Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
RURAL NOTES.

LAST years beets should now be
buried six feet deep. If not, they are
sure to sprout again and give much
trouble.
CAoL ashes do we'll as a fertilizer for
tomatoes. Make your ground half soil
and half coal ashes, and the result will
be surprising.
A SOLUTION of carbonic acid in 800
parts of water has been found effective
for scab. A strong decoction of tobacco
is a good wash, also.
For throat distemper, crate fine a
small green wild turnip, or if dry, give
a heaping teaspoonful, mixed with bran
or oats. Never fails. Good for cough
also.
In Holland, where sand is more plen-
tiful and cheaper than hay, it is used for
bedding cows. This keeps the animals
always entirely clean, and the milk new
er takes the odor of the stable.
In Matching turkey eggs, sprinkle
them the two last week slightly every
day with water that has had the chill
taken of. Some moisture seems to be
necessary for turkey eggs.
SALT is valuable as an application
for Swedes, mangels, and cabbages. 1t
is we'll to apply it as solution to be ab-
sorbed by dry muck, or as component
in the compost heap.
A SUDDEN lowering of the temper
ature of the stable, or the exposure of
COWS to a cold rain storm, has been
found in several instances to reduce the
yield of milk from Is to 40 per cent. in
a few days.
A COW giving milk requires about 80
pounds of bone material in a year.
Thus herd of % COWS will carry off
from a pasture and ton of bone ma
terial each year.
The pea is the most nutritive of the
crops, and its wholesome
ness as an article of food is attested by
its great use in Scotland-the country of
great men and able bodied laborers.
A FARMER makes no greater mistake
than in supposing he must be wealthy
to have a nice lawn in front of his house
planted with flowers and evergreens;
nor that he can not have pear trees and
grapes and an abundance of small fruit.
KEEP barrel of gypsum in the stable
where the cows are kept, and sprinkle
the floor with it after the stalls are
cleaned. 1t is a valuable absorbent of
liquid manure and an excellent deodor-
izer.
LEGUM1NoUs plants-peas, beans,
more rich in nitrogen than
the true grass, and this is the reason why
they are 50 valuable fodder for sheep,
and why the manure of sheep forms 50
rich fertilizer.
A CORRESPONDENT. says: CAT present
prices of milk, butter and young stock,
there is no margin for profit in farm
ing, save in the manure pile" There's
just where it is-and yet farmers don't
fail.
A PORR1DGE made of buckwheat
-four, with a little cornmeal added,
makes a good substitute for milk for
calves. 1t must be fed quite warm.
After the calves are three weeks old,
fill gill of oats twice day. These
should be boiled before feeding.
If you have to shut your hens up to
keep them out of the newly made gar
den do not forget to throw them an
occasional sod so that they may scratch
and peck it. They will even tear out
the young grass. The exercise does
them good.
A SUCCESSFUL grower Of green peas
says in the American Agricultu1i t:
Select as dry and warm a spot as can be
allotted to them, and, applying a fair
quantity of well-rotted yard manure,
low on the same day at least two
in rows, as soon as the snow is
gone, and the ground can be worked
without packing.
To raise good tomatoes, saysan e4cel-
ent authority, take away wheelbarrow
Of earth from where each vine is to
stand, fill with half soil and coal ashes
and therein set out the plant. Plants
thus treated will bring out nearly dou-
bic the fruit of others, and much
and larger in this soil, though
in case of drought the plant require
water sooner, and more of it, those grow.
ing in common soil.
SPRoUT1NG the white potato will
advance the crop two weeks. They
should be cut go that about about two
eyes are allowed to each piece, and these
should be planted in hot beds with
very thin covering of soil, or it is better
TO plant them in boxes and set these in
! hot bed, so that after they are properly
'prouted they can at once be carried to
Tho n1aco Of n1antino
FRESH manure produces but little
effect when applied to crops,
but when it is well rotted it then
contains much valuable soluble matter,
absorbable by plants. In fresh manure
The most important constituent of its
'oluble portion is potash, and it contains
out small proportions Of ammonia and
acid. Rotten manure, on
he contrary, yields to the solvent action
# water large amounts of nitrogen and
'hosphoric acid.
Mr.. NELSON RITTER, Syracuse, N. Y,
n answer to the query, at a recent meet
ng, of the Onondaga county farmers
lub, as to why apples on the lowest
limbs are generally smallest, said that
hey don't get enoug Oh light and air, and
70 mentioned this suggestive circum-
lance: ellis northern spies had run
cry small, and he finally concluded to
raft in nonesuch, and the result of the
cry extensive grating was that he had
he finest crop of northern spies he ever
ece ived; that taught him to trim closely
he wanted fine northern SPIES"
A SAVING may be effected in the con-
umption of oats for horses by simply
baking them in tepid water. Practical
experiments which have been made,
how that by this method the rations
f each animal may be reduced one
bird. Horses whose teeth have seen
heir hest days masticate the grain in its
rdinary condition insuhiciently, and
be younger animals often eat 60 greedily,
hat the greater portion Of it is swallowed
hole. This waste may be obviated by |
he simple method Recommended, which
} far softens the grain that it is more
masticated and digested, and
Dnsequently yields more nutriment.
'hree hours is sufficient length of time
, soak the grain. l
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