Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-07-04

most of the patent methods were i'm
practicable in a small way, ON account
of the heavy machinery necessary.
The best method for common use was
to thoroughly season the timber, and
then coat it with coal-tar or crude Pc
troleum, or common pine-tar, put on
hot. This kept out worms, and mois-
ture, which were the most destructive
agents to timber.
AT this season grass is often too sue
culent. There is not nutriment enough
in it in proportion to bulk. And it
will generally pay to give the COWS in
the yard some hay to eat during the
night, and a little cut feed-say on
peck of hay and two quarts of fine
middllngs-the first thing in the morn
ing. A good COW at this season gives q
generous flow of milk. and it is unwise
not to supply her with all the food she
can digest.
PUMPKINS, as food for stock. find fl
vor with correspondent of the Maine
Farmer. Last year he took twenty OK
cart loads from an acre of land, which
also yielded atthe same time crop of
corn. He feed his sheep upon them
for two months, and this materially
helped to fatten forty, which he sold in
the fall for mutton, and forty more
which went into winter quarters. Civ.
en- to cattle, they saved 81 vast amount
of feed" What pumpkins were left
were cut up, placed in the lighthouse,
and afterward soaked in milk for swine.
The Kansas Farmer alludes to the
bad policy of hurrying grain to market
when prices are low. The remedy lies
in keeping live stock. For the most
part. Western farmers must come to
this gradually. Add q COW, a pig, q
calf as you can. RaiGo some root crops.
without diminishing the size of your
grain fields, and see that each year
your herds and your focks are larger
than the year before. An extra supply
of garden vegetables can often be ex-
changed for some kind of young stock
from the people in town. This il one
way to grow into stock farming.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman writes: "The time has ar
rived when more attention has to be
paid to permanent pastures and now
ings. Whenever blue grass or other
thoroughly established thickest green's
ward is broken up from it's first natural
set it will never become so good again
under any management in vogue in the
United States. In Kentucky, the home
of the blue grass, the pillow forever de-
stroys the rich and fattening verdure
and though those who have desolated
q blue grass region may make state
ments to the contrary, afterward no
one can exhibit the same living, healthy,
mattered turf that existed before the
pillow destroyed the natural sward. II
is so with all good, permanent grass
land, the varieties growing consisting
of the best native and other perpetual
grasses"
A PEACH-aRowER who "can show
, good healthy trees that are twenty
three years old. of the Old Nixon OLD
Nixon Cling, Stump, the World, Earl,
York, Hayworth, and some others, and
one tree thirty years old, " writes to tn,
Western Agriculturist advocating thu
cultivation of tho orchard as>thoroueh
~ as though it were field of corn. Ir
a very dry season he would keep thu
pillow goingas late as the first of August
in IN ordinary, or wet one, until thu
first Of July. After four years h
would put half a bushel of Stacked
lime, and quart of salt, well mixed,
around each tree, extending out 81,
or eight feet in all directions and ther
> fork in.
A CANADIAN correspondent of til,
Massachusetts Plonghman enforces til.
advices not to judge of the value of
COW for butter by the amount of mill
given by an account of an experiment
where grade Durham heifer gave "a!
pounds of milk IN one week, from which
only three pounds of butter could b,
made. The best COW in the herd vase
,, h-gratle Durham, which gave 3,35l
pounds of milk in 63 days, from which
12G pounds of butter were made-l|
: pounds having been made in one week
This 10 an average of over SO pounds o.
milk per per day, and fraction owe
20 pounds Of milk required to make
pounds of butter. The COW had goot
clover and timothy pasture, and severa
pounds of corn meal daily.