The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-25
The short Paragraphs.

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Horse-shoes made of three thick
nesses of green rawhide compressed in
q steel mold are used to some extent in
England. They weigh about a quarter
as much as an iron shoe, and are said
to wear longer.
Early kinds of potatoes may be plant
ed any time in July, but the first week of
that month will give ample time to
mature a crop. The late varieties should
be planted at once. This crop will ma
ture in less time when planted in July
than if planted in May, as the hot
weather forces the growth very rapidly.
A Western New York farmer still
holdes 1900 bushels of his wheat crop
of 1882. Last June he could have sold
it for S1.25; he is now offered 81. IA.
And there has been also shrir. kage,
waste and loss Of interest.
The right time to cut hay or any crop
intended for feeding is just when the
seeds are forming. Much of the nutri-
ton is stored in the seeds, and as ripe
seeds are often lost by being shaken off,
the cutting of the crop when they are
i'll the milky stage not only preserves
them, but the quality of the other parts
of the crop also.
When calves are first fed on butter
milk they are apt to suffer from indi-
gestion; the same effect at times follows
the feeding OF meal, unless it is thorough
ly well boiled. When a young calf is
found to be ailing after such a change
in feedit is well to give Il moderate pur-
gatiye. as a tablespoonful of c~astor-oil
or twice rs much raw linseed-oil. ANY
grain food given to a young calf should
be thoroughly boiled and given as cruel,
with a little salt; and buttermilk should
be given sparingly at first.
The best outside paint for rough
boards is the iron oxide mixed with raw
linseed oil. 1t is a rich brown color, is
ire-proof, very durable, lasting 10 years
or more in good condition, and never
appears soiled; moreover. it is cheap,
costing Il cents per pound in barrels.
and the oil is about So cents q gallon
by the barrel. Crude petroleum makes
an excellent covering for rough lumber,
filling the pores and soaking into the
wood; 1t gives rather a dirty brownish
color, but it cannot be mixed WITH other
oil or with any solid color, as it soaks
into the wood and leaves these on the
surface to scale off.
Good Butter Producers.
From the Country Gentleman.
With a COW worth several thousand
dollars Mr.. Shoemaker makes butter at
q cost Of Al cents per pound for feed
and with our common stock on the same
feed it would cost us from II to 20 cents
for the same article. This is u good
lesson for us to ponder upon and it be-
looves us to strive to reduce the cost of
production by increasing the butter and
milk capacity of our dairies. 1t costs
Mr.. Shoemaker no more to keep his COW
that 26t pounds a week than it does me
to keep nine which makes pounds. We
can not all afford to buy Coomassie or
Stoke Pogis stock. but we can grade up
by using good bulls of other less noted
families, and instead of diaries yielding
from 100 to $50 pounds per annum, as
is now the case in a majority of diaries,
they would, other things being equal,
double their yield.
A gentleman who is now herdsman
for Messrs. Shields, of Beams Station,
Tenn, graded up a herdof twenty COWS
in this town a few years since, and there
are 3-year and 4-year-old heifers in that
herd, three-quarter Jersey blood, which
have tested 10 to 10f pounds per week
On pasture alone in July, which is our
hardest month to make butter in, and
he did not eve use q registered bull.
Some of these helfers have tested as
high as % per cent. cream, while at a
cheese factory near hear the average
a only 8 per cent. Such results Will
be sure to follow judicious breeding and
crossing with the Jersey or Guernsey
stock, and the cost Of cutter will thus
be reduced and the profits increased.
Why . Kerosene Lamp Bursts.
Girls, us wellas boys, need to under
stand ahort karosano oxploc;on. A