Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-08-10

Tic ANVIL ID all earlier SOl l, lIt RAVES
shedding early, the nut oblique roundish,
large, moderately ribbed, meat especially
separated from the shells; in season it is
medium.
NEGOTIATING FOR ALFALFA.
Since the Juror about the bacterias sup
posed TO nave been supplied at the instiga-
ton of the United States department of
agriculture through a commercial firm,
and in which several officials of the de-
partment are involved, ii has been pretty
generally demonstrated that by far the
better way of ~inoculating the soil in order
the get a stand of alfalfa is TO use pre-
ferably soil from a field in which alfalfa
has been successfully grown, or, If this is
not feasible, to use for fertilizing manur
from alfalfa fed animals. The same result
is accomplished in either way, although,
as stated, the first plan Is to be preferred,
provided the inoCulated soil can be OBJ
tanned from reasonably nearby. Do not
use q nurse crop, for this is one of the old
fashioned notions which has been e.l-
ploded. AS a matter of fact, very few
grains or grasses, If they are hardy in the
section where the seeds are sown, need
what Is popularity known as the nurse crop
and alfalfa Is essentially one of those
grasses that does not need the nurse crop.
Bear IN mind that in order to obtain a
stand Of alfalfa the soil must be free OF
acidity and If the litmus paper test shows
an acid soil the application of lime is the
remedial agent. If tlere is any question
about the quantity of lime necessary. it
would be a good idea to apply 50 bushels
per acre and note the result; the second
season will indicate whether that is suffi-
cient. Those who have use fol forage crop
will find II well worth their while to go
to considerable trouble to get a stand of
alfalfa, bearing In mind that 1t Is the crop
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season, and be all the better for 1T, and,
unlike crimson clover, it is not easily win
ter killed when once 1t becomes estab-
iished.
POULTRY HOUSE DiSlNFEcTANTS
There seems to be some misunderstand-
ing as to what constitutes a disinfectant.
One of the correspondents of this depart
ment has written the editor saying that
he had spent more money for carbolic acid
for disinfectant purposes than his poultry
was worth. If this Is the case, he has
undoubtedly been using the reined car
bolic acid which is not a disinfectant but
is an a~ntiseptic. For disinfecting purposes
the crude carbolic acid Is used and this is
very much cheaper in price, even at ordi-
nary drug store prices. costing 80 cents a
pint. and II may be diluted fully 100 per
cent. and still be effective. On the editors
w farm the plan of disinfecting which
mas Deen IOunu most economical and at
the same time most effective is to clean
the houses of all movable articles. such as
nest boxes and roosts and then, with the
help of a knapsack sprayer, saturate the
walls and the ceiling and especially the
notches In the frame into which the roosts
set with a solution OF 100 per cent. diluted
crude carbolic acid. This is lone very
early In the morning as soon as the fowls
are turned out, and doors and windows
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tionable odor of the cafbolic acid may
escape. While the nest boxes and the
roosts are put of the house they are thor
oughly cleansed with kerosene oil In full
strength. They may be put back in the
house before the birds go to roost at night
and then the next day the structure inside
Is spread with whitewash, an addition of
a tablespoonful of crude carbolic acid be-
Ing added to each five gallons of the
w~hitewash. All nest material is burned
and before any new is put in the boxes a
layer of tobacco stems is placed in the
bottom of each box. BY this method of
cleaning II is possible TO almost entirely rid
the house of mites and their eggs and the
fowls themselves OF lice. We consider this
very necessary at this time OF the year.
for the reason that the lice Increase very
rapidly under the influence OF warm humid
atmosphere.
PUT THE MANURE sPREADER AT
WORK.
We have more or less to say In this
department about the advantages of get
ting the stable manure under the soil as
soon after II Is made as possible, and this
way Of MANAGING IL applies just as fercshis
to summer made manure as 10 that accu-
mulatcd In the winter. possibly more SO.
because Of the fact that the evaporation
OF the essential plant food elements Is like-
Is 10 be greater In the Summer thar In the
winter. IL farmers would realize that the
liquid excrement Is the valuable portion Of
the manure and that its matn constituent