Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-19
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
seasonabIe Hints.


The sheep that drop early lambs
must be constantly looked after and
well cared for, or there win be but lit
| tie profit from the lambs. No farmer
should attempt to raise very early
lambs unless he has ample roots and
good. warm quarters.-Farmers'
Friend.
For every range cattle holder who
has lost money in the past five years
we can point TO an equal number of
sheep owners who have accumulated
wealth. There is no question about
the reliability OF the woody tribes
Field and Farm.
Rotation OF crops battles in a meas.
ure the root enemies, both insect and
fungus, that pray upon them. Each
| plant has its own peculiar enemies
and changing of plants removes them
to fields unoccupied by such enemies.
| This is true of the enemies OF the
aboveground growth OF plants to an
important degree.
Any community of farmers can, by
cooperation in the purchase of thor
oughbred male, greatly improve their
| stock in single season and at but a
small expense to each. while the en-
HANGED value OF the stock would more
| than compensate for the effort. Ii
really costs nothing to improve, as
improvement is simply additional
value to the stock.
A good COW fed only on pasture will
/ always pay double the cost of four or
five pounds OF bran daily. in milk or
butter, says Mirror and Farmer. This
is more especially true of winter feed
ing, when straw may be mixed with
hay, and the difference in value OF
straw spent in bran will make the
feed worth more for product than if
all hay were fed.
Palmyra, ILL.,, a town of 700 inhabi-
tants, says /. X. Fitch, in our Country
Home. sent to the East last year S1O,-
| 600 worth ofpoultry and eggs; this year
| from November 1st TO December poi
| shipped over 81, 900 worth. Farmers
OF America, in this industry you repre-
sent one OF the grandest agricultural
| industries, one outranking the entire
| mineral product and wheat crop COM
biued. Give it your attention in earn
est, and get your share OF the profits.
An Iowa man writes to the st.
Louis Journal OF Agriculture as fol-
lows: 81 had 100 sheep a year ago.
They were fed on hay and straw, no
/ grain. One was drowned in the spring;
sold $3.50 worth of wool; raised fifty
lambs; one died when 2 mouths old;
thirty eight had lambs, sold S1l0
worth of sheep; six were killed by dogs
and have los sheep in the flock now,
better sheep than had last year"
1t is claimed by newspaper CORE
spondent who visited the Darlington
farm where $50 cows are kept COR but
ter, that their daily rations were eight
pounds cornmeal, eight rounds bran,
and eight pounds cut hay, mixed and
fed together. This would very nearly
CORES pond to the German ration, but
a ehea per ration, and one equally
well balanced, was used by Prof. Hen
| ry IN some experiments last winter. 1t
| consists OF sixteen pounds hay, seven
pounds wheat bran, and five pounds
cornmeal.
/ A contemporary very pointedly
asks why the farmer who keeps sheep
should not take children into partner
| ship and give them charge of the flock?
The proceeds may be divided equally,
or the children might have the whole.
1t is small thing to do, but it great
thing 70 be done, for it interests the
young folks, gives them some business
TO occupy and train their minds,
teaches the value OF industry, care and
| thotlghtfulness, and the use of money.
! Prof. Henry, OF the University OF
/ Wisconsin, who is well known as a
conservative and careful agricultural
| experimentor, advises, where corn
stalks are to furnish the principal
rough food, the following as a days
ration for COW, to be fed at two or
| three feeds: Corn stocks cut, fifteen
to eighteen pounds; clover hay, FIVE
pounds; bran, six pounds; corn meal,
four pounds.
In many places this winter wells
have gone dry, and it is good time
! to clean them out before spring
l freshets make the work impossible.
Too great care cannot be taken in
testing such wells for carbonic acid gas
before going down. Most wells unused
for few months have more or less OF
this deadly poison. A light sent down
viii test the question. II it goes out
| suddenly the well is dangerous to
human beings who may descend.
Sheep want steady diet. Changes
of food, especially of grain, do not
agree with them. The best single
grain Is oats. IL is always best to
mix some oats with the corn, il the
/ latter is TO be fed. Clear wheat mid
dlings is too loosening. and wheat
! bran is not strong enough. Two
parts bran and one of corn will do
| well. Two parts of bran, two OF oats,
and one of corn is about the best
mixture, and once begun il should be
| kept up all the Winter. Regularity in
feeding, with a chance to drink any
time, are the natural preventives OF
disorders with sheep. They must al
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will be trouble.
A prominent fruit grover in Maine
was accustomed to employ boy to
climb his apple trees and destroy the
tent caterpiliars as soon as they ap-
peared, but he was Obliged to send the
I boy several times, as new tents were
found after the destruction of the old
ones. He was unable to understand
| The reason until his little girl, who had
undertaken to raise colony in the
| house for her own amusement, discoy-
cred that the caterpillars left the tent
and went to feed only in the middle oil
! the forenoon and again in the middle
| of the afternoon. Her father took the
hint and destroyed the caterpillars
only in the morning or late in the aft
ernoon. The work was then effectual,
| for the caterpillars were all in the
nest when the boy crushed them.
Not Economical.
It has been asserted that the rich
become richer by saving, and the
Door poorer by wasting. The money