The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-02-09

under eaCn rOoSt tnefe neeQ ne ltlie ledi
of lice in this part of the house. The
troughs should run from end to end of
each roost and be SO fastened that they
will not tip; then If the Vermin-resting
places in the other parts of the house are
kept IN proper shape by the use OF more
kerosene or whitewash or carbolic acid,
with All abundance Of insect powder in
the nests the lice problem will not be SO
hard. The illustration shows the construc-
tor. of the appliance suggested.
THE MAN WHO BUYS NOVELTIES
Near the writer lives a man who has
been a farmer, fruit grower and vegetable
grower for forty years.; a hard worker, an
honest man, but as poor today as when
he first started in life. He has had little
or no sickness in his family and no great
troubles such as aften thwart the best
efforts of able men, but he has been a
slave to novelties. Each season as the
catalogues are received he spends hours
porting over them and greedily reading the
lurid descriptions of novelties. At seed
buying times he scrapes together all the
money obtainable'a and for every dollar he
spends for s%tandar sorts he spends So
for novelties. He saves his run-out corn
for seed and for seed potatoes plants any
thing he can buy at the store. His garden
is large, but he has SO many different
things in it that he cannot get a decent
load of anything to market. SO he finds it
nara TO sell C1e OuQS anu eINS lit IdlSSS.
No one seems to want blue radishes,
striped tomatoes or red squasnes SO he has
IL hard time of it. He typifies hundreds
Of men working in rural sections. Test the
novelties by all means, for many of them
are valuable, but place the main reliance
on the sorts which have been tested and
found of value through repeated seasons.
WHY NOT FEED THE ORCHARD?
Why any fruit grower should expect his
| n ral, ~ tn 1,nar Iir,, a 4, ,,-ort re -lD11or -
when he gives it no attention is beyond
ones comprehension. Such a man would
not expect a profitable crop of corn. oats,
potatoes or any other crop on the same
terms, SO why fruit? True, the SOL in
which the young trees are set may be all
that is desirable at the. time, but it's fer
tility will not last for an indefinite period
as the trees draw on IT.. There are, Of
course, differences of opinion as to the
treatment of the orchard, but it is certain
that any treatment which will add to the
fertility of the soil so that it keeps pace
with the demands of the trees cannot be
far out of the way. 1t is absolutely a
waste of time for one to go into orchard
ing unless they are prepared to feed their
orchard and otherwise care fer them.
h numerous insect enemies of fruit trees
are hard to fight and there are more of
them than formerly, SO there is even less
chance Of success thar in former years
" shh~ hi't&'A VIM itl AoShS. "a NJ AIM
gives no thought to them afterwards. A
good time now to go through the orchard
and see il the winds have broker limbs
that should be removed.
COMFORT IN FEEDING SWINE.
AS a breeder of swine for nearly twenty
five years the writer has learned that
many of his old ideas concerning their
care were wrong. We know now that
swine are as appreciatiVe of cleanliness
and comforts as other farm animals. O
course it is not to be expected that an
old. animal who has rooted in filth fer
three or four years can be made to see
the beauties of a clean pen at once, but
we know that the hog, young or old, Civ
en- a variety of feed, salt, charcoal and old
sod, with plenty of clean water to drink,
a clean trough, a clean bed and plenty Of
sunshine is not long in taking advantage
Of the good things and getting fat on
them. We have a way Of cleaning up
the short straw in the beds Of the horses
and cows, laying 1t out in a sunny spot
on the barn floor for two or three days
and then using it with some longer straw
for the beds Of the hogs. After that 1t
is thrown in low spots in the pig run and
later thrown on tho common manure pile.
We take special pains never to ALLOW any
food to remain in the trOughs which the
swine do not eat. We feed what we think
they will eat up cleaJs and should there
" "iy i@iS a - @"SP W. oiiu Az iotSH
washed with water to remove any possible
souriness. This may be treating the
swine with undue kindness, but we have
proved that 1t pays
IMPROVING Tie COMMON
POULTRY.
While the majority Of successful poul-
trymen believe it more profitable to start
at the beginning with high grade stock II
is realized that the farmer cannot always
go into the poultry business in this man.
ner. He may have a hundred or more
fowls of more or less nondescript type, but
he must make what he can CT them and
at the smallest possible expense. There is
no better way of doing this than by select.
ing ten OF a dozen Of the best hens, those
that have proved the best layers and are
of good form, and putting with them d
high grade cockerel. For example. take q
lot hens a year old or ever eighteer
months old, hens that are of the mixture
of large and rather heavy breeds. Buy a
high grade White Leghorn cockerel ant
mate him to these hens. Hatch the eggs
and the next winter buy another cockere
and mate him to the pullets from the eggs
Matched, using the first male to mate witt
smother selected lot of pullets from ths
mongrel stock. In this way cross-breedine
IL ie eCt a hIisha1 and TIM fau, -.