Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25

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satisfactory returns. I am q farmer
with twenty years. experience. Wheat
lis the most easily raised and also the
most economical crop a Southern farm
err can produce. 1t grows at q time
when nothing else IL growing. From
May s to 20 1t can be moved and saved
for hay, cut In milk to dough stages.
1t is the least trouble Of any crop to
cut, cure and save. and has more food
value than other hay, and stock relish
and eat it clean. 1t will not collie or
scour stock or cattle. Another advan-
tage is that it enables us. to grow two
crops each year on the same land. The
land where, grown can be fitted by June
I for the succeeding crop. When grown
for market 1t has proven very profta-
BILE, as 1t comes at a time when hay is
scarce, Q month ahead Of oats. Many
men will say oats are preferable, but
when they try the two crops side by
side they will decide in favor of wheat.
because it is assure crop. benefits the
land, comes a month earlier, and Is no
trouble to cure. II oats get wet they
will mold; wheat will not. Stock eat
the wheat up clean; not so with oats.
I follow my wheat with peas and
corn broadcast, one peck each per acre.
Grab grass comes along with the corn
and peas, which adds to the value Of
the hay. We Produce from one to two
tons Of wheat hay per acre. and about
the same of corn and peavine hay, and
when baled 1t sells readily at SIS to $50
per ton. Land that will thrash ten
bushels Of wheat will make n to one
and a half tons Of wheat hay per acre.
DISCRIMINATING Weeds.
A weed is very properly termed "a
plant out Of place." but when a good.
healthy burdock. nettle, teazel, rag
weed OF pigweed springs up beside a
poppy or marigold the order seems to
be reversed; the weed seemingly
thrives just as well, while the desirable
plant becomes decidedly tout of place."
A vigorous use Of the hoe at once up
on the appearance Of .the little weed
seedlings, where a hoe can be used, is
the quickest and most effective way to
dispose of them; but If they are allow
ed to grow for a few days they may
be easily pulled up root and branch. If
a weed has attained any size never cut
1t off with the hoe. but pull 1t up, or
generally new shoots will quickly come
from the old crown. Whatever the way
or means, keep the weeds down entire
". at all hazards, for they rob the soil
and render otherwise slightly places
decidedly Objectionable. A wise gar
dener is he who never allows a weed Of
any kind to go to seed about his place
for a considerable distance about the
outskirts, thereby saving himself many
a backache the following season. When
large weeds about to seed are pulled up
they should be burned, as they might
germinate.-Woman's Home Compan-
ion.
Hogs and Pork.
In commenting on the varying char
acteristics of hogs for pork Wallace's
Iowa Farmer says: The best pork,we
ever ate was grown in the mountain
Gus regions Of Kentucky on skim milk,
grass and mast and finished on corn3
The dairy sections can, IL they will,
produce pork that will command q
higher price when its merits become
known on the market because the hogs
have been fed On perfectly clean food.
Filth and nastiness will have its effect
on the quality Of meat, no matter where
It was fed or to what kind of an ami
NAL. The corn-fed hog will furnish the
lard; the hog fed under ordinary West
ern methods Will always be the staple
produced in the future. as now, either
in countries that can not grow corn or
in sections where corn Is used simply
for interlarding the muscles that have
been grown on matchmaking feed,
clean and pure. such as skim!milk and
grass.
Feeding New Corn.
It Is the custom. Of many farmers to
commence feeding new corn to hogs as
soon as 1t Is in the roasting-ear, maxi
ing It, with the addition Of a pasture
frequently scanty, the sole feed from
that time until the hogs are finished for
the market. This is a wasteful prac-
tice. How wasteful, any farmer can
bS0 lOG ulA1ScAA, Sdy6 o4IaCe D 6CIUSCe
IL he will pull of an ear Of corn in
roasting ear. hang It up to dry, pulling
one each week until the corn 10 ready
to cut up, and then, about the LIST Of
December, when all are thoroughly dry,
shell and weigh the grains on each ear,
taking cart that the ears selected be as
nearly as possible Of the same length
and the same number Of rows.
He will then understand as he never
did before that up to the roasting ear
stage the corn plant Is simply getting
ready for work, and that its work Of
storing food in the ear is done ina
comparatively short period. II. there
fore, the farmer feeds corn in the roast
ing ear stage he does it at a great loss.
The first objection against this method
IL that 1t 10 a very expensive one. Sew
enty pounds Of dry, mature corn in the
ear will furnish about fifty pounds Of
dry matter In the grain. 1t will sur
prise the farmer to and out how many