The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
Agricultural MISCELLANY.

Agricultural Miscellany.
There is said to be carried off from
the soil 8 pounds OF lime in 25 bushels
Of oats, and Is pounds to 3S bushels
OF barley. There L 35 pounds oflime
in two tons OF clover, lao pounds in
20 tons of turnips, and 27O pounds
In 8 tons ofpotatoes. Some soils con-
tain an abundance OF lime for a thou
sand years, while other soils require
an occasional application OF lime as a
fertilizer.
A plowman says there are several
easy ways to prevent rusting OF plows
and cultivators and to keep the teeth
bright. One is to give them a coat Of
thick limewash as soon as they are
brought in from the field. Another is
to dissolve an ounce of resin in four
ounces OF linseed oil, and while hotmix
this with a quart OF kerosene, and stir
well. This is laid on to the smooth
iron witha paint brush. Another way
Is to dissolve an ounce OF camphor in
some turpentine and add to this four
ounces of lard ando n ounce o fpulver-
lied black lead orstovepolish, andm
well. This may be rubbed on with q
rag. To remove rust from plows or
tools nothing is better than amixture
OF half a pint OF oil OF vitriol poured
slowly into a quart Of water, and APP
ply this to the rusted metal. Wash off
with water.
The place which the pumpkin can
be made to fill ON the farm is an i'm
portant one. AS a food for cattle, it
is excellent, and after removing the
seed may be fed with profit to mich
cows. Horses arefond ofthem. Hogs
revelintheirri rich and appetizins juices.
Sheep eat them with avidity. Chick
ems, ducks and geese feed on them at
every opportunity. AS a winter food
for all kinds ofstock they are excellent.
Pumpkins are SO easily raised, are so
valuable, and are SO easily kept till
winter, that the farmer who fails to
plant them neglects animportant item
in his farm economy. Plant and save
pumpkins, and the result will be as
tonishing.
The parsnip is older than the pota-
to. 1t is a prime cattle food, good for
beef and milk, and greedily eaten by
swine. The parsnip is the exception
rather than the rule, ever on the
farmers table. 1t is a wholesome and
appetizing vegetable, and could be
used to advantage for half the year.
We begin to use them fresh dug from
the bed in October; and before the
ground freezes them in, layin a store
of several bushels for Winter use. In
the Spring we dig the reserve, andhave
parsnips until June. They are a
dainty dish, stewed, and still better
partially boiled and then fried brown
in long slices.-Am. Agriculturist.
A farmer on seventy acres OF land
kept Tor partly kept three COWS, for
he often had to buy feed. The mead
ows produced 500 pounds OF hay per
acre and the forty acres of pasture
land produced no feed after August.
He began seven years ago to plough
up the unploductlve land and RAISE
soiling crops. The COWS gradually in
creased i'll rumber until twenty-five
We're kept and the poor grass-lands
turned out an average of $50 worth
of sweet corr ears to the acre besides
yielding sweet green fodder for the
cows. Besides this, the crop Of ma
nure made to go back on the land was
in proportion. No greater contrast
is possible than a poor, barren, dry
pasture and a field bearing a rich soil
ing crop.-A Pennsylvania Farmer.
Theconstant use of the blacksmith's
right arm makes it the larger and
stronger, and by the same physical
principle the heller may be made to
develop a larger udder and to produce
more milk. Rubbing and stretching the
udder will increase its size, and fire.
quent milking will have the tendency
to increase the flow OF milk. Heifers
have been brought to their milk by the
sucking OF their udders by others, and
a COW MIXED three times a day vii,
always give more milk than when
MIXED but twice. When trials fol
a large yield are made, this fact is
taken advantage of and the COWS are
MIXED three or four times within "a
hours.-Mirror and Farmer.