The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-01
FOR THE FARMER.
Some Picked up Pointers.

Some Picked up Pointers.
Ploughing for spring crops is now
in order and can be done better and
with less hurry than nextspring.
This is the time to ditch, drain, re-
pair buildings, and make improve
ments generally.
The next meeting of the National
Grange will be at San Francisco,
CAL, beginning November Is.
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If wheat is to follow corn the latter
shonid be now cut at once and re-
moved from the field.
All root crops liable to injury from
the frost should be gathered without
delay.
Mr.. E. F. Stevens, OF Dickey Coun-
ty, Dakota, in a letter to the Rural
New Yorker says, Il planted our
fold 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 fol
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 q
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 Ofthe
grass for nutrition is soon washed
out, and the grass after that is near
~ worthless as food.
If q farmers time is valuable he
cannot spare much of it to gather
leaves merely for their manurial val
ue. If bedding is scarce it may be
worth while to gather them as an
absorbent in stables, but to merely
rot down into leaf mold, leaves are
worth more where they lie in the for
est than anywhere else. There they
serve as a mulch and protection to
the soil they cover.
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Any lot of slop, by the combina-
ton of various grains and meals,
can be improved for the pig by a
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 a good supply
for the pigs after the wants of the
family are met.
If you wish a superior kind of corn
husks 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
lusks will be left on the stalk and
all the finer sort on the ear. Throw
the ears in a pile and when enough
are broken off husk them, sort OUT
the silks and you will have 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 a
horse potato digger is used, no tur-
nips can be grown, as the digger nee
essarily upturns the entire soil, in
Guiding turnips or whatever else may
be growing on it.
In passing any piece of sowed corn
late in the growing season, it is easy
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