The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-02-15
AGRICULTURAL MATTERS
Notes on a Score of saetects.

can Agrlculturalist recommends buck
wheat as the best crop, turning under two
crops a year.
If a good account of expenses and sales
are kept there will always be a balance in
favor of sheep breeding; not SO much as
a specially, but as an assistant to other
farm animals and crops.
The continual dosing of unwell farm
animals with condition powders and
other medical compounds, without know
ing the cause Of the disorder, or action of
the medicine, is usually attended with in.
jury and ofttimes loss.
Pigs will make more flesh from a given
amount of feed than will any other ami.
NAL. This is one reason why pork is SO
profitable on the farm. Another is that
1t is SO brief a space of time from birth to
market for his pigship.
While the country has been swamped
with cattle of an inferior grade, says the
Western Rural, there never has been a
time when there was not a good or fair
market for such meats as the cattle at the
Fat Stock show would make.
The colts should be fed regularly a
good feed of oats from the time they will
begin to eat, but never feed corn. Corn
is not a bone and muscle producing food,
but a fattening one, and it's bone and
muscle the horse breeder wants, and not
lat.
A favorable sign OF the times is that in
recent years there has been q decided CT
fort 10 improve the carcas of every dis.
tinct breed of sheep. Even the breeds of
The oldest eud most fixed types of fine
woods are breeding into a decidedly better
carcass than formerly.
If cream is not well stirred you will
ind at the bottom Of the can more or less
clabber and whey. This, in churning,
may cause the Write sperks in butter
somG complain of; but, whether it does
or not, the cream is all the better for be-
ing thoroughly and frequently stirred.
If dairymen would continue to success
fully meet the close competition which is
sure to confront them, and have a profit
left, they must always be ready with the
best COW and the cheapest food to supply
the best article of milk possible for the
end for which it is TO be used.
Where wood is worth 81 per cord
standing, and it costs So cents TO get it
cut, and takes a man and four oxen a day
to get one and one.half cords to market,
where it will sell for $50 per cord, what
is the profit, allowing for the usual
amount of stormy days and repairs?
A correspondent Of the Ohio Farmer
ascribca the immunity of the swine pens
from cholera to the liberal use he makes
of wood ashes. He does not think the
ashes a cure or positive preventive, but
his ~ncighbors' swine suffered severely
from cholera while his pens were entirely
free from the disease.
A new kind of building blocks has been
patented in Italy which are made of CORE
cobs. The cobs are pressed into forms
similar TO bricks and held together by
wire. A good soaking in tar makes them
waterproof. They are very hard and
strong and weigh about one third as
much as hollow brick.
Clover hay is good winter feed for pigs.
Cut it up, scald it and sprinkle some meal
and bran over it and you will be sur
prised to see how they will cat it and
how they will thrive. Then again the
clover contains just the element needed
to build up large, strong bones and
frames.
AT the meetings of the Western New
York Horticultural society salt was rec
mended for mildew. We see it stated
that Jean Sisley, the famous rose grower
of Lyons, France, applies six pounds of
salt dissolved in 100 quarts of water to de-
stroy mildew and otherlow forms Of plant
life without injury to roses.
Now is the time for farmers to form
nciehborhood clubs or companies to buy
good males for breeding purposes, esre.
claily horses. Such a company can buy a
stallion and make him pay for himself
the first year in the increased value of
his get, but he must be good and not a
grade or morgrel.
Sunfiower seed is coming TO the fore as
an article of commercial value. AS an
admiXture to chicken food its merits are
indisputable. Veterinarians use il in a
medicinal way in the treatment of horses.
Its growth is considered of use in the
prevention of malaria, aud the extraction
Of a valuable oil from it is a looked fol
result.
Celery should not be handled while
frozen. Plow it out in the afternoon,
when thawcd out and send il to the shed,
go that it may be trimmed under cover in
case of bad weather. A good blowing
will easily plow it out by taking two
bouts having around the row and Their
running the piow d. ee directly under the
roots.
OF all the nutrients, fat has considera.
bly, the highest heat, muscular power and
fat producing power. AS q heat pro.
ducer it has about two and one-ffthtimes
the potency of the the Carbohydrates,
pound for pound; and rs a fat former the
comparison, if exact figures could be OBJ
tanned, wonld probably show not very
much less in its favor.
Let me conclude by saying that l have
found ensilage equally valuable fol-
sheep, cattle and horses. l fed it to all
my stock from December 1 till into
March. For sheep and mares with suck
ing colts l think it is peculiarly good,
but | was never so pleased with winter
feeding Of all my stock as during last
winter while feeding ensilage.-h. j.
Cook.
The silo has brought new revelations ia
us, and given US a value in fodder corr
that we have never had before: at least,
it has called our attention to it in a way
that we have never had it called to us be.
fore SO that we have now begun tomake a
fodder of corn, and what it may do for
us in the way of giving us cheaper and
better rations for cattle.
Agriculture never took a longer stride
in advance than it did when the silo was
added to the practical equipment Of the
farm. Most of us were slow to realize
this at first. and a great many are yet I'M
willing TO concede the advantages
claimed for the silc, but the utility Of the
modern silo cannot be gainsaid. for with.
out it VIC are left at the mercy of the ele-
ments in the handling of our great o