Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-31

Through tho hush of the woodland cover,
But one praised God FROM trembling heart
That shadow Of pain was over,
Sunday Afternoon.
AGRICULTURAL.
The greatest profit always comes from
early feeding, and it is retained by full
feeding afterwards.
BY growing greater variety of crops
we diminish risk from unfav0rable sea-
sons, since it is not often that season is
unfavorable to all crops alike.
A GOOD remedy against the scale in
sect is to use suds made of carb0lic
soap, and brush the affected parts with
it thoroughly, leaving it dry thereon.
ONE bushel of corn and oats ground
together and fed to poultry will produce
fifteen pounds of flesh. How many
pounds of pork would the same quantity
of food produce.
HE manure of cows and pigs resists
decomposition for longer time than
that Of the sheep and horse-both the
latter being dryer than the former, and
decomposing more readily in the soil.
SALT is of great advantage in straw
berry culture. From six to eight
bushels to the acre sown at the time of
blossoming will be found beneficial. 1t
kills grubs and keeps the ground moist,
increasing yield and quality of fruit.
COMMON purslane chopped up and
mixed with scalded cOrn-meal is excel
lent green feed for fowls that are con-
fined. Corn ard oats ground and fed to
poultry is very fattening. After chicks
are month old cracked corn and wheat
screenings is better for them than dough.
EARLY lambs may be pushed forward
by giving them little cows milk. They
will soon learn to drink this from pan.
The milk should be given warm from a
fresh COW, quarter OF pint to a meal.
Do not overfeed any young animal; that
retards instead Of assisting growth.
AN agricultural exchange says, to kill
ticks on sheep, throw in the barn yard q
few small, thrifty, second-growth fl
trees. The sheep will eat the leaves and
small twigs greedily, and often strip of
all the bark. The ticks will all leave
the sheep in few days, the strong odo1
from the oil Of the fir driving them away
A SUCCESSFUL dairyman feeds hi
COWS nj ght and morning the year round
and in each feed puts teaspoonful O.
salt. He considers this method of salt
ing cows preferable to the usual one Of
giving animals salt once or twice week
and thinks his method adds largely X
the amount of milk given.
Two weeks ago thirty good sized shoat
were quartered upon three acres o
ground which is about equally seeded t.
alfalfa and clover. At this writing tn
grass has gained upon the pigs, and tn
pigs have gained amazingly. This is on
way of solving the problem of how t
raise cheap pork Kansas Agricultural
College Pepper.
ROLLING the meadows with .
heavy roller will level the surface BY
reducing the hummocks, sinking stone
and sticks or roots, and compact the sol
about the roots, and 50 strengthen tn
grass. A light dressing, 100 pounds o
nitrate of soda per acre, for instance
will encourage the growth and ado
largely to the yield.
The richest food is not always tn
cheapest for mich COWS, though too lit
tie food, however, is even worse tha
too rich food, fair mean being the bes
A butter COW cannot be made chees
COW by change of food, though food to
certain extent influences the milk prt
duction. For quality of milk selee
proper breeds; for quantity, good mixer
1,,,t
highly concentrated food.
FRESH manure produces but litt]
effect when applied to crops, but when
is we'll rotted it then contains niue
valuable soluble matter, absorbable b
plants. In fresh manure the most in
portant constituent of its soluble porto
is potash, and it contains but sma
proportions of ammonia and phosphor
acid. Rotten manure, on the contrar
yields to the solvent action of wat,
large amounts Of nitrogen and phospho
ic acid.
LARD and kerosense are good to ket
lice from calves; sulphur mixed wit
salt is good to drive ticks from shee
Calves, like all other animals, should
kept growing from youth to maturit
Here is one place where the profit com
in. There is always a loss of time al
feed, and more, too, by allowing your
animals to stand still" for six mont
or more of the year. Sheep are We
clothed and need shelter from the sno
or rain. and perhaps from the stronge
wind, but cold agrees with them. Fe,
them we'll; give them plenty of water
small flocks; keep them dry.
AN old farmer says: eff had Il
choice of one fertilizer only, 1 shou
select genuine guano, and if my ga
denis soil was heavy, l should requi
nothing to mix with it; but if light al
hot in its nature, l should covet son
common salt. Guano alone, or mix.
with one~third of salt for dry soils, al
spread over the surface during dan
weather at the rate of, say, two ounc
per square yard, will increase the val,
of any crop to which it is applied. I
destroy slugs, half the quantity, or lie
in dry weather, will be found high
beneficial.
PROF. CAMERON, Of Edinboro', "a,
that while the milk of individual COZ
Fhl1es VeIy mucu III composition, u
mixed milk of a herd of COWS kee
quite constant in composition. IT
solid matters in such milk rarely sill
lower than II per cent. The milk
fifteen COWS was daily examined duril
q whole year at the suggestion Of Il
Royal society of Sweden, from which
was found that the solids never sink
lis per cent, and only on four occ
sions were they lower than II per Ger
The average was 12S per cent. T.
proportions of the various elements
milk fuctuate, that of the fats mo-
that Of the ash least.
AQueer Pet.
Tom Jackson, of this city. has trai
edhorned-toad, which is quite curiosit
It ia.As tame IA a kittan and in q IN;