Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-04
FARM NOTES.

heifer. intended for the dairy, ought to
come in at 2 years old.
The manure heap is the farmers
bank; but t yield the largest profit it
must he drawn from frequently.
The best possible location for man.
ure is near the surface of the soil. IL
Is never advisable to pillow it in deeply.
Coal ashes sifted over the dropping
boards ia the hen-house is a benefit
10 the manure and helps to kill ver-
min.
The 65, O00, 900 people Of America
consume more food products Of the soil
than twice their number in the old
world.
There are two things that are worth
much more than they cost-order and
cleanliness about the barns and over
the farm.
A small farm may be made larger
without extending its area; by deepen
ing and enricbing the soil and more
thorough cultivation.
The Michigan Farmer says the loss
BY killing potatoes Is estimated by a
Mtil-lllOIi ltu EAOWNL a. W 1893 kIah
Is per cent of the crop.
About rs per cent of all the farms in
the United States are titled by their
owners This is the greatest nation of
home owners. on earth.
Pumpkin contains a little peptic
acid, which gives it an additional value
in stock feeding. 1t gives n relish to
other food and improves the flavor of
milk.
The farmer should use all the labor
saving appliances he can procare, and
after that is done he will find work
enough on the farm for healty physical
exercise.
One man put some apples in a silo
among the ensilage and another man
did the same with potatoes aud both
men have made a discovery! The APP
plies and potatoes were preserved.
To the good farmer all seasons are
favorable. That is TO say, he manages
TO get returns for his labor from some
source, whether it is wet or dry, cool
or hot. His cup is up at ali times.
Be careful to use enough bedding in
the stables to absorb and save all the
liquid manure Often the most valua-
BILE manure of the ~barnyard runs to
waste and is carried away by heavy
rains.
The Breeders Gazette says the out
look for sheep ~husbandry in the United
States could not be brighter. The
journal says: I'VE shall presently see
Q mutton and wool market we have not
yet known"
For early feeding of poultry it is
well to scald the feed at night, and let
At stand for use in the morning. Early
and regular feeding should be the rule
I'm the poultry yard during the fall and
winter months.
Tenants may not lawfully remove
the manure made on a farm during the
time of their occupancy; the law re-
cognizing the fact that good husbandry
requires That it should be returned TO
the soil whence 1t came.
An exchange says that every cow
kept in the dairy for butter will keep a
SOW aud pigs. The skim milk and
butter milk. with good pasturage, will
make a growth of swine flesh about
equal in value to tine butter product OF
the COW.
Secretary Rusk closes his annual re-
port with the following forceful SEN
tence. THE great nations Of Europe
strain every nerve to make science the
handmade of war. let it be the glory of
the American people to make science
the handmade of agriculture"
Two cubic feet of sound. dry corn in
the ear will make a bushel Of shelled
corn TO ascertain the number of
bushels of shelled corn in a crib then
multiply the length (inside) by the
breadth and the product by tho height
Of the corn in the crib and divide by
two.
President Borroughs. of the Nebraska
Farmers Alliance. is quoted rs saying.
mo man can raise grain and ship it
800 miles ut a profit" The best mar
ket for farm products is usually close at
hand. and the best policy is that
which plants factories in the midst of
farms.
The first school Of dairying and
ch~eese-making ever organized in
America has been started AZ the Wis
consin State University in Madison. 1t
IL intended to give 4 thorough and
practical knowledge of dairying and
cheesemaking. including the analysis
Of milk.
Mr.. Hoard says that practical dairy
men are now milking COWS that breed
once per annnm. at1ut eleven months
ef,the year. keeping them well enough
fed. 90 that there Is . good dow of
milk and : healthy, vigorous. cali. too.
Ago0d cows milk for two months IL
worth more than q common calf at
birth.
Scotch farmers. who were brought
up on oatmeal and the shorter cate
chism, prefer the leng varieties of eats.
which, they say. are more prolific than
thc shorter kinds. They raise about
sixty bushels 10 the acre, sowing live
bushels OF seed per ere They make
liberal use Of the barn-yard manures.
lime. aud bone dust.
c. w. Holman. ex-president Of the
Elmyra Farmers Club. says in the
Husbandzan. that he has been slow in
adopting the use Of ensilage. But
others are OutstriDDing him and he be-