Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-09-08

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in the halter ring. When the horse pulls
back the rope tightens around the body
and pulls him back so that after a few
trials he gives UP the plan. To prevent the
rope from making the back Of the horse
sore make a soft pad of several thickness
es Of new unbleached muslin covered on
the outside with a piece of denim or any
equally strong, clean material. Make small
straps OF some of the material and sew to
the pad, the rope passing underneath
these loops. The illustration shows the
idea plainly, figure 1 indicating the shap-
ing of the pad at the center seam.
LIVER TROUBLE WITH HORSES.
Horses are more frequently troubled
with indigestion and liver disease than is
generally supposed and when the latter
trouble appears in a young horse 1t is usu-
ally inherited, hence all the more difficult
to cure. There are phases of indigestion
as In the human family, but IT is generally
safe TO treat a horse suffering badly with
chronic dyspepsia on the superstition that
its liver needs stirring up. Oftentimes the
trouble gets so bad that it is impossible
to fully cure 1t, although it may be great
ly relieved by a course of medicine and a
strict diet, meantime working the horse
only lightly. The standard remedy for
liver trouble is two ounces of aloin and
one dram of ~podophyllin made into a pill.
Any druggist can put this up. Give this
dose every five or six days until the bowels
move freely, At the same time give the
horse daily twenty-five drops of t~incture
of nux vomica on the tongue. Six weeks
or two months of this treatment should
show a much improved condition. Let the
horse rest and be on pasture, If possible,
during the period 1t is taking medicine and
see that all of the ration is of a laxative
nature. Should the medicine act too freely
on the bowels reduce the dose.
MULCHING THE ORCHARD.
The use of the grass or weeds grown in
the orchard for mulching the trees is along
the line of the sod in the orchard idea and
It's use for the benefit of the trees, and es-
pecially the young trees, is to be recon-
mended during the summer but decidedly
not during the winter, when there. is
snow on the ground for 1t would be but a
winter shelter for the mice, who would i'm
prove the opportunity to gna the tender
bark Of the trees. We make it our BUSH
ness to go over the young orchards in the
late fall and hoe ava from around each
tree for a distance OF three feet or more
all Of the vegetable growth of any nature.
Just before the ground freezes the soil
about each tree is packed down hard and
after the first heavy fall of snow, at a sea-
son when 1t is assumes that winter has
fairly set in, we pack this snow down firm
ly. In most years it freezes and forms a
protection to the tree from vermin, yet
does the tree no harm.
USING LIME ON FARMS.
The proper use of lime on farm lands
Is not yet, in our opinion, fully understood.
1t has generally been considered that IL
a soil shows acidity according to the
simple litmus paper test. it needs lime,
but 1t does not always follow that such is
the case. Light, sandy soils will show
acidity even after repeated lining. hence
1t would be folly to add more lime. In
such cases humus is what is needed. On
the other hand, IL Is safe to say that with
heavy soils that are well supplied with
vegetable matter and show acidity under
the litmus test, lime may be applied to
advantage and in considerable quantities.
This lime question, like many other ques-
tons In modern farming, Is one which
must be largely worked out by the indi-
vidual, according TO conditions surround
Ing him, and that can be done better by
the experiment plot plan than by any
other for by this plan one loses but little
time and practically zone of the crop
raising soil.
PASTURE FOR LAMBS.
A little care in the pasturing of the
lambs from now on until cold weather sets
In will result in putting into the barn
animals who will thrive rapidly on the
winter ration and go to the winter market
at profitable prices. No better pasture
can be had for lambs than the meadows,
provided they have not been pastured by
larger stock since the hay was cut. Turn
the lambs into such a pasture, having IL
large enough so there win be no tempta-
ton to eat too closely and one will see
marvellous results and without the injury
to the meadows which probably would re-
suit by the pasturing of the cows. With
this good pasture see that the lambs have
plenty of good fresh water and places
where they may go for protection from the
storm and you will take some splendid ami
mails into winter quarters.
WHY POULTRY DOESN'T PAY.
IL asked TO give one reason and one
only why farmers fail to make poultry
profitable the answer might fairly be be-
cause they do not believe In them: as a
rule the farmers consider poultry beneath
their notice. As one farmer put 1t they
are all very well for the women to fool
with but this farm can produce something
OF more Importance thar poultry This
same man was extremely glad to have the
women help him out OF a bad financial
scrape with the money they made from
poultry. II farmers would take the trouble
to study poultry as they do COWS ana he
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