The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

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too, and one that should be generally
adopted,-to select a plot long in
shape. pillow it up instead of spading
it, break the clods, If any, with the
harrow instead of the rake. plant the
vegetables in row. instead of squares,
and cultivate with the horse cultiva-
tor, w%heel-hoe, G: other implements,
instead of the hand-hoe. One of the
advantages is that a man does the
work in an hour that took days on the
old plan.
l.. A. Goodman, secretary of the
Missouri Horticultural society, recon-.
mends setting tall-growing trees in the
vicinity of buildings, to protect them
from lightning. The branches of a tree
are as SO many points conducting the
electricity by the trunk to the ground,
and hence the more upright the trees
grow the better. The Lombardy pop
lar would seem to be n good style Of
tree for this purpose, and much better
than the broad-spreading oaks and
elms. If tall trees near buildings can
lind a constant supply of moisture in
the soil in which they grow, they will
prove all the more perfect as lightning
protectors. Trees will prove best set
on the northerly or westerly sides of
buildings, or in the direction from
which the showers usually travel.
Few farmers seem to understand
the value of %stanchions in feeding
calves. They a be made very cheap
ly out OF any old boards lying around
the farm, and say q world of time.
Give each calf twenty inches space.
Put a trough in front, spaced of so
that each calf gets his share and no
more. They will soon learn to have
their heads in position at feeding time
and you can fasten and feed a dozen
done with the milk, give alittle ground
tecd or corn and turn the whole lot
into a yard where you have some nice
hay in a rack.
An experiment was made at the
New York experiment station to de-
termine distinctly the advantage
gained by sprouting peas before plant
ing, an operation often practiced but
not measured. The peas were sprout-
ed in moist sand, and when the new
shoots were over half an inch in length
they were carefully planted. Along
side the row containing these sprouted
peas was another row, planted with
unsprouteG seed at the same time.
The sproutcd seed produced pods fit
for use eight days before the Others.
One Of the largest ranch sales made
for some time has Just been reported
from Fort Worth, Texas. The sale is
said to comprise the entire property
of the Espuely Land and Cattle com
pany, embracing 40, 900 head of cattle
and O,000 acres Of land. 1t goes to an
English syndicate Incorporated in
London. The consideration is not vet
known, but the property is valued at
So, 100000.
French bakers are making large use
of vaseline in cake and other pastry.
Its advantage over lard or butter lies
IN the fact that, however stale the
pastry may be, it will not become ran
cid. The council of hygiene disap-
proves of the practice on the ground
that the derivatives of petroleum con
tain no nutriment. 1t does not say
distinctly, however, that they are in
furious to health.
According to the bulletin of the So
ciety of Naturalists of Moscow, the hith
erto unaccountable destruction of pine
forests is caused by the ravagcs of a
species of mushroom which takes
growth on the surface of the wood and
atterward penetrates and destroys the
tree. Maps are given in which the
path of the destroying fungus is
traced through the pine woods of
Russia.
A Mississippi paper says that there
has recently been a noticeable growth
in the use of cottonwood for the man
ufacture of furniture. Recently a
steamer took 100, 600 feet from that
locality to Cincinnati for furniture
making purposes. There is a
selvage of cottonwood all along the
Mississippi, on the bottoms below
Cairo.
The Russian crop of wheat averages
about 200, 900, 600 bushels per year.
about one third of which is usually ex-
ported. The ability of her inhabitants
to subsist upon so small a proportion
of her wheat crop is due to the fact
that the rye crop averages about
SOC, 000, 900 bushels, about 49,
000, 200 of which are annually ex-
ported.
Mr.. Jacob Trungenwalt, of Phila-
delphia, has discovered hat catfish
skins may be tanned into elegant and
serviceable leather. His first experi-
ment vas on a skin Of a fish weighing
about 100 pounds. He has now been
engaged il the business for several
years, and finds it very profitable.
A Virginia farmer recommends
placing brush between the ringes in
which sweet potatoes grow, to allow
support for the vines. He thinks better
and larger tubers are produced when
the vines get the full benefit of the
sun, as they do when they are raised
from the grouni.
The farmer king of Alabama is
Bragg b. Conner. of Barbour county.
He raised $3.50 bales of cotton last
year, besides q large amount OF corn
He has from eight thousand to ter
thousand acres in cotton and corn this
year, and says crop prospects were
never better.
An English horticulturist states tina
his crop of all kinds of fruit has greatly
increased since be engaged IN bee
keeping and distributed his hives about
his orchard and plantation OF bushes.
This is the season to spread wooG
ashes, leached or otherwise, on grass
land. A good bountiful blessing wi
make a very decided Improvement
both on pasture and meadow lands.
The climate of Iowa is reported tt
be changing, because farming has re
moved tall, dense prairie grass ant
dried up the ponds and reservoirs O
water that formerly abounded.
A Colorado paper states that the ex
pertinent of maintaining a COWBOY
hospital is being tried at Fort Fetter
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