Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-24
TIMELY FARM NOTES
Paragraphs of Interest to Tillers
of the Soil.
The Farm. Garden, Hot House, Dairy
Poultry, Stock Yard and Truck
Farming Doings.

Poultry, Stock Yard and Truck
Farming Doings.
Hog cholera is prevailing in many
sections. TO prevent it give the hogs a
variety OF food. Hogs that are inbred
Or that are fed on grain exclusively are
more subject to it than others. Cut up
clover an inch in length, scald it and
mix bran with the mess as the morning
food. Give cooked turnips, carrots, or
other roots. Should the hogs become
sick add a ~teaspoonful OF liquid carbol1c
acid to a pail of water, and give no
other water 10 drink. Keep the pens
scrupulously clean, and saturate the
ground once q week with a mixture
made Of one pound Of copperas, four
gallons of water and one gill OF sui
phuric acid.
Milk given warm in the morning is
an excellent inyigorator for laying
hens. 1t may also be given at any time
and the skim milk will answer we'll.
All the soft food of laying hons can be
mixed with milk in preference to water
and with advantage, as milk is a nitrog-
I phOuH suDNAhltts anu d,SlolS III PlONIh-
ing the elements that compose the
white Of the eggs.
Tho proper mode OF treating hog
manure is to keep the pen we'll Uttered
with cut straw, leaves, or any refuse,
and renew it on the appearance Of the
; pen becoming filthy, adding the litter
and manure to the general manure
heap. Mixed manure in the heap adds
to the value OF the whole, for manure,
like feed, is better when it Is made
from a variety Of substances.
All classes of stock need some exer
else. 1t is not necessary to exhaust or
)gerwork an animal to give it exercise.
but allow it freedom 70 move and find
relief from confinement. Fowls when
too closely confined and have no eXer-
else, are subject TO leg weakness, and
the same rule applies 20 other stock II
they are kept securely in the stalls.
Coarse manure is something that
should never be used. In fact, the ma
nure, If intended for crops, should not
be coarse, but as fine as possible. Ma
nure is never appropriated by plants I'M
til IL is in a condition such az to permit
Of soIubility in water. Make it fine by
decomposihg it in the manure heap.
When you paint use linseed oil, with
a coloring Of some kind, as a first coat,
and apply the heavy paint for a
second coat. The first application Of
paint is intended more to oil the wood
than for any other purpose, and a por-
ton OF the expense may be avoided by
using oil instead OF paint.
It is the gentle bull hat needs the
watching. They are treacherous ami
mails, and become very cross as they
grow older. Bulls should always be
''ringed" in order to have them under
control. II given a yard for exercise
the fence should be close and high, in
order to shut u surrounding objects.
If the hens are laying now they will
prove more profitable than anything on
the farm. Eggs bring a higher price
than any other produce, and at a less
outlay OF capital and labor. as well as
being marketable at ali seasons.
IL is a severe tax on a cow TO yield
milk and keep warm when exposed to
cold. She cannot eat and digest enough
food TO provide milk and animal neat at
the same time. The uncomfortable cow
is an Improbable one.
Any kind OF strong soap will be found
.teflcaeious in destroying fees, lice, cts.
! on animals when they are washed with
Estrong soapsuds, which operation, how,
ever, should be one on a warm day or
in a warm room.
The hog cannot endure extreme cold
except at a loss of fat. 1t will not pay
10 attempt TO put fat on the hog un'
less you wish to retain it. Tue hog
must be made to gain daily or it will
entail a loss.
Take a hammer and some nails and
go on a round OF inspection when the
''cold snaps" crme. A little crack OF
broken board will let in more cold than
will be comfortable to the animals.
The usual proportion Of walkway
along the road Is one-third-that is, a
roae sixty feet wide allows twenty feet
item feet on each side) for walkwa
and forty feet for roadway.
Turn up the soil in wintar II the
ground becomes warm, 50 as TO kill the
cut-worms. The damage saved in the
spring will pay for the work OF blowing.
Kerosene should be used cautiously
as an application for skin diseases. 1t
is very irritating in many cases. as an
imals. like individuals, differ.
Old sod land, IL plowed during the
winter, will be benefited by the effects
of the frosts, and the insects that in
fest such lands will be diminished.
Charcoal or hogs or stock should DO
fresh. To renew charcoal put it in the
stove, allow ii to become heated, and
then remove it to cool.
Some clay lands are so stiff that the
water cannot go down. Such lands are
benefited by deep blowing. subsoiling
and tile drainage.
You can set out cabbage plants for an
early supply in cold frames, and they
will start of early in the spring.
A change of food will often give the
animals an appetite when everything
else fails.
No soil is properly prepared until IL
is as fine as an ash heap.
Carrots must not kept in too dry o
cellar, unless they are covered with
earth.
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