Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-23

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The milk-fed calf needs water. This
Is something that should not be neglect
ed.
There is no use talking about max
ing Il wet 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 u few
years ago. The demands of the mar
kets are undergoing a change.
Pullets and 2-year-old hens are the
most profitable. After a hen is 3 years
old she becomes Improbable 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 then
follow.
There is such a thing as being 4
country gentleman. In no other place
can more real gentlemen be found. 1t
is easy to be a gentleman If one's blood
is right.
A wheat drill with q fertilizer carries
with it Il suggestion that should be
talking to its owner to keep up the
fertility of the soil. Winter wheat fol
lowed with clover means keeping up the
fertility.
Did you eyer stop to think that if al!
men were sharp there would be no sale
for gold bricks? If all men could sue
cessfully launch some scheme there
would be no biters. no schemers 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.
Orcharding aud 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 a poultry plant.
as they can be used to place breeders
in in the early spring, and later can
be utilized for growing stock, breeding
hens or laying hens. and can be moved
to different points on the farm.
If the farmer has growing a bearing
peach, plum or other fruit tree whose
name is not known it should be iden-
tilted 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 l ever catch you I'll give
you a sound t~hrashing," and that prob
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In storing potatoes Il should moi
bruise them. as they rot worse wheI
they have become bruised. Many are
under the impression that they can BIZ
handled like coal. OF course some
times one feels pressed for help ant
time and they are handled more rough
~ than there is any necessity for do
ting.
An experiment with young pigs a
the Connecticut experiment station
showed that they did much better OF
milk with 3h per cent fat than OF
milk having more than 5 per cent Th
best results were secured with skim
milk. Many good farmers have raise,
fine calves on a diet limo exclusivel.
of skimmilk.
Hog cholera is not a phantom to b
brushed away with a hope that it vii
not reach your herd of swine. 1t i
just a question as to whether the ger1
is introduced or not. When one ha
done all he can along precautionar
lines, he viii probably get caught afte
all, but the careful man general
comes out ahead
Fertilizers pay better on fruits tina
on corn or cotton, but they should nc
contain too much nitrogen else woo
growth is too much %stIlnulted. Pho:
plate and potash are the best frul
fertilizers, but cottonseed meal, II
trate of soda or stable manure ma
be used if 1t appears that the tree, i
self is not growing fast enough.
Many of the sons of toll of the pre-
ent generation do not know the fir!
principles of binding grain by han
They came on the stage Of action SIM
the Introduction Of the self-binder an
have never acquired the art. It
amusing to see some Of the grown-u
sons trying to bind an occasional bul
H. fbat happauad fo ha thrawn off n