Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
FARM AND GARDEN.
KEEP ahead of your work.

KEEP ahead of your work.
There is an increased demand fol
heavy road horses.
FOREST fires destroy more timber IN
the United States than the lumber
men.
The Tribune and Farm asks that
farmers give the red Jersey pigs fail
trial.
IT is proposed in New Jersey to have
agricultural instruction given in the
public schools.
A WISE farmer will learn as much
from his own and his neighbors' fail.
ures as he will from their successes.
Tie average price of eggs in England
is about 30 cents per dozen, and 75O,-
100000 eggs are annually imported.
For sheep losing wool, the Country
Gentleman recommends bathing with
saltpeter water, one ounce to the quart
AN exchange suggests an important
problem for the horticultural societies
Why do all the large apples grow at the
top of the barrel?
THERE are few farms on which money
invested in improved machinery and
better tillage will not bring greater
return than savings-bank interests.
ONE great advantage OF an early veg.
etable garden is that two crops may be
grown in one season. If an abundance
of manure be used the drain upon the
soil should not be great.
A FRENCH experimenter finds that il
tomato leaves are stepped, the dilute
liquor will make an insecticide. The
liquid may be sprinkled on bushes OF
other plants, and the insects will leave.
The ordinary marker makes too deep
a furrow for corn, especially when the
planting is early and the ground cold
If cold rain comes on after planting
this corn put 30 far below the surface
will rot, or at best make only a sickly
growth.
KENTUCKY blue grass is fitted only
for dry, warm, calcareous soils, on which
it is considered the most valuable OF
American pasture grasses. 1t may be
sown at the same time as other grasses,
but it will in time displace all others in
the same field.
IT is very rare that hens time is
worth too much to be spentin brooding
and rearing family. This is more
nearly an automatic method OF rearing
chickens than any which art can devils e.
It will, at least, run itself with less help
than any other.
Township fairs at which farmers
bring together any animals or articles
they wish to sell or exchange have
proved to be of great advantage in some
parts of New York. In many cases they
are attended by city buyers who make
liberal purchases.
The dearest help of all ig that which
asks least wages. 1t is poor economy
to keep four men to do the work that
three or two should perform. If man
is for any cause dissatisfied, the sooner
he and his employer part company the
better for both parties.
BEE-KEEPERs still find it necessary
to reiterate the statement that pure,
unadulterated honey will always candy
in cold weather. Such is the popular
ignorance on the subject that it is gen
orally believed the candied state is evil
dence of adulteration.
Cows that are watered from stagnant
ponds or from wells in the barnyard
will give milk more or less tainted, and
from which it is impossible to make the
best butter. So large part of milk is
water that the drink of the COW is of
quite as much importance as her food.
SALT is being used freely by certain
New York nurserymen in their pear
nurseries, for the purpose of counter
acting blight. Iron filings and copper.
as in solution have been used for the
same purpose. If these remedies do
not prevent the disease, they at least
correct disposition to blight.
BECAUSE seed potatoes are cheap it
does not follow that it is best to use
more seed. Some varieties have SO
many eyes that even with potatoes cut
in small pieces there will be too many
stalks in the hill. From two strong
stalks there will be more merchantable
tubers than from heavier seeding.
The earliness with which rye can be
got ready for cutting makes it favor
ite for early soiling. There is, how
ever, danger in feeding green rye to
animals with young, as the spores OF
ergot, which it contains have in some
instances produced abortion in ewes
cows and sows to which it has been fed
A HoRrIcULTUR1srs says that by spray.
ing the young fruit as soon as well
formed-for instance, the size of small
musket ball-with the whale oil SOAP
and sulphur solution, it will prevent
the codling moth from depositing the
eggs on the fruit. This should be re-
peated every two weeks in April and
May.
FORTUNATELY those who own soil o.
any kind can grow fruit successfully
Some kinds grow better on light thar
heavy soils, but even on the worst clayt
success is possible with drainage anG
good cultivation. For pears heavy soils
are preferable, as the trees are liable to
blight. Insect enemies are generally
most destructive on warm, light soils.
NEARLY every spring, on most farms
portion of the farm horses that have
laid idle during the winter need to be
rebroken. For the first few days only
light work should be attempted, anc
especial care should be taken not tc
produce gals on the shoulders, which
once started, are very troublesome tc
heal without stopping work altogether
The New York Sun says "It should
not be forgotten chat for some reason
or other the cultivation of poultry a.
an avocation is not as profitable a.
some other branches of business" Ac
cording to what we have heard of the
venerable Mr.. Dana's experience il
poultry raising, the above is very
mild way of putting the fearful risk
any one takes when he. goes into thu
poultry business. But then everybody
knows that business and brains nevel
go together. A fellow to succeed will
chickens must be one of the "git up ant
git" kind, and he has got lots OF til,
getting up to do, too.
The American Cattle Journal saws
where trees or shrubs are set in hab
itually dry ground, pail or two of wa
ter, applied when the trees are set ant
wher the hole is two-thirds filed in