Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-06-02

they can dust and sun themselves. These
habits will fix themselves quickly IL they
are started soon enough and the chick
will make an the better pullet and hen IN
consequence.
COMMON SENSE IN MANURiNG.
While 1t is admitted that the majority
OF farmers try to cover too much ground
with the manur they have TO use, often
times using what should go OF one acre to
cover five, there is just as much danger,
or rather loss of profit. in the other ex-
treme. For example. Il an area of Six
acres is properly MANFRED the yield will be
more profitable than II the same quantity
Of manure il 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 VIII
the yield OF three acres be double the
yield OF the six acres. Again. assuming OF
course that the manuring is done in prop
err 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 thin
spreading of manure over a large area
that is proitless: 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. OF course the
same rule applies to the use OF CONNER
cial fertilizers, although the farmer is mo-
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 IL the rain
washes of the spray. While opiEions diff
fer experience has 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 I'M SO gallons OF water n when
the plants are small apply at the rate OF
SO gallons per acre, increasing the quantity
az the plants grow until in midsummer
100 gallons TO the acre are used. When II
is necessary to use something for destruc-
ton Of potato bugs dissolve Paris green In
the Bordeaux mixture as indicated at the
rate of one pound TO each rs gallons Of tire
mixture, spraying the combined mixture
together. While several other mediums
are used we feel that the Bordeaux mix
ure compounded as indicated will do the
business better than anything else. If the
O16I ttAh1N III ~ -
conjunction with this spraying there oughi
10 be comparatively little trouble in OBJ
tanning a good crop OF potatoes in a nor
nal season.
FOOD FOR WORKING FARMERS
A farme. lin the SOUTH says IN an ex-
change: When spring blowing begins we
fall bach on COW peas and corn bread foI
dinner" IL 1t is assumed that this mar
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 hat il 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 Il
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 o. earth When they shoul be
better fed than those in other occupations.
Time was when we lived almost wholly on
corn bread, bean soup and salt pork. Then
we learned the value Of other meats, OF
fowls and of eggs, of fruits. Of milk and OF
vegetables. The system requires a GER
tain amount of raw fruit and vegetables
for the acids they contain, but those must
be used In moderation and the main susie
nance come from meat Of some kind, beef
ranking first. If farmers would dispose
of some of the products OF the farm for
their beef supply, then eat literally OF
fowls, eggs and milk and moderately of
vegetables in the raw state they would
find themselves better men physically and
mentally and find also that they were not
paying much more Tor their nying than
when existing on corn bread and COW pea
soup.
TO CLEANSE PLANTS.
Certain kinds of plants grown in pots
are often suhiect 10 the attacks Of in