Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-13
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GRASS is the basis Of agricultural
wealth.
The hogs of this country are double
the value of the sheep and half the value
of the cattle.
To save the posts from decay, dip the
ends to be set in the ground in petrole-
um or paint, or char them.
SHEEP fatten quicker when loose in
pens of half dozen, than by any
method of Sailing or tying up each
sheep.
A FARMER by the name of cunning,
in Cook County, Ill.,, raised last year
100 tons of s9uashes from forty acres of
land, and had good corn crop besides.
PICK up the odds and ends that are
going to waste around you. Hides,
horns, hoofs, bones, wax, moss and many
other trihes, have cash value.
THE best way to keep maple molasses
fresh the year round, is to make them
the thickness YOU desire, and then can
them as you would fruit. In this way
they will be kept from fermenting.
WHETHER the evening or morning
milk of the COW is the most solid in but
ter, is what is engaging the attention of
scientists. 1t is claimed that the even
ing milk produces nearly twice the but
ter that the morning milk does.
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on lice and ticks become active, and
annoy the animals greatly. A mixture
of lard and kerosene oil, put on the back
and brisket of COWS, calves and sheep
will have good effect.
IN order to properly fumigate the
poultry house, put into burning sulphur
a pound Of old tobacco leaves, or a piece
of common resin twice as big as an egg,
and close the house perfectly tight.
Insects can not live in that kind OF al
atmosphere.
To make hens lay the whole year,
give each hen half an ounce of fresh
meat every day, and mix small
amount of red pepper with their food in
the winter. Give them plenty OF grain,
water, gravel, and lime, and allow no
cocks to run with them.
QUITE a large trade was transacted
between Montana Territory and Mich
igan the past year in apples. To 60 to
such rigorous climate the apples were
wrapped in thin pa per. All kinds of
fruit command ready sale amongst the
people of all the territories, but the sup.
ply heretofore has been furnished mainly
from California.
FATTEN1NG beef animals pays; but
trying to fatten inferior animals is a
waste of energy, time and labor. The
animals should be selected with special
reference to the rapidity with which
they will fatten; to the quality of the
beef, fneness of bone, compactness of
body, and small amount Of offal which
the carcass will yield.-Ame1ican Agri-
culturist.
THE man who plants an apple orchard
does not expect to get any return Of
consequence until it is ten or twelve
years old; but he plants for all. he
knows that, if he wants to sell his land
before the trees bear fruit, the statement
on the sale bills that the farm contains
an orchard of fruit trees just coming
into bearing'' will help the bidding
wonderfully; and it will be the same
with trees when once the exact position
of the timber question is understood. A
piece Of woodland properly planted and
apple orc hard will; and q farm of 100
acres which could advertise that it had
five acres of young forest ten years old
would bring far more than interest on
cost.
KANSAS is a good state for fowls, and
ought to be especially so for early
brothers, The clear, sunny skies have q
quickening influence onvhens, and our
observations go to prove that laying
commences early. Ifcarefully provided
with warm shelters, having southern
exposures, and fed with cooked, vegeta-
BILE food, meat and milk, fowls will lay
abundantly in February, and commence
to set in March. By proper care. warm
quarters and suitable food, the chickens
will keep healthy, grow rapidly and be
ready for broiling in May, when they
find ready sale at good prices. Eggs in
February, March and April keep fresh
longer and sell at better prices than
later in the season. Early chickens are
more healthy and harder, if they have
proper shelter and care, than those
Matched later in the season. In fact
this is true of all farm stock. Early
lambs, calves and pigs are healthier
and grow more rapidly when they come
early, if 5 provided with comfortable,
sunny quarters and proper food. The
egg and fowl produce of farm can be
made, with ordinary care, q source of
considerable profit, in addition to
furnishing a large amount Of very
family. The thrifty matron will have
accommodations provided for her fowls
and encourage them to lay and sit early,
and she will be we'll satisfied and repaid
for any extra trouble and care the effort
may cost.-E1.
| COUNTRY folksare in general 80 fully
occupied with affairs that they have no
time to discover how lonesome they real
ly are. So far as this is concerned we
think it misfortune. Weare too busy
we work to hard; we take two few or no
holidays; read and think too little, and
do not spend sufficient time in social
culture. There is no reason why those
who plough the soil, Or" whose talk is of
buliocks," should not experience the
trefnements which are the result of
formal social life. In business, at bar
gains, in pursuit of dollars, no man is
seen at his best. He is thorny, spiny,
with his back up as porcupine's might
: be-, at his business. Let one dotf his
working clothes, and enter room full
of his neighbors-men and women,
youths and maidens-and he is man Of
another kind. He naturally falls into
the ways of an intuitive kindness; the
doing of his companion what he would
that he should do to him. He "lets
himself 0utn to please and. after an eve.