The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-12
ton depends upon feeding the trees

properly.
Pick your market chickens dry.
Note this from the Fa7m-Jouanal:
I'VE know OF NO market where dry
picked poultry does not command two
or three cents more per pound than
scalded stock, and vet farmers in
some sections continue the practice of
scalding, when dry picked is just as
easy and expeditions"
The removal of drone comb, says
Charles Dadant in the Bee journal
is worth many dollars to the bee keep
ler, for thirty:two drone cells occupy
as much space a fifty worker cells,
and n whole comb, or $50, square
inches, would produce 5000 drones in
stead Of $500 workers. Hence he ar
CUES in favor Of drone traps.
Putting printers Ink around the
trees in the orchard this month will
do more to keep the canker-worm
moth from ascending them than it
will later in the season. Especially is
it needed where they were plenty last
year, as the ground may be we'll filled
with them. If there are any eggs of
the tent caterpillar in the twlgs, they
will be swollen enough now TO be
readily seen, and should be cut off
and the twigs burned.
A stone smoke house a few feet
square and cheaply covered by boards
is very convenient around farm
houses. Besides its use for smok-
ing meats, it is a convenient recepta-
Gle for wood ashes, or when not re-
CURED as a smoke house may be stored
with feed for pigs, to whose pen it
will naturally be adjacent. On farms
where stone is abundant the cost Of
such a building, aside from roofing,
will be only lime, sand andlabor.
Prof. l.. B. Arnold says a dairy farm
costs ten per cent less to operate than
grain growing or mixed agriculture;
second, the Near returns average a
little more than other branches; third,
prices are nearer uniform and more
reliable; fourth, dairying exhausts the
soil lessi fifth, it is more secure against
changes in the season, since the dairy
ing does not suffer so much from the
wet and frost and varying seasons and
he can, if prudent, provide against
drought.
An Indiana farmer writes about the
proper time to SOW clover seed. He
says: ..For four successive years /
sowed in March, when the ground was
freezing and thawing, and failed in
getting a stand worth leaving. For
three successive years | have waited
until my wheat had grown up to about
eight to twelve inches high. By that
time it was firmly rootedin the ground;
then / dragged it with a light sharp
tooth harrow or drag; then l sowed
my seed while the ground was fresh.
Then | sowed about thirty pounds of
plaster per acre, and for these success
sive years 1 have had a good stand of
clover and good crops of wheat"
Orchard grass is a robust grower
and very tenacious Of life. 1t masses
its roots so as to resist the encroach-
ment of other grasses, covering much
of the ground with its large pendant
leaves that spring out near the base of
the plant to shade, nourish and
enrich the soil not occupied by the
plant itself. This, perhaps, accounts
largely for its ability to endure ex-
cessive drought. 1t will produce two
large crops Of good hay on rich soil,
and submit to more abuse than any
other forage plant. except blue grass,
which is OF little value in a very dry
season.
Spring operations viii soon COM
mence, and with these a demand for
good farm hands. The general rule that
is followed in this country is to put off
the hiring of men to the last moment,
and trust to chance for some one COM
ing along, and then probably some in
ferior workman has to be taken, or
none at all. Men who know their bus
mess on q farm will not wait, and are
early picked up in the neighborhood
in which they may reside. The trust
ing to men coming along just at the
exact moment you are crowded is a
bad policy. There should always be
profitable employment for a man il
the early spring months before seeding
commences, and it will pay any far
mer to secure good farm hands early,
and pay them good wages.