Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-01-21

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~ ksep your work safely q hanA-
1dles sometmes be crowded by heaped-uT
! Jobs.
Take time for full took accounts from any
thing except sleep and Sunday.
Provide in advance; engage men, buy
seeds, teams and harness, repair tools, etc.,
the bugs come.
Every day of useful labor before or after
the season" makes your year day longer.
The scarce thing, truly good farm hand,
II found, should be kept, by giving him en-
ployIncnt the year round.
One of our most costly economies fs the
dismissal o. our hands IN the fall for then
we keep less stock, and give it less care than
would pay us well.
Study the seed catalogues and search your
paper for reports on all much praised varie.
ties.
Compute what it takes per hill to give the
big yields OF potatoes reported in the papers,
and IL the system followed seems at all ra-
tional, try it on a snail scale. Raise what
you can produce at the largest net profit,
which may not be what your neighbor does
Lest with, or what yields you the largest
Learn as soon as possible, by trial, with full
accounts of all items of cost, what crops, ro-
tation, depth of plowing, fertilizers, suit
your land best
grow vegetables in the corn or potato Held
beets, carly cabbages, lettuce, onions, and
peas, with potatoes. flant the hills or drills,
just as those crops are planted; cultivate
with them, and you will have vegetables.
Plant all small fruit in long rows, at dis.
tance suitable for horse cultivation by the
side of a lot, with a drive between them and
the lot; the easiest way is the very best.
Stumps and stones in plow-land are costly
and dangerous. Short burrows waste time.
Two hours in a clean field with sixty-rod fur
rows are worth three or more in short fur
rows amid stumps.
Small holes, swales, cat swamps in good
fields should be drained, III possible, for they
hinder work upon the good land.
Study to save fencing.
Deepen your plowing gradually, say about
one-half inch at each rotation, till you have
from ten to twelve inches Of soil.
Harrow more. Harrow In manure before
1t Is plowed under, SO that 1t will not be left
in stratum under the soil, but be mixed
with 1t. Harrow planted potatoes and corn
both before and after the plants are up.
Use light cultivator, and keep the surfa ce
constantly fine, to serve as a mulch; start II,
therefore, as soon as possible after every
shower. Sink 1t deep in the middles. just
once, when corn ana potatoes are Ave inches
high; afterward 90 about two inches Deep
and keep the field as fiat rs possible.
To buy, or contract to hire q self-binder
will save you from being left in the lurch by
harvest hands
Thin soil: thick seeding.
The labor and food needed to keep q COW
alive and healthy are all expense. Tho profit
comes only from the surplus food and aeaso
which she turns into milk or flesh, and fer
tiizcrs which is saved. But you lose the
flesh which she works of on long drives or
consumes in resisting cold. Therefore. in
vest in water near at hand warm buildings,
and tight stable foors.
1t pays the rich farmer, and IL may sare the
poor, to make O cOmpO.t by gathering all
waste, saving all solid and liquid manures
and house s,ops not fed to pigs, mixing all
with an absorbent (mellowed mulch is best}
and rotting it down, till it can only be
shoveled.
Compute how many acres of fodder corn or
sorghum would keep up the flow of milk Of
your dairy, in spite of drought, and SOW them.
Expect the drought.
Have strong wagons: small load requires
both man and team as wei as q large one; !;
and since teaming is a department of your
occupation" don't shirk road work.
il for u number of years you save your
own seed, selecting to plant just what you
want to harvest, you will get a strain of seed
yielding we'll, fitted to your soil and climate,
and slow to run OUT
Mix earth with roots, and keep them as near
to freezing as you can.
Become a specialist, IL your land favors 1t;
but don't take for specially very exhaust
Ing crop. - A. c. BdrroIs, IN Rural Netc-
Yorker.