The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-15

seed cheapest in price. There is need
of more than ordinary caution this
season, because of the urgency of the
situation. There is no economy in
buying seed, 40 per cent. contamina-
tion, at So per bushel, when clean,
hlgh-grade seed may be had at from
$40 to $12. Low grade seeds are slow
to gernSnate, and large per cent. of
even the pure seeds will fail to germi-
nate at all. If there is anything which
1t will pay to buy, because of cheap
ness, it is not seeds of any kind.
FARM FACTS.
There is a great deal of careless
work about stacking hay. 1t is US
ually hurry job and not enough pains
are taken to straighten out the fork
fuls. Where the unloading is done
by slings several hundred pounds are
dumped on the stack at one time. Un-
less the stacker straightens out these
rolls with the fork, the stack is bound
to take water whenever 1t rains.
Farmers who grow clover for seed
should encourage some one to run a
clover huller. Seed threshed out by
the ordinary huller is worth a 81 a
bushel more than seed threshed by the
ordinary machine.
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
teachers who can show pupils the ad-
vantages of farm life.
A recent case of scours among a
bunch Of neighbor's calves shows the
Importance OF giving careful attention
to the feeding pals. These pals had
been used for over month, and dur
Ing all of that time had not been
thoroughly scalded. The only attempt
at cleaning was rinsing with cold wa
calves was taken with a bad case Of
scours and died. Three others of the
bunch now look as If they would not
pull through.
Pioneer days may have past I'm 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
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 its
value.
The fall is the ideal time to scat
ter manure. Why not make one job
of 1t 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.
Many orchards have been hurt this
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 will break the sun.
Timothy hay is the kind in greatest
demand for horse feeding in cities.
Here hay sells upon its quality. One
may think he can fool his own stock
with poor hay; but let him send a load
of oyer-ripe, badly colored hay to mar
ket. The returns will show that city
hay buyers are up to snuff.
Sometimes hogs will not thrive. al
though they have an abundance of pas
ture and grain. There is such a thing
as keeping hogs too long on clover and
the system demands something else.
cut GOWN the raJlOnS Tor q While and
feed some charcoal, salt and copperas.
This frequently will start hog on the
upgrade.
If the garden has been a failure this
year start right this fall for better re-
suits next spring. Pile on well rotted
manure and turn up the ground this
fall for thorough freezing. And then
don't try to grow vegetables and weeds
on the same piece of ground.
value OF the manure made on a farm
where twenty cows, four horses. fifty
sheep and ten pigs are kept, is around
5000 and that about one-half of il is in
the liquid manure.
There does not seem to be any imme-
diate danger Of the American hen or
cow clogging the market. 1t seems tat
the appetite of American people &Jr
dairy and poultry goods is growing
faster than the output. Just 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, providing
one can keep clear of ailments and
pests. When stomach or tape worms
get hold OF the lambs they soon play
havoc. These things must be handled
promptly and handled right.