Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-12-16

shoulder.
Dairy cows require better shelter
than beef animals.
Keep busy-this must be the motto
in every poultry yard.
Three leaf or four leaf, the clover is
the farmers lucky plant.
Grain should not be fed to cows
oftener than twice day.
1t will cost no more per pound to
grow a colt than a calf.
A ration of wheat and corn is bene-
fetal to the fattening turkeys.
Every cellar should be thoroughly
whitewashed at least once year.
Removing a diseased branch at once
when discovered will often save the
tree.
The horse that shuns whole grain
usually has something wrong with his
teeth.
If the cows are fed crimson clover
hay the cost of the milk will be re-
duced.
Apply manure to currants, goose
ferries, raspberries. etc. Now is
good time.
The longer you keep sheep the more
fine, white clover you will have in
your pastures.
Cattle winter well on little ration
of whole cotton seed and plenty Of oat
straw or other roughage.
The hands and teats should be kept
dry during milking. Moistening the
hands with milk is condemned.
Poultry manure, which has been
carefully preserved, commands good
prices from suburban gardeners.
An orphan lamb may often be given
eve that has just lost lamb if the
dead lamb is rubbed over the strange
lamb.
Keep all your turkeys roosting at
home or some one else may feast on
the big gobbler you are fattening for
Thanksgiving.
The old-time pig sly should be BAN
ished forever. 1t has given the hog his
reputation for filth-and has no place
now on the modern farm.
The roots of the cowpea penetrate
rather deeply into the subsoil and en-
ables the plant to feed upon the min
eral food that is not readily extracted
by other crops.
The great problem of the age is to
instil into the minds of young men
that there are as good opportunities
on the farm for the man of talent as
there are elsewhere.
A cow in milk needs more salt than
steer or dry COW, because milk
contains chlorine, one of the constit-
uents of salt. She needs extra salt
as source of this chlorine
There is much of value written
these days about work on the farm
which will never benefit some farm
ers, because they have the notion
that they are too busy to read.
In many sections rye is grown for
the straw. During the past summer
rye straw has brought as good price
in the New York market as timothy
hay. When grown for the straw lib
eral quantity of seed is sown, from
two to two and one-half bushels.
No money invested in hog raising is
D0LI0r spent Cudu IudL uScu lOT port
able houses and pens. They make it
possible to distribute the brood stock
over the farm in clean, fresh quarters,
thereby utilizing grass and forage to
the largest degree and at the same
time reducing the danger of disease to
a minimum.
Oats is crop it pays to get in early.
and often one or two weeks time can
be saved by blowing in the fall. Where
corn is put in with lister it is not
necessary to harrow the ground in the
spring, as the lister will make the
soil fine around the seed, and as soon
az the corn is planted the cultivator
can be put to work and the ground
put in fine condition.
Save all the cabbages. whether
heads or not: hens dearly love to pick
at the leaves and heads. Cabbage is
1rx$~