Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-13
AGRICULTURAL.

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always found on good cow, and'a thick
hard hide on a poor one.
FEED turnips to mich cows just after
milking. The milk will not then be
turnip favored.
COOKED meat chopped up and mixed
with other feed is not only relished by
fowls but gives back the strength lost
during the moulting process.
FILL up all depressions in the surface
soil around buildings, SO that there may
be no standing water, no matter how
much rain may fall.
MIR. MEEHAM, a horticultural Of
much experience, says he never saw
blight ON pear trees that were white
washed. He believes it TO be All absolute
remedy.
BREEDING ewes should be fed daily
ration of about one gill of corn, or, bet
ter still, about one pint of oats. They
should be warmly sheltered from cold
winds and drenching rains. Such treat
ment will give strong, healthy limbs.
AN excellent farmer says that for
every sheep he kept last year he sold, in
lambs and wool, an average of IS worth
per head. He said also that his sheep
paid him better than anything else
grown on the farm.
OATS vary in quality with the soil on
which they are grown. The meal made
from oats grown upon clay land is the
best in quality, is the thriftiest,"
keeps the longest and is worth the
highest price,
ANY dairyman troubled with cows
having sore teats should use plenty of
linseed oil before and after milking. He
will find but few, if any, sores about his
cows teats if this be done, Many cows
that are kickers would delight to be
MIXED if little linseed oil was used
on the teats.
FARMERS who have young orchards
should lose no time in giving them thei.
attention by stamping the snow around
them quite solid. This has been found
an etfectual preventive against the work
OF mice, which are very destructive by
the gnawing of the bark when the snow
lies deep for any length of time.
No animal should be killed for food i'm
mediately after violent exercise. Under
such conditions the meat will keep but a
very short time, and sometimes it is i'm
possible to keep it sweet with all the salt
that can be used. Hogs, especially,
should be be butchered early in the
morning after a quiet rest during the
night.
EVERY farmer may not be able to
reach the maximum Of production, yet
he can make his land produce what he
needs and what an accommodating mar
ket will pay him we'll for, when he has
it in excess Of home wants. No farmer
in the land, however poor his soil may
be at the outset, has any excuse for not
making every acre contribute to his own
and the general good.
A GOOD and cheep rack in which to
place fodder for sheep may be made of
rough boards nailed at the corners to
scantlings. A good size is 10 by q feet.
Two boards, foot wide, with space Of
8 inches-between them, constitute the
sides and ends. The edges Of the boards
next to the opening should be round ed
to prevent Injury to the necks of the
sheep.
NEVER begin until you are ready is
as good advice in farming as in any
business known. Last spring Henry,
under orders, got his millet in early in
April, and it staid in--or the little that
did come up looked so frightened that
late in May the five acres had to be re-
plowed and reseeded, which then only
resulted half crop.
LOOK out for the low wet places in
your grain fields when the thaw begins,
and see whether a few spadefuls of earth
would not let the water out. Such
trifing attention we have known to pay
bushel of wheat for a shovelful Of
earth-certainly percentage of profit
enough to satisfy the most miserly, to
say nothing of the LATEST. The latter
are the greatest usurers.
A SINGULAR chemical change is some
times effected by the mixing of the
cream of full mich COW with one we'll
along with calf, or if it is not chem
ical change, what is it? The cream, as
above indicated, has been churned hour
after hour for whole day with no ap-
pearance of producing butter, and
finally abandoned as hopeless case, but
upon withdrawal of the cream of the
COW in calf, the other would make but
ter with no difficulty.
The following is good eceipt for
worms in horses: Powdered poplar
bark, two ounces; powdered sulphur,
four ounces; salt, three ounces; mixed
we'll. Divide this mass into twelve
parts, and mix one with the food every
night. This will not only remove worms
but also tone up the digestive organs, SO
that the parasites cannot find foot
hold.-Country Gentleman. Three parts
wood ashes and two of salt, table
spoonful fed daily with the feed, is
simple and efectual remedy.-Record.
In no other business does filthiness
and negligence work so much mischief
as in the handling of milk. Wooden
pals are unfit for use in the dairy, be-
cause it is next to impossible to keep
them clean, while tin pals are easily
kept clean. Sugar of milk, when dried
into gum, is very difficult to dissolve
and can only be removed by careful
washing and scalding. The fumes of
stagnant slops, when conveyed to the
milk, carry with them the seeds of de-
struction, which readily multiply and
destroy it.
TIE result of experiments made in
mulching winter wheat at the Expert
mental University farm in Iowa, while
not exclusive, is favorable to this prac-
tice. Professor Henry III. McAfee says
that, taken with former experiments
with straw and long manure as mulch,
he feels sanguine that by this means
fair crop of grain may. be raised at least
two years out :ofevery three, aud recon-
mends to farmers generallys trial of
winter wheat in limited qualities, with q
reasonable protection. Care should be
taken not to get the mulch too thick in
spots, as that cause killed out quite
lot of the young plants in the expert
ments alluded to.
In the average English dairv it takes