Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-12-09

boiled in the making, boiling an nour
is not too long. as a rule. An excellent
way to make IL is to have a supply or
boiling water and use enough of this to
cover twenty pounds OF the best lime.
adding fifteen pounds of sulphur -four
to the mass when ii is boiling. Keep Ii
boiling by heat for forty minutes or
an hour, adding enough water to make
fifty gallons of the mixture, and fifteen
pounds OF salt, which will make the
mixture stick to the trees. Bear In
mind that not only must the mixture
be thoroughly prepared, IL must be
thoroughly applied.
EFFECT OF SMUT ON CATTLE.
OF course no one will feed corr that
has smut on it to cattle knowingly, but
they frequently get hold of IL when fed
I'm the field after harvest and 1t makes
more or less trouble during the winter.
The effect of this corn smut on the
stomach seems to be TO dry UP the
| juices of the stomach and, in rare
cases, utterly running the digestive or
gans. The remedy seems TO be to al
low the animal free access to water at
all times SO that ii may drink when
ever it desires. 1t is assumed that
quantities of water renders the smut
Ineffective, at any rate 1t prevents 1t
from clogging in the stomach and the
remedy is we'll worth trying for it a n
not injure the animal.
YOU CAN'T FOOL THE CONSUMER.
The writer lives near a village of
some -four thousand inhabitants which
is near enough to a large city to come
under the influence of cold storage
products. For a number Of years, up
to last winter, il was not possible to
sell poultry fresh from farm in the VIII
lage at a fair price. The retailers
Il trrnrt1d not rA0xr H.tf ~ k11A ft.nx -
they paid for storage fowls, so we were
oblige to ship them to the city. Last
winter quite a decided demand was
evident for fresh killed poultry and this
fall the demand is so large that several
Of us are delivering our surplus poultry
to the village at city prices. The
change was worth investigation as to
the cause and here II is: Consumers
had become so tired of the tasteless or
rank fowls that they would no longer
buy them and clarnored for something
fresh wen at a higher price, so there
was nothing for the retailer TO do but
find something fresh, which was not
hard to do. Once a eats a
fresh tow 1t is hard to force him back
to cold storage birds. BY way of edu-
cation along this line l once tried the
same general plan with poultry that I
wrote some time ago Of trying with the
80 u 1eAAA@A OAA u AOAIA
of my town acquaintances and asked
them If they ate poultry. They did, of
course, SO / asked them to let me fur
nish them with a fresh killed bird at
the same price they would pay for one
from cold storage at the market. stipu-
lating, however, that a second sale
could only be made at an advance OF
several cents per pound. All good
naturally agreed and today + am SELL
ing ten of the original twelve (and
many others besides) all the poultry
they use on their tables. The taste OF
the fresh killed birds settled 1t. The
scheme is worth trying anywhere If
your birds are really nice.
MAIN VALUE OF ROOT CROPS.
1t would be time we'll spent If every
farmer would spend an hour a day for
a few weeks thinking over the food
problem so far as it had to do with his
stock. IL he thought along sensible
lines he would argue to himself some
thing like this: IF my wife were to
feed me every meal, on buckwheat
cakes, it wouldn't be long before I
would protest. liz / could not make her
understand my protests in q little
time / would fail in energy, my stomach
would be deranged, ! would be ~listless
and not able to accomplish much Ts
it not fair to assume, therefore. that il
/ feed my stock on the same ration con-
stantly they win feel much as / would?
Then s%upposing ach time I wanted a
drink someone would say re me, You
can drink onlvZa at night and marning
and you must drink this dirty water
even If Ii is cold" Don't think I'd like
that much, and / fear ia soon be in
physical trouble of some kind. If this
is the case, how is 1t with my cows?
My. / never thought OF these things this
way before and / think I'll turn over a
new leaf in feeding animals this very
day" Think IL out in this way, reader,
it's sane and sensible.
TREATING HEiFERs' uDDERS
One way TO avoid future trouble with
the heifer from sore udder and teats
after dropping her first calf, is TO begin
before that time and get her used to
being handled. You can accomplish this
and at the same time overcome any
tenderness of the udder later by using
camphorated olive oil on the udder
daily, rubbing IL gently into the skin
OF both udder and teats. Try this plan
and you will find 1t will save you much
trouble later.
HANDY SHELF FOR BARN.
No need to tell a farmer how often
a shelf in the barn would be found use
full. Try this plan of making one at
very small cost. Take two pieces Of
iron chain o. of rope and fasten the
two ends to strong hooks screwed to
the side of the barn. In the loops OF
the chain place the shelf. which should
be of the desired width and the looms