Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-11-04

animals seem 10 De HourisnAh6. Dont
overdo it, however. for this would be IKE
eating highly seasoned foods constantly.
A Protected Hog Pen.
One of our neighbors has what he calls
a hooded pen for his swine and the idea
seems TO be a most excellent one. The
building Is erected so hat II is about four
feet high at the rear and seven feet high
in front. About two-thirds of its depth
is devoted to the pens and sleeping rooms,
with an outlet to the yard on one side or
the low end. In the immediate front there
remains about four feet Of space which
enables one TO get to the front OF the
troughs readily. The entrance to this
/ walk is from the side. In the front the
shed Is boarded up four feet and is open
from there to the top leaving three feet OF
open space for ventilation. The building
Is placed so tina it will get all the sun
possible and a series of curtains are hung
so thai they may be let down at night
and on stormy weather. 1t will be noticed
that this construction Is somewhat on the
line OF the scratching shed for poultry ana
II is certainly an excellent idea, giving
ventilation and sun without sacrificing a
great deal of space.
Testing the Fancy Market.
The writer has long been an advocate
of putting up attractive products in at
~tractive packages. 1t is well understood
how many manufacturers put up their
goods in packages that really cost more
than the article itself. Unfortunately the
article is often an inferior one, the at
~tractive package selling Il. This cannot
be done with products of the farm, for
the article shows for itself. We have al
ways contended that when one was To-
Gated near a large town people could be
found who were willing TO pay fancy
prices for a first class article, particularly
if it was presented in an attractive man
ner. A friend had a fine lot OF apples
that he had grown with care; only four
barrels of them, not enough, he thought.
to make much fuss over them. A dealer
had offered him 50 cents a barrel more
thar the market price for first class fruit
ard he was preparing 10 ship them when
l called. I offered 81 a barrel more than
the market price on condition that my
friend would go TO town with me next day
and see me market them. You see /
wanted to prove that my pet theory was
correct. To make a long story short, I put
these apples up in 10-pound grape baskets
after carefully wiping each apple and lin
ing the basket with tissue paper which
protruded over the edge. The four bar
reis were retai,ed in about five hours.
some to dealers in fancy fruit and some to
consumers A high price was asked and
found that had cleaned UP $500 net for
my five hours work. Had | grown this
fruit Instead of buying it surely the profit
would have been large enough to have
suited me. l think / have made a con-
vert OF my friend and as he grows fine
fruit OF various sorts he will make at
tractive hacking decidedly profitable.
Plant a Few Nut Trees.
Did yon ever go through a wood where
years ago., as a boy, you had each fall
gathered nuts, and find thai during the
years that interviewed these trees had been
cut down and no others took their places?
The writer had such an experience a lit
tie time ago and the disappointment was
50 keen that he has ordered a supply of
nut trees to be set out on the farm 20
that the small boys Of coming generations
will know the pleasures Of nutting as I
knew them years ago. 1t IS not a difficult
nor expensive thing to lave a few nut
trees on every farm, selecting the native
nuts rather than attempting to introduce
the newer sorts whose hardness is ques-
tionable. If the American chestnut and
the hickory are Indigenous to your Sec
ton why not set n few trees and In your
old age look at them and dream of the
joy that will shine IN the eyes of some
small boy years after you are gone, as he
eagerly waits for Jack Frost to release
the treasures for him. It's worth a little
labor and a little money to make the
coming generation happy.
Preparing a Supply of Green Food.
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for an abundant supply Of green food
stored away for winter use with the poul-
try. There are numberless small potatoes
that are unstable and they belong to the
I stock. Then there are the other unstable
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Go over the supply. picking out anything
that Is bruised and feeding this first. The
sound specimens should be placed where
1t is cool and where they viii keep for
the longest period. AS we have advised
before in this department, feed the green
food in a variety Of ways. Some OF it raw,
some Of 1t cooked and mixed with bran.
some Of 1t chopped and some of 1t whole
for the fowls to pick at. There Is much In
variety OF serving as there is also In va
riety OF sorts. Don't give the fowls the
green food Just after you have fed them
heavily on gram or mash, but let them
have II between meals. a little each day,
when 1t will do them the most good.
Some Work for Winter.
The two handy tools described VIII
be found extremely useful next summes
and some OF the spare time this fall and
winter can be used TO advantage in con.
structing them. Sometimes the old fork
wears down SO that the teeth are too short
to do good work In the usual way. Take
the old fork to a blacksmith and have the
teeth bent like a dung fork then fasten
q straight handle in the old socket and
you have a rake which IL much better
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