Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-03-24

drilled In at the rate of one and one-half
bushels an acre. Uusing 1t as forage,
we make successive sowings at intervals
of two weeks and thus provide food from
quite early until late in the season and.
what Is best Of all. food that Is quite rich
in protein. Try this plan with a small
field TINS spring and you'll go In for more
another year.
Spring Shelter Of Swine.
II you are working on the plan tina.
swine are hardy animals and enjoy Il wet.
cold place In which to spend their days
and nights. just try treating them as care
fully as you do our cows. That is, pro-
vide some comfortable place for them tc
go when 1t storms badly, give them n bed
Of straw at night and keep the wallows
out OF the b%arnyard. The result will be
that the hogs can be raised on much less
food, they can be fattened for market
much more quickly and they will be less
liable to disease. During the cold, wet
weather of spring hogs are treated worse
than at any other time for the tendency
Is to turn them on to the range at the
earliest approach of spring and, In many
cases. expect them TO get their own liv-
ing out of the frost-bound sod. Further
more little attention Is paid to them at
night. III raising swine Is not u profitable
occupation with you perhaps the fault
Is In the care you give them.
Growing Plums With Profit.
There have been many failures In plum.
growing due in part to setting the trees
on soil not suited to them, but, In the ma
jOrity of cases, to the selection of im-
proper varieties. The best way TO ascer-
tain what varieties are best suited to a
section is to find out what successful
growers in such section are growing and,
N the soil is similar 1t will be wise to fol-
low their example. During a recent meet
Ing of fruit growers one of the most ex.
tensive growers OF plums In the east said
that he had tested all the promising va
rieties c~atalogued, even obtaining varie
ties from Europe, and had finally dug out
all OF his trees except the RENE Claude
He grows plums for market and the Refine
Claude suited consumers. Moreover. 1t is
a strong. healthy tree, not growing very
large but Is very productive. In general
this man advised against the planting of
plums for other than local markets. Those
who are interested In plum growing would
do well to examine into the merits of the
RENE Claude II 1t Is not among the sorts
they 20 grow. 1t Is one of the good
old sorts which has proven Its value ir
many sections through long years.
A Good Spring Ration.
While most dairymen must feed largely
of what they have on hand the following
ration is one which will bring good results.
hence warrant the purchase of any of the
grains which must be bought. Sell some
l OF the surplus cornrR necessary to buy
the other grains. for 1t will pay. The ra-
tion given is based on feeding a COW OF
average size and appetite and may be re-
duced or increased : to suit individual
needs. For grains four pounds of wheat
bran and three pounds Of gluten meal with
fifteen pounds Of hay of good quality.
This is the ration for one day II Is a
most economical one. When the cows are
turned on to pasture grain feeding should
be continued, gradually reducing 1t as the
, grass gives the results in milk.
Freezing San Jose Scale.
~ newspaper recently published an len.
to the effect that fruit growers were re-
joicing because tho cold weather Of the
present winter had killed the San Jose
scale on their trees. This Is nonsense, for
II the San Jose scale has been killed SO
has the tree on which 1t fastened itself.
This pest can stand more cold than the
tree and II the trees containing the scale
are alive when the season opens the scale
will be quite as much alive. SO that the
spraycr and insecticide will be needed.
Don't be taken in by stories OF this kind.
Watch trees and plants and see for your
self what condition they are in III what
they need.
wv SNRSsO
Why 1t is SO many men will go to tho
expense of buying trees and giving them
place on the farm and then almost or
quite neglect them ls beyond finding ont.
This Is done every year and by men Of
intelligence, men who understand thor
oughly the necessity of proper stock feed
ing and who follow It, yet. apparently.
cannot see why the tree should be fed and
cared for. There are evidences in almost
every section which show what proper
feeding and cultivation will do for fruit
trees and especially for apple trees. 1t
makes nc difference what the plan of cul-
ture II 10 long as the soil II supplied in
some way with the food and moisture
which will enable II to force the trees to
Evcipyr growth. True. the soil may be
good mi rich when the trees are set, but
1t doesn't take q thrifty tree long to eat
UP the bulk OF h plant food In any soil
"a that from the very first feeding of the
soil should DO o not only to supply
the wants Of the tree but to prevent. prac-
tically, any loss Of the plant food already
In tho coil. Trees crown this plan
and properly cared for In other ways will
give productive n regular results.
The Commercial Onion.
Although this variety. the Commercial
y put on tho market for the first time
this spring, Il has been tested for severai
years by onion growers In different parts
q b Acountry who pronounce It an ex-
ceo0lnG1y valuable sort. A single row on
the test grounds OF the writer yielded al
the rate Of over six hundred bushels pei
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