Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1897-08-05
Farm Topics.

Farm Topics.
Farm machinery and wagons are
too expensive for hen roosts
The native home of wheat is sup
posed to be the mountain regions of
Armenia.
No farmers family should be without
a good supply offruit.
Fresh burned charcoal given to the
hock at this season is of great assist
ance in keeping them in health.
The active hen, the one that is al
ways on the move is the good layer
every time. The hen that waits for
you to come with the feed is generally
worthless.
Orchard trees should be trained to
have low, broad heads, which will
shade the trunks, and make more con-
venient for gathering.
Bees short of stores may be fed di-
luted honey or sugar syrup, and the
hive should be covered inside the top
to keep heat from escaping.
Sheep can be kept through the win
ter much better with "A reasonable
amount OF succulent food to obyiate the
cons.ipating effects of dry food.
A swine breeder makes thesweeping
statement that half the cases of hog
cholera would be avoided were the
hogs supplied with pure water from
the pump or brook.
Bookkeeping affords variety in
farm work that pays for all the trouble
a few colonies will give, besides having
the honey, one of the luxuries of the
table, at no cost.
The question of large or small cows
for the dairy is being narrowed down
into very small compass. and there
are but few who still claim that COW
for the dairy is valuable in proportion
to her weight.
A pair of ferrets will keep your
place clear of rats. II is said that the
scent alone will drive away the rats,
and some litter from their hutches
scattered around the barn and cribs
will do the work.
1t was formerly the opinion OF many
farmers that rotation in crops would
keep up the fertility Of the soil. If al,
Il
grain raised is marketed through live
stock on the place the stock will return
a large portion OF the fertilizing ele
ments to the land
Grapes do not ripen up in transit
| like apples and pears. 1t is a strong
temptation to run them on the market
as soon as oolored. as early shipments
bring highest prices. Most varities
lshould remain on the vines until they
attain proper quality.
| Selling timothy hay off the farm may
not be a good thing to do, but its rela.
lively high price and it's low manuria
value make the practice far more ex.
fcusable than the selling of the clover
hay. The clover is the richer food for
stock and the richer for plants, and il
should stay on the farm.
Many female moths have only rudi.
mentary wings, aud pupate in the
ground; they have to climb the
trees to lay their eggs. Therefore.
several destructive moths can be kept
off the fruit trees by slight applica.
tion Of tar and grease. The canker
worm and tussock moth are cases in
1 point.
The grub worm can neither be go,
rid OF by poisoning or trapping. 1t
lives in the ground for three wears,
| feeding upon the roots OF grasses, and,
OF course those OF the cereal crops
/ The third year they issue in perfect
beetles and lay their eggs in meadows
| Flowing the soil and turning in fogs is
one remedy: SO is thorough suinme.
fallow.
During these times of depression we
/ have let our stock OF all kinds run
down. There is now increased demand
for high-grade beef and mutton and
for the best high-class horses of differ
ent types radically different from our
stock in trade OF millions Of little
scrubs. Our home markets are calling
for the best and the export trade wants
lship loads every day.