Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-12
) 1870 Esfs-s,.'
AGRICULTURAL.

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AGRICULTURAL.
IRON nails thrown into tie drinking
water will make q good tonic for the
fowls. 'i''3, ~ 7=,T Sais ys;sxsl II.
A FARMER who has tried it, speaks
In tho highest praise ef!6as. tar for paint.
ing wagon wheels, stating that It. tight-
ems tires and spokes better than anything
else that can be tried. ,,.,,,n,
The best soil for; beans is q mellow
clay or sandy loan. Prepare the land
as soon al for corn, fitted in the incest
manner. Plant ten days or two weeks
after planting coin. Marrow beams fe-
quire one and one.eig nth bushels of
seed pei. acre, mediums, three-fourths of
q bushel, pea beans, one-half bushel,
kidney or other large beans, more. in
proportion to size. A fair crop is twenty
bushels pet acre. ts"'''s,-. z..i. !
HAD a mare some years ago that had
large watt on her side where the har-
ness rubbed it sore. In summer the,
aies made it worse. To prevent this I
put on q good daub of tai, and in few
weeks the wart was killed and disap.
peared. / have frequently tried it
siuce on cattle and horses, and seldom
had an occasion to use second applica-
ton. The remedy is simple and effec-
tual.-C6respondence Prairie Farmer.
Potato water, or water in which 20.
tatoes have been boiled, is now recon.
mended in various quarters as not only
an effective but an immediate remedy
for lice on COWS and other cattle; also
for ticks. The affected parts are to be
bathed with the potato water; one ap-
plication is generally sufficient. This
remedy (if remedy it proves) has the
merit of being exceedingly simple, easy
employed, and without danger of injury
to the cattle.-New York World.
TIE use of COWS milk in nervous
disorders is very highly recommended by
our best physicians. They prescribe it
to be used at all hours, and recommend
the patient to drink as much as four
quarts per day if agreeable. The con-
slant and exclusive use of this article
after time becomes very tiresnme, and
the milk acquires an unpleasant taste.
It may in degree be avoided by heat
ing the milk and adding enough salt
to favor it, in this form doing as much
good as in any other.
A CORRESPONDENT in the Rural
World shows some points of difference
between British and American methods
of feeding stock, as follows: In great
Britain turnips are cut, reduced to
pulp and mixed with cut hay or straw,
and allow to ferment. Hay and straw
are always cut up and mixed with meal.
Stock raisers in England buy oil cake,
which Americans consider too expensive.
They wet and use it with cut hay and
straw and meal and pulped turnips
The manure from such feeding is regard.
ed as of great value. !.
EXPERIENCE with the Colorado beetle
should prompt the early planting of po-
tatoes; also abundant manuring and
good preparation of the soil. The latter
often doubles the crop. An extra 100
bushels of potatoes per acre are we'll
worth working for. It does not pay to
plant large seed. Small we'll ripened
seed will be most profitable when its cost
is considered. After much observation
there appears no difference in the crop
from small and large seed. Of course
there is limit, and potatoes as large as
hickory nuts are not referred to.
REGARDING borers in peach trees, says
the Country Gentleman, it is useful to
heap peck of dry Stacked lime about
the peach trees after the grubs had been
picked, and before the earth is drawn
back to the tree. The lime kills any
erubs that may be left. If live grub
is thrown into the dry lime, it will soon
die; this may be tried to satisfy an in
quiring mind. Having used lime in
this way in 1877, the writer found no
borers at all in his trees in 1873, and
therefore has confidence in this means
of representing the depredations of this
pest.
LORD DERBY is now. one of the half.
dozen wealthiest men in England in the
sense of having an enormous: amount of
spending money. His income is little
short of a million. He is childess, and
his wife has jointure of $40, 1000 a year
from her late husband, Lord Salisbury.
Unlike many other great noblemen, his
resources are not depleted by having
various places to keep up, for except a
villa at Kent, he has no rural abode save
Knowsley Hall. Ho has, moreover, nc
expensive tastes, cares nothing for sport,
and rarely enters his stables. In fact, he
is Just one of those who would have been
as happy or happier as an active, hard.
working professional man.
MUCH clover seed is wasted by sowing
too early and also by scattering it upon
the surface without covering. All seed
should be covered, although under very
favorable circumstances they would
sprout and grow, even if not covered
If you harrow your wheat, that should
be done as soon as the ground is dry,
then SOW the clover Immediately after
the harrow, the gradual leveling down
of the little burrows made by the harrow
teeth will cover the seed. When clover
seed is sown on the surface too early i
warm rain will sprout it, then a frosty
night will destroy the yonng rootlet'
which have not yet penetrated into thu
ground and the seed is wasted.
A MASSACHUSETTS farmer thinks s
line around cornfield is a relic of E.
barbarOus age. he does not want t(
keep the crows out of his cornfelc
where he considers them among his best
friends, as they destroy the cut-worm
He tars his corn so that they will not
touch it, his method being as follows
To one pecko corn take one pint of tar
put the tar into kettle, turn in three
quarts of boiling water, stir it one min
ute. This will dissolve the tar, when
as quickly as possible, add the corr
don't be afraid of hot water); stir it al
the time it is in the water, which may b,
one minute, or possibly trile more
then drain off the water; add a littl,
plaster of Paris to the corn; string il
will separate the kernels, so that it is q
good as good dropping as unpreparet
corn; then spread is just so it will not
heat.
FARMERs should spare the birds
Whi1a r. ia unden iahio thot +hov or.