Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-20
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! ter feeding OF cattle.
! Work not q rod of land more thar
you can work we'll.
! WHEN commencing your agricul
! tural life remember that industry
economy and integrity will insure sue
cess, and form the best capital that cal
! be employed.
! The temperature of cellar may be
suddenly raised by burning = sauce
full of alcohol. A kettle of live Woo
Goals will soon warm it up to the desired
point, but considerable carbonic aci,
gas will be generated.
! ALTHOUGH their products sell fol
much lower prices than they did few
years ago, sheep are among the mos
profitable animals which can he pu
, upon a farm. but, in order to yield the
highest returns of which they are capa
bic, they need to be properly cared for
AVOID hollows, ravines and any spon
81 black land. Even if we'll drained
such land grows trees which are likely
to be succulent and short-lived. Cold
air settles in the hollows, which are
colder than the hills; for an orchard
EtA\t lb<tC IS 1llSll oI lSldIltS'lS
high. The land may slope in either di.
rection. There is not much choice I'm.
less the land is very steep.-irct;sso'
Bal, Mi~At:; an.
CARROTS form palatable and nutri-
tious food for almost every species of
stock. They may be given upboiled,
mixed with cut hay or straw. There
are few things that will better support
the horse, while colts are brought into
excellent condition when fed with them.
To the COW they afford 4 wholesome
food, colOring and flayoring the butter
agreeably. The hog eats carrots raven
ously, and thriyes upon them.
Ir may afford a crumb of comfort to
American agriculturists who are dread
ing the results of over-production. to
know that English writer's like Mr..
Card have forcibly summed up the
broad view of the present state Of mat
tiers, when they tell us that quite one
half of each loaf consumed III England
is of foreign origin; that one fourth
part of their whole meat and dairy pro-
duce comes to them from across the sea,
and that almost the entire additions
which may hereafter be sought to fill the
ever multiply ing mouths of their dense
population must be drawn from other
lands.
THREE years ago Ben sowed clover
seed on a grass plot, after which he ran
the roller over it; the next year there
was fine crop. In 1876, he again
seeded with clover and rolled as before,
and had the same success. Since then,
all the grass lands are sown with clover
and timothy as early in the spring as
they can be gotten on with the team to
roll them, and it has kept a good sod:
This spring he purposes sowing orchard
grass with the other seeds. thinking it
will not only give larger yield for first
crop, but make the second crop more
valuable.
In Saxony, where the cold water sys-
tenn is carried out in large diaries, an
efectual plan has been hit
upon for preventing the milk turning"
suddenly in tempestuous weather. A
thin iron wire chain is passed through
the milk-pans, the ends of which are
kept constantly in cold water. DR..
Fleischman, Of Baden, testifes to the
practicability Of this method, for, he
observes, authorities on the subject
maintain that milk is less sensitive to
the electricity of the air than to the
temperature that surrounds it more
Immediately. The fact that milk kept
in enamel|ed or timed vessels is less
liablesto sour in hot weathgr is thought
to speak we'll for this new theory.
A CONTEMPORARY says: "There is no
reason why farming may not be made to
pay much oftener than it does. Very
few have learned to regard it as q bust
ness. 1t is sort of chance work all
round. Most men look on it as sort of
real estate transaction. They hope one
day to sell out at big figure, hence are
afraid to improve their farms with a
view to agricultural operations, for fear
that whoever buys the land will not
care for these little things. We have
often heard some improving farmer
ridiculcd for his expenditures by some
knowing ones, who were very sure 90
and SO would get no more for his place
than if he had thrown his money in the
dirt"
THERE are many ways of making
grain troughs for sheep, but they are
best constructed so that they may be
revolved. Double boxes may be made
by simply mailing three boards together,
twoof them seven and one fourth inches
wide. Set the narrow upon one edge,
lay the surface of one Of the wide ones
upon it, and nail it firmly down through
the centre of the wide into the edge Of
the narrow one; then turn the narrow
board upside down and nail on the other
wide board in the same way, and you
have a good durable trough. On tn e
ends of this nail piece of board fifteen
inches long and twelve inches wide, and
you have an invertable grain trough.
Be careful that the pieces are ,aiied 60
that the ends of the trough will be ex-
city in the centre of the end boards
Rurol Neav Yorker.
EXPERIMENTS made by Lehman upon
young animals showed that food con.
tanning an insufficient amount of phos-
pilates not only affects the formation of
the skeleton, but has an essential infu-
ence upon its separate parts. A young
pig was fed 126 days upon potatoes alone
and it had; result of this insufficient
food, rockit;s (rickets, or softening Of
the bone): Other pigs, from the same
litter, fed upon potatoes, leached-out-
meat, and additional phosphates, for the
same length of time, had a normal skele-
ton, yet even in these animals there was
difference according to the kind of phos-
plate added. Two that were fed on
phosphate Of potash had porous bones,
specifically lighter than the others,
which were fed upon phosphate and car
Donate of ime.-Scientsfc American.
PERHAPS one of the most appropriate
uses of an old fruit can that can be de-
vised is to make it contribute to the
growth of new fruit to fill new cans.
This is done in the following manner:
The can is pierced with one or more pin
holes, and then sunk in the earth near
the roots of the strawberry or tomato or
other plants. The pin holes are to be of
such size that when the can is filed with
water the fluid can only escape into the
ground very slowly. Thus a quart