The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-09-15
FARM NOTES.

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about half an inch apart.
New places for cooping the hens
should be selected every year. The
stock always do better on new ground,
being less liable to disease.
Hayseed swept from the barn floor
is good thing to throw into the chick
en- yards. The birds scratch it in, and
when it grows up it is good for the
stock.
Feed well, be clean, give plenty of
water, cold in summer. warm i'm win
ter. milk quickly. These four rules
are necessary for success in dairy
farm.
Do not look for fat cow as n milk
er. A good dairy COW may take on fat
when dry, but she never comes TO her
full flow of milk until the superabund-
ance of fat disappears.
Dairy farms are not alike. Some
are for milk sold direct to the consul
mers or creameries;some for cream de-
livered to creameries; and others keep
the milk and make butter on the farm.
A Kansas farmer advises building n
small stack of unthrashed oats, wheat.
and buckwheat in the poultry yard,
especially for the hens to work in dur
ing the winter to keep them busy
scratching for their living.
When COW is choked with an APP
pie, an effective thing to do is to hold
block of wood on one side of the gull
let and strike with mallet on the 9TH
er smart blow to crush the apple.
This is better than trying to force it
down or to lose the COW. The throat is
not seriously hurt.
1t is said that there arc between fif-
teen hundred and two thousand women
in the northwest who are interested in
ranch and stock property. Many ac-
knowledge their brands over their own
names, while others are interested in
stock running under other names and
in which they arc silent partners.
1t is of primary Importance that the
cow-house should be thoroughly well
ventilated without being in the slight
est degree draughty. Cows, like hui
man beings, require fresh and pure air
the whole twenty-four hours, and not
merely when they are out of doors, and
if they do not get it their health will be
certain to suffer.
The directors of the Iowa state fair
this year make the following rule: All
propositions for games of chance, in
cluding wheels and sales of pools for
races, will be rejected by this society.
Gambling of every nature and form,
and beer, ala, wine, or other intoxicat-
ing liquors, will be excluded from and
about the fair grounds.
The Spanish peanut is now very ex-
tensively used in Georgia for feeding
to hogs. 1t is stated that the average
crop is 125 bushels per acre. The hogs
do all the harvesting, and they general
" eat the vines as well as the nuts. IL
is estimated that an acre of Spanish
peanuts will furnish four times rs much
hog food as an acre OF corn.
A New York farmer states that he
uses only coal gas tar to prevent the
ravages of the potato beetle. He puts
n gallon of tar in the tub, over which
he pours boiling water. which is allow,
ed to settle and cool. This is sprinkled
over the vines with an ordinary sprlnk-
Ter. A gallon of tar costing 10 cents
suilices for several acres of potatoes.
A New York man who ''does Il little
in poultry in an amateurish way has
seyenty-two hens which in January last
laid sixty-two and one-half dozen oi
eggs, and part of which realized IN
market $15 ID. He has brown Leg
horns and Plymouth rocks, and has q
coal stove in the hennery in which ht
builds a fire when the weather Is very
cold.
Every weed that grows near plant
takes from the soil the elements for 1t:
support, and struggles for existence
with the plants for that purpose. In
the dry season weeds will appropriate
the moisture that may be required 10
the desirable plants. The best mode
of withstanding the effects OF drought
therefore, is clean cultivation, whereof.
the grass and weeds are prevented IRON
injuring the crop plants.
Peter Henderson states that patcl
of alfalfa about twenty-five feet D,
one hundred, or only about one-six
teenth part of an acre, used as soil
ing crop, near St Augustine, tla'' lur
nished feed through the snmme
months for a COW; and twice Una
amount.or about one-eighth OF an acre
would be ample to supply cow WIZ
food during the entire season.
The warmer the milk when set, Tn
more complete will be the separatlo
OF the cream from the milk Mt nm
given lower temperature; and the NOR
rapidly the temperature falls, the h"f
rapid will be the separation OF Tn
cream from the milk. Cream rise
best when the temperature is failing
very slowly when the temperature
stationary, and little or not ut all Whc
the temperature is rising.
In termination, heat and moistur
are the powers which awaken the gerI
to action, and no plantfood is needle
at this stage of the plants life, eNcei
what the seed itself contains; but
soon rs the plant begins TO send o.
its little rontlets it must have 1000 !
abundance, of suitable kind and J
suitable shape for lis assimilation or
will starve, the same rs an ANIME
would if deprived OF food.
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