The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-31

pair buildings, and make improve
ments generally.
The next meeting of the National
Grange will be at San Francisco,
Cal, beginning November ID.
If wheat is to follow corn the latter
shonid be now cut at once and re
moved from the field.
Mr.. E. F. Stevens, OF Dickey Coun-
ty, Dakota, in letter to the Rural
New Yorker says, Il planted our
field potatoes somewhat after the
Rural New Workers. trench system:
result, have potatoes to sell to my
neighbors who planted theirs in the
old way and hilled them up.
A little dry earth is necessary for
fowls in Winter to roll themselves in,
and there is nothing better than dry
road dust gathered in barrels and
kept in convenient place for use when
needed. 1t has also some manurial
value, as it is on much travelled
roads always mixed with the drop |
pings of horses driven thereon.
II made a test plot by planting
every other hill of potatoes, with
teaspoontul of sulpher sifted in
planting time" says a Forrestville,
n. Y, farmer to the Rural New
Yorker. THE potatoes in the sui
pher hills came out perfectly clean,
while those in the other hills were
badly scabbed."
AS soon as frost comes either re
move the cows from pasture or give |
them additional feed to make up for !
it's lack of nourishment. Frost is
not like the drying up after cutting,
which turns grass into hay. Frost |
disintegrates the particles of matter,
and when rains come the value Otthe |
grass for nutrition is soon washed |
out, and the grass after that is near.
ly worthless as food.
fla farmers time is valuable he
cannot spare much of it to gather
leaves merely for their manurial val
ne. If bedding is scarce it may be
worth while to gather them as an
absorbent in stables, but to merely
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worth more where they lie in the for
est than anywhere else. There they
serve as q mulch and protection to
the soil they cover.
Any lot of slop, by the combina-
ton OF various grains and meals,
can be improved for the pig by o
liberal addition of whole or skim
milk. Any farmer who annually
raises lot of pigs will find it to his
advantage to keep n sufficient num-
Der of cows to have good supply
for the pigs after the wants of the
family are met.
II you wish superior kind OF corn
nusks for mattresses, writes a farm
er, do not loosen the husks from the
ear, but press it close to the base
and break it off. The rough, coarse
husks will be left on the stalk and
all the finer sort on the ear. Throw.
the ears in pile and when enough
are broken off husk them, sort OUT
the Silks and you will have a very
superior article.
In our experience the late crop of
white turnips generally does better
among potatoes than among corn.
So soon as potato tops die the tur-
nips have all the soil from which to
draw, and they are rather benefited
by the stirring of the soil required in
digging potatoes by hand. If q
horse potato digger is used, no tur-
nips can be grown, as the digger nee
essarilv upturns the entire soil, in
Guiding turnips or whatever else may
be growing on it.
A fowl fancier pertinently declares
that, no matter who runs the poul-
try branch of the farm business
!; whether the boss, the good wife, or
the boys-itis well to remember that
this is the proper time of the year to
get rid of the old inferior fowls, and
the surplus cocks and cockerels. 1t
! is a dead loss to feed either of these
classes through the Winter. Better
eat them or sell them for what they
will bring before they ''eat their
heads off,"
, In passing any piece of sowed corn
late in the growing season, it is easy
/ to see what will and what will not
make good feed. That which has
3 been thickly sown, especially on poor
l sell, is light yellow color, tasteless,
e and nearly void of nutritive value.
: That sOwn in drills and cultivated
once or twice, is large thick-stemmed
a and dark green in color. Taste it
Q and you will find the sweetness that
: with a little more room and time
: would be transformed iuto the starch
d of the perfected grain.
. Some of our women poultry-keep-
ers are quite expert in inducing their
hens to lay during the winter,
= writes farmer. Ihave tried several
= different kinds of food for my own
: hens, and find that they lay as well
y on diet of mixed corn and oats
: and what they pick up about the
" yard as on anything. When allow
!. ed the run of the place they will eat
: only enough to keep them in good
% trim, even when the food lies before
d them in heaps. When yarded, how
ever, / find it necessary to feed them