Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-08-12
NlD FARM
b. AzM..s TIT

Why guess at things when it is
safest to be sure?
The road drag is a good thing to
keep going the year round.
Give your neighbor lift occasional
~. You'll feel better and SO will he.
Be sure you lay in sufficient rough
age for the stock for their feed dur
ing the winter.
with the best quality of common sense
is sure to make the old farm pay.
A well-balanced ration is that kind
| and quantity of feed which will pro-
duce the best results at the least pos
sible expense.
Shade in the pasture for the sheep.
| Just rough shelter is all that Is nee
essary. Half a days time will put up
q cover that will do the business.
A trip through the fields and around
| the place for the purpose of inspection
rather than driving away at some par
! ticular task will help you to see many
things which you would not otherwise
notice.
| Look at the nuts on the buggy occa-
sionally, and the other vehicles, too.
Easy to tighten them, but mighty hard
to repair the damage sometimes when
a wheel comes rolling off.
| What kind of watering places have
you in the pasture? Look after them
during the hot weather. Contaminat-
ed water supply means contaminated
stock. Especially is this true of the
cows, and the milk supply.
Mature brood sows can safely raise
two litters a year and can be carried
| from year to year after weaving their
litters, quite cheaply, with little or no
grain after the spring litter is weaned
until the fall litter comes, IL they can
have fresh grass or other succulent
feed. We should learn to produce as
much of the feed as possible.
The highly finished animal is the
one which returns the best profit. Ami
mails intended for market that have
been running on pasture should be fed
grain a few weeks previous to market
ing, even If the grain must be pur-
chased. The difference in the grain in
weight and the price received will
more than pay for the trouble and ex-
pense.
New grape vines may be propagated
by layering Select fairly well-matured
branches of this seasons growth near
the ground, place them on the ground
and cover with five or six inches of
soil at a joint. If the runner is long it
may be covered in more than one
place. Roots will spring aut at the
joints covered with earth within few
weeks and later in the season these
new grape plants may be separated
from the parent plants.
The we'll cultivated corn field will
always give better yield than the
one that is neglected. Give the boy
a good team and an improved sulky
cultivator, and he will do more and
better work than half dozen men
with hoes and will take a pleasure In
having the work well done. When
corn is half grown, put wire muzzles
on the horses, use narrow single trees
and set the teeth to cut about four
inches in depth, by using the shovel
teeth to throw a slight furrow to the
hills at the fourth working, and the
cultivator teeth at the fifth working
The corn can then be thoroughly
worked and the iron, pig and rag
weeds cut out before they are deer
rooted and the field put in nice con
dition for fall seeding.
The American farmer has yet t.
come to full realization of the value OF
leguminous crops. Prof. G. G. Creel
l ludu, ICCCAIAy iCtuLACu llOm y LII
abroad, and in giving his opinion of az
riculture as it is carried on in Italy, hi
has this to say: I'm looking about tx
find out how the fertility of the sol
, was maintained in districts where liv.
stock was not common, and henc,
farm manure was for from plentiful.
noticed that everywhere leguminou,
crops Cor pulse) were the rule. ais,
discovered that in some form it wal
eaten every day by rich and poor alike
All the time was in Italy neye
{ once sat down to dinner without be
/ ing served with peas, or beans, or len
i ills, or some other variety of legumin
/ GUS annual. / found also that tn
. poorer classes consumed large quanti
l ties of pulse, it being used to larg
. extent as q substitute for meat. Wher
) the Irish peasant finds his balanced re-
I ton in potatoes and pork, the English
man In bread and cheese, the Scotch
!. man in oatmeal and milk, SO the Its
I Han rests content with macaroni an
Z pulse, and the land gets the benefit Il
VRnatnrad fcrtf1ityo