Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-24
FARM zrp PRESIDE
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The alermists who croak about thu
future OF the stock industry owing to
an alleged surplus of cattle, will be
surprised to learn that there has in
fact been steady decrease during the
last 25 years, in the ratio of cattle to
population. In 1860 it stood at SD
head to 1000 of population; in 1880
the figures were 772, and in 1890 they
promise to be even smaller.
A good pickle for beef is as follows:
Boil pounds of salt, 2l-2 pounds OF
brown sugar, and 2 ounces of saltpe-
tire in as much water as viii dissolve
it for half an hour; skim it and strain
it and let it cool. Cut up the beef,
and rub it with salt and pack it close
ly in sweet barrel, then pour over it
the brine and head the barrel tight.
In June draw off the brine and boil it,
skim off the scum, and when cold re-
turn it and close the bunghole. The
beef will then keep perfectly.
A correspondent in the Farmers Re
view says that when riding over thou
sands ofmiles OF Russian railwaysfou
years ago he was Interested in the
system OF shrub and tree planting to
arrest snow at all points where banks
could form. The trees are planted
twenty-five to thirty feet from the rails
in five to seven lines, lines five feet
apart and the plants foot and half
apart in the rows. The three inner
lines are planted with trees, and the
outer ones with conifers, or shrubs.
This system is said to protect very
perfectly the roads during the gales on
The steppes The snow is whirled in
heaps back of and among the trees
and shrubs, and fails to reach the rails
to a serious extent.
III. Brown, of Wisconsin, writes:
1.-TWO years ago my corn crop failed
utterly, and / was at loss to know
what was going to do with my forty
of fifty hogs. / had large crop OF
oats and began feeding them whole. |
never had hogs do better; never had
hogs grow so thrifty. Last winter |
did the same thing. though / had a
large corn crop. This winter am do
ing the same thing with equally graft
flying results. The so-called cholera is
all around Neon the next farm-but
my hogs never were more healthy and
thrifty"
After a winters rest the shoulders
of horses are tenderer than usual and
the skin becomes easily chafed and
sore. When this happens the collar
should be examined, as it's lift
ting or uneven or rough lining is usu-
ally the cause of the trouble. To
harden the skin wash it wish salt wa
ter morning and evening and rub it
well with a rough cloth. To cure gals
use lage pads, or cushions on the col
lar above and below the sore, and
dress this with solution OF sulphate
OF zinc-one dram to half pint of wa
ter.
Congress has been asked again to
appropriate $4,000 a year for ex-
perImental work to each of the Estate
Agricultural Colleges"-most OF them
not even so in name. OF certain pro-
fessors who lately went to Washing
ton to urge this claim some represent
institutions from which the farm and
mechanic arts have received small
show for past liberal favors bestowed
in their alleged interest. Until these
schools generally give fairer return
for the large sums of public money
they have already received they should
not be encouraged" with more.
A Massachusetts, man, George w.
Ella, said by the Springfield Republi
can to be "the wealthiest farmer in Al
lenstown," was fined last winter $500
and costs" for cruelty to animals, he
having provided no shelter for his
large herd of cattle" The heartless
owners OF freezing and starving stock
on the arctic Western plains ought
likewise to be amenable to law. At
present they are only visited with the
contempt and Indignation OF humane
people, and by the great annual loss
es which, happily, reduce their profits
from a business which has been none
to severely characterized as constitut-
ing "a national shame"