The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-03-30
Notes.

When the cattle are put on ths grass
too early both are injured.
The nbte that is not due till two years
will be harder on you than the note due
in a year.
Counting our chicken before they are
hatche6 Would not be so bad did we first
handle the eggs.
The successful farmer is the one that
makes ten per cent on the money he has
lost through mistakes.
The horse with plenty of curry comb
outside and oats inside doesn't show his
ribs before midsummer.
1t is q poor rule that won't work both
ways; nevertheless, both lending and Dor
rowing are unprnGtrhle.
None but a good farmer can make ten
per cent on borrowed money; and he is
the last farmer TO do it.
Bad tempered cows, dull plows, and
weak fences ought to be evils unendur,
able, for they are not immovable.
The man who allows the riyulets to get
his manure is always sure that the gov.
eminent is robbing the people.
What doth it profit a man if he keeps
the weeds down On his farm and allow.
them to grow On the highway?
Extend the house cleaning into the Gel
lar, and make the work more thorough
where Sinking would be least seen.
There are nov over u hundred rivulet:
on the farm, get It is cheaper to give the
animals drink from u well protected from
surface water.
1t is q false notion that is responsible,
for g%rievous evil, that 4 cheap teacher il
good enough for the simmer term, be
cause all the pupils are small.
1t is better to take a little liver mcdi
cine than to grumble and feel blue, an,
the man who has had fruits during tn,
winter will not need medicine.
Good highways are impossible IS lon,
as the highway tax is worked out'by tn,
thA pay u NpiitNt INT INA III IlDIlbN stt
let the work publicly 10 the lowest re
sponsible bidder.
Sheep want u steady diet. Changes o
food, especially of grain, do not agrc,
with them. The best single grain is oats
1t is always hes, to mix some oats witt
the corn, if the latter is to be fed. Clea
wheat middlings is too loosening. an,
wheat bran is not strong enough. Tw,
parts bran and one of cofn will do well
Two parts of bran, two Of OATS, and or,
Of corn is about the best mixture, and one,
begun ii should be kept up all the winter
Regularity in feeding, with a chance t,
drink any time, are the natural prevent
ives of disorders with sheep. They mus
also be kept out of storms, or there viii
be trouble.
The a%rtichoke, says the Country Gen
tleman, is TO be planted and cultivate,
like potatoes, or in hollow burrows tire
or four feet apart, and about a foot in tn
row. Two inches in depth will answc
Tor covering. They are not to be ridgcd
as some ridge potatoes to their dctriment
They constitute a good food for hogs. ar
nearly as nutritive as potatoes, and com
haoiiN Nitiu llOIc 10 tic aCIi, SOnctllilc
several hundred bushels. Small crop
may be obtained from portland, but ricl
soil does the best. Ttey are cultivate,
to some extent in certain localities, bu
the fact that they have not obtained
general introduction indicates some draw
back in the culture.
Give the hog n clean bed, with fire
locomotion, and it will keep clean. Civ
it q wild field of clover TO roam and roo
in, and it will keep itself clean, health,
and thrifty. Both the hog and the own
er will be benefited by the comparatiyel
vide range and the succulent, nitrogen
Gus food available for the use of the hog
} A little corn meal. and il will have all /
needs. and be ms happy and rcspectabl
as wcll-bred hogs should be. 1t viii pu
on muscle as well as fat. and develop
healthy meat for the food of the genu
homo. So do not complain of 1h filth
ness of the hog, until you have given it
decent chance to be u decent ho,.-Prac
teal farme. i