Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-21
RURAL ECONOMY.
SoAoonAblo Hints.

SoasonAblo Hints.
A KANSAS sweet potato is big enough
for q family dinner. Some of them
weigh nine pounds.
SOME farmers are counted unreason.
able if they lend their farming tools an d
then grumble if they have to 60 three
times to get them.
OATS vary in quality with the soil on
which they are grown. The meal from
oats grown on clay land is the best in
quality, is the thriftiest," keeps the
longest and is worth the highest price.
A FARMER in Bristol, Pa, raised six
teen acres of sage this year, and realized
49, 900 from it. Now let every farmer
60 to raising sausage seasoning and run
the price down to l cent pound.
The long continued experiments of
Lawes and Gilbert, certainly show that
nitrogen is the constituent of soils which
first fails when cropping is continued
without the application of manures.
The quantity of ash left by ton of
wheat straw is sometimes as much as $50
pounds, and by ton of oat straw as
much as 200 pounds, though not more
than l2O in each case.
BARLEY with thin skin, round, and
full in grain, with bright color, which
exposure to the weather Injuries, is most
mealy, and, therefore, the best for all
uses.
IT used to be thought impossible to
break colt without whip. But sense
and experience have taught that an ap-
pie is better than lash, and caress
better than blow.
IT should be borne in mind that to got
the cream to rise rapidly as possible is
important, for when milk is put into
pan and allowed to stand till it throws
up cream, the portion of cream rising
to the surface is richer in quality than
that which rises in second equal por-
ton of time, and so on-the cream pro-
gressively declining in quality, so long as
any rises to the surface.
THERE are two broadly distinguished
classes of wool that enter into commerce
fleece woods and skin woods. The first
are obtained by the annual shearing of
the sheep, thelast are those cut or pulled
from the slaughtered animals, which,
having been subjected to lime, are char
acterized by their harshness and inca
pacity of taking good dye, especially if
the animal has persisted from any
malignant disease.
TAKE special pains to furnish the barn.
yard with an ample supply of water
before winter sets in; do not wait until
the weather is cold, but do it now if
there is no spring that can be brought
without resort to the hydraulic ram. and
you will be surprised at the result in
food, comfort and condition of the stock
if they are able to get all the good water
they wish without being compelled to
wade through the deep snow in search of
it and then get a poor quality.-Farm'
and FSreside.
As soon as the mare and foal can be
separated the foal should have, if posi-
BILE, the run of good pasture, as there
is no food better than grass, no medicine
Sc good as exercise, and no exercise so
profitable to young animals as when
taken just when they feel like it. A
good warm shelter should be always
accessible, so that they may be protected
from storms. The idea that roughing
it, the first winter makes a colt more
''hardy," is all nonsense. The true
theory is plenty of food, abundant ex-
ercise, and protection from storms and
extreme cold, in we'll ventilat: d we'll
lighted stables.-Notio''al Live Stock
Journal
OATS ground or unground, constitute
the very best grain food for colt. We
prefer to have them ground, and, as cold
weather approaches, about one-fourth in
weight of corn meal may proftably be
added, as it helps to lay on fat and keeps
up the animal heat. A little oil meal,
say pint day, may also be proftably
given with the oats for some time after
weaving. Don't be afraid of feeding
too literally. More colts are injured
the first six months after weaving by
too scanty supply of food, than from any
other cause.
ONE of our horses had tender feet for
ward and was very lame. Mr.. Van
Guysing, who happened to be at the
shop while we were getting him shod,
advised having shoes put on without
calks. "Get the foot as near the ground
as possible, so that horse can step on
to natures calks, the frogs" said he.
and the horse will 60 all right" Old
Jim has not been lame since this valu-
able advice was practically carried out.
Another horse had been lame q year
one blacksmith after another had tried
his skill, but all in vain. At last a
shrewd fellow suggested that the ami
NAL had been shed to much. "These
artists" he said, "have cut her feet all
away" This was not literally true, but
each one had pared and cut until the
naturally large feet were reduced almost
to the quick. By preventing any more
cutting away of the feet this animal was
cured.-Rural Neao Yorker.
A WRITER in the Country Gentlemen
suggests that profitable use to be made
of the immense corn crop this season
world be to feed the calves we'll. If q
calf gets poor, it loses a certain amount
of growth that can never be recovered.
The flesh of such steer can never be sd
tender and juicy as if the calf had never
received the injury. But a greater
damage still is the smallness of such q
steer when he goes to market. It often
occurs that ten bushels of corn, fed judi
ciously to growing animal, will make
a difference of 200 Tbs. in the weight of
the animal when sent to market. The
200 Tbs. will make difference of 81 per
100 tbs. in the price. Thus the steer that
has been neglected in calf-hood is sent
to market and weighs LOO lbs, and
brings $44, while one that has been well
cared for, on the same market will weigh
1900 lbs, and bring $65. Is corn wasted
then, when fed to growing stock? One
can learn all this, and more too, in s
large cattle market, in an hours time
Kansas Farmer.
Il A CORRESPONDENT writing from
New Hampshire to the Cultiuator on tn
subject of feeding mich cows to t'shorts'
and &C. fine feed" says: Finding th.
these products of wheat manufacture
could be purchased very cheaply, oh
tanned a quantity and tried the expert
ment, feeding it to some full-bloodel
2 Jersey COWS that I have. At first I wa
much pleased with the apparent result