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


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If possible, select your brood sows
when the pigs are 5 or 6 months old
Sunshine, crude carbolic acid and
air-slaked lime will keep the hogpens
sweet.
Fowls that get a little charcoal and
a few sunflower seeds once or twice a
week will have red combs and bright
plumage.
1t Is about time for some faker to
bob up with some new variety of alfal-
ia with wonderful qualities. A variety
that will do we'll anywhere and live on
anything.
The advertiser of a breed not only
lays the foundation for a paying bust
less for himself, but helps boom his
breed and his association, and thereby
Indirectly benefits his brother breeder
--
When a farmer sells a horse be
must give a guarantee. When the
same farmer buys nursery stock he has
to wait until the trees come into bear
ing to see whether he has what he
bought.
The woman with a gasoline stove
and the farmer with a gasoline engine
| have all Of a sudden discovered that
the demand for gasoline by automobiles
has caused it to slide no a notch or
two in price.
A thorough farmer can get more out
of the scrub than a scrub farmer can.
As a rule hat 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
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Hogs shipped into the stock yards
show the result of too much 'inbreeding
by careless farmers, who reason that it
does not pay to get a new boar each
year while they have one which will
breed, and they lose enough ina litter
or W. to pay for a new sire.
Breeding at random and %repenting
at leisure has run It's course-at least
it should have by this time. 1t is now
in order that less time M money be
spent on this, or that or the other
breed and more attention be paid to
the individual animal.
A camel can easily carry a weight
Of n thousand pounds OF 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 This is some
times followed by a thin dirt covering
to further encourage stooling.
An exchange remarks that what Is
known in the market rs chamois skin
Is really obtained sheep skin Innings.
The supply of real chamois is very lin
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 his country. That
Is awful after that country refusing our
pork products. 1t is presumed that
Germany wants to do its own adulter-
ating. The number Of prosecutions for
creased from 1,40O to 5000 in 1908.
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 inc dry the
moisture out Of the soil.
When snow is on the ground, rab-
bits have a hard time securing food,
and will eat anything that will pre-
yent starvation. 1t is then they girdle
trees and dc 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 th%ree-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 clo-
yer, potatoes and wheat rotation will
be hard to beat.
If n garden is MANFRED heavily and
not kept in growing crops all through
the growing season the fertility will
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