Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-01-18

tldL VIII 90 Wen any Wueie anu AA'S ia
anything.
The advertiser of a breed not only
lays the foundation for a paying bust
ness for himself, but helps boom his
breed and his association, and thereby
Indirectly benefits his brother breeder
When a farmer sells a horse he
must give a guarantee. When the
same farmer buys nursery stock he has
to wait until the trees come into bea
ing to see whether he has what he
bought.
The woman with a gasoline stove
and the farmer with a gasoline engine
nave all Of a sudden discovered that
the demand for gasoline by automobiles
has caused it to slide 10 u notch or
two in price.
A thorough farmer can get more out
Of the scrub than a scrub farmer can.
AS a rule that kind of a farmer does
not keep the scrub any longer than he
can help. A scrub farmer will soon
make a scrub out of a pure-bred ami
NAL.
Hogs shipped into the stock yards
show the result Of too much ~inbreeding
by careless farmers, who reason that 1t
does not pay to get a new boar EACH
year while they have one which will
breed, and they lose enough in a litter
or two to pay for a new sire.
Breeding at random and repenting
it should have by this time. 1t is now
in order that less time and money be
spent on this, or that or he b
breed and more attention be paid to
the individual animal.
A camel car easily carry a weight
of one thousand pounds on it's back,
about four times as much as a horse
can carry. The camel begins work at
the age of 4 and is useful for half a
century; the horse, as a rule, is nearly
played out at the age Of is.
Moving down strawberry tops just
after fruit has been gathered is prac-
ticed on many rich soils to cause the
plants to stool out more vigorously
and to retard runners. This is some
times followed by a thin dirt covering
to further encourage stooling.
An exchange remarks that what Is
is really obtained sheep skin Innings.
The supply Of real channels is very linn
tied, and all there Is in the world
would not supply the United States for
a single day" Another decided score
for the sheep!
Now come the news that food adult
GRAFTON Is practiced in Germany just
as extensively as in this country. That
is awful after that country refusing Jul
pork products. It is presumed that
Germany wants to do its WI adulter-
ating. The number of prosecutions for
adulterating food in Germany have in
creased from HOO to 5000 in 1903.
Who'd thought it?
More money may be made from or
chards on thin land when the trees are
set close, twenty to twenty-five feet
apart, than when only half that many
are set. The trees shade the ground
better, and heat and drought will not
do as much damage as when the great
er part Of the ground is exposed to the
sun to burn up the humus and dry the
moisture out Of the soil.
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When snow Is on the ground, rab-
bits have a hard time securing food,
and will eat anything that will pre-
vent starvation. 1t is then they girdle
trees and do damage which Is not with
In the power Of the farmer to repair.
Smearing the trunk with blood or wrap
ping the trees with tarred paper or
MOSQUITO netting two feet from the
ground serves as a protection.
For twenty years the Ohio Expert
ment Station produced an average Of
forty bushels Of wheat in a three-year
| rotation consisting Of potatoes, wheat
and clover. On another farm a rota-
ton Of corn, oats, wheat, clover and
timothy was carried on with a yield Of
twenty-eight and one-half bushels Of
wheat per acre. With proper market
privileges for a series of years a clio
yer. potatoes and wheat rotation will
be hard to beat.
If q garden is MANFRED heavily and
not kept in growing crops all through
the growing season the fertility will
leach away into the subsoil, where 1t
will be out Of the reach of surface-feed
ing crops. If kept growing something
all through the summer it will not
leach and it will be all b better for
the soil. If allowed to leach it Will
be better to change the spot occasion
| ally and put the old garden spot to
| clover to bring up the fertility again.
According to the National Stockman,
the demand for pork this year has as
tnnished even the most sanguine friends
! Of the hog. Both fresh and cured meats