The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-05
Miscellaneous Agricultural Items.

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appear from year to year unless destroyed.
To prevent its temperance, dissolve a pound
of sulphate of copper in two gallons of hot
water, pour the solution into a tub and then
add three or four gallons of cold water.
Place a basket in the liquor: pour the wheat
into the basket and let 1t soak 20 minutes;
then spread the wheat on the barn floor and
sift over it plaster to dry it; SOW at once.
1t may have been a strong sense of personal
interest that has prompted a ehurn manufact-
urer to give the following advice, but it is
valuable none the less. sNIany fill the churn
half full, but the time it takes to churn is less
ened nearly one-half when the churn is filled
only one-third full. Many daiTymen make
this mistake by buying to small a churn."
WHAT'S saved in the extra cost of a larger
churn is lost in extra'tine in churnlng often in
q single week, always in a month. Hence the
folly of this expensive kind of economy. But
it is like a great many traditional economies
quite too generally practiced.
The disparity of the price of grain and that
of beef, hog products, poultry and daily pro-
ducts, is remarkable. The price of wheat is
not greater than it was a half a century ago,
while that of live stock is double what it was
even thirty years ago, says the st Louis Repub-
lican. Even greater has been the increase of
the price of butter, cheese, poultry and eggs.
This inequality is owing no doubt, in part, to
changed methods of cultivation, but it is still
abnormal, and cannot continue as a fixed con-
dition of things.
The Breeders Gazette says: 'sForD iarrhaa
in calves give first two or three ounces of cas-
tor oil, with three to four drachms of 1auda-
mum; three to four hours thereafter, give a
mixture composed of two drachms of compound
chalk powder with opium, one drachm of pow
"a II np.nI ~ nrn p1yNn n ~ aVf,lI ~ M fa~
and three ounces of starch emulsion. Such .
dose may be given twice or thrice daily until
the symptoms abate. Change the diet
Dairy farming has assumed wonderful pro-
portions in Great Britain, where it is now
in the world. The amount of capital employed
in dairying by farmers in the United Kingdom
is estimated at no less than from $S75, 0OO, 600
to 81, eco, O0, 600, and that by landlords at from
1880, 00O,0N NJ to $1,000 600, Geo. These are
vast sums, and yet it is only too well known
that British dairy farming is capable of much
further development On an average about
three pints of milk are consumed weekly by
each person in the United Kingdom, while the
weekly consumption of cheese is about four
ounces. Our contributor, Prof. Sheldon, cal
culates that to supply London alone no fewer
The Prairie Farmer gives the following meth
DDS for making wholesome temperance drinks:
Put into q large pan four ounces Of fine oat-
meal, from five to seven ounces Of white sugar,
half a lemon cut into small pieces. Mix with
a little warm water, then pour a gallon of boil
ing water into it; stir all together thoroughly,
and use when cold. The lemon may be omit
ted, and raspberry vinegar or any other flavor
ing may be used instead. More oatmeal may
be used if preferred Another is made as fol
lows: Eight ounces of sugar, six ounces of
good fine oatmeal, four ounces of cocoa at 20
cents per pound, mixed gradually and smooth
ly into a gallon of boiling water. Take to the
field in a stone jar.
Catarrh in any animal is the result of a cold
of which the Inflammation has become chronic
and purulent In this case it is more than
| skin deep, because the absorbed matter has
made the blood impure, and this impurity
must be got rid of. A dose of four ounces of
epson salts will begin this purifying process,
and a fourth of n dram of chlorate of potash
| daily will continue it, and in a month will prob
ably complete it. A little powder of the chic
rate blown into the nostrlls daily will hasten
| the cure. This is for a small animal as n pig,
for a cow or horse, -four times as much should
be given. But at times, a disordered stomach
caused by indigestion will produce; III the syrnp-
toms of catarrh, and while the treatment above
will serve equally well for such a case, vet a
change of food and q reduced quantity will be
necessary.