The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-08-10

tened ana the remarkably rapid growth OF
the bird. The birds are hardy and strong
and are great foragers, feather early and,
If given half a chance, will get a good
living on the range during the ummer
thriving under the minimum quantity Of
grain. 1t is, however, essential tina the
ducklings be given a good start by keep
ing feed before rnem at all times and fur
nishing them with an abundance of water
for drinking. The breed is recommended
for trial by breeders who lave had ex-
p%erience in duck raising.
MAKING A CLAY SOIL PROFIT
ABLE.
Those whose farms are loamy soils,
whether loamy SAND or loamy clay, do not
realize what the man with the sandy
soil or he with the clay soil has to contend
with. In the one case there is the diff
Guilty of making the soil hold the applied
fertilizer, as one owner Of such a. soil re-
marked, lit is like a bottomless we'll, I" the
man with the clayey soil has his roubles
in it's being wet and unavoidable part Of
the time and so hard he cannot pillow 1t
the rest of the time. Here are two ex-
tremes of soil and yet the one remedy
may be applied to both, that of adding hu-
mus. 1t is impossible to carefully advise
one just how such soils should be handled
in detail but it may be said, in a general
way, that crops which will furnish humus
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be used. While there Is, of course, a
choice OF hunus material, anything which
will ansewr the purpose will help. On the
clay soil one would not go far wrong, if
the soil was poor, to get it INTO COW peas
the entire crop to be turned under, follow
this with corn and the next year divide
the plot in two parts and crop one part
with potatoes and on the other make
another cow pea crop to be turned under.
After the potatoes are off cover the soil
with rye to be plowed under the following
spring and then follow again with corn.
Make the rotations as short as possible
having the humus crop come every other
year for a few years.
GROW MORE HAY, FEED MORE
STOCK.
There are two classes of farmers who
need to learn that the foundation stone Of
soil fertility is stable manure He that
uses commercial fertilizers almost exclus-
lively and he who is cropping a virgin soil
to death. The writer has no quarrel with
commercial fertilizers for they are used
extensively right here on our own FARMS,
but thirty years OF working the soil has
taught us that the basis Of soil fertiliz-
ing is the stable manure and tibet we may
obtain this fertilizer in the cheapest way
by raising feed and giving it to the cattle.
Take the cotton states for example; it is
only within comparative recent years that
farmers in that section have realized that
they were fast depicting their soils of all
fertility because OF the lavish use of COM
mercial fertilizers coupled with the fact
that cotton followed cotton making two
or more crops VIGOROUSLY hard on the soil.
The gradual Introduction of COWS, the lay
Ing down of meadows and the raising Of
food for the stock has changed matters
so that the yield Of cotton is greater per
acre and, in many cases, there is surplus
hay to sell to advantage. The same state
of affairs obtains in a greater or lesser
degree in other sections and the general
farmer who has sufficient stock to furnish
him with the stable manure for his soil
except only the commercial fertilizer need
ed for special crops, is on the road to sue
cess provided he raises the most Of the
food consumed by the stock.
SAVING UNSALABLE VEGETABLES
Nearly all surplus summer vegetables
can be fed to the poultry and stock to
advantage even though the stock is nav
ing the benefit Of the range they will en-
joy the variety. Those who grow winter
vegetables, such as potatoes, carrots, cab
bages and the like should use care to save
the unstable portion for late fall and
winter feeding; hundreds of bushels Of
small potatoes are yearly fed to swine
during the summer when they are having
all the green food they need, which ought
to be saved for feeding later in the sea-
son. If one has a rather cool but dry
cellar and plenty of sand that is dry it IS
not hard to store those things away. If
one has no such storage place and has
considerable stock 1t will pay to provide
a rough place In which to care for them.
Such things as c~ababges are easily cared
for in the open ground and it will not be
hard to care for potatoes and carrots and
other root crops If they are stored where
1t is dry and cool after first wiping3 away
any moisture that is on them. The writer
has paid as high as twenty-five cents q
bushel for potatoes too small to market
and found them well worth the price for
winter feeding to both swine anu poultry.
One cannot afford to overlook anything
in the way Of feed which may be utilized
for cold weather feeding, nor can they
afford to feed this sort of stuff during the
summer simply to get it out Of the way.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
PROFIT AND LOSS.
The writer has had considerable to say,
In this department, concerning the plan of
marketing crops, Of any kind, attractive
ly. The success of this plan is no more
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