The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-08-23
Keep the pigs growing.

surface 1t is Overripe.
You are safe to buy an old sire, but
don't get him very fat.
An orchard neglected for one year
virtually puts it back three years.
Early turkeys are what pay, and
these can only be had from early laid
eggs.
Plenty Of exercise is one very i'm
portant item for keeping a flock
healthy.
The use of silage for sheep feeding
purposes has been tried out to a linn
tied extent.
There is no reason why potatoes
should not be cultivated with "A rid
ing corn cultivator.
III you want a fine, early yellow
peach, put two or three Triumph trees
in your next nursery order.
Some tell the sex Of the guinea fowl
by it's wattles. Those of the male are
double the size of the female.
A liberal application of ashes to the
soil where cabbage plants are grown
is a preventive of clump root.
Condiments that stimulate egg pro-
duction are very much like anything
that stimulates a human being.
An orchard will live longer, bear
better and be more profitable by be-
ing we'll cultivated and enriched.
Good fruit can be raised only with
care and attention given to spraying,
pruning and generally good care.
Gooseberries require a cool situa-
ton, with plenty of air and moist
ure, and should be partially shaded.
~ AS4pbISo Vi d lull la
ton to keep a COW in fair condition
before there is any milk production.
A blockish built mare with a large
barrel on short legs is likely to pro-
duce a better foal than the tall, leggy
kind.
Capons are the most profitable parts
of the chicken business, just as steers
are the most profitable part of the cat
tie industry.
Frequently d~isinfecting the hen
houses, cOops and drink and feed
dishes is likely to save lots of trouble
from disease.
1t does not require n great ability
at figures to show that there is a
great waste in selling hogs when they
are but half fed out.
Truck crops suffer least from. fungi
In seasons that open with a cool spring
and end with a very hot summer, with
rainfall below the average.
Raspberries and blackberries should
be mulched with straw or litter after
they have been shallow cultivated two
or three times in the spring.
If the onions are not growing we'll,
a little nitrate Of soda or hen manure
sown broadcast, before or during a
rain, often helps them to fill out.
You don't have to take the frost out
Of the bits these days, but you might
take the fire out of your temper and
save much suffering in the horses
mouths.
Sugar-beet growing means more
than the mere profits from growing
the beets. 1t introduces a higher type
agriculture and the crops raised in
are better.
AT this season cows should be dry,
as to avoid milking during fly
time and excessive heat. Pastures are
short, too, and a dry cow can stand
i better than a good mixer.
1t pays to whitewash, ventilate and
properly light stables; to brush and
curry cows; to use clean and we'll
covered utensils, to cool milk quickly
and to have a cool place for the milk.
Cowpeas or soy beans are frequently
in standing corn at the time of
he last cultivation or they can be
after such early-harvested crops
wheat have been removed in case
It is not too late in the season.
Those who contemplate starting an
alfalfa patch should bear in mind this
fact, that under ordinary circum-
no one factor will contribute
much to the success Of the crop as
an application OF farmyard I'M
It's a toss-up between milking out
n the cool yard where mosquitoes and
lies poster the COWS and the tail