Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-03-06
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Farm Gleanings.
FARMERS are like fowls-neither will

.F you uohC look carefully after the
pits OF your horse, you may one day
be looking after the bits of you1
wagon.
A FARMER had calf so contrary. he
said, that he chad to pull his ears of
to make him suck, and pull his tail of
to make him let CO."
w. W. PLACE fed eighteen hens with
sour milk mixed with meal Gin winter,
scaldeU. They produced in year a
profit of $50, besides eggs AMI chick.
ems used in the family.
A MEADOW irrigated by running
water is said to be double the value OF
one irri gated by flooding; a flooded
one doublc the value of a rich loan not
irrigated.
THE Wisconsin Farmer thinks the
Berkshire hogs have been ovcr-esti-
mated. 1t says they are round, plump
animals, with large round hams and
shoulders, but they are hollow inside
and tough meated.
FLORIDA must be great fish coun-
try, If we con believe an Alabama
paper, Which says: "They are also
numerous small lakes of pure water,
filed with fish, some of which are only
a few rods in extent, while others are
from tsvo to ten naites in length"
UNCLE BRoADACREs. after irving n
horse described as Thoroughly broken
and afraid of nothing" came to the
conclusion that there was no misrepre.
seDtation. He moved Us though every
bone in his body had been broken, and
he was continually afraid, while, as
there was nothing to be afraid of, he
seemed to answer the description.
A GENTLEMAN addicted to scientific
inquiry has discovered that thirty
three days complete the cycle of the
potato. bug generation; that 700 of the
critters are the average product of one
female, from which the family grows
in the second generation to 245, 600,
and III the third generation to 81, 700,
600.
IT needs no argument to show that
. man who desires to cultivate the
land intelligently needs all the aid
which science can give, and indeed
science stops far short of his needs; he
cannot succeed unless his plans har.
monte with the laws of light, heat,
growth aud moisture, although he may
be ignorant that such laws exist.
IT will not do hereafter to say of the
dullest boy in the family, that he can
be the farmer, because he in unfit TO,
anything else. He must have all the
elements Of an earnest man in him,
with good reasoning and analytical
powers, and no slow blood or i'll, direct.
ed brain or else, though he may make
q poor lawyer, doctor or politician, il
is not at all probable he will succeed
~ farmer.
The significance of the fact, "With-
out food without life, is of more i'm
port than the words first convex.
! Strike out of existence ten days. SUP
ply of food and the human race would
be extinct. The houses we inhabit
the monuments we erect, stand in some
cases for ages but our own frames, the
stout limbs and skillful hands which
perform this labor have to be built ur
and recreated every day, and this must
be done from the fruits of the earth.
Everything else is comfort, convenience
luxury-food is indispensable.
LET any one who has piece of land
overrun by Canada thistles treat it in
the following manner, and he will be
surprised at the result: Pillow as late
in June as possible, and give time TO,
the maturity of crop OF barley. The
thistle will have attained quite q
growth, and by blowing and narrowing
thoroughly the roots will be pretty
we'll torn ont. Sow the barley and har.
row in we'll. The warm sun will brina
up the barley at once, and before the
thistles recover from their rude treat
ment the grain will quite shade the
ground, and nothing will be seen Of
the thistles but q few sickly-lookina
specimens. A good crop can be grown
on such ground, where little would
grow if early sown.
A CORRESPONDENT of the American
Farm Journal writes To exterminate
lice from calves, colts and other stock
afflicted with them, take a good hand
full of the Towering annual, known as
]arkspur, cut the stalks near the ground
and steep tops and all in vinegar. When
cool, wash the animal thoroughly in
the liquid 80 as to wet every hair, and
You will find one application to DESTROY
both lice and nits entirely, and it is
not injurious to the animallike the use
! OF sulphur, mercurial ointments, etc.
Should a few of the vermin escape the
first application, second one will
thoroughly eradicate them.
Our of 40 families supplied with
milk from dairy in Islington, Eng. ,
seventy suffered from typhoid fever !;
168 occurred within ten weeks and
thirty died. An investigation showed
that the COWS drank water from an old
underground tank, built of wood and
much decayed. The milk cans were
washed in the same water, and in all
probability the water was also mixed
With the milk. As the fever attacked
only such parties in that district as
| used the milk, the water in the rotten
tank must have been the cause. This
is only one more evidence of the dan
ger OF using foul water, and giving it
to animals, as we'll az to men. and Il ia
a matter of the first Importance to all
dairymen and stock-raisers, as we'll "a
families, to use only pure fresh water.
A WRITER in the National Live Stock
journal says it is not the wool but the
lntestlnes that causes the unpleasant
taste in mutton: therefore, to avoid it.
be sure that the sheep is not warm or
heated, or any way unusually excited
just before the Strengthening. He gives
the following directions for killing and
dressing: Gas soon as the sheep ia
caught hold OF, let his throat be cut
Immediately. Then make an incision
in the chest near the heart, and anoth-
er near the crotch above the smaller
intestines, that the air may escape as
he dies. Dress such portions of the
quarters and abdomen as will allow
the immediate opening of tue mutton
without the soiling of the flesh by the
tag and dirty locks. When thus dress
Gu, the carcass may be rolled up in the
pelt with the wool next to it, and no
unpleasant taste will be communicated
to it."
Garden GlcaninRs.
A KENTUCKY editor says a ne;ehbor
OF his is so lazy that when he works in
the garden he moves about so SLOWLY
that the shade of his broad -brimmed
hat kills the plants.
In removing the various crops from
the garden, during the summer, no
weeds should be allowed to seed,
They should be kept constantly cut
down; OF, better, some other CROP NAV
be sown Ill the land, if only for the
purpose OF digging under.
FLOWER and garden seeds, when