The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1907-08-02

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Rape pasture Is splendid Tor a
change both for sheep and pigs
Look pleasant, please" is applied
to the home as well as to the photo
graph gallery.
Clean, dry quarters are necessary
for the calf. Disease soon finds It's
way where filth is
with all classes OF stock usually kept
on 4 farm, care should be taken to feed
according TO age, condition and time Of
marketing.
Barbwire should not be used for
fencing for the sheep pasture, as the
barbs catch on the wool and make the
sheep look ragged. besides running
much wool.
Manure never contains larger
amount of plant food than when II 10
first made and except In special eases.
the sooner 1t Is hauled out and applied
to the land. the better.
Keep young colts growing Y thsy
are expected to become as large or
larger than their parents. a colt once
stunted may afterwards be made
fat. but It can never be made TO grow
a. large as 1t otherwise would.
II Injuries land to allow cattle and
other farm animals TO run over u dur
ing wet. muddy weather. II domestic
animals must have ont door exsrciss.
build small lot On some high and orr
pot near the barn and turn them into
It few hours each day.
Funk Bros. who ars among the iarg-
ct farmers In HlinoiA came out boldly
= favor Of drilling oats and Of using
IL bushels of seed per acre. a test
Of this In southern Ohio, ten years ago,
resulted In forty-eignt bushels per acre
on the drilled. against fnrty-one bushels
h the broadcast oats.
Come Of the largest growers o. po-
tatoes follow the hand picking Of POI
tato bugs. They begin at once as soon
= the bugs sppear and thus getting the
beetles before the eggs for future col
onies Of bugs ara laid they keep ahead
Of the beetles and find It an easy mat
ter to keep them down.
II ron have to keep your poultry
shut up mnke them work for the grain
They get On the farm where the poul-
try have the range OF the barnyard
and farm they get exercise enough, but
where they are kept confined methods
have to be adopted to give them ex-
ercise . keep them In health
To can corn cut the kernels on the
cob with sharp knifs. scraping ont
the pulp, Fiji into the can little at
time, pressing down firmly until the
milk overdows the can. Add 1 tsa-
spoonful sof sait. When all are nilsd
place the cans In boiler and cook half
an hour with the covers laid loosely
on. Remove from the fire and seal,
then cook two hours longer.
The vaiues OF poultry products now
reach ar annual figure Of half d bill
Ion dollars or more. or an amount
about equal to the value Of the wheat
crop. The price Of eggs has been high
and growing higher for several years,
because consumers have wanted more
eggs than have been produced. The
exports are not worth mentioning. Ap-
parentiy there Is no limit TO the con-
sumption Of fresh eggs ut a moderate
price. q. K. Holmes.
Warm weather Ii acceptable TO string
beans. especially II the season il not
too dry. The green varieties are best
for picking. but there Is nothing to
compare with the German wax for tho
table, though they are not 90 prolific
as the majority OF the other kinda
Plant them every two weeks for enc
cession- a row OF them planted every
week 10 better. and Ii the garden In
rightly managed In that way II Ii sur
pr1sing how many different crops can
be grown, as n - not necessary 10
wait
VITA MI the remedies suggested for
blight en- pear trees. the difficuify stiii
exists. and many pear orchards are
destroyed every year. At ono time 1t
was believed that By keeping the OF.
chard ground IN grass. the pear trees
would escape bat. while the rapid
growth ct me trees seesns favorable 70
attack q blight. and. although the
grass nszy retard attack. yet the trees
viii succumb 70 the disease should ii
ind tn way Into the orchard. The
uprayingsof trees. or treating The trees
1t the rootA win confer benefit. but
there = 70 sure remedy for blight
Teaafoes.
There 4 10 garasn vegetable that |
vii rsspond more markedly ID rich |
and ana ge0d cultivation than fona-