The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-05-04

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quality is of the finest and 1t is Just the
berry for home use or for local markets.
1t is large, OF rich crimson color with red
flesh. The plants are good growers n
as yet have shown no tendency to blight.
In season it is fairly early and the plants
are quite productive. This sort is one of
the productions of Matthew Crawford of
Ohio, who has given many desirable var
ieties of Strawberries to the world and who
has the varieties we'll tested by growers
in all berry sections before he makes a
report concerning the new applicant for
public favor. The Pencil is well 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 well
invested if the animal is properly cared
for and proper care means proper food, a
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. FNind some
way OF letting him a a grassy run for
a portion of each day ever 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 it Is a perfect food for
stock and for pasture; it is not always a
safe food, although horses do not seem to
be injured by feeding from it while green.
For COWS and sheep alfalfa has its best
value when fed as hay in connection with
some other roughage It 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 1t, although, like
| rape, it gives the best results when it is
alternated with some other pasture. If
the soil is in good condition, that it, has
been properly inoculated for alfalfa, about
fifteen pounds Of seed to the acre is suf-
flcient. The seed should be clean, how
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 1t SO as to destroy the various
weeds and prevent them from going to
seed. The second season one may expect
good results.
ECONOMIzING ON SEEDS.
Regular readers Of this.d department know
/ the opinion of the writer on the 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 that If the soil is
capable of producing a good crop it 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 economize to
advantage by the proper selection of seeds,
as for example wf.A red clover is to be
seeded some money nay be saved by buy
ing one-third the quantity of aisike 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 than 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 wenty odd years expert
ence, but we really think it is the best
thing that nine out Of ten farmers could
do, particularly when they a the idea
SO many of them have, that fowls are not
flower raising, a woman can get more ou1
Of a flock Of poultry than a man and do II
with less effort and with less training
Why this is SO is probably because she
gives the necessary care to the essentia
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 If they are willing to give the bust.
ness attention, but If not they should turr
1t over to the wife and daughters. How,
ever, bear in mind that the ladies should
not be expected to DO the dirty work o.
poultry raising; have some Of the men DE-
this in return for the extra eggs the!
will have to eat. This disagreeable part o.
the work taken out of the business ant
the women given some decent stock as {
foundation, they will succeed ninety-nint
times out of a hundred. Make a bushes:
arrangement of it. by the way, and le
the women have the money they earn Il
do with as they please. Don't make it an
other case of .Bobby's calf and father
cow"
soWs KILLING THEIR YOUNG.
Some of the questions concerning sow:
destroying their young were sent to {
veteran swine raiser and his reply was (ht