The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-06-02

then fix a little corner where there Is
some dry and rather sandy soil in when
they can dust and sun themselves. These
habits will fix themselves quickly if they
arc started soon enough and the chick
will make all the better pullct and hen IN
consequence
COMMON SENSE IN MATURING.
While 1t is admitted that the majority
of farmers try to cover too much ground
with the manure they have to use, often
times using what should go on one acre to
cover five, there is just as much danger,
or rather loss of profit, in the other cx-
IRENE. For example. # an area of SIX
acres is properly manured the yield will be
more profitable than If the same quantity
of manure Is placed on three acres. The
cost of producing the crop on three acres
will not be one-half Of the cost of pro
duction of the crop on six acres nor will
the yield of three acres be double the
yield of the six acres. Again. assuming OF
course that the manuring Is done in prop
er quantities. the fertilizing value left for
the second crop on the six acres is OF
greater value than that left for the second
crop on the three acres. 1t is the hin
spreading of manure over a large area
that is profitless: in other words. giving
to three acres what is only fair manuring
for one acre. Market gardeners who man
ure very heavily can do so with profit be-
cause they get several crops from the area
in the one season, which is not the case
with the average farmer. Or course the
same rule applies to the use of CONNER
cial fertilizers, although the farmer is not
apt to err in this because he has to pay
out cash for commercial fertilizers.
ARE YOU SPRAYING POTATOES?
To get the best of the blight on potatoes
the work of spraying must be started
when the plants are a few inches high and
continued throughout the season. doing
the work thoroughly every ten days or
two weeks at most, oftener If the rain
washes off the spray While opinions diff
fer experience mas shown that the follow
ing formula the most effective one for use
in spraying potatoes. Dissolve six pounds
OF blue vitrol and four pounds of best
stone lime in so gallons of water and when
the plants are small apply at the rate OF
SO gallons per acre. increasing the quantity
as the plants grow until in midsummer
100 gallons to the acre are used. When II
is necessary to use something for destrnc-
ton of potato bugs dissolve Paris green in
the Bordeaux mixture as indicated at the
rate of one pound TO each 70 gallons OF tire
mixture, spraying the combined mixture
together While several other mediums
are used We feel that the Bordeaux mix
ture compounded as indicated will do the
business better than anything else If the
best methods of culture are followed in
conjunction with this spraying there ought
to be comparatively little trouble in OBJ
tanning a good crop Of potatoes in a nor
NAL season.
FOOD FOR WORKING FARMERS
A farmer dn the SOUTH says in an eX-
change when spring blowing begins We
fall back on COW peas and corn bread for
dinner If 1t is assumed that this man
is not a vegetarian and uses this diet be-
cause of his belief. 1t is certainly a mighty
poor diet for one to do a hard days work
On. One who has tested the matter of
food for the man who works with his
muscles as well as he who works with his
brain mainly, has shown that it is prac-
tically impossible for the majority of peo-
pie to get along well without meat. The
pros and cons of meat eating are not part
of the argument. We are not educated tG
the point where We can live wholly on
fruits and vegetables; individuals may,
but the race as a whole cannot. AS a
matter of fact farmers are the poorest
fed people on earth when they should be
better fed than those in other occupations
Time was when we lived almost wholly OF
corn bread, bean soup and salt pork. Their
We learned the value of other meats. OF
fowls and of eggs, of fruits, Of milk and OF
vegetables. The system requires d Ger.
ain amount of raw fruit and vegetables
for the acids they contain, but those mus;
be used in moderation and the main susie,
nance come from meat of some kind, bce1
ranking first. If farmers would dispose
OF some of the products of the farm fol
their beef supply, then cat literally OF
fowls, eggs and milk and moderately Of
vegetables in the raw state they would
find themselves better men physically ant
mentally and find also that they We're no
paying much more for their living thar
when existing on corn bread and COW pc:
soup.
TO CLEANSE PLANTS.
= Certain kinds of plants grown in pot.
are often subject to the attacks of in
sects even in the summer although the
:, trouble Is greater during the months O.
winter when the plants are grown in thu
heat of the living room. without mucl
moisture. To thoroughly cleanse plants o
insects they must be fumigated, Tobacco,
, burned being the means generally EN-
| ployed. OF course. in this work the mali
idea is to keep the air from the plant!
: during the process of fumigation. Thu
!, fum:gating box may be Of any size de
! sired, according to the number of plant
. to be cleansed, although a box which ma,
be conveniently carried about is to b,
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