Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-24
AGRICULTURAL.

AGRICULTURAL.
ROLL and harrow winter wheat 10
soon as the ground is dry enough.
FARMERS are like fowls; neither will
get full crops without industry.
IRON nails thrown into drinking
water will make good tonic for tho fowls.
THERE is more profit in small herd
of stock literally fed than in large
herd poorly cared for.
| CHARMING posts before sitting is con-
sidered beneficial, but immersing the
end to 60 in the ground in hot coal tar is
decidedly better.
FLAX seed sown with feed grain, such
as oats, millet, or barley, is great ad-
vantage to stock. Two quarts per acre
is enough, and cut green for hay. Try
it and see.
The main point in successful tree
planting is to select medium sized trees,
SO as to secure good roots. Keep the
roots from exposure to sun and wind
while hauling, take pains in setting and
mulch literally.
CHARCOAL is good food to make hens
lay. Burn a few corn cobs, and wet
them out as soon as they are in coal.
Feed to hens and soon their combs will
turn red, and their busy songs will be
heard, and eggs increased.
a Rol,UTgON of an ounce of gum aloes
powdered, and a large tablespoonful of
common soda, to each half gallon of
boiling water, is said to be useful in
Kidding ysur cabbage and other plants
of insects. sprinklcd from can with very
fine nose, or in the care of but few plants
from a rubber spraying bag.
killing lice on cows or hogs, he has
always found the following application
successful: Take the water in which
potatoes have been boiled and rub it
over the skin of the animals to be treat.
ed. The lice will be dead in two hours
and n" further progeny appear.
THRR. il in the Rural Ne,o Yorker, is
sketch CT good winter trough. It
simply trough made in the usual man.
ner, hung at each end on pivots, fasten-
ed to upright short posts. When the
animals have done drinking, it can be
swung bottom up, supported by a prop,
and the water all runs out, instead Of
freezing and filling the trough, so as to
require chopping. This is vast i'm.
provemcnt on the old fashioned plug.
HOUSES that have stood empty for
any considerable period may become
! fever breeders when they come to be
reoccupied aud often give rise to typhoid,
diphtheria, or other zymotic affections.
The cause is mainly due to the disuse of
cisterns, pipes and drains, the process of
putrefaction going on in the impure air
in them, the unobstructed access of this
air to the house, while the closure of win
| dows and doors efIectually shuts out
fresh air. Such houses should always be
thoroughly aired and renovated before
being occupied.
MR. MCAFEE, Superintendent of the
University of Wisconsin Experimental
Farm, informs us that for three years
past he has grown lima beans without
poles or stakes, persistent pinching back,
after they reach the desired height
about that of common bunch beans.
He is confident the crop is very percept-
IDLY earlier, and thinks it is increased
in quantity-the plant being checked in
its growth of vine, expanding its energy
in fruit production. On the farm we
saw some 50 created that they were we'll
loaded with fruit.
THE Boston Journal IF Chemistry an
nounces that DR.. Wittweark, of Berlin,
has made some very interesting expert
ments on the action Of the juice of the
melon Curic: popoya). We find in the
juice material which resembles pepsin,
which has the effect Of making meat ten
der in very short time, and it makes
milk coagulate without making itsour.
The fresh juice does not act so strongly,
but if it is dried and small piece the size
of a pea is put into the milk it coasulates
at once without becoming sour. These
experiments will probably lead to some
useful applications for diaries.
FOUR turkeys (says an old raiser)
were confined il & pen, and fed on meal
boiled potatoes and oats. Four Others
Of the same brood were at the same time
confined in another pen, and fed daily
on the same article, but with one pint
Of very fine pulverized charcoal mixed
with til cir food-mixed meal and boiled |
potatoes. They had also plentiful
supply of broken charcoal in their pen.
The eight were killed on the same day,
and there was difference of one and a |
half pounds each in favor of the fowls
which had been supplied with charcoal,
they being much the fattest, and the
meat being superior in point of tender
ness and favor.
PRoF. SroCKBR1DGE's plan for farm
accounts would inventory ali farm lands
except woodlands and all farm buildings
except the house with it's contents, but
includes stock, tools, crops on hand, ma
nures, etc. Farming must be charged |
with taxes, seeds, fertilizers and interest |
on The capital invested az above at per
cent. Every full days work of man is
to be put at $2-that for the family in-
cluded-and tue farm is to be credited
with everything sold, consumed or lost.
l CLEAN this from an editorial in the
C"''oect'cut Former. The Hampshire
Agricultural society, it appears, will
offer premiums for the best sample of
farm bookkeeping on this system. 1t is
not entirely clear why wood and timber
should not be considered farm crop,
nor why fences should not be reck oned
a part of the farm harness. The dwell
ing house absorbs capital like smoke,
too, and are the children never to be
accounted legitimate product of the
farm. nor the personal habits and expen-
ses of the farmer and his wife worth
making an item to the credit or discred.
it of the land? Whole districts are
blasted by leaks in these directions, but
maybe the entire billsof the farm would
never come to pass if We hamper them
with too much bookkeeping to begin
with.-Hartford Courier.
Or sixteen manufactures of oleomar-
garine scattered here and there through
the country, thirteen, we learn, have al
ready been closed by tho pressure of
hard times, though backed with an az
gregate capital Of 81, 800, 900, to begin
with, and few if any are running at a
profit. Among the causes that have
contributed to the stagnation in this
greasy business not the least influential