Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-06-26
EAHM AND HOUSEHOLD,
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EAEM AND HOUSEHOLD.
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AGRICULTURE is the mother of those
industries that bring national health
and prosperity.
HERE arc now sixty-scven cheese
factories in Vermont Richmond
makes 200 tons Of cheese annually.
IT is better to obtain large CROPS from
small parcels Of land than scanty ones
from large areas.
TIE first cheese factory in Vermont
(anu the second one in tho United
States) was established in Richmond,
in 1853, 10y Hon. l.. d. Mason, now
President Of the State Dairymcn's AS
ISOLATION.
SCIENCE has shaken out tho folds of
her banner over the nations of the
earth, and she now shakes hands with
| agriculture as embracing more science
than amy other calling under heaven.
The Farmers Club, of Fairfield,
! Michigan, is of the opinion "that
plaster is Of little or no benefit on
beech or maple lands, rich in vcgcta-
bic mold, but on oak openings, either
clay or sand, tits decidedly bcntiicial."
A STRONG solution of carbolic acid
and water poured into the holes, kills
all the ants it touches, and the survi-
vors Immediately take themselves oft.
So says Il correspondent of Nature,
who has tried it on ants nesting in his
garden.
DIR. LoUvEL has been awarded a
prize Of $500 by the French Academy
of Sciences, for designing an apparatus
for keeping grain in vacuum, or
rather within vessel in which the mir
is so rarefed as to kill any graniverous
insect.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western
Rural says: flake boiled linseel oil
and stir it in pulverized charcoal to the
consistency OF paint. Put coat OF this
over the timbcr,and there is not man
that will live to see it rotten.''
A HORSE can take cold as easily by
going out OF II cold air INTO hot stable,
as he can by going from hot stable
into cold air, and vice vea'so. It is the
sudden change Of temperature which
produces the change on the mucous
coat OF the larynx and throat.
A LATE writer lays down this as an
axiom in drainage: g It is not judicious
to spend money in draining land that
needs draining, SO long as we can use
the money to good advantage in the
better cultivation of other good land
and that docs not need draining"
| IT is claimed that the greatest nutri-
ton and the highest vitality produce
the female, while the want OF these in
the sire and dam gives character to the
male. The theory is startling. If nu-
triton at very early stage of develop
ment decides the question of Sex, it is
we'll enough for our breeders to under
stand the fact. But will the theory
hold water?
IN rearing and breaking the colt, the
law of kindness should not be forgot
ten. The first thing in breaking is to
let the colt know that you are it's
friend, and this can not be done too
soon. Never allow the colt to get wild.
but rather teach it to be glad to see
you. When you have secured the full
confidence of the colt, little breaking
is needed; you only have to teach the
colt what it must do. Patience and
kindness will do this easier and better
than any other course.
When to Cut tho Hay Crop.
In paper read before tho Vermont
Board of Agriculture, Mr.. j. d. Col
llns, OF Craftsburg, gave the experience
OF MIR. Amasa Scott, of that town. who
owns small farm of fifteen or twenty
acres:
He formerly cut his hay at the usual
time. say some time in July or the first
OF August, and as he usually kept COWS
to eat his fodder, he fed some meal in
connection with his hay, attaining the
| same results that our best farmers do
Some fifteen years ago he commenced
cutting his grass earlier, having be-
come satisfied that he had spoiled
some Of the best COWS he ever had bv
leedlng meal, and correctly reasoning
that by cutting his grass earlier h.
could
DISPENSE WITH MEAL
and still attain as good results as the
Fail. The result moro than justified
his conclusion, for lie found that his
COWS not only gave more milk, and
made more butter and of q better
Quality, hut they maintained higher
condition both in flesh and health. This
led him to continue his experiments,
cutting his grass still earlier, until for
the past few years he aims to have his
ilrst crop OF grass cut anil in the barn
before any heads appear; his theory
oclng that II the grass is cut before the
sccd Stalk commences to shoot upward
the same stalk that is cut off will con-
tinuc to grow instead Of starting new
shoot from the root, as is the case
where the cutting is delayed until the
seed stalk is partially Or fully develop
ed. tie thus secures an earlier growth
for the succeeding crop. His land,
which is in the highest condition,
produces in favorable seasons.
THREE CROPS
other, not so good; two, while some of
the poorest he cuts but once, but it
must I'LL be cut the first time before our
national holiday-July 4--else in
opinion 1T is unfit for food Tor his COWS:
and l have ocular demonstration of the
fact that his cattle SO fully coincide in
his opinion that they will accept hay
cut after that date, though otherwise
of the best quality, only under COM
pulsion. Mr.. Scott has set of
FAIRBANKS SCALES
III al: barn floor, and uses them faith
tnlly III conducting his experiments.
Tic has obtained as high as five tons
per acre, at three cuttings on some of
his land, OF hay cured sufficiently to
pack away i'll the NOW. by actual cx-
pertinent it took an average of twenty
live pounds day of this hay to keep a
large COW during the winter in the
highest condition, and thirty pounds
per day, fed to II pair of yearling steers
with no other feed, produced nm aver
age growth OF over three pounds Der
day daring an entire winter.
10 PiOw Dawn Grass.
The Canadian Farmer says: "Not-
withstanding the the utmost pains and
care in plow1ng, the grass, especially if
long, will bristlc up in boards md
tufts here, there, and everywhere, ill.,
Jur,ng alike the appearance of the field
and It's capacity for growth. Do you
wish to remedy this great difficulty?
Ii SO. use the chain and ball to your
pillow. No matter what kind of u blow
you have, try them. piece of orlin~
cry trace chain will do very well.
Fasten one end of it to your coulter
and to the other end attach n round
iron ball Of from two to three pounds
weight, leaving the chain long enough
to permit the ball to reach back to
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