The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-09
Agricultural MISCELLANY.

A.. A. Bonner, son of Robert Bonnie,
OF the New York Ledger, said to a re.
porter. anent Maud SIS last perform.
ance: Father is an enthusiast on
horse-shoeing; he has made q lifelong
study of it; and since he has owned
Maud S. she has been shod according
to his directions and it has improved
her materially. She is an ideal trotter,
perfect single or double, on the road OF
on the track. Then she is bred &C
cording to the latest and most approved
methods OF producing speed and last
ing qualities. Her sire Harold is by
old Hambletoniln, his dam being by
Abdallah. You see he is strongly in
bred. Maud's dam, Miss Russell, was
by Pilot, Jr., and her dam by Boston.
Consequently Maud S. combines the
best trotting and the best running
blood in America"
Does the number of BOOSTERS kept in
q flock of fowls influence sex? Who
can tell? The question is submitted tc
u experiment stations as one fully
worthy Of investigation. Until the
past year one of our neighbors thought
it well to have 25 cocks to 125 hens
White Leghorns. The chickens aver.
aged about one half BOOSTERS. The
past year he changed the proportion SC
that there should be but one cock to Is
hens. He raised rs chickens the past
season, of which number Is were roos-
ters. The hens a~rejust as well content.
ed in the n case as in the other.
If you want a mess of green peas
next Spring, before any Of your neigh
bors, try the following method: Take
seeds of the earliest peas, and sew them
in sand and keep the box in a warm
place where it is to remain until the
seeds have sprouted, keeping the sand
moist all the while. II the weather
should be too wintry, the box may be
placed in a cool part of the cellar where
it may remain a month, if necessary.
As soon, however, as the weather per
mits, plant the sprouted peas carefully
in the open ground.
In reply to a query about worms in
swine, the Live Stock Monthly advises
in such cases to give each animal, first
thing in the morning. a teaspoonful Of
oil of t%urpentine, mixed with a quart OF
sweet milk or thin Cruel. They will
drink this voluntarily, and it may be
continued every morning during a week.
If found necessary, it may be repeated
after an ~intervalof ten or fourteen days.
Give plenty of sour milk or butter-milk
also access to ashes, charcoal and salt,
which may be placed in separate small
troughs and should not be mixed with
their food. A few sliced raw onions
may be fed with their food.
Admirers Of Sweet Peas who are &C.
customed to see the vines w1ther after
the first flush of beauty will be glad tc
know hat it Is possible to have a con
slant succession of flowers through the
entire season. A correspondent OF
Gardening Illustrated knows this to be
true by repeated experience of many
many years, and here is the secret of his
success:
"The first requisite is we'll MANFRED
soil, andin light soils surface mulchings
are necessary. The seedpods should
be kept picked off; our plan is to &C
over them for this purpose regularly
once a week. The points of the haulm
are pinched when about three feet high.
and this causes lateral extension; they
are again pinched at five feet, and it il
to these side shoots that the extended