Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-03-08

between the edge of wheel and handle
joints. hoy may rest In Il hole bored with
an inch augur and the end of the small
post sharpcncd or. he bolted to the franz.
as preferred. If set at a slight angle the
capacity of the frame Is, of course, in
creased. Tho illustration shows the idea
plainly. ., .. representing the angle at
which the posts may be set. "a suggested.
PLANNING THE POULTRY RANGE.
There Is no doubt hut what poultry
raising and fruit growing can be combined
to great advantage and such a combine
tion Is by no means confined to the raising
OF small fruit. The orchard. old or young,
can he utilized as Il run for the poultry
and both tho trees and the birds he all
the better for the comhinD ZION. This is
one reason why. in planning a new set of
operations one should consider the follow
ing suggestions. Assuming one is to set
out an orchard or that one is already set.
unless it is too far from the house it is
quite feasible to locate the poultry houses
near the orchard, not directly IN the orch
ard for there must be n liberal portion of
ground devoted to the rum upon which the
sun shines without any shade. but locate
the houses and yards so that Il portion. at
least, 6r the orchard may be used for a
run during the part of the days of sum
MGR when the sun Is very warm. In this
way 1T viii benefit the orchard by the
scratching of the poultry and tn" fertiltza-
zion by the droppings and the fowls Will
be benefited by having the shade when
ever they want 1t as we'll as by the guam
titles OF insects they viii find and con-
sumo; on the other hand there is very
little chance of the orchard being injured
In the slightest degree even though the
trees are all young ones. Much building
material as well as considerable feed may
be saved by the plan suggested as we'll as
gaining the benefits outlined.
BUYING FIRST GRADE SEEDS.
Some exception WAS taken to the state
mcnt made in this department some time
ago to the effect that the main reason why
seedmcn kept poor seed was because 1t
was demanded. The writer recently in
terviewed one of the foremost seedsmen
OF the country and was told frankly that
inferior seed was handled because OF the
demand for 1t. Said this man, "If / could
not meet the prices made by other dealers
l would have to go out of business. and
yet. ] do not like to sell inferior seeds
knowing. rs 1 do that it cannot prove
satisfactory. But what am I to do?" This
Is indeed an alarming state of affairs and
1t IL astounding that the farmers of tho
country are 80 deliberately standing in
their own light. They do not need to be
told that first class. cleaned and reclcaned
seeds cannot possibly he sold as low as
the seeds that are not cleaned at all. yet
they will deliberately buy the poorer seed
and then. unjustly, blame the scotsman
for the poor crop which follows. This Is
especially so of grass seeds which are
| costly to clean hence command a high
| price for good seed. On the other hand
when one figures what good seed means as
we'll as what poor seed means 1t is ridicu-
lous to think that one will lose tho bene-
fits of n first class crop In order to save
the few dollars that are saved In the pur-
chase of seeds. The question Is one that
concerns every sced buyer and II nine
tenths of them would buy first class seeds
this year the reform would drive the poor
seeds out of the market while the in
creased crop and the improved quality
would much more than compensate all for
the advance in price of the good seeds over
the poor ones.