Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-31
RURAL ECONOMY.
S0aaonnble Hiats.

RURAL ECONOmY.
seasonable HINTS.
HORSES that have been on pasture
should now be taken up at night, and
have some dry feed.
The change of feed from green to dry
should be gradual with all stock other
wise, the appetite may fail, and the ami
mails lose thereby.
WHEAT needs nitrogen at this season,
and so does grass. One hundred pounds
per acre of nitrate of soda would be a
help to both.
1T is said that bag of hops, as large
the two fists, placed in grain bin, will
kill or drive away every grub or weevil
in the bin. The dead can be removed
by tanning.
The aim of feeding now should be to
got the stock in good condition before
cold weather, remembering that an ami
NAL beginning the winter we'll is al
good as half through it already.
FEEDING for pork may best be begun
at once, using up the soft and poor corn
first. Some feed green stalks, cut fine,
and mixed with meal; this will bring
the pigs into thrifty condition, to be
finished very rapidly in November.
The produce of scrub COW by
thorough bred bull will be half blood.
This, coupled with thoroughbred bull,
would produce three-q uarter blood.
The next cross would be seven-eights,
and the next fifteen-sixteenths.
CANADIAN farmers say sixty bushels
of peas are equal to ten bushels of corn
for fattening hogs, and that peas will
yield large number of bushels per acre
than corn. The pork made from peas is
most excellent.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman tersely remarks that the "com-
ing farmer will be the man who sees in
his land and stock 80 much capital that
: must return a fair interest to him, be-
sides paying him for his labor and re-
pairing WORKOUT material.
Be prompt now, when the days are
shortening and the season for field work
is rapidly nearing it's end. Utilize
every hour for securing the crops yet
ungathered. Neglect no chance for
putting the ground in order for spring
work, but turn every fair day to &C.
count, that nothing be neglected.
CHARCOAL pulverized and mixed
with water, is now highly recommended
az an agent for relieving cattle suffering
from any arrangement of the stomach,
such as bloat or hoven, etc. This should
be remembered. There is no doubt of
its efficacy, if abundance of concurrent
testimony can be relied upon.
MILKING cows cannot be kept in full
flow without ample rations of fresh fod-
der. As tho pasture becomes bare
! newly-cured corn-stocks, cut and mixed
with chopped roots and sprinkled with
; middlings, and ground corn and oats.
may be given. Liberal feed always paws
with the right kind of cows.
MANGELs and beets are injured bv
frost. These should be gathered, and
secured in pits this month where frost
is prevalent. The fresh leaves have an
injurious effect upon cattle if fed in ex-
cess. A day or two after cutting they
may be fed safely-a pressed bushel-
basketful at time, sprinkled over with
a handful of salt.
EVERY day the corn remains uncut,
after matureity, there is loss. Corn
gains nothing by standing after the
kernels are glazed, but the fodder loses
rapidly in quality. Much of its digest
ible matter is changed into woody fiber,
becoming hard and undigestible. The
sooner it is cut and shocked, the
sooner it can be housed in safety.
CORN stalks are no longer to be con-
sidered as waste product, good for moth
ing but to be trodden under foot. They
/ are worth fully the cost of put ting in
the crop. If we'll saved and cured.
When cut at the right time, and we'll
cured, $6 ton is, by many, considered
reasonable estimate of their value for
feed, when hay is worth $40 per ton.
Careful experiments place well-cured
| corn stocks as worth about three-fifths
as much as hay.
TIE ground for beets, like that for
any other crop, should be mellow, titled
deeply, and rich. The seed should be
sowed as early as possible, in rows from
two and half to three feet apart, so as
to allow the use OF the cultivator be.
tween, and the seed should be sown at
the rate of three to four pounds to the
acre, and the plant thinned out, if need
be, transplanted SO as to stand from
twelve to fifteen inches apart: this will
give large roots, and a crop of twenty
five to thirty.fve tons to the acre.
The use of chloride of potassium is
recommended in Germany as means of
increasing the growth of wool in sheep.
Some German chemists have made ex-
periments with the article, proving that
the growth of wool is promoted by it's
use. It is administered in the proper
ton of one part of chloride to nine parts
of SALT It not only increases the pro.
duction of the wool, but increases the
quality, and promotes the general health
of the animal, we are told; but the prop
er quantities to administer are not
stated.
NARROWING wheat in the fall should
only be done when the surface of the
land is dry. No kind of cultivation
should take place when the ground is
wet. Experimental cultivation should
be done as early as possible. Deep plow-
ing is not needed To kill weeds and
mellow the surface are what is wanted.
Narrowing may be done safely two
weeks after sowing, and repeated twice
or thrice. Then grass seed may be sown
but not before. It will take at once on
the mellow soil, and soon get ahead of
that treated in the usual let alone man
ner.~
IF eggs are expected during the win
ter, they must be provided for now.
Dispose of the older hens; select as
many of the best young pullets and feed
them we'll. Give wheat soaked in hot
water, onoe day. Barley, buckwheat
and corn, in equal proper tions, may
make the best Of the food; chopped cab
bages will help. Provide clean quar-
tiers, plenty of water, gravel, old mortar
and charcoal. Make the house warm:
do not crowd too many into it, and
good supply of eggs will result.