The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17
FOR THE FARMER.
How to Improve the Appearance a
Country DEMONSTRATING for the
Dairy.
destroying t-Worms-Remedies for thu
Destruction of Cabbage Destroyers
FIsh.Farmipy.
Improvement OF Rural Homes.

asuANA 1IoNEfCss
A correspondent CT the New York
1.ibu'e gives the following notes con-
corning some simple methods en-
ployed to improve the appearance of
country bones:
!: f..aving a large stock of tulip
ou'1s a few years ago, aud not knowing
what to do with them, 1 pushed ona
down at the roots of each straw.
berry plant in n bed of four rods long
by three wide. The result was a maae
u'hcent flower bed. and the aowers
and Hover stalks out of the way be-
fore strawberry time, The bulbs down
Earec or four inchas were quite out of
abe way; and as the stalk is slim and
leaves upright no harmful shading had
been dosc. The bulbs multiplied fast,
II Cor three years gave such a show
as II might be glad TO walk ten miles
TO see. When the strawberry bed was
exhausted and a new one sci, l re-
pcated the experiment. with equal sat
astaction. 1t is Possible, also, to make
a clean raspberry garden or a vine
yard saperbly ornamental with bulbs
OF 'iacs and tulips and hyacinths> But
shis is not all; if a farmer really cares
to have his place charming he can.
=. Plant about his barn grapes to
grow on the walls, and shrubs in the
place of the piles Of trash and rub.
Dish. have just outside my barnyard
Fence lilac bushes and ribcs andssyrin-
gas. Other shrubs would do as we'll
but the lilac Is easily obtained, and
You viii enjoy them, my friend, more
than You will those on the lawns.
once begin to fix mp about the barn
yard and you will discover that there
is no reason in the world why it should
be Il mere hole and a sinking
pen Ii may be made not only clean,
But sweet and wholesome. Cows snd
horses, and W. hogs, like pleasant
surroundings, and the character is
modified by treatment of that sort as
well as kindness. One thing more;
your hired men will be improved and
made ncater. The milking will surely
be more %dccently done and come to the
house free of foul odors. Possibly the
owner will iind he has himself been a
gamer; lac will learn to abhor dirt, will
have higher thoughts suggested. and
be sweeter tempered.
). Make your vegetable garden also
ornamental. in this respect we are
behind, our fathers; for the old-fash.
ioped garden was gay with saffron and
nasturtiums. and very likely with grass
pinks and marigolds; willie in the
corners stood huge bushes of CHINA.
mon roses and sweet brier But we
have given up the old plan, and car
red off IL flowers TO a special garden
or lawn, leaving our vegetable to
themselves. Handsome growing veee
tables are in themselves a fine sight,
n as we cultivate with the pillow and
horse there is no chance for flower
beds but Il row of double English
hoilyhocks or of roses, will do nc
BARN, and will not rob you of any
ground they do not make compensa.
ton for.
A.. Native vines are Of great use III
improving the looks of u place. The
wild grapevine and the clematis, as
well as Virginia creeper, can ALWAYS
be secured. These, if planted to cover
rocks, old trees, stumps, rail fences,
walls OF stone, stone fences, barn
walls, viii convert them into delightful
masses of green in summer and scar
let leaves or fruit IN autumn. Better
yet, instead of the wild grapes plant
Worden OF Concord or any thoroughly
hardy sort, and get both fruit and
beauty; although the fruit of the
wild grape is excellent for jelly.
5. | do not recommend planting
hedges as a rule, for our country i
Scared all over with the most detest.
able abortions of hedges. They are lief,
untrimmed. and are broken andiagged,
D look worse than long rows o
dirty tramps. Evergreen hedges ar,
worst OF all, if not trimmed carefully
as they are the finest when well used
But it needs good hedge sense. to grow
good hedges, and few seem to have it
SO l give up recommending the plant
ang of hedges. But l recommend
drives, fine, nicely winding and sensi
Die drives. aboutthe farm. / acknowl
edge that a good road of the sort sug
gested is some work, and yet it is les.
work thar you may imagine. 1t SHOULD
be thoroughly freed from sod. and thu
roots of grass and weeds DESTROYED
with salt, and then a first rate dress
ing put on of shale or gravel. Bette,
yet, II you can put on first a heay,
dressing of coal ashes, and over tha
shale or gravel.
3. 1t was not my purpose TO plead
against rubbish, waste weeds, ant
broken trees but l will add that, hav
ing begun ornamentation, YOU vii
probably get your eyes open to the I'm
slightly nature of such things. Depend
on it. old rubbish neglected and &C
eliminating is a character builder. 1
you care to educate your family OIL
such things, let them accumulate.
go frequently by a large farm wher,
heaps of brush lie for years, and fence!
are mended only as they must be, anc
the orchards look frightful- instead o.
winning.
z. Do you know how largely O
place or house depends for its beaut,
OF a clean and handsome highwayi
Our country roads are verv rarel,
what they should be, even as drive
ways, much less are they ornamental
know many q fine house and yart
fringcd with a detestable road of weed.
and stones. 1t is not possible gener
ally to secure neighborly cooperation
in the way of establishing a really flint
road; but we "a afford to do it our
selves, so far at least as our own from
extends.
The world ought to be going ahead
n everybody in it ought to be ad
;yancing with it. l am sorry to sa,
that a good many are not. Degenera
ton is the lot chosen by quite a larg.
fraction. and among these are to,
many land owners. 1t is not Difficult
to make each year notable and marked
~ q neutrality-suspicious., a new plant
ing, grove, 4 least a tree; in fact, [;
new idea put into shape is a growing
~self-renewing memorial of our owl
progressive tendencies.
Planning for tho Dairy.
1t is n good time now to make plan.
for the Spring and the Summer, says
A. l.. Crosby in the National Stockanan
You want u piece of ground to plan