Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-05-04

has the varieties we'll tested by growers
in all berry sections before he makes Il
report concerning the new applicant for
public favor. Th Pennell is we'll worth
testing by any one who loves good straw
berries.
CARING FOR THE BOAR.
Anyone who starts out to raise hogs
with the idea of a goodly profit in mind
must needs pay some attention to the boar.
Admitting all there is in the Importance
of having good females upon which to
build up the herd. a poor boar or a good
boar poorly cared for will offset any value
there is in the high grade females; per-
haps not at first but surely after a season
or two the difference will be noted. Money
invested in a good boar is money we'll
invested If the animal is properly cared
for and proper care means proper food, IA
clean. comfortable pen by himself and a
yard of sufficient area to give him needed
exercise. The boar should be treated
kindly of course, but don't try to make a
pet of him for he cannot be trusted. See
that he is kept away from the hogs ex-
cept at breeding season and feed him so
that he will be fairly plump. but never fat;
muscle and energy is what he needs in
order that the get be desirable. Fin some
way OF letting him have a grassy run for
a portion of each day even though such
run will be small.
FEEDING ALFALFA HAY.
While we believe alfalfa to be all that
is claimed for it. no one should believe for
a moment that 1t is a perfect food for
stock and for pasture: 1t Is not always a
safe food, although horses do not seem to
be injured by feeding from 1t while green.
For cows and sheep alfalfa has its best
value when fed as hay in connection with
some other roughage. 1t is rich in protein
hence gives the feeder an opportunity to
feed protein much more cheaply than in
any grain. AS a pasture for hogs alfalfa
is all that is claimed for it, although, like
rape. it gives the best results when 1t is
a%lternated with some other pasture. If
the soil is in good condition.. that 1t, has
been properly %inoculated for alfalfa, about
fifteen pounds of seed to the acre is suf-
ficient. The seed should be clean, now
ever. and particularly free from dodder,
which is one of the worst enemies of the
alfalfa plant. A number of seedsmen are
offering special selected seed (probably
seed which has been cleaned with unusual
care) at an advanced price. and it will pay
to buy this better seed. Don't expect a
crop the first season but be content with
cutting it SO as to destroy the various
weeds and prevent them from going to
seed. The second season one may expect
good results.
EcoNoMizlNG ON SEEDS.
Regular readers of this department know
tuC OplIIlOu u IL writer OH lIe question
of cheap seeds and particularly when seeds
are bought at a low price from seedsmen
with no particular reputation. Such seeds
are generally worth even less than is paid
for them because there Is the loss, partial
or total, of the crop which cannot be COM
puted. 1t is considered by those who are
in a position to know tina If the soil Is
capable of producing a good crop 1t would
be cheaper in the end to pay double the
regular prices for seeds than to take the
risk of buying seeds even a trifle less in
price. Sometimes one may economic to
advantage by the proper selection of seeds,
as for example when red clover is to be
seeded some money may be saved by buy
ing one-third the quantity of alsike and
two-thirds of red clover seed. The COM
bination crop is more desirable than all
red clover which Is selling this spring
at from 50 to $40 a bushel for first grade
seed. Better a smaller area Of any one
thing put out han a larger area when
the cheap seeds are used, for the chances
are the smaller area will give you the
largest crop.
FOWLS FOR THE FARMERS WIFE
This may seem strange advice from a
poultryman of twenty odd years expert
ence, but we really think 1t is the best
thing that nine out of ten farmers could
do, particularly when they have the idea.
so many of them have, that fowls are not
worm me room tney take up. Just as IN
flower raising, a woman can get more out
of a flock Of poultry than a man and do 1t
with less effort and with less training.
Why this is SO is probably because she
gives the necessary care to the essential
details just as she does in raising tender
plants. 1t is not to be inferred that farm
ers cannot succeed with poultry, for they
can IL they are willing to give the bust.
ness attention, but II not they should turn
1t over to the wife and daughters. How
ever, bear In mind that the ladies' should
moi be expected to do the dirty work OF
poultry raising: have some Of the men dc
this in return for the extra eggs they
will have to eat. This disagreeable part OF
the work taken out Of the business and
the women given some decent stock As q
founda ton. they will succeed ninety-nine
times out of a hundred. Make a business
arrangement of 1t. by the way, and lei
the women have the money they earn t.
do with az they please. Don't make 1t an.
other ease Of 'Bobby's calf and fathers
cow"
SoWs KILLING THEIR YOUNG.
Some OF the questions concerning sow
destroying their young were sent to q
! veteran swine raiser and his reply was 6l