Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

period of low prices and hot weather,
California dairymen simply zeal UP
their products in tin cans, sinking the m
to the bottom of cold streams. Butter
made in April comes out in October in
good order, and continues to keep fresh
in cold, wsathsx-off.. ,Wintsr.s-.~Forty,.
pound cans are commonly, used. Oh
For winter feeding, where cattle are
kept in stalls and heavily fed, there is no
better divisor for cornmeal than wheat
bran. It is also cheap, and furnishes
what the cornmeal lacks. When cattle
are fed on cQrnmeal as the principal
food fdr fattepniug, itgiss Apt to cloy II
fed III too large quantities, hence oul
best feeders are in the habit of using
bran as the cheapest and best means fol
rendering the meal fed more digestable
In this each feeder must use direction 81
to the proper quantity used.
It is :well-kuo2n by ell hunters thai
a rabbit is never found in the same bed
in which one has been killed the same
season, especially if one particle OF
blood has been split; therefore, if you
will kill hare and rub the blood, even
a very small portion, on the body of a
fruit tree, it will not be molested by
them that" winter, I :have 100 trees !
have treated thus for fourteen years,
and never had them barked. unless !
happened to miss one. One hare is
sufficient to rub fifty trees-Lolnsan's
Rural World.
A coRRBspoNDtNr tells how he makes
a cheap yet sufficiently effective ice
house, in the form of rail pen. He
lays down some rails for the bottom, on
which he places fifteen inch layer Of
sawdust. He then packs his ice, leaving
around the outside a space of fifteen
inches to be- packed with. sawdust.
Straw or boards can be used to prevent
the sawdust from escaping through the
cracks between the rails. Two or three
feet of sawdust should be placed on the
top of the ice; and, finally, four posts OF
forks should be set up, one at each cor
ering. Il wodid 81 Re1' "a placs :the
whole under q good shade tree, and
with such a device one may have ice
through the. spmmer.-=z::4R9rGl Men
| Yorker.
DURING the cold season it is Otter: q
complaint of farmers that fodder plants
are frozen. A German schemist,s., Dr.
PARCEL, has been inquiring as to the effect
of frost on such pnnts Cabbage plants,
etc. } and the best mode of utilizing fro
zen plants. The principal change effect
| ed by the FROST he finds to be. 4 forma.
ton of sugar from starch four; and Al
sugar has a nutritive value correspond.
ing to tho quantity of starch -four from
which it has been produced, he consid.
ers that no reduction in the nutritiye
value of plants occurs through freezing
Care must be taken, however, about the
delivery of frozen plants. First, they
should not be- given in the low state o.
temperature they posses, and then they
must not be allowed to: lie long after
thsWing, else (prebably from the forma
ton Of diastaic ferments), they pass into
putrifaction and 90 may easily; do harm
They are probably best used when given
as fodder Immediately after thawing Of
after preparation in hot-water or steam
ing: A long time: after thawing froze1
plants cannot be given as fodder with
out danger: -.
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CHICKEN cholera proceeds simply
from Indigestion; ana this is caused BY
bad food, over fatigue and unrest
brought esbout by the presence Of yer
min in. great. quantities on the body
It disorders the whole system. 'TOt
many fowls, either old 81 young, shoule
never be herded 4, together. Chicken
cholera, !, as we'll as most other fowl dis
eases, is no more contagious than
common cold. The same feed. and tn,
same atmosphere that affect one iaffec
ALL alike hence the idea, of contagion
A hen will not lay unless she be we'll
: hearty, and healthy. In the opinion o
TIKI wife, ';ss laznE hsR j j. g?s f;
able: The of . @ayer--isaPt b
tough, whereas the flesh Of assitting hen
especially .lfaan tAsiatio35 Win 1exswpst
tender, au& Id. Mant People dosno
j consid Sff9N}s suitable for tablS ust
untit164y have ke funa61ed and te,
ON KeRt I'll "a mealfoFBoeftail
LEM 6tAidLees.ss 81 lid ntHil. 1oompos
fev 81 =! q piee 116t sss6sii
chois bra lldreas :Ihsrefor
it befpodts4 So INIT no, aesh savers 9
the mater1 1t q pi6duae4 IS b fattel
our chicks in clearly quarters; and upol
good feed, for q certain period g 4
- Country Gs'staesdsati91s sdt tI5i"
! aWHEN = man begins to go down hill
'fsays the Lady's Jo,v,sal, he IL apt t.
betray the fact BY his exterior appes1
ance; he wears . long face, allows hi
clothes 70 60 shabby q end acts ilke 81
7sry p &; ~ policy, t6e syimpsshY .
friends is noe gained BY weating Gdlrt
] aI1irt; and aAlej 4msn actaras thong
4 He had some con6dehce; IN himself, oh
must notse4cept to inspire itjinothesl
4, : And. 70 with the external, appearance 9
everything, :, Neatnesa 0f appearance
does not end With mans credit, but d
!. ten enhances tie value sof articles 1hic
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