Mower County transcript., 1871-07-13
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

AN Ohio dairyman has dicovercd that
poison in cheese is occasioned by the COWS
eating lobclia.
ALWAYS 10 as the sun dOes-lOOk at the
bright side of everything; for while it is
just "s cheap, it is three times as good for
digestion.
AN experienced sheep feeder is reported
as saying that one pound Of grain prr day
lor sheep was all he had ever found it
profitable to feed. Last winter hc fed 3l3
sheep, using five bushels Of corn daily and
all the hay they wished TO eat.
AN Iowa correspondent of the Western
Ru'"l thinks posts should be set eight
feet apart for wire fence, aud that there
should be good solid post every forty
rods to stretch the wire on. Five wires,
tho first one foot from the gr.un,l, the
next two at distances Of eight inches, aud
the next two nine inches apart, is The ar
rAngelncnt he recommends.
A PHYSICIAN of great note has said ::
weaken the bones OF young people; it
greatly Injuries the brain and spinal mar
row, and, i'll fact, the whole nervous fluid
a boy who smokes frequently, or in any
way uses tobacco constantly, is never
known to make a man Of much energy,
aud generally lacks muscular as well us
mental power"
ASHES or HARD AND SOFT Wood
1t is generally supposed that ashes of pine
wood are not 50 rich in alkalics as those
of hard wood. DIR. Dana says, iu his
Muck MununI: "In equal weights, pine
ash affords four times more alkAli than tA..
ash of hard wood" AT the same time, !.
bushel of hard wood ashes yields more
a]kali than bushel Of pine wood ashes,
the ash Of the pine being much the light
est. According to analysis, only about Is
quarts in hundred Of hard wood ashes
are soluble.
Mr.. GARRETsEE is writing a series of
articles for the american Itural Home,
about farms he has visited. He SAYS he
has found some who has farmcd for money
and others who have made no money; re-
Gently he has found one who, more wisely
as he thinks, has farmcd for home and
a good living, and who, when asked if his
farm had paid, said: Yes, l have lived
here thirty years and lived we'll" Mr.. G.
thinks this was all that was necessary, as
he says he never saw more desirable
home
MARKETING Milk Milk, properly
sweet from twenty four to thirty-sjx hours
in hot weather. At least such is the teSti
meny of Orange County dairymcn, who
have long been engaged in furnishing
milk for the New York market Great
care should be taken to cleans the cans and
keep them perfectly sweet. They must
be thoroughly scaldcd out with boiling
water, and be sure that the water is boiling
hot when applied. Well made cans, pro
perly cared for, will last three or four
years, and perhaps longer. The time n
can will last depends OF course upon its
usage. Bad usage may bang'it to pieces in
year. The milk cans on some roads get
very hard usage.-Isua,M Neao Yorker.
SCIENTIFIC FARMING consists altogether
and solely in deriving the greatest pos.
siblc profit from the soil Lessen the
labor and increase the yield, is the sum of
the whole. To do this, every thing must
be done at the right time, and in the bet
manner. BY draining, the wafer must bc
got rid Of; by cultivu,i,,n weeds must be
destroyed; by manure, the soil must be en-
riched; by rotation of crops. the largest
yield must be secured by improved stock,
the food must lr economizcd and made of
more value and the how to do all this is
he sum and substance of agricultural
sclt nee. Books on farming relate the ex-
Wricncc on successful mall, tic expert
mcnts they have made, and the results
they have attained. Any and every farm
cr, who, by the use Of his reasoning
powers, is enabled to raise one bushel of
corn per acre more than he has hitherto
done, by improved methods, is u scientific
farmer, however much he may tisown The
name; and not only has he done good
thing for himself, but the world at large is,
to some extent, better for his efforts and
success; his mission, as a man, has been
to that extent fulfilled, and he will leave
the world better than he found it-liearth
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