The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1891-01-23
FARM NOTES
Paragraphs Of Interest to TiIlers
Of the Soil.

Paragraphs Of Interest to Tillers
Of the Soil.
The Farm. Garden, Hot House. Dairy,
Poultry, Stock Yard and Truck
Farming Dolngs.
Hog cholera is prevailing in many
sections. To prevent it give the hogs q
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 carbolic
acid to a pail of water, and give no
other water TO drink. Keep the pens
~scrupulously clean, and s%aturate the
ground once a 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 he soft food of laying hens can be
mixed with milk in preference to water
and with advantage, as milk is a nitrog-
onons substance, and assists in provid-
ing the elements that compose the
white OF tho eggs.
Tho proper mode of treating hog
manure is to keep the pen we'll Uttered
with Ii straw, leaves, or any refuse,
and renew it on the appearance OF tho
! 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
overwork an animal to give it exercise.
but allow it freedom to 10Y and find
relief from confinement. Fowls when
too closely confined and have no exer-
else, arc subject to leg weakness, and
the same rule applies to 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 it is in a condition such as 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 tho 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.
1t is the gentle bull that needs tho
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. If given a yard for exercise
the fence should be close and high, in
order to shut out surrounding objects.
If the hens are laying now they viii
prove more profitable than anything on
tho farm. Eggs bring d higher price
than any other produce, and at a less
outlay of capital and labor. as we'll as
being marketable at ali seasons.
1t 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 heat at
the same time. The uncomfortable cow
is an Improbable one.
Any kind of strong soap will be found
eficacious in destroying fees, lice. cts,
on animals when they are washed with
strong s%oapsuds. which operation, how
ever, should be done on a warm day or
i'll a warm room.
The hog cannot endure extreme cold
except at a loss of fat. IT will not pay
to attempt to put fat on the hog un-
less you wish to retain it. The hog
must be made to gain daily or it will
entail q loss.
Take a hammer and some nails and
go on round of inspection when the
''cold snaps crme. A little crack or
broken board will let in more cold than
will be comfortable to tho animals.
The usual proportion of walkway
along the road is one-third-that is, a
roae sixty feet wide allows twenty feet
(ten feet on each side for walkway,
and forty feet for roadway.
Turn up the soil in winter il the
!, ground becomes warm, so 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. II
is very irritating in many cases, as N
: imals, like individuals, differ.
Old sod land, if 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 be
: fresh. To renew charcoal put it in the
, stove, allow it 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. %subsoilinl
and tile drainage.
You can set out cabbage plants for ar
early supply in cold frames, and the,
8 will start off early in the spring.
! A change of food will often give thu
animals an appetite when everything
else fails.
, No soil is properly prepared until !
l is as fine AS an ash heap.
l Carrots must not kept in too dry
. cellar. unless they arc covered witt
earth.
Recipes.
n BOILED HAM-Soak the ham owe
night in a boiler full of cold water
When ready to cook it, scrape, wash an
o trim it carefully and cut off the hook
After being properly cleansed an,
trimmed put it on in cold water sutd
9 Gent to cover it we'll, and after it be
gins to boil allow a quarter Of an hou
for each pound, and let it boil slowly
r When a fork stuck in it comes ont read
lily it is done. The boiler should he
, ho lifted off of tho ira and tho ham u