Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-10-02
Farm Talk.


Drains should be cut while the ground
is dry. If they have been marked or
laid out previously, the work can be
done now at half the cost of doing it
when the ground is full of water. This
season is better than any other for re-
claiming swamp meadows.
Professor harrington, in summary of
the experiments begun in 1870 by the
Maine Agricultural College to ascertain
which has the greatest value as a food
for swine, cooked or uncooked meal, says:
"We have, by an experiment which has
been continued from three to four months
of each of the nine years since its begin
ming, obtained evidence that all the
money, and labor expended in cooking
meal for swine is more that thrown
away"
Greater neatness about dwellings
would be an improvement to nearly all
farm residences, even among the thrifty,
intelligent, ich and money mak1ng. A
very few farm places are germs of neat
ness. There are too many half-decayed
structures, or boards lying on the ground,
or burdocks, or the lack of a neat lawn
and some shrubbery.
Wheat requires fine and mellow soil;
it is best if compact below and roaghish
on the top. If there are any clods, these
should be brought up from below by re-
peated borrowings, and broken by the
roller or the disk borrow. Ii they can
not be broken up completely, they are
better on the top than below the surface.
A roller will break many.
Lime is an old-fashioned fertilizer, but
it should not for that reason be neglect
ed. 1t is cheap, and rarely fails to pay
! we'll for its use when land is to be seeded
to grass and clover. Forty bushels per
acre of air-slacked lime is usually spread
from the wagon with long handled
shovel upon the plowed ground, and har-
rowed in with the seed. 1t will do no
harm 10 put on the lime Immediately
after manure If it is narrowed in at once.
A correspondent OF the Country Gen.
tleman says that no dressing of manure
is completely consumed by the crop to
which it is applied. Soluble and active
manures produce their principal effect at
once, and are of little benefit to subse-
quent crops. Manures sparingly soluble,
and those which must suffer decomposi-
ton in the soil efore they are of service
to the plant, as bones and farmyard
manure, will, on the contrary, produce
an effect over many years. Farmers
have prejudice in favor of the latter
class of manures, but it is clear that the
quickest return for capital invested is
afforded by the former class.
There was time when the standard OF
smoking tobacco was maintained, even
after the brand became popular but those
Gays are gone by. When new kind
comes out now it is splendid is actu-
ally pure, and is advertised on fences and
rocks and in patent medicine almanacs.
Every one rushes for it, and al: acknow-
ledge Its fine flavor. It is at this time
that the manufacturers begin to work hay
into it, so that you can either smoke it
yourself or feed 1t to your horres as you
desire. - - :. - III. 5sga
The Rural New Yorker says that valu-
able grape vines, planted with great care,
are often left to take care Of themselves
at this season of the year-when they
need care most. For the first two years q
/ good stout stake, say six feet long, is all
that is necessary for support. This
should be firmly set in the ground and
/ the vines kept tied to it. Should other
shoots start from the old wood, rub them
I off and keep lateral shoots pinched back
/ to onesor two leaves. Remove all lnjuri-
Gus insects by hand, and dust with flour
Of sulphur should mildew appear.
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