Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-17
stand hitched by the halter, in or out
of the stable while quite young.
THE FARM.

AdIkc p~OtdtOoss says Inc new xOrk
Tribune. cut with one eye to . cutting
will afford plenty of nourishment to
the plants until they become estab.
lished, several of the numerous eyes at
the stem being destroyed. One cut
ting in q hill when placed a foot apart
will be sufficient, or two when eighteen
inches or two feet apart. If medium
size potatoes are used cut them with
two eyes to a piece, except the stem
end, which would better be rejected.
Usually the medium sized cutting with
two eyes will about equal the large
sized with one eye. because the large
potato cutting will surely push ont
more and stronger stems. Small po-
tatOes a all be used to good advan-
tage for seed by cutting out all the
eyes but two or three. Yet the small
potato will not send up so good a stem
as the large cutting OF the same size
because the branch in the small rotato
begins its growth as a dwarf, and no
amount of food or favorable conditions
will overcome this poor beginning.
The true philosophy appears to be to
plant ouly enough to secure three or
tour strong stems to a hill. This can
best be accomplished by cutting large
potatoes into pieces with one eye, or
medium sized to two eyes, or use small
potatoes with all eyes cut out except
two or three.
lest way to set a pillow In al the bars
entering the field, and follow the fence
around. Besides, if the work is to be
done by proxy, the plowman needs lit
tie watching, except to see that he
keeps his burrows true and Of the re-
CURED depth, and lays the sod we'll
over, that one is tempted to allow it,
and thus at every blowing the soil is
heaped up against the outside of the
field. ''Back-furrowing," or cleft
about, us, OF course. the only remedy.
Common farm hands make such bung-
ling work Of this, that it is necessary
to stake out the burrows for them and
watch them besides, especially in ir-
regular fields. When properly done,
the entire field is plowed in one''land,"
unless it is very much broken up. The
old dead burrows, left when the field
was last plowed, may ordinarily be
seen. and will serve as a guide. They
will probably be found quite accurate
ly in the centre. To lay out q lot for
back furrowing, the line of tbs first
furrow should be we'll stsked, midway
between the two parallel sides. 1t
should not come nearly to the other
sides, and in blowing, the land plowed
should initiate in its beginning and
progress the finish of a field plowed
outward from the centre. Thus after
blowing a few burrows, carry the pillow
around at the ends of the land, the
pillow is III across tho ends and not
taken out again until the field is fin
ished. In blowing old ground for
spring grain, the dead burrows will
come in the middle of the field in all
probability, unless it be plowed in sev-
eral lands. To make smooth work
after the land is plowed, turn half a
dozen burrows cleft about" back into
the dead furrow, plowlng the two in
ner one deep, and the mex two shall
lower, and the next two mere scratches.
Thus plowed, the field may be sowed
and seeded down without a dead fur
row, if we'll narrowed.
Beware of inferior seed at this sea
son. Time lost in the use of such can
not be regained.
Wood ashes and plaster make an
excellent fertilizer for all kinds OF
grass crops and should be freely used.
THE HOUSEHOLD.
The backyard of a country house Is
too often unsightly and q source OF
danger to health. Every house has its
wastes to be got rid Of, especially those
of the kitchen, and care and some la
Dor are required to dispose of them.
These wastes are a valuable fertilizer
when properly saved. The drainage
sink here described will save it in a
manner that is free from ob jection. 1t
consists of a vault dug In tho ground,
and large enough for q person to get
in TO empty it. 1t is kept supplied
with earth and plaster (gypsum). or a
solution of copperas, to disinfect the
wastes and suppress the smells. The
Stops are led into the vault by a spout,
and pass through an upright tube pro-
vided with holes at its sides, which are
protected by flanges of wood. These
permit the slops to escape and also
keep the earth from filling the tube.
AS the vault fills up the liquid still
passes out into the solid contents, un-
Ill the whole is saturated. BY remov-
ing a trap-door at the top garbage,
ashes, bones, ETC., can be thrown in
with more earth, to cover and deOdor-
ize them. A large quantity of valuable
manure can be thus saved, and the
common eye-sore Of the house, an open
sink drain, be avoided, while the
wastes are made inoffensive and USE
full. Plaster, il used literally, will add
to the value of the fertilizer.
A good cleaning powder for show
windows, which leaves no dirt in the
joints. is prepared by moistening cal
cined magnesis with pure benzine, 80
that q mass is formed sufficiently moist
to let a drop form when pressed. The
mixture has to be preserved in glass
bottles with ground shoppers, in order
to retain the highly volatile benzine.
A little of the mixture is placed on q
wad Of cotton and applied to the glass
plate. 1t may also be used for clean
ing mirrors.
To relieve burns or scalds, apply
butter without delay.
IL mating, counterpanes, or bed
spreads have oil spots on them, we,
with alchohol, rub with hard soap,
and then rinse with clear, coiI wafer
Good flour is white. with a yellowisf
or straw-colored tint. Squeeze some
flour in your hand, il good, it will re-
tain the shape given by the pressure