with Q swivel, but a
botch wouldn't be likely ito have one,
while a really expert plowman will CON
tinue to do fair job with any plow.
81 gin him dollar to plow that little
patch, said villager, s'and Ivow I'd
give him two more to level them fur
rows, and shovel in the dirt Of them
ragged ends!"
TIE average farmer, wisely says an
exchange, does too much work. This
may sound strange, and you may doubt
it, yet it is none the less true. Less
work and more planning will make him
richer, healthier and happier. It is fol.
" for any man to attempt to work four.
teen or sixteen hours day without ex-
pecting to 60 enfeeble and break down
his constitution that he will be unable
to accomplish as much in two days as
he ought to in one of reasonable length.
when full of energy and vitality. Never
let your work drive you, but keep your
self in condition to drive your work.
This can best be done by carefully plan.
ming all the details. ,.
TIE Dairy says that sulphurous acid
is most effective antiseptic and anti.
ferment, and may be produced by burn.
ing sulphur upon live Goals upon q
shovel or bed of Goals carried into 9
stable with perfect safety. It will also
be found an excellent method for freeing
dairy rooms and cellars from the spores
of mildew, which have very injurious
effect upon the milk that has been ex.
posed to them. In fact, from constant
prevalence of these spores it might be
useful to make practice of fumigating
diaries occasionally, especially after O
bad damp spell of weather during the
summer season.
A WRITER in the Cultivator and Coun.
try Gentleman is confident that Ne
braska will be the best fruit-growing
state in the West. He says: "I find
that four counties in the southeastern
corner of the state produced last season
250,000 bushels OF apples. To show the
profit of growing fruit, one instance will
illustrate many others: A farmer OF
Pawnee County, in 1871, invested $156
in trees, grapevines and small fruits,
which have been in bearing for some
years. The receipts last year were:
For apples, $500; cherries, 5000; grapes,
$3.50 (this was the grape product for the
past seven years.; total, $1,050, without
the small fruits. j. 81. Masters, of Ne
braska City, picked 5000 bushels of
Winesap, Jonathan, Ben Davis, and
other standard apples from eight acres;
price received, seventy cents per bushel.
Cherries were not hurt by the past win
ter, and are full of buds. Wilson black
berries (half hardy) are all right. Per
simmons bear well. Young trees six
feet high have not been injured by
twenty-five degrees below zero"
OuR cultivated potatoes are derived
from Solanum Tuberosum, and we have
new varieties Of these by the dozens
every year. The European journals
now announce an entirely new species
of Soalnum with edible tubers, Solanum
Ohroudi, so named from the person
who discovered it on an uninhabited
island at the mouth OF the river La
Plata in South America. This new po-
tato has been tried at Brest, in the
North of France, and appears to have
qualities which may be of value when it
has been improved by careful culture.
Among others, it promises to be hardy,
and, when once established, it will re-
main III the eoil from year to year. It
remains to be seen if this is desirable
property. Think of potato becoming
weed, and forcing its tubers upon us
whether we wish them or not! The
dwarf habit of the vine, not exceeding a
foot in height, its freedom from disease
and it's hardness, all make it worthy of
being thoroughly tested. On the other
hand, the difficulty Of roofing it out
where once planted will make our plant
ers cautious of it, should it be intro
ducsd among us.-American Agri-
culturist.