The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-12-31
FARM AND GARDEN.

lent In place of glass for poultry
houses OF chicken runs, and is much
less expensive.
The richer and better titled the
ground, the less seed will be required
of small grain: The roots do not have
to forage SO far.
Sulphur and old tobacco leaves
burned in the poultry house, the house
being closed perfectly tight will clean
out the red lice.
The cost OF creamery apparatus
for a dairy Of fifty cows is from 1928
to $3.50. For fifty more cows the bill
would be increased Sill.
Warm and cold milk should not be
mixed. The new milk should be rid
of its animal heat before adding it TO
that of previous milkings.
Many people complain that the
skins of apples are very thick and
tough this year. 1t is likely that the
dry season was the cause.
Make a harness fit properly and .
horse can wear it without distress, pro-
vided that it is also kept decently clean
and comfortably soft.
One of the best supplementary feeds
with corn fodder is wheat bran. 1t is
even better in the winter as a supple
mentary food for cows.
Many Dakota farmers this year raised
flax for fuel, a ton of flax being consid-
cred more valuable for heating purposes
than a ton of soft coal.
Be careful in feeding new corn. The
old, well-dried corn should be fed first.
SO as to give tho new corn as much time
as possible for drying.
Make cuttings of currants and goose
berries now. Six inches long will an
swer. Mellow the soil, insert them ver-
tically and press the soil firmly about
them.
Professor Steward thinks that the
corn crop ensilage when the ear is in
the dough state will be as valuable for
feeding as if the corr were husked.
shelled and ground.
If fowls are thirsty, they will eat snow
and pieces of ice, as well as drin k from
the vile gutter; but hat is no reason
for neglecting to provide them with
fresh water.
The struggle against weeds may be
continued in autumn with more or less
success as long as their seed can be in
duced to sprout, ready for destruction
by the harrow.
Well drained and deeply filed land
stores warmth TO such an extent as to
prolong the season of growth and
obviate risks of frost that otherwise
might reduce profits of cultivation
materially.
At East Aurora, N. Y, there are
being made some mammoth cheese for
a Glasgow firm. They are fifteen feet in
circumference and three and a half feet
high, weighing from 5000 to 1000
pounds.
Sell all young cattle that you do not
intend to keep over winter that are in
good condition. They will soon cost
too much too keep If you have not
proper place and proper feed foi
them.
Wheat cut before the berry hardens,
say at the time when it is passing from
the dough state. will make better fioui
and more of it than wheat hardened
to the last degree of ripeness. But
the ripe wheat is the best for seed.
The amount Of wool going into
consumption in Europe is much
larger CHS year than previously
while the demand in this country il
also increasing. which gives an en-
couraging outlook for wool growers.
Ounce trees should be mulched as
q protection against extreme heat and
cold. as the roots are small and usual
~ near the surface The ounce bears
every year, but requires some care,
end may be pruned annually with adj
vantage.
The sweet potato does not blossom
in the open air in the United States.
but plants kept in the greenhouse will
blossom during the latter part Of win
ter or in the spring. The sweet potato
makes a nice running plant, and few
persons would suppose it to be the
well known esculent-
Pillow the heavy land and leave it in
the rough condition so that the frost
a penetrate and render it fine.
There is no better agency for pulver-
ning tough soil than the frost. 1t