The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-10-11

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shape with little variety. The NOR
interested we can keep gu fowls durtn
the winter the more we can expect n
obtain from them especially In the way
Of eggs.
TRY THE SMALL FRUIT PACKAGE.
The writer has recently sold about thirty
of first grade apples at nearly 10
per cent. more han barrel prices by the
simple method OF putting them up IN
packages holding about a peck. looking
a commission man whose trade was
with the dealers In fancy fruit and deliv-
crlng him three sample packages. Know
ing that the goods would be like the sam
pie the commission man said, ship them
all to me and I win guarantee at least 25
per cent. more than barrel price for high
grade fruit: the next morning this man
telegraphed me hat he could sell all I
ship and pay almost 40 per cent.
above the best barrel price, not the barrel
price for average fruit mind you, but the
best. The additional cost was In labor,
packages and a little transportation and
we figure that we cleaned up not less than
25 Per cent more for our care and trouble.
Try the plan at your home market, you
will find it pays.
QUITTING THE MARKET.
1t is a common complaint to rear that
the market is so glutted one cannot make
any profit in any branc of agriculture;
as a matter of fact the only glut there
is or the market is of inferior products.
Take the poultry market for example,
There IS no complaint regarding perfectly
fresh eggs nor of the best fowls being a
drug on the market for both arc selling
and always do sell at a price which gives
the producer a fair margin of profit
There is not a product of thef farm which
is first class in quality and which is pre-
cnnted fnLf1a npCi,Y1e >a IN Ear, attrn pftvs
manner, but what always brings a profit
able price. Tho trouble is that the pros
Queer will insist in mixing his inferior pro-
duct With the best grade in order to get
rid of the former unmindful of the fact
that he is. in consequence reducing the in
come from the best quality, This Is not a
difficult problem to solve If one will go
about it in an intelligent ann n see
the proper viewpoint.
FATTENiNG HOGS WITHOUT CORN
Corn is such a prominent feature in the
ration for swine that 1t has come to be
generally considered essential: true, with
corn one has a great advantage part.cu-
larly during the fattening period, but 1t
is unfair to say that hogs eannot be profit
ably raised except in corn sections. There
are many sections wher thesm ] err grains
are raised in great profuslon, notably bar
ley, oats, wheat and field peas and in such
sections there is, of course, more or less
corn raised. 1t is curious to observe that
comparatively few swine are raised ir
these small grain sections when, as a mat
ter of fact, it could be profitably done Inc
largely with the infer,or-in-sIze small
grains which otherwise would become q
waste product. Indeed, If we look more
closely into the matter It will be found
that these small grains will furnish a va
r.ety which the corn grower does not have
hence 1t stands to reason that the hog
product can be produced at even less cost
than when it is raised entirely on corn.
THE FRESH EGG STAMP.
For a number of years ~enterpr.sinE poul-
trymen of good repute have stamped their
egg productions NTH a rubber stamp bear
ing the words Guaranteed strictly fresh. I"
So long as this was done only by respon-
s.ble men whose guarantee meant some
thing and who would add name and adj
dress to the stamp, the consumer was get
ting the best and could depend upon such
eggs. Naturally enough. perhaps, rascals
caught the idea and proceeded to buy
packed eggs In the large cites and stamp
ed them strictly fresh, but failed to ado
their names and addresses. The natural
consequences ensued so that the consum-
er stunned rather than sought the stamp
ed egg. In several states n law has been
enacted carrying with it a heavy penalty
for any one who buys eggs and stamps
lneD SlT-Ctly ITcSn. ms law should D; i'll
force In every state and farmers every
where arc urged to bring the matter to the
attention Of the lawmakers of their state
this winter IN order to protect themselves.
THE VALUE OF WHlTEWASH.
There is much misconceptIon regarding
the use of wh-tewash on tree and shrub
trunks; contrary to the general belief lime
viii! not kill scale nor any insect whose ma
ture is to suck. but no insect of this kind
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the chief value of it IS to seal up the nests
made in crevices of any kind and thus pre-
vent the eggs of the female from Matching
This applies to the lice Of the poultry
house as well as to those of a sucking na-
ture which infest trees so that one has but
to become acquainted with the periods at
which egsS are Matched in order to over.
come this influx of the young insects.
AN IDEAL APPLE PICKER.
When one has Il crop of considerable size
to gather from orchard trees it is import
lied and an apple picker is one of the
things which VIII pay for it elf many times
over III a single season. One Of the most
simple appliances we know Of is made
by taking a pole of any length which can
be conveniently handled and fastening to
t a piece OF wire shaped something like
the wish bone" Of a fowl. This wire is
fastened to the edges of the apple bag and
the point or a shaped piece is so arranged
that by lifting the whole thing up and un-
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