Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-03-15
FARM, FIELD, AND FIREsIDE.
General Farm Notes.

We were once inclined to feel sorry
for boys Obliged to make their
own way in the world, through diff
culties that seem sufficient to crush
| the spirit out of them. But longer
| observation has shown US that the
law OF compensation makes them
rather to be congratulated than
4 pitied. Ii true TO principle, they de-
| velop mental and moral fibre through
! their very difficulties, which their APP
| parently more favored comrades fail
to gain Baptist Weekly.)
Oatmeal is just as good as whiskey
is bad, and deserves all that is in its
favor by Queen orcommoner. Afriend
| of mine who used to have life made
miserable by the constantly recurring
necessity of using at length
| gave up coffee and moderated the use
OF some other suspected table sup
| plies, and for many years used oat-
! meal every morning, often, to some
| extent, twice a day. 1t is soaked over
night and made part of the mild cocoa
morning sup. Never pill has been
/ needed since that change, and the oat-
meal so suits the system as to be al
ways welcome and satisfying. 1t
makes about one-fourth of the morn.
| ing meal.
Those who have practised hauling
manure to the fields in winter fast as
made and spreading it, even on top OF
OF snow, instead of leaving it in heaps
are, "The Farmers Review" declares,
"a unit" in favor OF this method.
''They claim that there is absolutely
no loss; il washed by soaking rains
the elements dissolved are carried di-
rectly into the soil where they are
wanted. The work is done in the
leisure season of the year instead OF
being left till spring when the prepare
ton for seeding is pressing"
When horse has frequent fits of
collie, says the Germantown Tele-
graph it indicates chronic Indigestion.
This should be treated by great care
in dieting and watering. Water should
never be given after eating and only
an nour before; the tood should
be light and digestable; coarsely
| ground oats, rye and corn, in equal
quantities, mixed with cut hay or
grass will be suitable, and with each
iced should be given a tablespoon of
salt and q teaspoonful of ground gen.
tian root. Hard work or quick driv-
ing should never be done on q full
stomach. The noon feed should be
| lighter than the other meals and at
/ Laau OF Sh ha rtt Eos
Some idea of the commercial i'm
portance to the farmers OF the United
States, so far as the crop OF hay is
concerned, may be learned from the
fact that its cash value for 1887 was
estimated at three hundred and sixty
million dollars, or to put it in aDoth-
er form, thirty. six million tons. The
climate conditions of the country are
so varied that it seems almost an ut
ter impossibility that any one OF our
great crops can ever prove a total
| failure.
! A speaker at q Maine meeting
i touched @ trite but important point
when he declared that the trouble
with too many farmers is they are
land poor. Ii they-and there are
many more OF them than Is generally
upposed-would sell or even give
away half their acres and double the
labor and manure supply on those re-
! tanned, the result would be greater
profit for all. This is bigger sub
Iect than the brevity OF the item in
| licates.
A Maryland grower OF Watermelons
is quoted by "The Louisville Courier
Journal"as saying that whereas form
srly there were only a few varieties
such as Cream, Cuban Queen and
Rattlesnake-now there are hund.
red, and each possesses some special,
quality. The best, all things consid-
sred, is. in his judgment, the Kolb
Gem, which attains large size, some
times sixty pounds. has tough rind,
rendering it desirable for shipment,
and the meat" is fine. The Pride of
Georgia is characterized as superb, :"
and there are dozens OF Others OF less
renown."