Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

Ing 4 VET farm contribute its full share
unless it is tile drained.
The quick opening and shutting of an
umbrella in the face of a runaway
horse Will often bring him to a stop
when other means fail.
The average weight of hogs received
on the markets is much less than Il few
years ago. The demands of the mar
ketS are undergoing Il change.
Iullets II 2-ycar-old hens are the
most profitable. After Il hen is 3 years
old she becomes Unproftable for an egg
producer, and is rather tough for table
use.
Little pigs of the same size feed bet
ter together than when large and small
are mixed in pen or yard. Separate
them thus and good results will tllcn
follow. q
There is such 4 thing as being Il
country gentleman. In no other place
can more real gentlemen be found. 1t
Is easy to be j gentleman If ones blood
Is right.
a wheat drill with Il fertilizer carries
with it Il suggestion that should be
talking to its owner to keep I'D the
fertility Of the soil. Winter wheat fol
lowed with clover leans keeping up the
fertility.
Did you ever stop to think that if all
mon yynra chm rp +hnrn yy,-lJ I-. ,I,
for gold bricks? If all men could sue
cessfully launch some scheme there
would be no biters, no sciemers and no
get-rich-quick schemes.
Red raspberry plants should be taken
from a young, healthy bed. Plants
from an old bed are vigorous and more
liable to be diseased. The proper dis
lance between the rows Is seven feet
for garden culture and eight feet for
field culture.
Orchardfng and hog breeding are
now the joint order Of the day among
progressive fruit growers In the
southwest. The two industries com
bine most tremendously. Cross fences
and feed patches are needed, however,
to insure absolute control.
A number Of small portable poultry
houses are handy on 4 poultry plant,
as they can be used to place brooders
In In the early spring, and later can
be utilized for growing stock, breeding
hens or laying hens, and can be moved
tn 1iffnrnDt pntntS an tha 70 rn,
If the farmer has growing a bearing
peach, plum or other fruit tree whose
name is not known it should be iden-
titled through the committee on nomen-
clature of the State horticultural soci-
ETY. in order that the owner may pur-
chase other trees like the one now Civ
Ing satisfaction.
The man who keeps his horses
scared of him. all the time is wonder
Ing why they do not come up to him
when he is in the far side of the pas
ture trying to catch them. He is heard
to say, IF I V e catch you I'll give
you 4 sound thrashing,' and that prob
ably explains why he can't catch them.
In storing potatoes one should not
bruise them, as they rot worse when
they have become bruised. Many are
under the impression that they can be
handled like coal. OF course some
times one feels pressed for help and
time and they are handled more rough
~ than there is any necessity for do
Ing.
An experiment with young pigs at
the Connecticut experiment station,
showed that they did much better on
milk with 31a per cent fat than on
milk having more than 5 per cent. The
best results were secured with Skim
milk. Many good farmers have raised
fine calves on a diet almost exclusively
Of skimmilk.
Hog cholera Is not a phantom to be
brushed away with a hope that it will
not reach your herd of swine. It is
just u question as to whether the germ
is introduced or not. When one has
done all he can along precautionary
lines, he will probably get caught after
all, but the careful man generally
out ahead. 1~ -.G
Fertilizers pay better on fruits than
On corn or cotton, but they should not
contain too much nitrogen else wood
growth Is too much stimulted. Phos-
plate and potash are the best fruit
fertilizers, but cottonseed meal, nj
trate of soda OF stable manure may
beaused II it appears that the tree, it.
self is not growing fast enough.
Many Of the sons of toll Of the pres
ent generation do not know the first
principles Of binding grain by hand.
They came on the stage of action since |
the Introduction Of the seIf-binder and
have never acquired the art. 1t is |
amusing to see some of the grown-up |
sons trying to bind an occasional bun-
die that happened to be thrown off un-
bound.
Raising tomatoes In large quantities
requires large quantities of fertility in
the soil. If it is possible to secure
barnyard manure In large quantities,
1t might be spread upon the ground
and turned under In the early spring,
1t would supply In large part the
fertilizing ingredients men
toned above. Some tomato growers
use guano, s~prinkllng about one hand