Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-03
FARM NOTES.

IN develop the milking habit the
hoifer intended for the dairy, ought to
come in at 2 years old.
The manure heap is the farmers
hank; but to yield the largest profit it
must be drawn from frequently.
The best possible location for man
.r, 10 near the surface of the soil. 1t
&C. never advisable to pillow it in deeply.
Goa, ashes sifted over the dropping
.oards in the hen-house is a benefit
~ the manure and helps to kill ver-
min.
The $4,000, 600 people of America
ns,me more food products of the soil
Nm twice their number in the old
world.
There are two things that are worth
r,nch more than they cost-order and
Cleanliness about the barns and over
the farm.
A small farm may be made larger
-;thout extending its area; by deepen
,nn and enriching the soil and more
thooroush cultivation.
1T,e Michigan Farmer says the loss
by billing potatoes IS estimated py
well-informed grower aC not less IMAM
ID per cent OIL VIC SioP'
About Is 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.
pumusin contains little peptic
I'D which gives it an additional value
a. stock feeding. 1t gives relish to
other food and improves the flavor OF
milk.
rho farmer should use all the labor.
s.viup appliances he can procure, and
afrrr that is done he will find work
enough on the farm Tor healty physical
exercise.
One man put some apples in silo
.monu the ensilage and another man
did ,he same with potatoes and both
,nen have made discovery! The APP
nIes aud potatoes were preserved.
10 the good farmer all seasons are
favorable. That is to say, he manages
IN Det returns for his labor from some
source, whether it is wet or dry, cool
or hot. His cup is up at ali times.
Re careful to use enough bedding in
the stables to absorb and save all the
j;ou1d manure. Often the most valra-
bic 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
= 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
it stand for use in the morning. Early
and regular feeding should be the rule
In 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 he returned To
the soil whence it came.
An exchange says that every COW
kept in the dairy for butter will keep d
sow and pigs. The skim milk and
butter milk, with good pasturage. will
make Z: growth of swine flesh about
equal in value to the butter product o
the COW.
Secretary Rusk closes his annual re
port with the following forceful sen
tence. The great nations OF Europ'
strain every nerve to make science thu
handmade of war, let it be the glory o
the American people to make science
the handmade OF agriculture"
Two cubic feet of sound, dry corn il
the ear will make Il bushel of shelle'
corn. To ascertain the number Q
bushels OF shcled corn in crib thel
multiply the length Gnside) by tn
breadth and the product by the heigh
of the corn in the crib and divide b,
two.
President Borroughs, of the Nebrask
Farmers Alliance, is quoted as saying
No man can raise grain and ship
800 miles ut a profit" The best mar
ket Tor farm products is usually close /.
hand, and the best policy is tina
which plants factories in the midst O
farms
The first school of dairying an
cheese-making ever organized il
America has been started at the WIS
consin State University in Madison. Il
is Intended to give a thorough ant
practical knowledge OF dairying ant
clieesemaking. including the analyst
OF milk
Mr.. Hoard says that practical dairy
men are now milking cows that bree'
S.iec pei annun, aOOuI eleNeu mouth
Of the year, keeping them we'll enoug
led. SO that there is a good flow Q
milk and healthy, vigorous, calf toe
good cows milk for two months
worth more than common calf q
birth.
Scotch farmers, who were brough
up on oatmeal and the shorter cate
chism, prefer the long varieties of oat:
which, they say. are more prolific tina
the shorter kinds. They raise abol
sixty bushels to the acre, sowing tiv
bushels Of seed per acre. They max
liberal use OF the barn-yard manure
lime, and bone dust.
C. w. Holman, ex-president of tn
Elmyra Farmers Club, says in til