Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-19
RURAL. ECONOMY.
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THOROUGH culture is worth three mort.
cages on farm.
In France parsnips are a very common
horse food.
Roof crops of all kinds are usually
crowded; one well-developed and quic
ly-gr0wn, root is better than two
or three starved ones.
If horses are rubbed, morning and
noon, with handful of smart-weed, the
flies will not trouble them in the least
through the day.
IT is possible to raise crop of clover,
another of millet, and another of ruta-
bagas from the same land in one season.
Dairymen with a herd of COWS and few
acres may find hint worth needing.
RAIN water possesses highly fertiliz-
ing qualities, from the fact that guam
tity of ammonia and nitric acid is annu-
ally brought down to the soil by rain,
for the benefit of vegetation.
The best time to top-dress grass land
is in August or September, before the
fall rains occur and after the burning
heat of summer is past; if then applied,
the rains soak it and carry the fertilizing
properties directly to the grass roots,
where they are needed.
In mass of earth, twenty feet thick,
which had been undermined, and had
fallen over loosely, parsnips were sown.
A fine specimen in the lot was found to
have vertical root that measured thir-
teen feet six inches in length.
THERE is no better time than the
present for draining wet ground.
Swamps are now dry; work is not press
ing; every foot OF land farmer owns
should be made profitable, and if the
season is permitted to pass and this work
is neglected, a year must elapse before
the opportunity returns.
ALL who can do so should arrange so
as to keep hogs in their apple orchard to
eat up all the wormy fruit as it drops
during the season. In this way, easier
than any other, can the ravages of the
worm be checked. When hogs are not
sufficient for the purpose, a small flock
of sheep should be used.
STILL another remedy for the certain
cure of bee stings: Take fresh tomato
leaf; crush it, and rub it upon the part
stung. The pain will disappear immedi-
ately. and without the slightest trace OF
swelling. We would like to be able to
transmit to posterity the name of the
discoverer of this method.-LA picul-
teur.
SoOT contains ammonia, gypsum, nitric
acid and certain other substances, to
which it's we'll known effects upon vege-
tation are chiefly to be ascribed. SCOT
acts advantageously upon root crops.
English experiments show that Sc BUSH
els of SCOT, mixed with 6 Of common
salt, produced larger crops of carrots
than "a tons Of farm-yard manure, with
"a bushels of bones.
SHEEP, says the american Ag,Scultsesist,
should have change of pasture. They
are then more contented, and thrive
better. A large field will not Craze so
many as several small ones of the same
aggregate size. Give salt at least once a
week. For scours give tablespoonful
of castor oil; if continued, give tea
spoonful each of prepared chalk and es-
sence of peppermint in a cupful Of
water. For stretches, which is only
Indigestion, common when the pasture
gets dry, give an ounce Of linseed oil
with drachm of ground ginger.
The access of air is essential to the
fertility of the soil, and to the healthy
growth of most of our cultivated crops.
The insertion of drains not only makes
room for the air to enter by removing
the water, but actually compels the air
to penetrate into the under parts of the
soil, and renew it at every successive fall
of rain. Open such outlets for the water
below, and as this water sinks and trick
les away, it will suck the air after it.,
and draw it into the pores of the soil
wherever itself has been.
A CORRESPONDENT of an exchange
paper states that he fed his horses
skinned milk, and that he has known
cases where it was of great benefit and
was an economy. he says that pail Of
it three times day will keep a work
horse in better condition than will four
quarts of oats. OF course this sort of
ration would render less water necessary.
Three pals of ten quarts each would
give twenty-four quarts of water, as milk
has of solid material 20 per cent. only
(one-ffth), and 80 per cent. (four-ifths)
of water. So thirty quarts of milk
would give the twenty-four quarts OF
water kentucky Live Stock Record.
The use of chloride of potassium is
recommended in Germany as a means of
increasing the growth of wool in sheep.
The fact of the yolk" of sheep contain
ing large proportion of this chemical
led some German chemists to make ex-
periments with view of proving wheth-
er the supply Of this material would
promote the growth of wool; and the
result has proved that, by administering
chloride Of potassium in the proportion
of one partof chloride to nine parts of
salt, the production of wool may be in
creased and its quality improved, while
the general health of the animal is at
the same time benefited. Experiments
are being made; in order to ascertain the
proper quantities to administer.-Proirie
Farmer.
The Ltve Stock Journal decides general
questions as to COW food: "We have
seen pumpkins fed with excellent results
in quantity and quality of milk; but it
is not fit or economical to feed too large
~ of any one food Potatoes fed in
moderation are excellent for milk, but
given in too great quantity they will
reduce the yield, Turnips or beets must
not be given too literally; corn fodder,
given as a sole ration, is Improbable,
but fed with half pasture, will keep up
the yield of milk, and add largely to the
profits of the season."
IT is said that a farmer living near
Boise City, Idaho, is doing a heavy bust.
ness in rabbits. He traps about 400 jack
rabbits day, which are fed to the hogs,
and make very good pork. The manner
of catching the rabbit is asfollows: He
has three, miles of, brush fence, along
which are placed the traps. The rabbits
jump over the brush fence and light on
the board covering the hole or trap,
which board works on pivot, and after
!. depositing the rabbit in the pit beneath
resets itself, ready for another victim.
Seven men are employed to do nothing
else but run the traps and feed the rab-
bits to several hundred hogs. The ears
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