Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-16
Hauhiiun Pofafocs.


First, if the potatoes are to be shipped
in bulk in q car, or put directly into the
cellar, the cheapest way to handle them is
in sacks. Scatter the sacks along so they
will be convenient, and pick the potatoes
up into small baskets so that you can hold
the sack and empty the potatoes into it
without help. Then put only bushel in
a sack; one man can easily throw this into
the wagon without help, and there will be
With one man in the wagon to place the
sacks, and two to hand them up, it is the
work of very few moments to load, and
the unloading can be done as rapidly.
Second, if the potatoes must be stored
in the field a while after digging, do not
put them in pits covered with vines. as
recommended by Alfred Rose, as this in
wolves picking them all up by hand, and a
heavy rain is sure to wet through and make
them disagreeable to handle and also hurt
their appearance. Five or six hundred
feet of lumber, and two or three hours
work. will build shed with q board floor
protected and can be shoveled up at the
rate of two or three bushels minute, thus
saving time and disagreeabie work. The
lumber for such n shed can be stored and
used for number of years. In handling
the potatoes use a coal shovel with blade
fourteen inches wide, and you can do the
work rapidly and will not cut them at all,
while the scoop shovel with its sides turned
up, is liable to cut them.
Iarn. votes.
A SAFE and excellent protection against
lightning is tall trees around the house and
barn.
The clover field is the place to raise
the pigs until time to pen them up for corn
feeding.
IT is now claimed that the Acme, Essex
Hybrid, and Livingston's Beauty tomatoes
are identical.
This is the time of year when milk
usually begins to lower in price, but it can
be increased in quantity by good manage
ment.
So FAR the season has been favorable
for good yield of fruit this year, but
there is plenty of time yet for the frost to
do damage.
The best mode of preserving eggs is to
use eggs from hens that are not in COM
pany with cocks, as such eggs will keen
! three or four times as long as those that
are fertile. Keep the eggs in cool place
on a rack, and turn them twice q week.
If fresh, no packing material will be neces-
sary.
.BUTIERMlLk, OF SKIM mix tn1cKeneQ
with middlings, makes an excellent food
for young pigs after they have been
weaned. but they should also have grass
and cooked turnips. Avoid feeding much
corn. Growing pigs should not be made
fat, but kept in thrifty growing con-
dition.
IT is often remarked that too much ma
nure will produce plenty of vine and but
little fruit. This is due to the manure being
improperly proportioned. An excess of
nitrogen (guano or nitrate of soda) induces
an extra growth of vine, but where the ma
nure contains suficiency Of phosphoric
acid and potash, as we'll as of nitrogen,
there will not only be healthy vine but an
abundance of fruit also.
THE greatest drawback to dairymen is
that the dairymen buy their cows and dc
not raise them. Under such system there
can be very little improvement, while the
average yield of milk cannot be increased.
Under the system now practiced two COWS
are kept where one would suffice if she
were of an improved breed. Yet the OPP
portunities for improvement are within the
reack of all, as single male will change
the characteristics of an entire herd in q
few years.
CATTLE that are infested with lice will
not fatten, no matter how we'll fed they
may be.