Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-06-26
EAKM AND HOUSEHOLD.
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EARN AND HOUSEHOLD.
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AoKlcuLruKE is the mother of those
Industries that bring national health
and prosperity.
THERE are now sixty-scven cheese
factories in Vermont. Richmond
makes 200 tons Of cheese annually.
Ir is better to obtain largo crops from
small parcels of land than scanty ones
from large areas.
The first cheese factory in Vermont
land the second one in tho United
Stntcs) was established in Richmond,
in 1883, by Hon. l.. ID. 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, AMI she now shakes hands with
agriculture us embracing more science
than any 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 bcnticial. -"
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 off.
SO says correspondent of Nature.
who has tried it on ants nesting in his
garden.
DIR. LoUvEL has been awarded D
prize of $500 by the French Academy
of Sciences, for designing an appal atus
for keeping grain in vacuum. or
rather within a vessel in which the mir
is so rarefed as to kill any graniverous
insect.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western
Rural says: "Take boiled linseed oil
and stir it in pulverized charcoal to the
consistency OF paint. Put coat OF this
over the timber, and there is not man
that will live to see it rotten.''
A HORSE can take cold as easily by
going out OF a cold air INTO hot stable,
as he can by going from hot stable
into cold air, and vice verso. 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 on
axiom in drainage: 1T is not iudicious
to spend money in draining land that
needs draining, so long as we can use
the money to good advantage in tic
better cultivation of other good land
and that does not need draining"
IT is claimed that the greatest nutri
ton and the highest vitality produc,
the female, while the want OF these il
the sire and dam gives character to thu
male. The theory is startling. If nu
triton at very carly stage of develop
ment decides the question of sex, it !.
we'll enough for our breeders to under
stand the fact. But will the theor,
hold water2
In rearing and breaking the colt, til.
law of kindness should not be forgot
ten. The first thing in breaking is to
let the colt know that you are its
friend, and this can not be done toe
soon. Never allow the colt to get wild
but rather teach it to he 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 bette,
than any other course.
When to Cut tho Hay Crop.
In a paper read before tho Vermont
Board of Agriculture, Mr.. J. D. Col.
Inns, of Craftsburg, gave the experience
OF MIR. Amasa Scott, Of that town, who
owns small farm of fifteen or twent,
acres:
He formerly cut his hay at the usua
time, say some time in July or the frs
of August, and as he usually kept COW.
to eat his fodder, he fed some meal il
connection with his hay, attaining til,
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 b,
feeding meal, and correctly reasoning
that by cutting his grass earlier b,
could
DISPENSE WITH NEAL
and still attain as good results as til,
Fail. The result more than iustifie,
his conclusion, for he found that hi
COWS not only gave more milk, nm.
made more butter and of bette
quality, but they maintained a highe
condition both in flesh and health. Tli
led him to continue his experiments
cutting his grass still earlier, until TO
the past few years he aims to have hi
first crop of grass cut and in tho barr
before any heads appear; his theor,
being that if the grass IS cut before til,
seed stalk commences to shoot upward
the same stalk that is cut off will con
tinue to grow instead of starting q new
shoot from the root, as is the cas-,
where the cutting is delayed until the
seed stalk is partially or fully develop
ed. He 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 50 good two, while some o.
tho poorest he cuts but once, but il
must all be cut the first time before OH
national holiday-July 4-else il
opinion it is unfit for food Tor his COWS;
and 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 his barn floor, and uses them faith
fully in conducting his experiments.
He has obtained as high as five tons
per acre, at three cuttings on some OF
his land, of hay cured sufficiently to
pack away in the NOW. BY actual ex-
pertinent it took an average of twenty.
five pounds a day of this hay to keen 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 an aver.
age growth OF over three pounds per
day daring an entire winter.
| 10 PlOW Down Grass.
The Canadian Farmer says: "Not.
withstantling the thc utmost pains and
care IN piowlng, the grass, especially if
long, will bristle up in boards and
tufts here, there, and everywhere, ill.,
]ur,ng alike the appearance of the field
and ITS 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 q blow
you have, try them. Apiece Of or,lin-
cry trace chain will do very we'll.
Fasten one end of it to your coulter
and to the other end attach a round
iron ball OF from two to three pounds
weight, leaving the chain long enough
to permit tho ball to reach back to