The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-03
yARM n GARDEN.
Sotes n Comments ~ Various Topics OF
GenaraI Interest TO the Husban6man.

crop, cut into pieces OF tour 10 SD
inches in length. The land should be
well worked before planting. which
has to be done early in spring. In
ield culture the sets are planted in
rows about three feet apart aud
eighteen inches in the rows. The
planting is done by simply making a
hole with a pointed stick, dropping
the set so that it is about three inches
below the surface, and then pressing
Il firmly with the foot. During the
irst month or two the ground has to
be kept well cultivated and clean,
later the leaves cover the entire
ground so as to make cultivation use
less or unnecessary.
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman has this to say about oil
meal for calves. Take old process oil
meal and pour hot water over it, and
let it soak from one feeding to another,
and heat before feeding. have found
dry oil meal do calves but little good.
Their stomachs are too weak. Feed
from one tablespoonful TO half pint
per calf, with milk, dishwater, &c.
Get them to eat whole oats. if you can,
in addition to other feed, always being
careful not to Overfeed. Many young
calves are ruined by overlooking.
Calves, to do the best, ought always
to have access to good, pure water, to
drink, as milk will not quench thirst.
Some dairymen took to feeding cot
tonseed meal to calves several years
ago, with bad results, owing perhaps,
to their not giving them plenty of
water.
At this season calves are likely to
suffer with scours. The affection
stunts the animal. weakens it, and
may prove fatal. 1t is induced mostly
by q change in the milk-from fresh
10 skimmed-Or by putting on pasture
before the grass is sufficiently mature.
A good remedy is phosphate of lime,
six ounces; powdered ginger, three
ounces; charcoal, four ounces; golden
seal, two ounces; bayberry bark, one
ounce; mix and divide the mass into
twenty parts and mix one of them in
oatmeal Cruel and give night and
morning. II the calves are quite
young ono a day will do.
The preparation CT rennet, to insure
3 perfect article, begins with the treat
ment and are of the calf. Everything
80 promote the character of a healthy
animal, not pampered and not cloved,
should be adopted. On the other
hand, starvation will be as objection
able as oV~er-feeding. The animal
should in no case be slaughtered until
itis clear that it is a healthy, vigorous
one, and this may be determined usu-
Taiiy Don after birth.
Though sunaower seed is good for
many purposes, these flowers can not
be grown probably except on very
rich soil. They are especially exhaus-
tive Of potash, which, however, is
largely retained in the woody stalks.
which should be burned and the ashes
returned to the soil. The Russian is
the most heavily yielding variety.
If feeding for eggs give oats. fine
middlings. scalded. but not too thin,
boiled potatoes and an occasional feed
Of meat, If it is desired to fatten
fowls, give corn at night and soft feed
IN the morning, and Keep them close
y confined from ten to fifteen days.
II kept longer confined they win be-
gin to loose flesh.
Decomposition commences in milk,
4 allowed to retain its natural heat,
soon after it is drawn from the COW.
Because tho night is cool il does not
obyiate the necessity of cooling the
milk that is to be delivered at the
factory the next morning. IT should
also be we'll aired, since contact with
All removes the animal odor.
a farmer SAYS that after TWENTY-FIVE
years experience in raising pears for
marker he has come to the conclusion
that III be were about to plant an or
chard and could get dwarf pears for
notking, while nc the same time he
had 70 pay $500 q thousand for stand
ards, he would not hesitate a moment
IA taking the latter.
Give to the COWS none but the best
and purest food. With no other stock
this 50 essential. for the reason that
has been fully demonstrated by
competent authority that milk Is q
very prolific source of transmitting
disease germ from impure food, and
ESPECIALLY from impurs water.
DO not neglect your dry cows Just
before calying time. As it Il then that
they need especial attention and care.
AheY should be well and jndiciously
Red 50 as TO keep them Ia good condf-
lion, for when poor and thin In flesh
h ian not digest as much food and
Will ROT be strong and thrifty.
ill would pay AL farmers who have
any considerable number of cattle to
winter, 70 get 4 small engine or horse
power, and cut up all the good corn
talks in short pieces kali an inch or
less "a length, as this viii induce the
animals % eat il all up clean instead
a 6~eleetlng the large stalks.
Ihe sweet potato Is one Of the most
FasNabie crops grown: IN addition
NraaA on tne table II
Makes xoellant food for stock. Hogs
very quickly on cooked sweet
Potatoes. which are a cheGy article Of
iQod. considering 800 bushels per acre
~ not an unusual yield.
Stones may BE made very useful by
seng them around plants and trees
q xnuleh. Thus used under trees,
specially H~tergreena, they are very
l4Ntle. One advantage over ordi-
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