Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-04-24
FARM AND GARDEN.

soils.
sEcuRE your farm help for the season
early.
PEANUTS are raised in Kansas for feed
for stock.
CHICAGO has become the first sheep
market in the country.
SORGHUM seed is being shipped tc
Russia from this country.
PnoF. ARNOLD says Canadian
cheese is the best in the world.
A GOOD sheep requires no more food
than poor one, and it costs no more to
shear it.
A CAMEL will usually ehear twenty
pounds of hair, which sells for 50. so pei
pound.
THERE is horse in the stables of the
Staten Island Almhouse that is known
to be 45 years old.
PRoF. Fox, of Wisconsin, thinks a
good windmill can be made to do the
work of man the year through.
THERE areabout five times the number
of sheep in Montana now than there were
three years ago, from the natural in
crease.
The best soil for plums, says j. B.
Moore, is one that is stony and heavy.
The plum is q hardy tree, and requires
the same method of pruning as peaches,
Never cut off the small branches until
they die, as it is on the small branches
that most of the fruit grows.
A FARMER who last year grew 300
bushels of mangels (says New England
paper) remarked the other day that he
would grow l, 900 bushels the coming
year. He grew them for his COWS, but
finds them excellent for sheep, horses
and pigs, as q change from dry or con-
centrated food. There is considerable
amount of sugar in mangels, and they
possess the advantage over other beets
of being in good condition for feeding
till late in the winter.
AN exchange states that sstwo fields.
lying side by side, were sown in wheat.
One was plowed and narrowed in the
usual way, while the other was narrowed
five times. The result was that the lat
ter gave seven bushels more to the acre
than the former" This reminds us that
it is about time for the spring narrowing
of winter wheat-a practice which is ben
eficial and becoming quite common in
the best wheat growing districts of West
ern New York.
If cistern water has acquired foul
odor, says DR.. Kedzie, in the New York
Tribune, it may be deodorized by some
oxidizing agent, such as chloride OF soda.
or Labarraque's chlorinated soda. This
can be found at any good druggists, put
up in quart bottles for use. To get the
best results the material should be
poured into the bottom of the cistern, u.s.
ing for this purpose gaspipe reaching
to the bottom. Two bottles, costing
about 25 cents each, will clean an ordin-
ary cistern.
IT is stated that the ,Merinos of Spain
are divided into two classes according to
the manner of their keeping. One class
is called the travelling or migratory, be-
cause the sheep are moved from pasture
to pasture, taking advantage of seasons,
quality and quantity of foliage, and other
favorable circumstances. Sheep of the
other class, the stationary, are left at
different stations all the year round,
and are more or less pampered, SO that
they fall much behind the other class in
the matter of health and constitutional
vigor.
The largest producers of tobacco are
the states OF Kentucky, Virginia, North
Carolina and Tennessee. The quantity
produced during 1882 was 5l3, 3,O77, 5S8
pounds, grown on GIL, ,522 acres, orabout
1000 square miles, and valued at $43,.
189, ,951. The average value was S 25
cents pound, or 1854 80 per acre. This
is more profitable than wheat or corn
growing would be in the same districts
In 1883 this country exported tobacco to
the value of 1922, ,095, 229. and imported to
the value of gil, ,775, ,596. or over SO per
centof our exports.
THE potato possesses the property of
converting much larger portion of the
manure ingredients of the soil into hu-
man food than any of the cereal grain
crops. For instance, to every bHshel o.
wheat about 100 pounds of straw are
sown, while the haulm of the potato
when dry is 30 light that in experiment.
ing we do not think worth while TO
weigh it. These properties, when com
bined with suitable climate, enable the
cultivator to produce upon given area
of ground larger amount of human
food than from any Of the cereal grain
crops.
AN experiment made by DR.. Lawes,
of England, shows that an acre of rich
pasture in Leicestershire produced 500
pounds of increase in tho weight of
fattening oxen in six months grazing,
It requires 8, 500 pounds of clover hay,
1000 pounds of corn or oil
cake, and 10000 pounds of
Swedes to produce the same
increase. This fodder was considered
equal in value to three and one-half tons
of English hay. Neither soil nor eli.
mate in this country are favorable for
the maintenance of such pastures
iere.
THE dwarf trees of China are curl
osities of forestry. Every child Knows
how the Chinese cramp their women's
eet by bandaging them when they arc
infants, and thus render it impossible
for them to walk. 1t is however won
derful to see tho miniature oaks,
chestnut, pines and cedars growing
in hower-pots, so years old and yet not
a foot high. To do this take a young
plant, cut off its taproot, and place it in
bssin in which there il q good soil
kept we'll watered. If it grows too rap.
idly, dig down and shorten in several
roots. Every year the leaves grow
smaller.
HE Dairy Farmer tells of market
gardener who had very fine COW that
was MIXED week after week alternately
by two hired men. He observed that
the amount OF butter he carried to mar.
ket weighed about n pound more on eacl
alternate week. He watched the men
and tried the COW after they had finished
milking, but always found that there war
no milk left in the teats. He fually asked
the Scotch girl who took care of the
milk if she could account for the differ.
ence. s.Why, yes. When Jim milks he
says to the old COW, so, my pretty mu-
ley, sol But when Sam miIks he hit.
her op the hip and says, Hist, you old
brutel"
CuRRANTs are not only healthful ant
refreshing in midsummer, but are always
a profitable crop if properly cared for
/ John n Hale in the Gonneckicut Farn,