Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-20
AGRICULTURAL.


Large trees may be- transplanted
with tolerable safety by removing u
large ball of frozen earth with the
roots. A trench may be dug around
the tree two or three feet from the
trunk, late in the autumn, sufficiently
deep to sever all the larger horizontal
roots. The hole for the reception OF
the tree should also be dug before the
ground freezes; then in winter. at u
time when the soil al the base Of the
tree is frozen solid, back the forward
truck of u farm wagon against tie
trunk, lift the tongue erect and strap
it firmly to the body. Then loosen the
tree at the base by digging under 1t
sufficiently to cut the tap-root. Attach
a rope near the top Of the trunk, and
by the aid of u team the tree may DO
lifted from its bed and laid PROSTATE,
the heavy base resting across the axle
of the truck. Then hitch the team to
the rear of the truck, and the tee may
be readily dragged to its place. AS 4
thorough trimming will be necessary
to coun~terbalance the loss Of roots it IS
a matter Of economy to cut away q
considerable part Of the top before the
removal.
WINTER PROFIT WITH COWS.
Butter can be made in winter at a
profit with a beef idea coupled witt it.
1t is done sin this wise," to use a Yam
kee term: Select good farrow cows.
A great deal hinges on that word good.
1t means in this connection a COW
which will respond to feed both in the
pail and on her ribs. This is not so
much Of q mixed proposition as
might first suppose. We are dealing
with farrow cows.
This embraces the idea that nature is
closing in on her efforts to convert
food into milk, and as a period OF
growth and removal Of bodily func-
lions has begun there will be a natural
tendency to growth or a filling oIt and
renewal Of the bodily parts. The food,
then, will be divided in its results, and
some of it will go into milk secretion
and some to building up and renewing
the bodily structure. There are the
avenues Of gain, and on this double
road it will pay TO push things and
give the cows all they can eat of rich
foods. We must look ahead and find
out if their foods will be readily assimi.
lated and converted into milk and
flesh, and so combined that they will
work well together.
The first thing to secure is thorough
m~astication, for without this there is
always more or less loss of food even
though it may DO swallowed. Some
folks think that if food is only gobbled
down, it is all right, whereas it may be
all wrong. Eating is q different thing
from gobbling or examining food down.
1t embodies the idea Of maSticatiou and
digestion, and when this is done the
full value Of food may be obtained, and
without it, it will not be obtained. To
procure this there must be n proper
combination Of food as well as me-
chanical conditions. The owner must
do the first work, and when this is well
done the second result will surely fol-
low. Brains are called for, as well as
cattle and food, and il is not the man
that has the most food that wins, but
the one who couples knowledge with
plenty. Meal should be mixed with
coarser food, TO secure full mastication
and digestion. Now let the farmer ap-
ply this principle in his feeding and lot
dim select good farrow cows, and he
car not avoid a gain, with the milk
ard g2owth combined. The pile of rich
manure is really pay enough, but he
can got more, VIZ: q profit on the food
yiUCn and an InnraoSn IN tho ualt1n Of
his investments by tho rapid growth of
his cows. There must not be any
break. by exposure, abuse, or neglect.
There is no way a farmer can enrich
his farru and purse easier and more
safely than by the system we have
briefly noticed. In the spring the COWS
should be fat enough tor beef, and they
may DO dried off and sold at a time of
the year when beef is high.
HINTs AND SUGGESTIONS.
1t is easy to make balky horses by
overlooking them when young and first
pat to work.
The most useful horse is the cheapest
horse regardless Of cost. A horse that
does not answer the purpose intended
is worth comparatively little.
English farmers consider it a duty
and u necessity TO purchase and uss
a large moun OF feeding stuff in order
to maze manure for their soil, and this
is done without regard to prices.
4 farmer who has tried steamed rye
says it is the best of all grains for fat
tening hog. In forty days he says he
can make IL hog as fat as may BIO de-
sired on such food, while one that is
Ct rifty car be flashed on about five or
| six bushels of the food.
With most animals bred and raised
on the farm the question of profit de-
ponds mostly with the methods adapt
cd for banding young and growing
animals, but with the horse this ques.
ton of profit in u great measure de-
ponds upon the judgment used in So
Letting the sire.
1t is estimated that If hen lays only
one eyy q week she will paw for her