Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-08-16

Too often country school teachers
are city bred young men or young
women, who have no thought or lik-
ing for agriculture. They are not the
teacher who can show pupils the adj
vantages of farm life.
A recent case of scours among a
bunch of neighbours calves shows the
Importance of giving careful attention
to the feeding pals. These pals had
been used for over a month, and dur
Ing all of that time had not been
thoroughly scalded. The only attempt
at cleaning was rinsing with cold wa
ter. A shor time ago one of the
calves was taken with a bad case Of
scour and died. Three others of the
bunch now look as if they would not
pull through.
Pioneer days may have past in the
central west, but the pioneer practice
of throwing the manure out OF the
horse stables and allowing 1t to lie
there for months, has not passed by
a long ways. Frequently one sees the
accumulation of six months or more
heaped up against the sides of the
stables. Every ton of that manure
which was thrown out last winter has
now lost at least so per cent. OF it's
value.
The fall is the ideal time to scat
ter manure. Why not make n job
of it and scatter the manure thinly
now, instead of putting it in piles and
then go over and scatter with a fork
next spring. 1t is economy to make
the manure go as far as you can, and
then go over the fields more fire.
quently.
NHnny rrDhn ~, he 80 49,. l...-A 1T
season with sun scald. The way to pre-
vent such injury is to head trees low,
SO that the trunk is shaded. Where
trees have been headed high the only
thing to do is to protect the trunks
with building paper, boards or anything
that VIII break the sun
Timothy hay is the kind in greatest
demand for horse feeding in cities.
Here hay sells upon it's quality. One
may think he can fool his own stock
with poor hay; but let him send a load
of over-ripe. badly colored hay TO mar
ket. The returns will show thai city
a buyers are up to snuff.
Sometimes hogs will not thrive. all
though they have an abundance of pas
ture and grain. There Is such q thing
an keeping hogs too long on clover and
the system demands something else.
Cut down the rations for a lille and
feed some charcoal, salt and copperas.
This frequently will start a hog on the
upgrade.
III the garden has been a failure this
year start right his fall fer better re-
suits next spring. Pile on well rotted
anu and turn up the ground this
fall for "A thorough freezing. And then
don't try to grow vegetables and weeds
On the same piece of ground.
An experiment station states that the
value OF the manure made on a farm
where twenty cows. four horses. fifty
sheep and ten pigs are kept, is around
$500. and that about one-half of IL is In
the liquid manure.
There does not seem to be n imme-
date danger of the American hen or
cow clogging the market. 1t seems that
the appetite OF American people for
dairy and poultry goods Is growing
faster than the output. lust think. the
poultry and eggs of this country are
worth more every year than our corn.
oats and hay crop combined.
Keeping sheep is profitable. providinp
n can keep clear of ailments and
pests. When stomach or tame worms
get hold of the lambs thew soon MAY
havoc. These things must he handled
promptly and handled right.