Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-08-10

rants for market With such varieties
rs North star Victoria and Red Dutch,
it will pay, and these sorts will be
found easy for cultivation and hardy.
The best looking orchard have seen
this season is one III Hhich the disc and
harrow have been going nearly all sea
son. The disc is driven lengthwise,
crosswise, in fact most any way TO
get a the ground. There are no weeds.
and the ground is mellow as an ash
heap. | am fearful, however, that sc
much cultivation has produced more
new growth than is really good for the
trecs.-L. c. B.
An old fruit grower tells me that the
pick is the best tool he has ever found
TO use around apple trees when the
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 70 lose any fruit.
ana would rather have two bushels OF
mcasly, worm eaten apples than one
bushei 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
il viii 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 I'm fit condition to stand
freezing weather.
A subscriber asks which are the best
red end 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
nitching. The loose reins were dropped
down over his head and he would not
bulge until the reins were gathered up.
We talk 100 much to horses and they
become confused.
There is enough back-breaking work
70 do without using the SCOOP shovel TO
unload grain. Put in a portable dump
and elevator. The team will do the
rest, and IL Will take only few min
utcs TO crib big load of corn.
Muading in oats has cost farmers in
the central west millions of dollars this
year. This practice. even with a 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 crop.
A correspondent says that when grain
Is properly shocked it is a great saving
10 thrcsh out OF the shock. The trouble
Is that shocks are hurriedly set up and
are not made to withstand rain or
wind, with the result that much grain
Is damaged before the thresher gets
around.
Many farmers used TO condemn the
practice Of allowing hogs TO run in
pastures because they tore up the turf.
After while IL was found that these
places really produced the best grasses
the following year. Now many make n
regular practice OF Giscing their pas
lures and meadows. and II does them
good. too.
II pays TO feed little grain 10 the
young things around weaning time.
Tough pastures. fly pests and hot
weather all come when these young
thing are taken away from their dams.
| Lamps quickly run down unless they
are led Srain, even before weaving.