The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-08-13
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FARM AND GARIyEN.

grass
Never plow up a good sod, as it will
pay best .
Reports from the Panhandle of Texas
indicates that the calf crop in that
country is large. 8
Let no animal be placed where il
will be helplessly threateneda by IA
stronger one with no chance ofescapa.
A man may have the best known
breed of fowls, and if they are not
properly cared for they will not give,
satisfaction. 3es5at Ne
Now is an excellent time to- push
young pigs, as they grow vety rapidly
after the weather commend toSbH
come warm. ~ III
Celery grown upon III
more solid and better flaw han.
that grown upon muck, butsi Hi
grow so tall. 4
Grass seed is generally
deep. Use roller or brush =
else do nothing and let tt
cover it in natures way.
A soil but five inches deep can ~
be worth as much as another that gives
free scope to the roots of plants to
whatever depths they may penetrate in
search of nutriment.
A correspondent to the Rural Ne,o
Yorker, speaking of the tree peddlers,
says: "Man can often tell what he can
do himself, but it is hard to go bonds
for tree that somebody else is going
to handle.
BY keeping land in clover. cutting
the first crop and plowing under the
second, a New York farmer
produced 100 bushels of shelled corn
per acre. The fertilizer used was a
handful of hen manure around each hill
of corn.
In the care of eggs while waiting for
Matching place is preferred that is
neither hot nor cold, damp nor dry If
the eggs are to be kept but little
while turning them every day will an
swer, box or basket being sufficient.
Now is the time to prepare for blue
grass winter pasture. Let it grow
from this time on undisturbed, and for
fall. winter and early spring pasture it
will be worth more per acre than the
everlasting cropping of grain.
If farmer makes but little effort,
and is content to drive an old scrubby
team, and scatter a little fodder to ..old
Brindle," while sunfsh hogs and hairy,
worthless sheep complete the live stock
outfit, that man is miserable failure
The dwarf varieties of celery are now
preferred over the taller ones They
are less expensive to grow as allowing
q greater number of plants to the acre,
are quite as productive, while they
bring as much, and often more, in the
market.
The last month or SO of q pigs life
has great influence upon the flesh of
the animal. You can put on the frame
all through the year, but the flavor is
largely determined by the feeding dur
the latter period of fattening. The
same is true of all animals.
Don't let Che hogs have access to
brine that has had meat in it, A party
who had Poland Chiuas advertised a
public sale. On the morning appoint
ed a bucketful of beef brine was thrown
into the lot, and by the time the crowd
assembled and the auction began sew
eral of the hogs were dead and others
were dying.
A Southerner writes to the Country
Gentleman to say that all cotton seed
fed to stock should be well cooked.
The cooking does away with all injur-
Gus effects. The writer had used cot
ton seed in his herd for eleven wears,
consuming nearly 10000 bushels in
that time, with no unfavorable results
whatever.
The Indiana Farmer mentions an
experiment reported to the Rush
County Club, indicating that in one in
stance at least gate posts set top-end
down were still sound after seventeen
years, while those placed in the usual
position rottsai badly. Under another
test salt pntinto the post holes pre-
served the posts. keeping them sound
and dry
1t is impossible, says the journal of
I Agriculture, to predicate upon the facts
we have, anything at all certain as to
the outcome of the wool business this
season. But after duespnsideration of
these facts, it Sis.sat lsast faix to infer
that the average II pria ytainable
will be little. if any,sbGfp those re-
ceived from the same grades in the last
six months.
A cold, damp soil. with hard i'm
pervious subsoil, is not suitable for a
garden, and before it can be properly
utilized should be well drained. For
garden purposes, if the tile drain has
been laid, the trenching system is best
for such soils. Any method that per-
mits it to rid itself of suplus moisture,
| and allows the air and heat to ei.ter,
will be beneficial.
| The american Agriculturist advo-
Gates the feeding of unthreshed oats
to horses, saying that FOR grain to be
well digested it is necessary it should
| be eaten with some sort of stoycr. We
may cut the hay. mix it and the grain
| together, and moisten the mixture; Du.
we accomplish the same thing more
economically by feeding unthreshed
oats. for then the grain, all the chaff
and part of the straw are masticated
together.