Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05

Of ground oats and bran will be fine
TO feed them during the next month or
SO. Stalk fields, or "rouEhinR' il viii
not bring the colts through the winter
in good condition. They will need
good stabling and nutritious food all
winter
Now is the crowding time for the
fattening hogs. II troughs are kept
clean and the hogs are not rushed on
to new corn, there will not be much
danger from disease. But filthy troughs
and floors and green feed will quickly
throw the hogs out OF sorts.
There are many more old sows being
sent To market this year than last
This indicates that farmers are selling
off their big heavy sows and keeping
young ones for coming breeders, or are
reducing their bree ding herds What
ever else you do, save a good bunch
Of breeders. Ii is a mistake to sell too
close, because Of high prices
How are the lambs and calves show
ing up Creeps may be made now so
that these young things can eat undie-
turbed by the older animals, ! saw
nice looking bunch of lambs and calves
in corn field the other day. They
seem TO be thriving and contented and
they were not hurting the corn.
Now is a good time To cut off the
corn around the sides Of the fields next
10 the fences. 1t is a quick Job 10
throw the stalks over into the pas
ture for the stock: and. cutting off q
rod or two wide Will give ample turn
ing room.
You can hardly expect the hens TO
keep right on laying unless they are
I'll rn Gal m.
roostiug places Also right now is a
good time to feed some fattenIug food
70 the fowls which are to be sold
around Thank. giving. Try barley, oats
and bUcFwheat, an ground together, as
a fattening ration.
What is the use OF trying something
new every year. A more suitable course
is TO stick to those crops which have
proved most proftahle m --o''~ gee 'r
and let the experiment station carry
on the Investigations with usu H..
by writing 20 your state station you
can find out which new crop is really
worth giving field trial
A correspondent says this has been
the worst season for weeds ana cut
ting up OF pastures that he h"~ o--fr
known The weeds have aroused farm
ers 20 national menace; ana. prompt
measures should be taken to prevent
fields from washing out gullies Save
the best soil. and keep II from wash
ing down into the highway or INTO
your neighbors' fields.
A farmers club in northern Illinois
has been formed for the sole purpose
OF looking after the roadways in the
district II has been proposed that
clover or alfalfa be sown. each farm
a. gEfIilFF a fri q 4
own land, and then each one is bound
20 keep his strip clear Of weeds
A dairyman asks whether sweet
clover will make good hay No. But
r. our correspondent lives where sweet
clover tluives why not try alfalfa. The
best alfalfa fields | have seen this year
were near by rank growth OF sweet
clover.
Cane which mas been sown broad
cast can be handled best If It is cut
with the mower and put up in small
shocks Some prefer to cut il with a
harvester and bind t. If that is done
the cutting must be done early, for
the stalks soon get too large FOR a bin
der to handle; and then the stuff is
difficult 10 dry out, when it is bound
up in bundles.
iIie sIslbuAl Dl GAAlld Sted 10 sow 3
per acre depends upon the quality of !
the seed. With % per cent pure feed.
fifteen pounds per acre is ample The
thing 20 90 is to find out how much of
your seed Will grow
Have you tanning mill and grain |
grader? DO you clean and grade all +
your seed grain? a very good mill may |
be had for SIS or $50. and one seasons I
cleaning and grading OF seed oats and |
seed wheat will pay for the machine |
Many farmers are now cleaning an !
their grain. before it goes TO market I
and IL pays.
How is your plowed land? Is IL
packed hard? We have seen many
fields pack ed almost as hard as a road |
They were plowed last spring when |
the ground was too wet and the soil |
has not worked nicely at any time
during the summer. Wet plowing viii
kill land about as quickly as &
hooGing.