Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
RURAL ECONOMY.
SeaDopablo Notes,

RURAL ECONOMY.
seasonable Notes.
CORN contains five times the oil or
fat yielded by wheat.
SOME of the farmers who have been
buying patent cow-milkers now call
Them cow dryers.
THERE is no animal that will better
repay the cost of good extra keep than a
dairy COW in full milk.
STANDARD apple trees should be
planted go feet apart each way, though
in poor soils Is feet may be enough.
CLEAN up all rubbish about the yards
and buildings, and remove manure heaps
having all possible materials for COM
post gathered and utilized.
The London Omnibus Company,
which ten years ago fed their horses
principally with oats and beans with
hay, now feed almost exclusively on
Indian corn and hay.
The best favored meat, and at the
same time of the richest quality, is at
tanned when the COWS feed on old and
rich permanent pastures in summer, the
flavor being particular sweet.
Work not q rod of land more than
you can work we'll. It is easier and far
more prof table to reap sixty bushels
from one acre than fifty from two.
Manure and proper cultivation will en-.
able you to do it.
Do not work butter to much nor too
fast. Work slowly, and until all the
salt is thoroughly and evenly absorbed,
otherwise the butter will not be of uni
form color. Working it too fast will
destroy the grain.
ALL the harvesting implements and
machine should be cleaned and oiled
both woodwork and iron-and stored in
a dry, covered place. To remove rust
use crude petroleum; then brush over
linseed oil. Petroleum is a good pre-
server of wood.
PURE air and good water are of even
greater Importance than exercise in the
care of young animals. They are often
huddled together in houses altogether
insufficient in size, and in which the
atmosphere is almost constantly impure
from the product of respiration.
To make cheap pork barrel, buy
coal-oil barrel; knock one head in; take
bunch of old hay, set fire to it, and
throw it in the barrel; let it burn until
the slaves begin to burn put it out by
turning the barrel upside down; scrape
the Goals off, and you have good, sweet
barrel.
THERE isno better time than the pres.
ent for draining wet ground. Swamps
are now dry; work is not pressing; every
foot of land farmer owns SHOULD be
made profitable, and if the season is per-
mitted to pass and this work is neglected,
a year must elapse before the opportunity
returns.
On stiff clays, barley may yield a
greater produce, but it is of a coarse
quality. On light chalky soils, it is thin
skinned, rich in color, and, though light
in weight, well adapted for mailing. On
loamy lands and sandy marls, it assumes
greater plumpness, yet still retains its
mailing quality.
BEFORE cutting up corn the seed corn
should be selected, taking ears from
stalks that have borne two or more good
ones. The tops of the selected stalks
may be broken down, to mark them, and
when the crop is cut, left standing until
the ears are perfectly ripe, then they
should be gathered and stored in dry,
cool place. Such selections of seed will
tell we'll in the next crop.
CABBAGE has a superior value for
feeding purposes. Eng lish cattle feeders
assert that their beasts progress faster
on cabbage mixed with plenty of fine
cut wheat straw and cotton cake than
with any other vegetable. Cabbage
contains one part desh-forming substance
to three of heat.producing, while in
potatoes the flesh forming is only one to
twenty. Cabbage is also rich in miner
al matter.
A WRITER in an exchange says: Elk.
perience gained the past season goes to
show that liberal manuring is the most
economical. We can see in the past
harvest where IS more fertilizer per
acre would have been twice that value
in grain. There can be no doubt that
artificial manuring must become part
of our settled practice in the future, and
making few careful experiments will
give valuable experience as to the use
of these fertilizers.
TEACH the boys to love the farm, but
DO not prove hard taskmasters. Do not
make their farm life one of drudgery
and toll if you would have their thoughts
in after life turn lovingly to their old
homes and happy young lives. Teach
them that something more than muscle
and physical endurance is required, that
indeed agriculture is a science or art
that should be conducted according to
clearly defined laws and we'll established
principles, and successful in proportion
to the intelligence that directs it.
Exchange.
A WRITER sends to the Elmira Far
mers' Club the following cure for gals
on the shoulders of draft animals, which
he says is the best he ever used: Dissolve
six drachms of iodine in half pint of
alcohol, and apply it on the sore with
feather as soon as the collar is removed,
and, when at rest, twice day, morning
and evening. The article should be in |
the stable Of every farmer, as it is an ex-
cellent application on horses where the
skin is broken by kicks and other acct
dents, and is a sure cure for splints if
used in a proper manner.
A VIRG1N1AN writes in praise of corn,
not only the best food for laboring men,
but for domestic animals of all kinds.
He states that the usual ration for a
negro laborer, for q week, is one and a
half pecks of corn, three pounds of
bacon and q little molasses. They
thrive on it, and are healthy and strong.
Southern horses and mules, as a rule