The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-12-13

Plow the garden In the fan.
The separator In IN essential.
Make experiments with fertilizerS.
Cut out the extra strawberry vines.
A sheep that IL damp to the siin 10
never a well sheep.
Roots Of peony and bleeding heart
should be planted In the fall.
In order to have good-sized sheep
grow them rapidly while young.
| II costs less to deliver butter tat
than any other crop on the farm.
Sheep are not found on enough
farms. and II Is the wonder why they
are not
The one great secret IN producing
milk that is pure IL to keep It clean
and cold.
II requires quite a. much care In
packing butter for storage as in can.
ming fruit.
All dead limbs from trees In the
orchard should go into the brush heap
or woodshed.
Eleven dozen OF eggs per year Is .
fair average for hens and pullets kept
in large hocks.
As the potatoes are dug. sort out |
the small ones and keep them for the !
hens this winter
Hogs fed in the field gained nearly |
one-third more rapidly than those |
fed in the yards
Rotten fruit which has fallen to |
the ground should be picked up and
consigned to the FIRE.
Pork was produced with less gain |
by hogging of corn than by feeding |
ears or snapped corn in the yard.
Trees that are badly infested with |
the San Jose scale appear as II they |
had been busted over with ashes.
Hens afflicted with scaly leg cannot /
possibly give the best service in egg |
production. and rough shanks look
bad.
Decay soon spreads in fruit or vege- |
tables In the cellar. To be on the safe |
side they should be culled over fire.
quently.
II you had good luck with pumpkins |
and squash this summer. better save
some seed for next year. from the best
specimens.
Don't neglect the seed corn which |
so many lost last fall and winter be-
cause II was not thoroughly cured and
dry when zero appeared.
A good quality In the Dorsets is
their pugnacious disposition which
makes them able to use their big ,
horns In a defense against dogs.
II Is well to change the sheep occa-
sionally into the different pastures.
Don't mate them too early and. n |
possible, have a thoroughbred buck.
The demand for good draft horses
in nearly every state Is better than
ever before and sound, well.formed
animals bring from 5000 to $500 each.
A thorough preparation OF the soil
before planting. II possible, Is always
best in the garden. The seeded that
is poorly prepared Is always harder
to cultivate.
The doors TO the narrowing house
should be placed in the center with a
wing at the edge in order TO prevent |
the wind from blowing in on the SOW
and young pigs.
Alsike clover is a perennial and |
can be grown on ground that Is too
low and moist for the medium red or
mammoth. but IL Is grown equally
well on high ground.
In buying a ram for mutton lambs
his size alone Is not the only thing to
be considered He must have all the
other good qualities and even II he Is
a little under size IL will do no harm.
Breed horses to some definite pur-
pose. That Is. 60 In for drafters.
coachers or saddlers. A finished ami
NAL OF either OF these breeds will al
ways bring more than a mixture OF
all
Let the colts have all the grain and
bright hay they will eat up clean.
Keep them going during the first win
ter as that Is the time when the foun-
ttov for future az ron eth and 0rou,th