Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-08-19
Farm and Household
Agricultural aIiseelIany.

Agricultural Miscellany.
Tho Rural Messenger remarks: "An
,xeesave amount Of grain is the worst
treatment OF animals put up to lat
ten, and particularly il it is thin in
flesh. Poorlykept stock have pre-
sumahly weak digestive organs, and
these must be strengthened by careful
exercise. Giving a little grain at first,
and FATHER less than the animal will
eat with good appetite is the way to
BEGIN. The amount may be gradually
increased as more flesh is put on, but
care must be taken not TO clog the
appetite. Poor Sheep are the most
delicate offeeding."
Bones contain large proportion OF
valuable nutriment, which is lost when
they are burned. They should there
fore be fed to fowls as fresh as they
can be procured. The raw bones
from the butcher or from the kitchen
are the best. An easy way to use
them is to have large stone or q
hardwood block and break them with
a hammer or an axe into small pieces
and then give them to the fowls. In
this form they help to grind the grain
in the gizzard and are wholly digested,
furnishing lime as well as heterogeneous
matter for the eggs.
When the carcass of pig has been
cleaned and dressed, it should hang
"a hours to get thoroughly cool and
for the meat to set. Ii is then chop
ped or sawed down through the back.
bone into halves. The head and the
feet are cut off and the halves cut up
as follows: The shoulder is removed
by a square cut across the side just
behind it; the ham is also taken of in
the same way and trimmed by cut
ting off the angular rump piece with
the tail; the ribs are then taken out,
and if bacon is desired this remainder
OF the side is cured whole; otherwise
the loins are removed for ro,tsts and
the thin TANKS and belly are picked
for bacon.
The Indiana Farmer thus notices a
new enemy to corn culture, saying;
"The white mold which has attaked
the corn this Fall is curious disease
as well as a new one The stalk APP
pears healthy and no sign of disease
shows itself in the husk. In the speci-
mems that we have examined the dis
ease appears to have begun at the
point of the ear and spread along the
cob toward the other end, the point
of the grain being affected further down
the ear than any sign of diseased is visi-
Bile on the surface. The white mold is
a fungus parasite. Is it the.cause of
the disease, or is it an effect?-and the
same question may be asked in regard
to the soft and spongy condition OF
the cob"
A plowman says there are several
easy ways to prevent rusting of plows
and cultivators and to keep the teeth
bright. One is to give them coat OF
thick limewash as soon as they are
brought in from the field. Another is
to dissolve an ounce of resin in four
ounces of linseed oil, and while hot
mix it with quart of kerosene and
stir WELL This is leid on the smooth
iron with a paint brush. Another
way is to dissolve an ounce of cam
phor in some turpentine and add to
this four ounces OF pulTerized black
lead or stove polish and mix well.
This may be rubbed on with rag.
To remove rust from tools or plows
nothing is better than a mixture OF
half pint of oil of vitriol poured
slowly into quart of water, and APP
ply this to therusted metal. Wash of
with water.
The average American farmer, says
the Journal of Agriculture, is not a
frugal, painstaking farmer. He looks
for present results and present profits
far more than he does to the future.
As consequence of this principle,
which is almost universal, though
more prevalent in the West and South
than in the East, the practice of
farming is a sort of skinning game
that consequently takes from the soil
without returning an equivalent thero.
to. In many places the deterioration
OF the soil and diminished produc-
tiveness are visible to most casual OBJ
server, bat in Others, especially, where
the original soil was strong, the change
is so gradual as not to be readily no.
ticed. In fact, many people are de-
ceived as to this being the case by the
fact that, instead of any elimination
OF crops OF any kind, there is con-
slant increase of production in the ag-
gregate.