Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-08-01
HOUSE, FARM. GARDEN.


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70 Death to weeds. is the motto, of every
good farmer. 49,.
a farmer should Try to grow almost
anything put poor. egi91 stIs. 3&ttE .!
In the San Joaquin valley; California,
there herr a:e 1906, 900 acres in wheat, aver.
aging 20 bushels to the acre. 81" 80
Every enterprising farmer should make
an, experiment station Of his farm, him.
self being the director. lifa>b 1aH -.
Your farm is your fixed capital; i'm
provements are your Investments: and
your crops over the cost of your produc.
ton, are your dividends r.9uJt 2;frfo q -
~ Tradition in agriculture is one, of the
| greatest hindrances in the wa, way of rural
progress: This applies with special force
to stock breeding and feeding. The same
is essentially true in the departure of veg
etable economy, where pedigree in seed
raising is quite as important as pedigree
IN stock breeding. y4l3 at;ini -. :: T.,
Samuel D. Hale went from Boston to
the Argentine Republic twenty years ago.
and has become a considerable farmer
there. His farm contains $4,000 acres of
rich prairie land, enclosed with heavy
wire fence. He keeps an average If
10000 sheep, from which the wool, tai
low, and skins are enormous. He also
has 5000 beeves, 500 horses, and 1,4O0
hogs. .ia = ,.''
Some men never do anything at all on
their farms, becau 'e they stand like lit
tie urchin in big watermelon. patch,
dazed at the innumerable chances of
choosing. They have so many good
things to plant SO many good ways
to plant them, so many pressing things
to do, and no one to begin on, that the
year glides from under their feet and they
have made nothing but a-tallure.-
Southern Planter and Grange
It is estimated that the fax mills of
Russia give employment 100000 opera.
tives and produce $120,O0O,0OO worth of
goods per aunum. During the past year
America imported $34O, 1000 worth of
flax and its manufactures. This, too,
when it Is so we'll settled that we can
produce, if we would, enough fax to sup
ply the world. California and Oregon
alone are capable of producing enoug b of
the commodity to supply the United States,
but instead Of doing 1t we prefer to sell
our wheat in England and buy fax in
Russia with the proceeds.--,San Framcis-
co Chronicle.
Weeds are like Banquo's ghost. They
will not down at your bidding" No
matter how much you mut1late them, and
disturb the soil under them, if you leave
them on the surface in rainy day they
will still persist in growing. They cling
to life like cats and some other animals,
which, strang &c as it may seem, prefer to
live rather than die. But no tender
hearted sentimentalisl.. must be allowed
to come in to weaken the efforts OF the
agricultural army in its war of extermin-
alton against the. weeds. No looping of
here and there of leaf or sprout will
amount to anything. No halfway work
will answer the purpose; the evil must
be removed root and branch, prohibite.
suppressed, obiiterated. If you adopt
the false theory that mild measures are
best, and merely cut off the tops while
the roots are left in the ground, You will
soon find them springing up with more
vigor and power for mischief than before
Radical measures and no others are in
order among June weeds. It is not nec-
essary for the legislature to proclaim a
prohibitory law against them. The law
of nature and self preservation requires
that they be exercised, banished, put
down, and this law must be enforced, or
they will get the advantage of the corn
and potatoes, and when harvest time
comes there will be nothing but weeds
to harvest Vermont Record and Farmer
Thisis subject which cannot fail to
interest all poultry breeders, for the
amount Of loss directly chargeable to
their wholesale depredations is almost
incredible. It costs as much to feed the
rats and nice OF our country as it does to
feed our p,,or, and even more. They are
left until they become so numerous that
something must be done to stop their
ravages, when raid is made on them
with terriers, ferrets, and many are driven
out of the runs or killed. This quiets
them down little, and peace is declared
until the rats again become troublesome.
The most efectual way to get rid of them
is to poison them, for which purpose a
preparation Of PHOSPHORUS, spread on
small crumbs Of bread, is very efectual
though nothing can be gotten in this line
which IS not dangerous to other beings
Small bits of cork fried in lard is also a
"sure pop" while corn meal and plaster
mixed dry and in equal parts, will get
heavy on their stomachs, and ere long,
cause cessation of breathing. Blu all
these things are alike destructive to dogs
cats, or poultry, and you run great
risk if you have any young folks running
around, you may be sorry all your life
that you ever used poison for rats. A
trained ferret to drive them from their
leads, with good terriers or shepherd
dogs to catch them when they run out,
will soon clean them up. A few farmers
or fanciers could buy, own and use a
trained ferret in partnership, and thus
rid themselves of rats efectually.
Oleomarxarine Uader tho MiscroscOpe.
Mr.. Thomas Taylor, microscopic of the
Department of Agriculture, has incident
ally made few examinations of market
butter, pure butter and oleomargarine, or
butter made by churning fat with cream.
He finds that pure, dairy butter, when
viewed under the microscope, presents a
uniform appearance so far as color is con-
cerned. The forms seen consist of oil
globules and the crystals Of common salt.
When viewed by pola lied light, every
little change of color is observed; but
when specimen of oleomargarinc is ex-
amined in the same manner, the field un
der view is speckled all over with shining
particles, which change color with every
quarters turn of the analyzer, and MI
Taylor has demonstrated that these glis-
tening points consists of crystalized fat.
In using power Of about two hundred
and fifty diameter, animal tissue is also
seen more or less over the whole field
and thin sheet of fat, placed under 8
power of about seventy-fve diameters
exhibits the polarized light beautifully
each solid fat cell showing all the colors
of the rainbow, and, Oh turning the anal
yer or polarizer, the changing, compile
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