Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-06
AGRICULTURAL,
WARM WATER FOR CA rrIE.

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make a fair trial during q cold spell"
that water slightly warmed is best for
every kind OF stock. No animal can
drink ice-cold water without injury,
nor often without real pain, if the ami.
NAL drinks as much as tho system
Graves. 1t reduces the temperature Of
the body, already too low, Injuries di-
gestion. and frequently causes pain in
the teeth and throat. The case is
\ worse still when, instead of watering
the stock at its shelter or pen, it has
to be driven to u brook and ice broken
to make a place for the animals to get
at the water. Thus they are exposed
to the danger of slipping upon the ice,
and the cold winds, and get pretty
thoroughly chilled by the time they
reach their quarters again. This in
creasos tic amount OF food necessary
to keep an animal, and, if it be mich
cows, reduces the quantity of milk that
they will yield. All this is readily OBJ
Waited by supplying stock twice daily
in cold weather with water slightly
warm. The appliances for heating it
are always at hand, or may be at little
cost. And to make it better still. add
salt enough TO give it a slight saline
taste, which will make it more relished
and better for the stock. Also, for
milch cows, ewes, ETC., put in meal or
bran enough TO make a thin Cruel.
You will tird every animal will soon
become fond Of this, and come to look
for it IS q part Of their meals. a
mich COW having water thus treated
given her regularly will increase her
flow Of milk perceptibly, aud keep it
up, other things equal, as long as the
warm salt Cruel is fod to her. Horses
especially are often averse to swallow
ing a quantity of ice-cold water. At
the same time they NAV want it very
much, and would drink a large pailful
if Q little warm. The Cruel is excel
lent for the horse, as well as other
animals.
CARROTS FOR STOcK.
During the past few years there has
been quite a large demand for carrots
for feeding to horses in Chicago, and
the demand for them is said to be IN
creasing. The proprietors of omnibus
lines are the most liberal purchasers,
though many are bought by the own
ers of dray horses. Farmers in the
vicinity of the city have received dur.
ing the past few months $40 per ton
for good carrots delivered at stables.
Carload lots raised in Wisconsin have
sold at from SIS to 81 per ton. AS a
rule parties who buy carrots do not
like 60 go to the trouble of moving
them from railway stations to their
stables. The average crop is about
sixteen tons to the acre, though as
high as twenty tons have been re-
ported. Farmers should be satisfied
with a crop that pays from $l60 to
5000 per acre, and tho production Of
which does not i%njure the soil, eve if
it calls for considerable hard work. II
il doubted if the costly lane near large
cities can be devoted to any crop that
will pay as well as carrots. During
the season of wedding and thinning
considerable hard work is required,
but this can be done by women and
children, whose labor can be obtained
at low rates.
Probably carrots are the most profit
able roots that car be raised for feed
ingkstock in most parts OF the country,
as most roots grow mostly out OF
Around, they ere Likely to become hard
and tough during hot and dry weather.
The yield of them will be small and
the quality poor if protracted drought
occurs during the summer. Carrots
receive less injury from the sun and
the occurrence OF a drought thar beets
and turnips do, as their roots are en-
tirely covered by the soil, while their
leaves are close to the surface or the
ground. Mangels and Swedish, or
r~utabaga. turnips are so large that 1t
il generally necessary to cut them into
small pieces or pulp them before AMI
mails will eat them. 1t is tedious to do
this work by hand, or ever by the use
of a machine operated by man power.
There are power machines for cutting
and for pulping these roots, but they
are expensive. and are not adapted to
the use of people that keep but a few
animals. As carrots are smaller and
more tender, horses, COWS and sheep
/ can eat them if they are fed to them as
they are taken from the ground.
Carrots require a long time in which
to grow. The seed should be sown IN
May, and as early in the month as the
condition of the ground will admit. To
get as large a crop as possible the rows
should not be more than two feet
apart. This will allow a narrow culti-
vator to pass between them. About
four pounds of seed are required for an
acre. The long orange variety is the
most productive, though the roots, be-
ing quite long, are not easily pulled
from the ground. The early French
horn, or ''half-long stump root
variety is easy to pull, but is not AS
productive. The land intended for the
production of carrots should bo fairly
dry, deeply plowed and well pulver-
lied. 1t should be rich. but green ma
nure or that containing the seeds OF
weeds and grass should not be applied
to 1t. Old ana weii-rotted stable manure
is the best fertilizer. 1t should be fine
ly p~ulverized and well distr buted
through the soil. It is well to drop a
few radish. turnip, or cabbage seed IN
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