The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-12-08

boiled In the making; boiling an hour
is not too long. as a rule. An excellent
way to make 1t is to have a supply OF
boiling water and use enough of this to
cover twenty pounds of the best lime,
adding fifteen pounds OF sulphur flour
to the mass when 1t Is boiling. Keep 1t
boiling by heat for forty minutes or
or 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, 1t must be
thoroughly applied.
EFFECT OF SMUT ON CATTLE.
OF course NJ one Will feed corn that
has smut OF It to cattle knowingly, but
they frequently get hold Of IT when fed
in the field after harvest and II 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
casea. 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 IT may drink when
ever it desires. 1t Is assumed that
quantities of water renders the smut
ineffective. at any rate It prevents 1T
from clogging In the stomach and the
remedy is well worth trying for IT. an
not injure the animal.
YOU CAN'T FOOL THE CONSUMER.
The writer lives nea n 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, VI
to last winter, 1t vas not possible TO
sell poultry fresh from farm in the vii
lage at q fair price. Thu retailers
would not pay but Il trife more than
they paid for storage fowls. so we were
oblige to ship them to the city. a
winter quite a decided demand waH
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 st city prices. The
change was worth investigation az To
the cause and here It Is: Consumers
had become go tired Of the tagte1egg or
a fowls that they would no longer
buy them n cIamored for something
fresh even at a higher price, 80 there
was nothing for the retailer TO do but
find something fresh, which was not
hard 10 do. Once q consumer eats a
fresh fowl II Is hard 10 force him back
20 old storage birds. BY way of edu-
cation along this line / once tried the
same general plan with poultry that /
wrote some time ago Of trying With the
Shaffer raspberry. I called on a. dozen
Of rny town acquaintance and asked
them IL they ate poultry. They did, OF
course. 80 I asked them TO let me fur
nish them with a fresh killed bird al
the same price they would pay for one
from cold storage At the market. stipa-
failing, however, thai a sGcoad sale
could only be mace AZ an advance of
several n per pound. An good
naturally agreed and today / am sell
ing ten Of the original twIeYe (ana
many others besidsSJ ali the poultry
they Use On their tables. The taste OF
the fresh killed birds eettled It The
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MAIN pELoE VI FoCf hoP
IL would be time well spent * every
farmer would spend an hour a day for
Z few weeks thinking over the food
problem 80 far aE IL Rad TO DO With his
stock Il hs thought along sensible
Aaes he woul argue 70 himself some
thing Axe this: 1t my wife were 10
feed ing every meal on b~uckasasat
cakes IL wouldn't be long &aeEcYe /
would protest. II ! could rot make her
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