Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-22
FARM AND GARDEN.
THE tobacco crop Of Missouri ia .de-

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The tobacco crop of Missouri is de
creasipg.
A QUART of good milk will weigh two
pounds two and a half ounces.
AN average temperature of seventy
degrees for ninety consecutive days will
mature coin.
SHEEP in La Prairie County, Canada
are suffering from disease which has
deprived some OF them of their heeces.
THE highest butter record at present
is twenty-seven pounds and ten ounces
lu seven days. 1t was made by Prin.
cess II.
HENS infested with lice pull at their
feathers. Cleanse their rooste. and rub
them with an ointment made of sulphur
and lard.
IT will be found impossible to make
tirst-class butter from COWS that feed in
low and wet pastures. Sour feed will
not make good butter.
A New YORK gardener raises ~. 100
worth OF horseradish on an acre of ground.
He grows the roots, CRATES and bottles.
and puts in the market. The roots re.
turn him 81 cents per pound.
A BOX 10x10xl0a inches will hold lust
half bushel. Such box may easily
be made, and is very convenient to have
on the farm. It is cheaper and Just as
good as more expensive measure.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Scientific
American recommends sowing Hunga-
ran grass around the outer edges Of a
wheat or corn field as q protection
against the ravages of the chinchbug.
HE value Of the exports of domestic
cattle, wine and sheep, and of beef, pork
and dairy products during the three
months ended March 81, 1884, was S21.-
657, ,5S2, against S21, POS, 100 for the like
period of last year.
MOORE, the ruralist, says horticulture
is the poetry of agriculture. 1t is refin-
ing in its nature, broadens the mind,
creates love for the beautiful, and it's
products are the most healthful food of
man. An Indifferent farmer never made
o good horticulturist.
ILLINOIS has SIS, 4O5 square miles of
territory, and Iowa SIS, 045. The penin-
sula OF Italy has 9S,067 square miles,
one half of which is as mountainous as
Colorado, SO that it has no more fertile
acres than Illinois or Iowa, and yet Italy
has 26,000,000 inhabitants.
The fibre OF silk is the longest con-
tinuous fibre known An ordinary CO.
coon of q weil.fed silkworm will often
reel 1000 yards, and reliable accounts
are given by Count Dandolo of cocoon
yielding 1926 yards, or a fibre nearly
three-quarters of q mile in length.
In 1845 Massachusetts reposted 46O.-
600 sheep; now that state has $4,000,
OF a, 900 farmers in Massachusetts 35..
600 own dogs. As most dogs have de-
cided fondness for getting into the sheep
business there may be some connection
between the statistical facts above men
toned.
THE Jerseys can be crossed with Hol-
stems or Durhams with good results. It
will increase the size of the former, and
will about equal them in milk and but
ter. The cross would give sweeter and
better beef than either. As for size, the
majority will be larger than pure
bloode.
HERR Hasselman, of Holland, writes
that in all his stables he has not had q
case OF milk fever since they adopted
the plan of feeding the cows pretty liber-
ally on mangels, cut straw and hay, and
on corn meal, for some six weeks before
| calylng. The disease is very trouble.
some one among thoroughbred COWS.
A WESTERN writer says: "Buy small
trees. Small trees, ten chances to one,
VIII come into bearing sooner than the
larger ones. The larger the trees the
less fiber there will be upon the roots.
A tree that has plenty of fbrous roots
will live and flourish, wbile one that
lacks such feeders will langulsh and per-
haps die"
in some of the experiments tried last
season the Excelsior pea ripened ahead
OF the Daniel 0'Rourke and American
Wonder. 1t grows to the height of two
feet. The Early Sunrise and American
Racer also proved very early. The later
varieties preferred were the Dwarf Mar.
rowfat, Champion of England and YORK;
shire Hero.
a GOOD dry sandy soil is the best for
fowls, and this fact enables those who
possess poor, thin soils to make poultry
q speciality. Fruit, bees and poultry can
be made to pay, when operated together,
on the lightest of sandy soils, and such
industries do not demand extended areas.
as no one particular occupation will be
in the way Of the other.
IT is stated that sackcloth or canvas
can be made as impervious to moisture
as leather by sleeping it in decoction
of one pound of oak bark with fourteen
pounds of boiling water, this quantity
being sufficient for eight Yards Of stufff.
The cloth has to soak twenty-four hours,
when 1t IS taken out, passed through
running water and hung up to dry.
Rev. FL. w. BEEcHER, in his recent
lecture, said he met man last summer
who claimed the COW as the great -iyili-
ger OF the wheat region OF the North
west. 10 raise crop of wheat requires
but few moments of each year, and the
remainder of the time the farmer is like.
ly to spend away from his farm. But
when he gets COW, he must STAY at
home and look after her, and family
and civilization follow.
A CONTEMPORARY remarks that farm.
ers who have families of children cannot
be too careful about the character OF the
help employed, both in the house and
out of doors. Most of the farm laborers
have habits of thought and act that
make them very injurious to the. young
people with whom they associate. A
protane man, or one guilty of impure
conversation anywhere, should be dis
charged at once, however capable in
other respects. 4
CLEAN upl Begin with the privy,
and make thorough work OF it. Then
goto the well, spring or cistern. Pump
or bail them out; scrub, wash and white.
wash the walls. Look at the drains; hoe
them out, and dose them with lime wash.
Rake up rubbish of all sorts, and divide
Fit between the wood pile, manure pile
and lumber pile. Then to the stables,
pigpens, chicken houses, etc. Sweep,
dust and whitewash. AS you value your
health and that Of your family, clean
up!- Farm Journal.
EsP. HOWELL, in the Independent,
says: when wind breaks in the form OF
hedges or straight rows Of trees are not
desirable, q group of evergreens will
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