The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06
Farm And Household.


Few persons have a fully realizing
of value OF wood ashes. A ton
OF we'll saved ashes contains 200
pounds of carbonate o~fpotash, worth
$12, and 100 pounds OF phosphoric
acid, worth Sc. This p~hOsphOrlc acl'
NAV be called insOluble, butt ls IN an
organic condition and hence is worth
more than the mineral phosphates,
because it is more easily soluble IN the
soil than these.
Potatoes keep best in pits in the
ground out OF doors, where they are
cool and moist, but they must be pre-
served from too low a temperature
b. ample covering and from water by
choosing an elevated dry place. To
make a pit dig a trench three feet wide
and two feet deep, throwing the earth
on both sides; heap the potatoes to q
point or ridge and over with long,
straight straw, bending the straw owe
the top. Cover eight or ten inches
deep with straw and then with three
or four inches OF earth, leaving the
peak uncovered until cold weather,
when it, too, should be covered With
earth.
Feeding with corn fodder is danger
Gus, and more so when a horse is
wearied with hard work in the field.
When green fodder Is fed the horse
should have first o small quantity OF
dry hay or cut feed only moistened
and with an ounce ofsalt mixed whit.
After the keen edge Of the hunger is
taken of then the fodder may be Civ
en-, and will be eaten slowly and mas
ticated thoroughly. A well mastiCat-
ed and salivated meal will not fer
ment in the stomach and produce
collie.
SUNNI arizing the news OF theround-
ups. "The Rocky Mountain Hus
sandman" concludes that at least
hall OF the range cattle were starved
or frozen to death last winter. '"TheO
havoc was simply appalling" The
Toss seems to have been principally
cows and ninety.fve per cent OF the
bulls. 1t is a sad story OF cruel sui
fering wantonly imposed upon great
herds turned loose on overstocked
reaches Of sheiterless country with
out other provision OF food than that
supplied by the bleaohed and often
ice-covered and storm. swept natural
grasses.
A correspondent Of the Country
Gentleman writes OF Mr. ]. NJ. Smiths
forty-acre garden at Green Bay, Wis.
OF cabbage be has 100, 900. They are
going like hot cakes. this dry year, for
six cents apiece. Figure that up, you
800 acre farmers, and see if you can
come in sight OF it. But that is only
hall the story, for many OF these were
raised after strawberries that gave
225 bushels per acre, and all this
without any rain to speak of! His
cash sales from the forty acres since
the 9th OF May have averaged S60a
day. Is he satisfied with this? Not
q bit OF it. He says he does not be-
sieve that ever he realizes yet what
the land is capable OF doing.
It IS not a safe practice to shear
sheep in the fall where the winter is
cold and wet. The loss OF the fleece is
apt to chill the sheep and cause loss
oflambs as well as reduce the condi-
ticn or necessitAte more food. It is
not wise to follow the California meth
cd where the dry and mild Califor-
MIA climate dose not prevail and
where the winters are cold andsnowy.
We do not know of a case in which
sheep have been shsared, even in the
Southern States, that has not been
found to be Is mistake, excepting when
the sheep are kept continually under
cover and artiicially warmed.
The farm column OF seThe Central
Baptist" gives the appended hint
about poultry for the home table
80 which might be added the advice
tokeep the fowl in confinement withost
dood for twenty.four hours before kill
Ing: @The reason poultry, killed at
home, though young is not as tender as
chat bought at the market, is That the
former is generally not killed until
wanted, and when eaten is still rigid
With death. while that bought at the
pdultefef's has beeg killed at least
hours-more often DAYS. Poultry
ought to be killed several days before
being eaten, dressed at once, and, with
q few bits Of charcoal in it, hung in a
cool place"
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