Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
RURAL ECONOMY.
9sasonablo Hints.

RURAL ECONOMY.
ssasonable Hints.
PROVIDE good pure water for live
stock.
SPRINKLE air-slacked lime on turnipe
to destroy the "turnip Aea."
A CALF at six weeks old, if properly
fed, produces the best veal.
PULvERIzED charcoal has a wonderful
effect upon bloated animals.
THE temperature of stable should be
sixty-five degrees, and free from mois-
ture.
"ScALY LEG" in fowls may be cured by
carbolic soap suds or sulphur and lard
mixed and rubbed on.
IT is asserted that tomatoes as food for
cows improve both the quantity and
quality of the milk. and give the cream
and butter rich golden color.
CUT your corn and shock it as soon as
it is glazed, and thus avoid damage
from early frost and secure good corn
fodder.
PLANTS for winter Towering should be
kept in pots all summer. They should
be brought in the house and placed in
their position before the winter fires are
made.
A DRESSING of linseed oil will serve to
prevent iron and steel from rusting, and
mixed with lead and applied will prevent
the decay of wood of farm implements
and machines.
The great want in farming is more
stock and more manure. Exhaust all
your home resources in barnyard manure
and materials for the compost heap
before investing largely in artificial fer
tilizers.-Americaa Cultiuator.
TOP dressing moving fields as soon as
possible after the hay is removed is at
tended with excellent results. The stub
bic and roots are protected from excess
sive drying by the hot sun, and the grass
is stimulated to a vigorous growth.
AS soon as tree is cut down, if intend
ed for mechanical purposes, it should be
stripped of its bark, raised from the
ground, the sap wood taken of, and the
timber reduced to its required dimen-
sions.
MAKE calculation as to how much
corn and other grain crops you will re-
quire, raise good crops, and you will soon
see the folly of using three to five acres
to pasture COW when she can be soiled
on half acre.
Soils in cultivation require constant
stirring, then they do not harden on the
surface; and do not become too compact
for the proper admission of air, rain and
heat, and for the free growth of the
fibrous roots.
AN Austrian journal states that cows
have great liking for celery, and that
" in many districts" the leaves are fed
to them either scalded or cut fine and
mixed with bran-mash, and that they
are preferred to red clover and bring a
far richer and sweeter milk than any
other food"
DoN'T allow weeds about your door,
yard, barnyard, roadside, in the hedges
of your fields, in the garden where you
have taken off crop, to ripen seed nor
should you put ripened weeds, full of
seed, into your pigstye. Neglect not
these hints and suggestions, lest you
should ere long be inquiring how to
eradicate weeds. "Prevention is better
than cure" is an old adage.
A CORRESPONDENT of Philadelphia
paper says that milk set and kept at a
temperature Of forty degrees will not
sour, but the cream will become bitter
before it is ready to skim, and milk set
at high temperature, say seventy de-
grees, will sour in twenty-four hours.
A proper temperature for setting milk is
between fifty and sixty degrees, with
which fact, do doubt, the majority of
dairymen are familiar.
A FARMER of experience says that the
feet Of horse require more care than
the body. They need ten times as much,
for in one respect they are almost the
entire horse. All the grooming that can
be done won't avail any thing if the horse
is forced to stand where his feet will be
filthy. In this case the feet will become
disordered, and then the legs will get
badly out of fix: and with bad feet and
bad legs there is not much else of the
horse fit for anything.
BLEEDING a horse is generally done in
the vein with broad-bladed lancet; and
when the vein is sufficiently pressed
and secured, so as to cause it to swell,
then the point of the lancet is sent in
with the left hand, and, cutting upwards,
makes all the opening necessary. When
sufficient blood is taken, the cut ought
to be squeezed together and fastened
with pin. By pressing the vein below
the wound the blood will shoot out in a
stream and fall clear into the bucket
ready to receive it.
A YOUNG man starting out in farming
can not do better thing than to plant
an apple orchard if his land is within
"the apple belt" Don't rely on the
gnarled and decaying old trees; the life
of an orchard, under favorable condi-
tions, is only about that of man.
Nothing will lift a mortgage, or run up
the profit side of the account, like a
prime orchard in its first years of bear
ing. Go for the standard varieties, or
such as experience has proved do well in
your locality and soil. Theories are
good in their place, but day spent in
driving through your town and finding
out what fruit-growers have actually
learned and done, is better. Get your
trees from some reliable nursery-the
nearer at hand the better-and use your
own best care and other peoples expe-
rience in planting them.
The Household.
BUTTERM1LK PEs.-One cup sugar,
wo cups buttermilk, two eggs, two table,
poonfuls flour, two tablespoonfuls but
ter; flavor with lemon. This makes two
pies.
REMEDY For BLACK TEETH.-Take
equal parts of cream of tartar and salt;
pulverize them finely, and mix well. Then
wash your teeth in the morning, and rub
with this powder. Afterward, keep
your stomach free from fetid gases.