The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-12-09

way to make it 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 it
boiling by heat for forty minutes or
IN hour, adding enough water to make
fifty gallons of the mixture, and fifteen
pounds of salt, which will max the
mixture stick to the trees. e in
mind that not only must the mixture
be thoroughly prepared, it must be
thoroughly applied.
EFFECT OF SMUT ON CATTLE.
OF course no one will feed corr that
has smut on 1t to cattle knowingly, but
they frequently get hold of it when fed
in the field after harvest and it 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
all times so that it may drink when
ever it desires. 1t is assumed tina
quantities of water renders the smut
Ineffective. at any rate it prevents 1t
from clogging in the stomach and the
remedy is we'll worth trying for it cam
not 1njure he animal.
YOU CAN'T FOOL THE CONSUMER.
The writer lives near n village of
some four thousand inhabitants which
under the influence of cold storage
products. For a number Of years, up
to last winter, it was not possible to
sell poultry fresh from farm in the VIII
lage at a fair price. The retailers
would not pay but a trihe more thar
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 u surplus poultry
to the village at city prices. The
change was worth investigation as to
the cause n here 1t is: Consumers
had become SO tired Of the tasteless or
rank fowls that they would no longer
buy them and clanored for something
fresh even at q higher price, so there
was nothing for the retailer to do but
n something fresh. which was not
hard to do. Once a consumer eats a
fresh fowl 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
Shaffer raspberry. / called on a dozen
OF my town a~cquaintances and asked
course. SO l asked them to let me fur
n1sh them with a fresh killed bird at
the same price they would pay for one
from cold storage at the market, stlpu-
lating, however, that a second sale
could only be made at an advance of
.naturedly agreed and today 1 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 it. The
scheme is worth trying anywhere il
birds are really nice.
MAIN VALUE OF ROOT CROPS.
1t would be time we'll spent if every
farmer would spend an hour a dav for
a few weeks thinking over the food
problem SO far as it had to do with his
If 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
understand my protests in a little
l would fail in energy, my stomach
be deranged, l would be listless
and not able to accomplish much. Is
1t not fair to assume, therefore. that If
l feed my stock on the same ration con-
stantly they will feel much as 1 would?
Then suppos1ng each time 1 wanted q
drink someone would say to me. You
can drink only at night and morning
and you must drink this dirty water
even if it is cold" Don't think I,d like
much, and I fear I'd soon be in
trouble of some kind. If this
is the case, how is 1t with my cows? |
My. L never thought OF these things this
way before and l think I'll turn over a |
new leaf in feeding animals this very
Think 1t out in this way, reader.
sane and sensible.
TREATING HElFERs' 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
handled. You can accomplish his
md at the same time overcome any
-~enderness of the udder later by using
olive oil on the udder
iaily, rubbing 1t gently into the skin
both udGer and teats. Try this plan
md you will find it will save YOU much
-rouble later.
HANDY SHELF FOR BARN.
No need to tell a farmer how often
shelf in the barn would be found use
Jul. Try this plan Of making one at
very small cost. Take two pieces of
ron chain OF OF rope and fasten the
-wo ends to strong hooks crewed to
he side of the barn. In the loops Of
he chain pla,a tha clo1f 49,