Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-05
FARM AND HOME.
Brief Agricultural Points

Brief Agricultural Points.
1ood roads are the most obvious
marks OF advanced civilization, and
are essential to general prosperity.
The United States, on an average,
raises more bushels OF corn each year
THAN there are persons in the world.
Recently special egg train of twen-
ty-four cars passed over the Grand
I'runS railroad to New York. The
total number OF eggs was over 81.
100000.
Pinch the tops OF your raspberries
and blackberries early, and serve the
side shoots the same way early and
often to make compact bush. II
you wait to head back later the
strength OF the vine, which has been
thrown INTO the top, is all wasted,
and you have fewer fruit spurs.
Senator Palmer has a lake on his
Michigan farm stocked with carp, and
wishes he hadn't. He calls them the
'hog OF the sea" because they wallow
and burrow in the mud ard keep the
water continually dirty. He has tri.
ed TO seine them out, but he cannot
do so.
Ifyour soil be light or sandy, SOW
rye rather than wheat. Properly pre-
pared, rye straw sells well, and there
Is always demand for the grain.
Ground wood ashes, or mixture OF
finely ground bone and potash salts
have, it is said, proved thu best OF fer.
tilizers Tor the rye crop. }, IS bet ter
to SOW seed rye before the stEh of DC.
tober. Ehar
In looking into the qua5 6cations oil
an applicant for work OF the farm,
one OF the first points for investiga-
tion-after his moral character in its
relation to the children--is, 1.-THE Ma
tional Stoekman" thinks, his expert
ence and trustworthiness in handling
the horses.
The disease called mango is the re-
suit of filth, and having hogs sleep in
rotten. dirty straw. 1t is an insect,
very minute, which burrows under the
skin. To cure it give the pigs first a
good washing in warm soapsuds, u.s.
ing carbolic acid soap, and selecting a
warm, dry day. Then grease the skin
with lard, to which has been added a
little coal oil, and clean out the pen
and quarters.
Mr.. w. d. Hoard, referring to the
"Snide Creamery Business" profita-
bly, conducted by persons who go
around inducing farmers to subscribe
$4,000 to $1,000 for a creamery
which should not cost over 81, 500 to
50. 000, declares that their victims are
among the ill-informed. Ignorance
as 70 real dairy truth is counted on
by the sharper as nine-tenths of his
capital stock in trade"
A humane correspondent shares the
comforts OF animals well cared for;
he takes great pleasure this cold sea-
son attending to their wants. while
the rude wind Just the other side OF the
window enhances the sense of salts
faction by force of contrast. This is
an agricultural compensation not al
ways taken into account, and which
IN many intances perhaps there is not
capacity to appreciate at its true
value.
j. A. Woodward, OF The Farm
Journal, mentions an instance of sue.
cessfuluse by friend of potatoes and
bran for horses. instead of the usual
allowance of grain: "The ration was
hall peck of raw potatoes and two
quarts of bran twice day, to which
was added small quantity of clover
hay. They were as fat and sleek as
moles. They carried us five miles in
fifty minutes through stiff muddy
roads, and when we drove up TO the
station they were as cool as cucun-
bers."
Col. Weld says. in the Flower
Pot" that the farmer who does not
know enough not to kill or sell to a
butcher, calf that will make a 90.
quart COW, needs to take lessons OF
somebody in the abe OF his business.
Such man has probably several
cows IN his herd, which never give ov-
er ten or twelve quarts of milk, and,
very likely, poor at that.
Professor ]. P. STEELE reminds farm
ers whose lands need fertilizins that
they waste money by neglect to utilize
every bit OF refuse likely to have any
value, "mechanical or otherwise. /"
at is wonderful what quantity OF
manure may be got together by those
who keep this fact always before
them"