Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-06-21

NAL with a good pedigree.
Some men go out on q moonlight
night and cut down a $40 tree to get a
1O-cent coon. A great many farmers
work on this plan
Did you know that there is good
money in geese? The Germans and
Jews Of our large towns and cities are
always good customers for fat geese.
What has become Of the Old-fash-
Toned farmer, who used to get up at 4
o'clock in the morning, rout all Of the
animals out Of their warm beds to
feed. then 60 back to the house and
doze before his fire till daylight?
Asparagus was originally a wild sea-
coast weed Of Great Britain and Rus
sia, and is now SO plentiful on the Rus
sian steppes that the cattle eat It like
grass. In some parts Of southern Eu-
tute for cofree.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
A southern Ohio farmers wife re-
ports the sale of 100 dozen eggs from
45 Plymouth Rock hens, from Sept. 20
to Dec. 16. Farm range and the feed,
refuse corn. These eggs were sold at
% cents per dozen average, the hens
that laid them were worth about 80
cents each and the eggs in less than
three months brought almost as much
as the hens that laid them.
A correspondent In Rural New York
er says: when meat OF blood meal,
linseed oil (oil cake) or cooked meat
Is given them in their soft food n c
a day, or when green cut bone is used
instead, I believe that barley "
the same purpose for fowls as wheat
would. I use by preference beardless
barley. Young chicks will learn to like
this very soon. l crack it in the be-
ginning for a few feeks; when 4 weeks
old they eat it whole"
Grating Fruit Trees in erman
Consul General Richard Guenther, of
Frankfort, reports a movement among
German fruit growers for the purpose
Of getting rid Of all inferior and medi-
um fruit trees and replacing them with
the finest kind and best suited to the
climate. A leading fruit-growing and
horticultural journal published at
Observation-Disclosures, has devoted a
number of essays to the subject, and
has shown hat the desired result can
be achieved, even with very old trees,
by grating, and the simple stock or slit
grating is especially recommended. In
Switzerland many thousands Of old
fruit trees are annually regrafted In Or
der to better meet the demands Of the
trade. In the Rhenish Province of
Prussia a systematic regrafting of the
fruit trees is going on, expert grafters
being employed at fixed contract rates.
Acid Soils.
A bulletin issued by the Oregon ex-
pertinent station summarizes the re-
plies made by eighty farmers IN differ
ent parts Of Oregon to a circular Of in
Quiry sent out by the station regarding
the character Of the soil Of their
farms, the principal crops grown, the
principal wild grasses and weeds, and
the reaction of the soil as determined
by the litmus paper test.
Of the eighty tests of soil for acidiy
made and reported by farmers, 10 per
cent showed no acidity, 35 per cent
very little acidity, 1915 per cent con-
siderable acldity, and 1926 per cent
strongly acid. The majority Of the
acid soils examined in these
were dark loan, muck, beaver
dam or peat, which usually are rather
poorly drained. I'm a few cases up
land sandy, gravelly clay loans have
been found to be very acid. A major
of the sandy and clay loans exam
ined possess a considerable degree of
acidity.
"Plantain and sorrel were found to
be more common than other weeds on
soil containing considerable or very
much acid. These weeds were also
quite common on soils containing little
no acid.
".Acids in the soil are dificilt to
leach out. Acid soils may be improved
by applications of quicklime, air-slaked
lime, or wood ashes. The. more thor
lime Is incorporated with the
soil the more effective will be It's action
w crop production"
Protect PIums from Curculio.
Plums, toe often an uncertain crop
account of curculio, may be easily
grown every year unless destroyed by
frost. This is especially true Of the old
Damson plums, the rich flavor Of which
Is now too little known in the scram-
bic for the newer japanese varieties.
Just before the buds open the trees
should be thoroughly sprayed. The
has for q number Of years used
purple without injurious eff
Sects t the foliage, a dessert spoonful
to ten gallons Of water. Some Of the
other ~arsenites are said to be less In
juriona to the leaves, and are especial
ly recommended for the peach, as
arsenate of lead, the best, used in pro-
portion of two pounds to so gallons
of water or Paris green, one pound to
15O or 200 gallons of water.
By spraying lust before the buds