The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-16
FARM AND GARDEN.


Is R N GARDEN.
in selecting ycung Brahmas an indi-
cation Of what the plumage will be is
given by tho bills. When the bill
has i dark stripe down the upper
mandibls the hackle and tail will be
OZARK.
a correspondent of the National
6tOckynas says: TO prevent the dep
redations Of rabbits on young fruit
trces, tske some lamp black or SCOT
from the chimney back, mix it up with
milk SKINNED milk viii do), and with
5 cloth or an old broom paint the body
81 the tree from tA= ground to the
limbs. ii will remain through the win
ter, and nothing win modest the trees.
In the spring take some strong soap
suds and wash the black from the tree,
and ii will remove all tree lice or
any impurities from the bark and
give the tree a green, healthy appear
anco.
Students of forestry have frequently
stated that cultivation of the soil has a
beneficial influence upon the distribu-
ton and amount of rainfall, n fact well
illustrated by a statement made by MIR.
Holstein at a recent meeting Of the
Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Sciences. Mr.. H. affirmed that the
streams in certain cultivated portions
Of Northern Texas were found to con-
tinne running during the portion of the
year when they formerly dried up.
Tho change is supposed to be due to
the fact that the rainfall, which has not
changed in amount, is more evenly
absorbed over the cultivated areas.
Tho Maryland Farmer, takes strong
ground in favor Of feeding cattle in
yards and sheds instead Of letting them
roam over large pastures. which must
be fenced at great expense. 1t is so
much cheaper fos a farmer to fence in
his own stock than to fence out all the
stock Of his neighbors; and then an acre
will yield three OF four times as much
cattle food if it is cultivated and the
crops cut instead OF being gnawcd off
BY tramping animals. The cost of
fences is usually more than the value
OF the animals pastured, and some
times more than the land enclosed.
Cattle that are kept rather close. and
are handled often, are also tanner, and
less breachy than those which run at
large, and are often compelled to shirk
for their supply of food.
A Kansas farmer who has had con
siderable experience in raising and
feeding sorghum, is quite enthusiastic
as to its merits as a fodder crop. He
grows the Early Amber sort, sows
broadcast one and a fourth bushels of
seed, or drills in one bushel. He cuts
when three or four feet high, and be-
ginning to show here and there a head,
With Q moving machine; cures thor
oughly. When cut thus early a second
crop, nearly or quite as good as the first
can be harvested, or if preferred, the
feld affords abundant pasturage at u
time when pastures are generally dried
up. The same care must be exercised
in turning cattle into u sorghum pas
ture us into fresh clover, turning them
infor q short time only till they become
accustomed to it. The feed, whether
green or cured, is excellent to stimulate
milk production. II yields from five tc
six tons per acre.
MI. A. FL. CASTOR, Marshall county,
Illinois, always found that when pump.
kin or sqnashes were fed with corn the
animals were more healthy and thrift,
than when receiving corn alone; it also
required less corn, and the hogs were
free from disease. He noticed that thu
hogs ate the pumpkin or squash seeds
first, showing that they furnished some,
thing particularly needed. Mr.. Caste,
advises swine growers to try the ..fru
Of the vine.' He has grown what is
known u the Valparaiso squash, a very
prolific variety, said to have sometimes
produced thirty tons per acre, nj
amount he considered equal to sot
bushels shelled corn. He thinks the
seed may be had of some of the seeds
men. This squash grows well in NJ
early potato patch, planted about tn,
Rsiddle of May. Put one seed in a place
tsn feet apart; they begin ''yining'
about the time the potatoes are dug, ant