Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-06
FARM NOTES.

IRON is found in the ashes of all plant.
that are used for human food.
A LITTLE method is worth great deal
of money on the farm AZ elsewhere.
MANY farmers who use plaster have
found its good effects more apparent
when salt is added.
ATTEND to the cellars by cleaning and
withdrawing them thoroughly before
the winter supplies are put in.
Hoes may b. kept from measles,
t1ichinosis, etc., by mixing a handful
of good wood ashes with their food twice
q week.
GERAN1UMs that are dug up from the
flower bed this fall can be hung up in
the cellar or q nail, and start out green
in the spring.
IT don't matter what a man attempts
on the farm; to be successful, he must
attend carefully aud constantly to bust
ness.
Fowl houses and yards should be
we'll drained. Low, damp grounds are
very unhealthy for chickens. Ahill.side
is the best location for a poultry house.
VASES that are to remain outside all
winter, especially deep ones, should have
the soil removed from them, AZ the
action Of the frost will swell and crack
them.
The soil should be fed so that in turn
may feed plants, for in proportion to
the richness of the soil, either natural or
artificial, in just such proportion may
it be made to yield a heavy crop.
PLANT plenty of hardy bulbs this fall
-hyacinths, %crocusss, tulips, narcissus.
etc., and they will reward you next
spring with their fragrance and bright
colors.
The best butter that is made in France
for expectation to England is not sailed
but at the final washing is simply wash
ed in a strong solution Of salt in place of
pure water.
AsLow mixer makes a COW impatient,
which causes her to hold up her milk
The st1ippings are the richest part, and
if = COW is MIXED quietly, as we'll as
quickly, there will be more, az we'll as
richer milk.
MOLD is more necessary in every soil
than farmers suppose, and a supply can
be preserved by tie cultivation of clover
and grasses, or pea vines, and turning in
of green crops, Or by the application Of
composts rich in the elements of mold.
VERY few farmers keep an account of
their crops, though they are commencing
to wake up the Importance of such
transactions. If we do not look into
such matters it is not strange that farm.
ingdoes not pay.
CHRYsANTHEMUMs can be Powered in
a cold pit. On the approach of cold
weather, remove them to the pit where
they will bloom freely until early winter.
They bear considerable frost without in
jury.
ALLOW only three or four Lima bean
vines to q hill, and when four or FIVE
feet high pinch them off and per.
NIT them to grow longer then that; this
will cause the growth of the lateral
branches and doubles the number of
pods.
A BELT of forest trees seven or eight
rods in width has been known to COM
pletely stop the devastating march Of
the chinch.bug in travelling from on
wheat field to another, the cool, damp
soil of such places forming an impossible
barrier to their progress. This is anoth-
er argument in favor Of tree belts on
prairie farms.
We have kept many an hundred bush
81 of apples simply by picking them care.
fully in the fall and burying them in
shallow pits in the open ground, cover
ing over with straw, and four or six
inches of earth over that, in about the
same manner as we preserve turnips
from frost through the winter.