Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-08-19
Name the farm.

Name the farm.
Tidy up the place and then keep it
tidy.
Improve the rainy days. Keep the
boys interested by letting them own
something of their own.
Less acres better farmed would put
many farmer on the profit side of
the ledger.
The waste land on your farm is
worse than a dead loss to you. Get
Il to work.
Wool should be stored in closely
tied packs so that it will not become
dusty or soiled. The wool buyer pays
more for clean than for dirty wool.
Keep the poultry runs and houses
clean, az vermine breeds specially
fast during the hot weather. Plan to
whitewash the poultry buildings.
How is the wood lot? Have you
availed yourself of the excellent iu-
formation which the government for
estry department is ready to furnish
you and which If followed will make
your timber lots more valuable?
Just one more cultivation on the
corn than you think is necessary and
then another one for good measure.
The corn will feel better by several
bushels more per acre.
It is q good practice to feed the
calves in stanchions. It is easy to
break them to that method Of tying.
Have the feed ready for them in the
troughs and they will soon learn to put
their heads through and will get into
the right places. Be patient with
them.
If the animals are dehorned in warm
weather, it is we'll to apply some pine
tar with view to keeping flies from
the wound. Some operators do this
In nearly all cases, thinking that it
facilitates healing The dehorning OPP
Grafton should always, when possible,
be performed in cool weather, and up
on animals which have at least at
tanned the age Of two years.
urbo ororaoo Ap,orioon YnorLof nro.
fers a brown egg, while New York
city is ready to pay a premium for
white-shelled eggs. The brown-egg
buyers in particular claim that the
eggs are of a richer flavor. All this Is
imaginary, when we come to under
stand that it is food and not color
that flavors the egg. Is it reasonable
to suppose the brown egg of the Brah-
ma fed on onions could be as sweet
as the white egg of the Leghorn fed
on clover?
Why not q national pure feed law
to protect live stock. In some states
such laws have been enacted and are
enforced, while in others they have
been enacted but are not enforced,
and still others have no laws regulat-
ing the sale of feed. In some states
al sorts of stuff Is sold for feed, and
the farmer has no means Of knowing
what he gets for his money. When
he buys wheat bran, he often gets
ground cornstalks, straw and oat
bulls; middlings or shorts are largely
bran ground fine, and some of the pre-
pared stock feeds have very little
feeding value. What Is needed is a
national pure feed law which will be
enforced the same as the pure food
law.
Could the aggregate annual damage
caused by rats to our farmers be
1 known the latter would be appalled, at
y the figures. Do all you can to lessen
their number. Here are nine ways in
which you can accomplish this: l. Pro-
lection Of our native hawks, owls and
smaller predatory mammals-the ma
tural enemies of rats. 2. Greater
cleanliness about stables, markets. gro
Gerry stores, warehouses, courts. alleys
! and vacant lots in cities and villages.
and like care on farms and suburban
premises. This includes the storage
waste and garbage in tightly covered
vessels and the prompt disposal Of It
each day. 3. Care in the construction
Of buildings and drains 80 az not to
\ provide entrance and retreats for rats.
3 and the permanent closing of all rat
holes In old houses and cellars. 4. The
4 early threshing and marketing Of
grains on farms. 50 that stacks and
4 mows shall not furnish harborage and
food for rats. s. Removal Of outlying
straw stacks and piles OF trash or lum-
/ Der that harbor rats ia the fields. 6.
Rat-rooflng OF warehouses, markets.
cribs, stables and granaries Tor storage
Of provisions. seed grain and feed
stu1s. Z. Keeping effective rat doxs.
especially In city warehouses. !. The
systematic destruction Of rats. when
ever and wherever possible, ~ "a
u trapping. (bl poisoning. aud fxN ~.