The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-04-24
FARM, FIELD AND PRESIDE
Farming Paragraphs.

Mr.. G.. l.. Hubert, Berlin, Mich,
sold sos worth Of sage last year and
raised $50 bushels of popcorn.
Hog" is defined by The Cedar Rap
ids Republican as "only an abbreviation
for condensed corn"
1t is estimated that 100000 tons of
beet sugar will be consumed in this
country during the coming year.
They have found one place in Oregon
where the snow is only even feet deep,
and the people are pointing to it and
calling: Come West, if you want
eternal summer. Detroit Free Press.
Mr.. John Gould remarks that it is
better to buy a good animal with a poor
pedigree than q poor animal with a good
pedigree.
In counting railroad freights, the
charge is generally by the ton. Thirty
three and one.third bushels of wheat,
or 30 2-3 bushels of corn, make q ton.
"Too much style" is said by the
Lansing Republican to have cost q
schoolmistress her position at Yankee
Springs, Mich. "She was dismissed
because she would not eat fat pork"
The discontinue and helplessness of
the Washburn & Moen barbed wire
sharks shows what the people can do
with a monopoly if they set about it
Western Rural.
A Dakota correspondent says flax is a
paying crop there; that farmers must
give more attention to stock and less to
wheat; and, "hard times have caused a
stay in the advancing prices Of lands"
Pray look to the cellars. Decaying
apples, pumpkins. potatoes, cabbages,
turnips and the like are thought to be
the causes of malignant ~fevers, diph-
iberia and the like.
The Saginaw Courier is confident
that the era of wholes ale land robbery
has nearly ended" Good reason
Why" comments the Philadelphia Rec
ord, "the wholesale land has nearly
ended too"
The barbed wire monopoly is APP
preaching its end through the lapsing
of patents.
1t is generally best to cut all the
wood wanted for each years fuel from
one division of the woodlot, cutting
everything close, and protecting the
sprouts from cattle. All will then grow
up together, thickly, trim and straight.
The less valuable can be checked by
%sprouting off in August. In about if
teen years there will be a strong growth
again, fit for many uses.
There is nothing hat farming so
much needs as more brains and brain
work in studying the necessities and
capabilities of the farm, and in sys-
tematically planning its work, and then
tenacity in intelligently working out
these plans. Thought, system and per-
sistency are the foundation pillars of
successful farming!
We quote the following remedy for
chapped hands from The Boston Jour.
nal OF Chemistry for J.. H; Eight
nee glycerine, two water, one
of starch. one of arnica tincture. Heat
the glycerine water and starch until. il
becomes q transparent mass. When
nearly cool add the tincture of %arnica,
and perfume with oil ofrose. If desired,
it can be colored with tincture Of
alkanet.
At q meeting in Canada o speake,
asked what crop the farmers of the
country considered to be the hardest or
the land, whereupon the Toronto Globe
says, "there were cries of Oats from al,
parts of the house." Mr.. Mills asked
if it was not q fact that farmers gener.
ally sowed oats at the end OF a rotation
on land that would not produce Other
cereal crops; and if it were not true
that oats would thrive where most 9th.
er crops would not. He said it wal
perhapa true that oats were harder OF
land than wheat. but not so much SO a.
was generally supposed"