Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-09-09

ease among the hogs. Keep things
clean.
Very little more trouble or expense
to raise a blooded animal than it is to
raise scrub.
Poultry confined to run must have
green food supplied them If they are
going to thrive.
The mouse in the granary is a Wis
itor which the thrifty farmer will not
| suffer to remain.
The nearer poultry can be kept IN
the natural state the harder they will
be. and the greater profit they will re-
turn.
| Been swimming or fishing this sum-
mer? Take half day OF and go with
the boys. It will bring dad and the
boys closer together.
High prices encourage sheep raising,
but don't jump into the business too
| brashly. Begin in a small way and
work up. Buy few ewes and good
ram.
| 1t Is the thriftless farmer who Is
| certain that farming does not pay.
Neither would any other business pay
handled in the same way as he does
the farming.
Could some farmers be made to un-
derstand the aggregate damage which
vermin of various kinds cause upon
their farms they would be more dill
gent in fighting them.
The dust bath must be provided for
| the fowls. They will cooperate with
you in keeping them free from lice.
They enjoy rolling in the dry dust
and 1t drives away the vermin.
Plant roots find feeding ground at
a much lower level in drained than
undrained soils, as they find condi-
| tons favorable for such growth.
| Worms, ants and other insects burrow
| deeper. These worm holes and root
channels permit more perfect aera-
ton and oxidation, until the whole
body of the soil down as deep as 1t
has been drained becomes a At home
and feeding ground for the roots of
our plants.
|
Don't use binders, for these relics
OF barbarism there is no possible ex-
cuse. They are entirely unnecessary
and decidedly hurtful to the best serv-
ice from the wearers. They detract
from the natural beauty OF the horse
and prevent the full use of the eye
sight that Nature endowed him with.
Instead OF acting as a preventive from
fright at the sight of strange objects,
they render him suspicious of many
ordinary things coming within range
of his obstructed view, thereby max
ing him unnecessarily nervous and
over excitable If he is a creature of
mettle. Man has no right to deprive
the horse of one of his keenest senses
through the use of the Furnishing
binder.
The wheat straw infested with Hes
sian fly breaks over just above the
joint, which, while 1t varies consider
ably in location, Is usually q relative
~ short distance above the ground. II
the grower will carefully pull the leaf
away from the stalk where 1t is
broken over he will find lying in q
little dent lengthwise in the straw an
oval, dark-brown seedlike body one
fourth Of an inch or less long. This
Is the "faxseed" stage of Hessian fly,
and is sometimes improperly spoken
Of as the eggs" Of the fly. Some
times. through careless handling or
other causes, the "fiaxseed" will be
gone over and only the little dent IN
the straw left as evidence OF its for
mer presence. II the grower does
not find the "flaxseed" in the first ex-
amined he should continue to examine
broken straws until he does find it, or
until he is convinced that the fly did
not do the work.
4 Cow testing associations are doing
good work In Wisconsin, and the sys-
tenn might proftably be tried In
other dairying sections. These as
sociations are of two kinds, the 81 q
COW plan" and the 80 cents q COW
plan" In the former the Dairymen's
association furnishes man to do the
work of weighing and testing the
milk Of the individual cows in the
herd at an expense OF 81 COW for
the year. There are generally rs
members In each association, so that
|, tests can be made once month on
d each farm. Under the second plan
the farmers themselves weigh ana
sample the milk from their cows for
one day each month and bring the
samples to their creamery or cheese
Il factory, where they are tested by the
] i operator ct n expense Of 50 cents
II year COW. The associations ID
I wisconsin 1t present are generally
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