The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-04-02
FARM AND GARDEN. =

make the butter Yellow ny
Grooming the COWS is work which
always brings good return. -
The pear delights in deep, rich.
warm loan, with clay subsoil.
Iowa walks off with the best prize
for butter at the New Orleans exposi-
ton.
Neither phosphoric acid nor potash
leave the, soil except as they are taken
up by plants. Ia 4
5 "Cracklings" as food tor poultry
will answer an J;excellentpurpose in
supplying animal food. y
Treat the COWS kindly. Harsh treat
ment will make them hold their milk,
and dry themselves up.
1t is said and well proved that the
more quiet sheep are kept the more
quickly they will fatten.
Watch that lice do not infest the
dairy stock. They often come, no one
can tell how, nor whence.
Remember the harnesses and tools
of all kinds, and put them in thorough
repair for the spring campaign.
A little good feed, mixed with.
good deal Of thoughtful attention, is
what makes the flock do its best.
The wool trade of St. Louis aggre-
gated about 12,500,0 900 pounds in 1884,
against 1865, 729 pounds in 1888.
K Do not allow, the poultry to stand
around in.the snow, but give it a dry
place to fph under in the day, time., -
M Incoming COWS should have u limit
ed diet of dry hay, with little bran,
for few weeks previous to. calving.
.ss No, field on the farm is SO unfairly
treated as that containing the orchard.
Tho chief cause of orchards running
out" is an exhausted soil.
Reports show that the plumber of
sheep in Great Britain has suffered g
great reduction in tho past. ten years,
something over 100000 head. 4
In driving the COWS, never hurry
them; as when their udders are full Of
milk, or they are heavy with calf, it is
very likely to dosthem permanent, in
jury. =
The cherry grows best in rich,
warm, sandy loan. If q mulch. of
leaves, straw OF brush isput around
them they will be very much benefited
by it.
John Splan, a noted, horseman, saws
q quart ofioatmeal in a pail of water
will freshen horse after hard driv.
ing, and prep are his stomach for more
solid food.
+ The best: treatment for an orchard,
after it comes into bearing, is to make
q hog pasture of it,. /. If clover is sown,
and the pigs allowed to feed upon it,
the soil will improve-:and so will the
pigs. -. = -tsE
Steady work does no harm to ma
tture horse.i If we'll fed, carefully
groomed and kept from undue expos
ure, team may labor the winter
through with profit both to the owner
and to the animals vii -,
Raspberries and blackberries are
more hardy if planted on. light, sandy
loan, but if large berries are desired,
o mulch must be used in July. On
more moist land mulching is not need
ed, but the canes are more liable to
be winter killed. = sgI3 "a,
3 It is a well-known fact that sheep
love bright fine hay, and will eat it
cleaner and do better on it that on the
coarse hay; while cattle seem to relish
the coarse hay and fod ders even better
than the very fine. IT would not be
much trouble to feed accordingly.
If you are keeping COWS; for the
dairy, or to give milk and make but
ter, keep only the kind that will give
the greatest quantity of your speciality
butter; cows, lit is butter; and if it
is milk, then keep COWS of one of the
milk breeds, says the Pittsburg Stock
man.
The Orange County Farmer says:
'sThe sugar beet is preferred among
the roots for sheep, being most pala-
table and containing the most solid
nutritious. matter" However. sweet
turnips are preferred by many prac-
teal sheep feeders, among whom are
leading Englishmen. a...n15. e. e.
Give to the COWS none but the best
and purest food. With no other stock
is this SO essential, for the reason that
it has been fully demonstrated by
competent authorities that the milk is
a very prolific source of transmitting
disease germs from impure food, and
especially from impure walter: 5.,F8
Meadows and pastures need refresh
ing with new, seed as well as with ma.
nnre at intervals. The seed should be
.sown with each dressing of; compost.
Repeated cutting and pasturing weak
ems the grass and destroys some Of it
and the thick, healthy sod is only KEEP
up by occasional reseeding..g.s ia
The receipts Of wool OF Chicago last
year were 1893; 606 pounds, agains
s40, 222,625 pounds sfor the year 1888
and for the year 1882, So, ego, 99(
pounds. which shows an increase ii
the sales of nearly 100000 pound:
over the year 1884, and over S, OOO, OO(
pounds over the amount received il
1882. :
The farmer who keeps few sheer
can give them better attention thar
where large focks are kept; and per
haps those farmers who can not wei
keep large numbers could handle tn,
mutton breeds to better advantage
s1hey require JUST sucfT treatment q!
these fattness are best prepared Il
give them
Brown Bread.
If thereis anything under tho sky q
sight of which the gods weep, it is t,
see q woman trying to do up pack
age. 81 5S. Il
A man may be rs full OF piety as |,
Sunday-schooI book, and still lool
wicked when he comes down kerbuml
on an icylsidewalk. 5I555
If anything is harder to find than al
honest gas meter, it must be some
thing you have put away SO CAREFUL
it will never more turn mp.
Cooking is thcSsum Of all science
but the man who siegrades his stom
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