Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-07
RURAL ECONOMY.
9oasonablo Hints.

Seasonable Hints.
A SUPERIOR grating wax may b,
made by mixing one pint of linseed oil
six pounds rosin, and one pound of bees
wax. The oil will admit of greatel
proportion of rosin than where tallow il
used.
WOODEN floors are objected to TO,
poultry houses, for the reason that they
tend to cause the birds to become duck.
footed, and what is of more consequence
absorb and retain dampness from the
droppings, and 80 -piove a source 81
cramp and other ailments.
! Fowls need charcoal when in confine.
ment; but that from wood is not palara
bic to them. The best way to furnish
it is by charring an ear of corn. The
fowls will devour it greedily, and the
improved color of their combs will soon
show its wholesome effect. x
THESE last rains have laid the dust,
moistened the ground and made digging
pleasant. All the perennial garden roots
May be moved now; the sooner the bet
! ter. If done little too hastily buck
ct or two Of water in the time of it, and
a mulch of stable manure just before
winter, will make it all right.
| On stiff clays, barley may yield a
greater produce, but it is of coarse1
quality. On Ii ht chalky soils, it i.
thin-skinned, rich in color, and, though
light in weight, we'll adapted for malt.
ing. On loamy lands and sandy marls,
it assumes . greater plumpness,, yet, still
retains its mailing quality. -
MANURE applied to anything now
will work wonders. In furnishes the
means and lets the plant know before
hand, that business is going to be brisk
next season. Manuring in the fall has
the same effect upon perennial vegeta.
ton that stable currency has upon a
| trade.
| A SLEEPS front teeth the first year
are eight in number, appearing all of a
size. Second year two middle ones are
shed out and replaced by two much
| larger than the others. Third year two
very small ones appear-one on either
side of the eight. At the end of the
fourth year there are six large teeth.
Six years all begin to show wear-not
till then.
CABBAGE has superior value for feed.
ing purposes. English cattle feeders
assert that their beasts progress faster on
cabbage, mixed with plenty of fine cut
wheat straw and cotton cake, than any
other vegetable. Cabbage contains one
part flesh forming substance to three of
heat producing, while in potatoes the
aesh-forming is only one to twenty.
Cabbage is also rich in mineral matter.
ONE great leak on the farm is found
in the way stock is kept, Some try to
stop the leak by seeing how small a
quantity of food will sustain life, and
often succeeded by having their stock
almost entirely leak away: whilst their
neighbor who feeds bounteously does
not have this leak to contend with, but
generally has a profit to apply to the
stoppage of the leaks.
In speaking of the necessity of land
drainage, MIR. Mech says; "The want
of hole in the great agricultural plant
pot during the last wet winter has
caused many an agricultural pause to
be only half filed. How strange it is
that no farmer would have plant-pot
in his greenhouse or home without a
hole in the bottom, while the same in
dividual often does not consider one to
be necessary in the big plant.pot out
side"
A WRITER in an exchange says: Ex-
perienee gained the past season goes to
show that liberal manuring is the most
economical. We can see in the past
harvest where $500 worth more fertil-
izer per acre would have given twice
that value of grain. There can be no
doubt that artificial manuring must be-
come part of our settled practice in
the future, and making few careful
experiments will give valuable expert
ence as to the use Of these fertilizers.
Mr. CHEEvER, Of the .Nev England
Farmer, very justly says that the ques.
ton whether butter made from milk
that is cloyed in tight cans as soon as
drawn, is every way equal that made
from milk that is exposed to the open
air, is we believe, still an undecided one.
much would depend upon the purity of
the milk when brought to the milk room
and also upon the purity of the air in
which it is set. We never drank sweet
er or better milk than that which has
been submerged in Cody cans, within
ten minutes after being drawn from the
cow"
A WRITER sends to the Elmira Far
mer's club the following cure for gals
on the shoulders of draught animals,
which he says is the best he ever used.
Dissolve six drachms of iodine in half a
pint of alcohol, and apply it on the sore
with feather as soon as the collar is re-
moved, and when at rest, twice day.
morning aud evening. Tie article
should be in the stable of every farmer.
as it is an excellent application on horses
where the skin is broken bv kicks or
other accidents, and is a sure cure for
splints if used in proper manner
Practical Farmer ..
FRESH laid eggs in the winter are
worth much more than summer eggs,
and by the requisite care and pains taken
every poultry raiser may have good
crop of eggs in the winter. A warm
place with a southern exposure should
be provided, and the fowls be we'll sup
piled with stimulating food. A meat
uAoo 10 AoIOo5oAy AOA 1dyluS 1OWlS, ana
the supply of insects being cut off by the
cold weather, the loss should be made
up by small rations of fresh meat, three
or four times a week. Parched corn,
oats and buckwheat are excellent food
for laying hens. The light Brahamas
and Leghorns are considered among the
best Neutrality-suspicious. Farmer.
NEARLY every farmer has surplus ap-
pies, or some other fruit that the bows
Of the neighborhood, and especially of
the neighboring village, long for. Tell
them you will give them peck Of. ap-
pies for a bushel of bones, and you will
have plenty of customers. Then late in
the fall, take little waste wood, pilelit.
with the bones in heap, and burn them
Until they are white, and can be pulver-
lied with the back of shovel. This
gives you what is called bone-ash, a
powerful fertilizer, and Just. what ia
wanted is an Ingredient of the compost
heap. It is the cheapest way both to