The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08

reader asks whether 1t would make q
good floor for grain bins, where rats
and mice are numberless. Such floors
would be al right, providing the drain:
age Is good; or IL the floors are raised
from the ground far enough TO permit
ventilation to keep the cement dry.
THE great cement storage tanks keep
grain, for any length Of time, per-
fectly.
When buying fruit trees shrubs or
vines IL Is always safest to get nrst
grade stock. There is not much diner-
ence in price. but a big difference ~
quality Of first and second grade STOCK.
.N' H#tEE#r s..a aE
The careful orchardist will see that
any tree which has been injured re-
ceives prompt attention. WOUNDS mace
by careless cultivators should be bound
to keep out water until the scar IL
healed. "a
why, do not more people grow cur
rants for market? With such varieties
as North Star. Victoria and Red Dutch,
1t will pay, and these sorts Will be
found easy for cultivation and hardy.
The best looking orchard have seen
this season is one in which the disc and
harrow have been going nearly all sea-
NAs
crosswise, in fact most any way TO
get at the ground. There are no weeds.
and the ground is mellow as an ash
heap. / am fearful however, that SO
much cultivation has produced more
new growth than is really good for the
| trees.--L. Q. d. +.
An old fruit grower tells me that the
| pick is the best tool he has ever found
| to use around apple trees when tha
| ground has become too firm. He sinks
! the pick eight or ten Inches into the
soil and merely prizes loose the dirt,
without disturbing the roots.
| Some people dislike to lose any fruit,
and would rather have two bushels of
measly, worm eaten apples than one
bushel of fine, perfect specimens. That
may be the reason why some will not
thin out their fruit, but one might sus-
pect that something else was the real
reason. #.. #...
With so much moisture in the ground
II will not do to cultivate too late In
| the orchard. We need from now on
] conditions that will ripen up the wood
that has been made this season. Trees
that go into winter with immature
wood are not In fit condition to stand
freezing weather.
A subscriber asks which are the best
red and black raspberries. The Miller
and Loudon are good red sorts, and in
black caps, the Cumberland and Kan
sas are as good as any.
On thousands of western farms
where cattle are fattened during the
| winter. the feed lots are situated on
side hills on an elevation for the pur-
pose of drainage. The best drained
feed yard Is the one where all the ma
nure can be saved.
Not many farm horses are as well
broken as the ponies of western herd
ers. have seen more than one OF
these Wild dashing ponies ridden into
town on run stand for hours without
hitching. The loose reins were dropped
down over his head and he would not
bulge until the reins were gathered up
We talk too much to horses and they
become confused.
There Is enough back-brsakinK work
| to do without using the SCOOP shovel to
unload grain. Put In portable DUNN
and elevator. The team will do the
rest. and 1t will take only few min.
utes TO crib big load OF corn.
Mudding in oats has cost farmers In
the central west millions OF dollars this
i year. This practice, even with toler-
ably dry growing season. is not advis-
able; and when wet, cold weather fol.
lows right on top OF oats sown In mud
there Is not much hope for a crop.
/ .- H.+u
A correspondent says that when grain
Is properly shocked It IL a great SAVING
TO thresh out of the shock The trouble
Is that shocks are hurriedly set up and
are not made to Withstand rain 0E
4 wind. with the result that much grain
Is damaged before the thresher gets
around