Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-10-14


n certain grower obtained more than
the average price for fine apples by
lining his baskets with tissue paper.
Each specimen placed in such a basket
should be not only perfect In every
possible way but wiped with a cloth so
that all soil Is removed and the sur
face of the skin shows a high polish.
It has been demonstrated time and
again that the price received for fruit
put up in the manner indicated i'm
small packages more than pays for all
the expense and labor involved.
Possibilities in Sheep Raising.
There probably never was a time
when sheep raising was more promis-
ing than now, not only because of the
demand for fleece but the growing con-
sumption of mutton. Then the scarcity
OF farm help is forcing farmers in many
sections 10 turn to some industry which
VIII require the hiring Of less outside
labor. In many sections this harvest
h dearth of help caused positive
loss, so that IL ones farm seems suited
to sheep raising the question OF start
ing In on this Industry is worth seri-
Gus thought. Probably the man best
fitted to take up the sheep industry is
n dairyman, and many dairymen
have found that they could care for all
the sheep their farm would support,
while 1t required considerable assist
ance to car for the cows that could be
supported OF the farm. The early
spring lambs are. of course, profitable
and the man with experience along this
line can safely figure that, other things
being equal, the opportunities in sheep
raising are bright.
Winter Feed for Horses.
1t is expected, as a matter Of course,
that the farm horse will have to eat
considerable corn and especially when
he is forced to work hard. On many
farms this corn ration is reduced to a
very small quantity il the horse has
little work to do, the feed consisting al
most wholly of. hay and corn slower.
There is little use OF attempting to
argue corn out of the ration for the
farm horse so long as 1t may be grown
at less cost than other grains, but, on
the other hand, 1t is safe to say that
the feeding OF corn is abused. A ra-
ton of two parts of oats and one part
OF corn, both ground, will form a
grain ration which will enable any
horse to do an honest days work dur
ing the winter IL he is also given a
fair amount of roughage. Some horses,
generally those who have had compar-
atively little corn. may suffer indiges-
ton, in which case the corn quantity
must be reduced or cut out altogether.
The Best Season for Eggs.
Several readers of this department
who have become Interested in the ar
ticles on poultry have taken exception
TO the statements made concerning the
profits from eggs during the winter. 1t
is admitted that many things determine
Tic profit 10 pc Iitfde from eggs at any
season. For example, the writer has a
friend with a poultry plant near a
prominent summer resort and this man
makes the bulk of his money from eggs
laid during the summer Another friend
Is located lear Lakewood, the famous
winter resort, and his money is made
from winter laid eggs, 1t Is plain,
therefore. that location has much to do
with the profit I'M egg-raising, although
eggs are always higher In winter than
In summer, because scarcer. The key
note to the winter egg production Is the
pullet. Matched sufficiently early so that
she will come into laying In the latter
part OF January, OF early in February,
when eggs sell for high prices. From
the standpoint Of egg profit the late
Matched pullet Is OF little value. If one
has q pen OF pullets late Matched little
q be done In the way of feeding to
make them early layers this year; II
they are kept another winter then feed
ing VIII have considerable influence on
the egg production n the earliness as
well.
Feeding Corn Fodder.
1T lis stated without contradiction that
the food value In the corn plant is In
the proportion OF SS per cent. in the
fodder and As per cent. I'm the ears.
These figures will seem incredible to
those who have long believed that the