Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-04-28
Pithy Pointers for Farmers.
BY Permission Of
he Farmer and Breeder.

Many horses are fed into a poor con-
dition.
Milk of different temperatures should
never be mixed.
As a general rule the model farms
are the small ones.
Other things being equal, the best
seeds bring the best price.
II is a mistake to breed from mares
faulty in wind, limb or form.
IL is not wise, as a rule, for a farmer
10 depend upon a single crop.
The best method of paying for the
farm is to make 1t productive.
All trees should be transplanted be-
fore the leaves begin to open.
Keep your stock growing and ii viii
be earning something every day.
Plant a nice variety of vegetables
SO as to have a continual change.
Butter should be exposed to the air
as little as possible after it is churned.
Unless manure is under cover. the
sooner i is spread in the fields the bet
ter.
In the garden especially the more
crops harvested off the same ground
the better.
One of the best means OF increasing
the fertility of the soil is by better till
age.
No Improbable animals should be
kept a moment longer than necessity
requires.
To secure health and thrift swine
must be bred from healthy stock and
given good care.
Mutton sheep should be ready for
market as fast as possible now in order
TO realize the best prices.
Plants variety so that if n crop
fails or the market is glutted by il the
others may prove remuneratiye.
Quality Is as important as quantity
u should be just as earnestly sought
after in the product of the farm.
The fleece cannot be too well cared
for. both while in the state growth and
after it a left the sleeps back.
Cream must be fresh n in good
uniform condition if good butter COM
plete in all it's qualities is secured.
Profit in any business depends upon
Intelligent II painstaking adjustment
and execution of the varied details.
Never feed a horse more than il will
digest. 1t is not what is eaten but
what is digested that gives strength.
The milk from heiferS is neither so
liberal in quantity nor so rich as that
from the same COW as she becomes
older.
IT is very injurious to the COWS TO
turn them in the pasture before the
grasses become matured enough to
make good grazing.
Sheep n big cattle should never be
allowed to run together, but be kept
In different fields, and then changed
about occasionally.
On the way farm work is started and
the conditions the farm animals enter
the summer, largely depend the profits
in the crop and the stock.
To give weeds the best character
possible, they are but parasites not
on the soil n farm crops only, but on
the revenue of the farmer.
In preparing the early lambs for
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feshy and fat they can be made the
better prices they will bring.
Sows hould be kept in a healthy,
thrifty condition when bred, and re-
ceive such treatment after that as to
Keep them in thriving condition.
Horses that show any tendency to-
ward chronic cough should never be
fed on dry feed as dry, dusty and heat
ing feeds all exaggerate lung troubles.
A brood mare, heavy with foal,
should never be put to a heavy load.
as there is danger of straining and
causing her to drop her foal before her
time.
Do not be afraid to pull out a few
plants where they are growing too
thickly. Plants will grow stronger and
larger and ripen better if given plenty
OF room.
Activity and intelligence are neces-
sary characteristics of a good farm
horse, and n that does not possess
these natural qualities has no business
OH the farm.
no manure round the stables
In summer. Gather it up, haul out and
spread on the fields where needed. This
Is the surest way of saving all of it's
valuable properties.
Keeping h harness clean and well
oiled will aid in it's preservation. Twice
a year is none too much to oil thor
oughly. Castor oil and neatsfoot oil
makes a good dressing.
AS a general rule, cropping the
orchard does not pay and is poor policy
besides. The trees need all of the
strength that is in the soil, and in