Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-06-26


Tho crcakins wan, brushed tlro' the lane,
Hangs str1Ws OH hedges narrow:
anu smoothly clcNycS tho sOughing pillow,
And harshcr grlnds tho harrow.
Comes. from the roadside inn caught up.
A brawl of crowded laughter,
Illro falling brooks and cawing rocks,
And fiddle scramblng after.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Paragraphs.
AGRICULTURE is the mother of those
industries that bring national health
and prosperity.
| THERE are now sixty-seven 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.
The first cheese factory in Vermont
(and the second one in the United
States) was established in Richmond,
in 1858, by Hon. T.. D. Mason, now
President of the State Dairymen's AS
ISOLATION.
SCIENCE has shaken out the folds of
her banner over the nations of the
earth, and she now shakes hands with
agriculture rs 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 vegeta-
bic mold, but on oak openings, either
clay or sand, tits decidedly bcntfcial. +"
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.
DR.. LoUvEL has been awarded q
prize of $500 by the French Academy
OF Sciences, for designing an apparatus
Tor keeping grain in a vacuum, or
rather within q vessel in which the mir
is SO rarefied as to kill any graniverous
insect.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western
Rural says: Stake boiled linseed oil
and stir it in pulveri9ed charcoal to the
consistency OF paint. Put coat Of this
over the timber, and there is not man
that will live to see it retten."
A HORSE can take cold as easily bv
going out of cold air into hot stable,
as he can by going from hot stable
into cold air, and vice versa. 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: 1T 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 does 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. Ifnu.
TRITON at q very early stage of develop
ment decides the question of sex, it il
we'll enough for Dur breeders to under
stand the fact. But will the theory
hold water2
i In rearing and breaking the colt, til,
law OF kindness should not be forgot
ten. The first thing in breaking is tc
let the colt know that you are it,
friend, and this can not be done too
soon. Never allow the colt to get wild
but rather teach it to be glad to SCI
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.
i when to Cut the Hay Crop.
In paper read before the Vermont
Board of Agriculture, Mr.. J. D. Col.
Inns, of Craftsburg, gave the experience
of Mr.. 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 frs,
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 bis grass earlier, having be.
come satisfied that he had epoiled
some Of the best COWS he ever had by
feeding meal, and correctly reasoning
that by cutting his grass earlier Ii
could
DISPENSE WITH MEAL
and still attain as good results as the
Pail. The result more than justified
his conclusion, for he found that his
COWS not only gave more milk, and
made moro butter and of q better
quality, but they maintained higher
condition both in flesh and health. This
led him to continue his experiments,
cutting his grass still earlier, until fol
the past few years he aims to have his
first crop of grass cut and in the barn
before: any heads appear; his theory
being that if the grass IS cut before the
seed stalk commences to shoot upward
the same stalk that is cut off will con.
tinue 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. He thus secures an earlier growth
for the succeeding crop. His land,
which Is. IN the highest condition,
| PAOuuceo III AsaVOIdDAo ScaSOuS.
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 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. MIR. Scott has set of
! FAIRBANKS SCALES
in his barn floor; and uses them faith
fully i'll 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 day of this hay to keep q
large COW during the winter in the
highest condition, and thirty pounds
per day, fed to a pair of yearling steers
with no other feed, produced IN aver.
age growth of over three pounds per
dny daring an entire winter.
To Plovv Down Grass.
The Canadian Farmer says: :Not-
outstanding the the utmost pains and
care in blowing, the grass, especially if
long. will bristle up in boards and