Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-07

z. Sell for FIRST quality only that which
is A No. l )" and strive to make all your
products reach that grade.
3. Put your name and address on all
packages, SO that if they are found just as
represented your name will be associated
with them. This will help to make for you
. reputation.
4. Mover allow poor article to 20 of
your farm with your name attached, un.
less with U true statement its quality.
S. Remember that it is cheaper to buy
the best, do all things in the best way. and
profitable to be known as producing and
selling the best, that it is just as valuable to
you that a customer finds that what YOU
say is second or third class is so, Us to lind
you tell the truth whom you brand your
produce Us first class Labor to get an
honest name in market, and that gained,
you will have the passport to prosperity
aud wealth, provided you are strictly Wig.
liant in guarding 1t.
IT il hopeless to attempt to fatten chick.
ems while they are at liberty. They must
DO put in proper coop; and this, like
most other poultry appurtenances, need
not be expensive. To iattcn twelve fowls,
u coop may be three feet loug, eighteen
inches high, and eighteen inches deem,
made entirely Of bars. No part solid
neither top, sides nor bottom. Discretion
must be used, according to the size Of the
chickens put up. They do not want room ;
indeed, the closer they are the better, pr 0.
vided they can all stand up at the same
time. Care must be taken to put up such
as have boon accustomed to be together or
they will fight. If one is qua, elsome, It
is better to remove it at once, as, like other
bad examples, it soon finds imitators. A
diseased chicken should not be nut I'M.
The food should be ground oats, and may
either be put up in trough or on fat
board running along the front of the coop.
1t may be mixed with water or milk-the
latter is the better. 1t should 10 we'll
soaked, forming i pulp Us loose Us can be.
provided 1t does not run off tho board.
They must be we'll fed three or four times
q day--the first time Is soon after dav-
break as may be possible or convenient,
and then at intervals of four hours. Each
meal should be rs much and no more than
they can cat up clean. When they have
dono feeding, the board should be wiped
and somo gravel may be spread. It causes
thom to feed and thrive.
A CORRESPONDENT of tho Vermont Far
mer thus deacribes an improved poke Or
jumping stick: First, put a piece across
the horns. Then have u piece of hard
wood board, one.half or three-fourths inch
thick and about three feet long. Have a
holo inserted in the bar across the horns
ia such O way that when this hard wood
strip is inserted in il, running out over the
back, as the animal naturally carries its
head, the rear end will he just free Of the
back. Drive three or four single nails,
ground sharp, into this end, letting them
come through three.fourths of an inch. so
that us soon as tho animal makes an Of.
fort to raise bis head to jump tho fence.
the nails will soundly prick bis back, and
he will be ap: to frisk his tail and start
tor some feed that is easier to DO obtained.
For chcapness and durability this ar
rangemcnt is unequal. 1t weighs less
han three pounds; it is not in the way in
travelling around, and when the animal
lies down it is on one side, as it is natural
tor the animal to throw its bcad opposite
70 the side it lies on. When they arc
feeding it is upright in tho mir. 1t will
keep the Al imal to which it is applied
where he belongs, sure.
ONE Of our substantial subscribers. in a
recent conversation, gave his experience
in training meat stock affected with the
habit ct eating wood, chewing bones, otc.
Ills cattle were ono spring affected in this
wav they became thin in flesh, rofusod to
eat hay, and presented siokly appear.
ance. Lie had no impression that their
food lacked the constituents for making
bono, but his neighbors used bone meal
without noticing any good results what
ever. At last ho put about four bushels
OF lcached ashes in his barnyard, and threw
out t" them about shovcltul ouch duy.
They all alto US if with evident relish.
After turning tl'cm out to pasture, no put
ono peck of dry ashes per week ~ the
ground i'll tho pasture. They ato all up
and gnawcd oft tho grass where i. had
been lying. Tho cattle began to improve,
gaining flesh and looking bctter than thoy
mat don" Tor several years. lie says that
Tins morbid appearance was u,noticcd
years ago, from tho fac, that tho rrouud
Was ashy from tho buruiugsoi the woods