The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-11-05

It's hard to make a man believe he
owns Q poor ccw.
The COW and the hen have kspt
starvation from many q door.
Use the milk pals and cans for Nd
other purpose than to hold milk.
Yearly COW tests are becoming more
and more popular; try them yourself
Twenty acres of corn put into the
silo will supply 80 head OF thrifty
COWS for year. Try it.
You cannot grow good crop OF
grain and a good crop of weeds on
the same ground in the same season.
The farmer who gets the best re-
suits from the COWS is not in the
habit of supposing everything to be
right
When the rain makes the ground
soft, dig out all the brush in the patch
Of useless ground and plant fruit
trees. They will soon grow into
money.
A little brain work in planning short
cuts in dairy work will save an i'm
mense amount of time and big work
TINA IL, 10 fn II
is elsewhere
The farmers of Kansas plant 5000
900 bushels OF wheat every year. from
which they harvest about 74,000,000
bushels, most Of which is ground up in
to -four in the home mills.
"Dry-land" alfalfa is merely the
common alfalfa which through contin-
Gus culture without irrigation on arid
land has acquired more or less
drought-resisting qualities.
AS rule it is better to set out fruit
and ornamental trees, shrubs, vines,
perennial roots and bulbs in the iall
than in The spring. OF course. the
work often can be done as well in the
spring as in the fall, but many times
the soil and season are unfavorable,
and the prOyerbial spring rush comes
on so quickly that the job must be
sighted
,,, Il i, ,l..1 tn,
be set has been prepared and the
holes dug. set ont the plants IS soon
as they are unpGckcd but if the soil
! is not prepared, INN ediately prepare
a deep trench, SET the plants in it
! spreading them out well-and cover
! the roots deeply with fine soil. If the
soil is dry, mOisten it SO that 1t VIII
! not extract any moisture from the
roots
For setting out trees shrubs and
! any plants at any season spare no
time and labor in preparing the soil
and digging spacious holes FOR the
reception OF the roots Of the plants,
for upon the successful starting Of the
roots depends to very large degree
the future success OF the plant Pre-.
yiOus to setting, cut off any injured
! or decayed roots and settle plant in
/ the hole prepared for it, so that none
| of the roots will be bent or cramped
Two or three weeks time will be re-
! quired to complete the blarching OF
! the early celery varieties. and the
boards must be kept in position until
the crop is removed from the ground
after which they may be used again
two or thre times during the season
II the celery is allowed to remain in
the boards too long. after it has
reached a marketable stage it loses
in weight and favor and is liable 10
be injured or even destroyed by the
attacks Of blight
Silage to keep well must be cut so
that it will settle evenly. The leaves
must no, be in one place and the
coarser parts OF the stalks in another.
1t must be thoroughly mixed, and
nothing will do this mixing so well as
man. The silage must also be packed
tightly next the sides o. the silo, as
that is where II is likely to lie so light
that it Will permit the air to enter.
! The top of the silage should be com
posed of corn that is as green as pos
sible, as this will decay and seal the
whole, thus keeping out the air Too
dry silage can be improved by adding
water al the top.
Pasture lands receive too little at.
tention from the majority of farmers.
II The pastures thrive and produce
good growth, all right, and then. il
they run out, and grow up in weeds,
the man thinks he hasn't time TO look
after and liz prove matters These con.
ditions are often allowed 10 exist till
the land has to be broken up and
put to grain of some sort in order 10
fight the weeds sUccnsSf,uy. ,rd