Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10
RURAL ECONOMY.
Valuable Hinta.

RURAL ECONOMY.
Valuable Hints.
The safest bank of deposit or loan for
| farmer is q manure bank.
LIQUID manure does its work at once ;
solid manure requires time, yet it is
certain in its effects.
BURY your dead animals at the root
of your fruit trees. You will find that
1t pays good per centage.
ROTTEN wood, leaves and forest clean
inga make excellent plant food when
plowed into the ground.
He has fat cattle who feeds them.
And he has fat acres who ministers to
them with liberal hand.
IT is said that DR.. Chevalier, of Nor
folk, England, observing some very fer
tile ears in a crop of barley, separated
them from the rest, and, by sowing the
grains separately, gradually propagated
the variety which goes by his name. Its
prolific quality has been tested by the
extraordinary fact that $50 stems have
issued from single grain.
The use of dynamite for Strengthening
purposes is meeting with much opposi-
ton in Europe, since such a method
damages the heads of animals valuable
for sale as food, besides the time occu-
pied in arranging its application and
the risk of injury to persons and prop.
erty render the system less expeditions
than that of killing by the old method.
AFTER many experiments, certain
and speedy remedy for burdocks has
been discovered in kerosene oil. If a
small quantity be poured into the heart
of the plants. directly after cutting, they
will disappear entirely, roots and stalks,
leaving no trace of their existence save
small hole in the earth where they
! stood. Refined or crude oil will accom-
plish the purpose equally we'll.
A MANIL1Us, Onondara cornty, n. Y,
i farmer writes that last fall he sowed
twenty-eight acres of wheat, applying
225 bushels of damaged salt, and this
season he has harvested from the same
land ,l20 bushels of fine wheat, ayerag-
ing forty bushels to the acre. He keeps
eight horses, twenty-five COWS, large
flock of sheep and forty-seven hogs, and
believes in genuine grain growing, stock
raising husbandfy.
To secure the total destruction of
the tobacco fly, sprinkle the plants with
a decoction of one-sixteenth of an ounce
of strychnine, dissolved in twenty quarts
of water. This application has been
known to destroy the fly absolutely, and
cause no injury whatever to the young
plants. An indefinite quantity will be
found to work no injury whatever to the
plant. 1t can be applied with perfect
safety.
THISTLE seeds are frequently carried
by the wind several miles on the land.
while they have been seen at sea twenty
to thirty miles from land. What should
we say to any man who dare SOW seed
weeds broadcast over our land? And
yet, practically, those who permit this.
ties to flourish and bloom unheaded,
either on their own or their neighbor's
property, are guilty of suicidal neglect.
In England landowner recovered DAM
ages and costs in an action brought
against neighbor who refused the land
owners application to have the thistles
cut down.
TaE sorghum interest is rapidly in
creasing again, as the practice and expe.
rience in making good quality of syrup
is being more general. The demand for
the sorghum is also increasing, as large
quantities are used in making the finer
syrups, in curing NEST and many other
ways, A single firm in St. Louis uses
annually 500 barrels of sorghum in pack
ing meat, while the demand for the re-
timing factories is only limited by the
supply, and while the price will not be
less than for the past year or two, it will
improve with the quality.-Procticol
Farmer. -.
PROF. ARNOLD says the quality of
milk varies with the quality and supply
of food. If it is very succulent the
water increases in the milk; but the in
crease OF water cannot go beyond GER
tain limit, and 90.5 water with 9.5 solids
is the extreme limit he has ever met
with through succulence and moisture
in the food. On the other hand, by the
use of food rich in the elements of milk,
and other circumstances favorable, the
extreme limit in the opposite direction
has been 81.5 water and 1876 solids. The
former occurrence in June, with feed
of grass and brewers grains; the latter
in the fall, with after-feed and meal.
BARON L1EB1G says of agriculture:
Not merely for its utility, but. on. &C.
count of the very intelligent nature of
its pursuit it stands above all occupa-
tons, and its practice procures to the
man who understands the voice of
nature not only all the advantages for
which he strives, but also those pleas
ures which science alone car afford.
There is no profession which for it's
successful practice requires a larger
amount of knowledge than agriculture,
and none in which the actual ignorance
is greater
In passing over the country we have
observed that the fox-tail grass, which
several years ago supPlanted the crab
grass, is now disappearing and crab grass
is taking its place. It has now been
about thirty years since the fox tail grass
became common in our fields; before
that time crab grass grew on all cult
waited crops, much more so than the fox
tail grass. Stock were very fond of it
and fattened on it, but would not touch
fox-tail. Now we find stock eating fox
tail. Which of the 1900 kinds of grass
which is said to grow in this country
shall we have next, or shall we have
something altogether new?-Perryvile,
No., Farmer.
Domestic Matters.
To SELECT BEEF.-In selecting beef
take that which has loose grain, easily
yielding to the pressure, Of dark red