Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-30
AGRICULTURAL.

OdEEP 1aCtou quicker Wlon lOO6o IL
pens of half dozen, than any method
/ of stalling or tying up each sheep, 80.
IT is a singular fact that this season
, nearly as many hogs were packed fol
the six warm months as for the six
cooler ones.
A FARMER must be something be.
!, sides laborer. He must be man of
resources, and raise by his own energy
to any emergency.
PICK up the odds and ends that are
going to waste around you. Hides,
horns, hoofs, bones, wax, moss and many
o Their trifes have cash value.
"IF all the banks in New York failed
their failure would not inaict so great a
loss on the nation rs the failure of
dairying for single year" -Er- Coz.
ernor Seymour. 20 ..--.
| Do not grumhle at the low prices of
your products. It don't help the mat
ter bit. Just go to work and see if
you can ont lessen the cost of produc-
ton 80 as to leave you margin for
profit, even at low prices.
SHEEP growers in England claim that
feed of cotton seed and turnips is not
only the safest for fattening sheep, but
will put on the most fat and make the
best mutton at the least cost It also
produces the strongest manure.
Do not attempt to keep too many
fowls together. One hundred in a
single yard will not produce half the
eggs they will if divided into four parts.
1t will cost no. more to feed, but it will
be little moro trouble to attend to
them.
TREES received in a frozen condition
should be placed, without opening the
packages, in cellar or similar place
where it is cool but free from frost, until
perfectly thawed, when they can be I'M
packed, and either planted or placed in
trench until convenient to set them
out.
IT will take long time to make any
thing like radical change in our style
of farm horses, but it will be done so
surely as men have sense enough to see
that a l, 400 pound horse costs no more
to raise or keep than the veriest scrub.
If adjacent farmers will allow their
boys to exchange labor" change
works." in farm parlance-the result
will be to create spirit of emulation
that will make the boy love his home
and endeavor to excel in the work he ia
to perform.
The manure made from ton of corr
meal is estimated as worth Sc 65, and as
the meal is now worth only 500 per ton,
the value for..feeding would be reduced
to 1888 perton, at which price it would
almost pay to feed to hogs, even at a
very low price of pork.
HE manure from ton of clover hay
is estimated to be worth 1864, or about
as much as the hay is worth in many
places. 1t should be we'll understood
that clover hay ought to be fed on the
farm and never sold; if any hay is to be
sold let it be the English meadow, the
manure from which is only about half
as much. 49,. $50 >y~ --..~, ~~
The average age of sheep is ten years.
Cows have an average of fifteen years.
Hogs have been known to live forty
years. The average of the horse is
twelve years. The elephant lives to a
a very g1eat age. There is white ele-
phaut now living in the Imperial
Menagerie in Russia that is said to be
over $50 years old.
In many parts of England sheep are
extensively employed in maintaining
the fertility of extensive breadths Of
light soil, by directly consuming on the
ground the common grasses, as well as
the ordinary green crops, in conjunction
with grain and linseed cake. This
practice might be adopted with remu-
nerative results in many parts of Penn
sylvania.
WOMEN are beginning to be success
full as farm managers. Why not? Be-
cause farm work is the prerogative of
the male sex? Now we have high re-
sPect for the woman who, at the ex-
pinse of hard hands and sunburned
cheeks, goes into her fields and directs
the labors of her employers. We are
proud to record the fact that they are
usually successful. "May their tribe
increase"
The Indiana Farmer, relative to the
fat short horns exhibited last fall at
the Indiana state fair, says: eve
are informed by one who can vouch for
the statement that some of the winning
shOrt-hOrn cows at that exhibition from
another state had not been bred for four
years. They were kept in that condi-
tion solely with a view to winning
prizes, and were shown at different state
and county fairs throughout the fair
season."
A FARMER of experience says that
the feet of horse require more care
than the body. They need ten times as
much, foI, in one. raapect- they. are almost
the entire horse. All the grooming
that can be done won't avail anything
if the horse is forced to stand where his
feet will be filthy. In this case the feet
will become: disordered, and them the
legs will get badly out of fix, and with
bad feet and bad legs there is not much
else of the horse fit for anything.
FARMERS are q queer sort of folks.
As soon as they hear that pork is going
down in market, into town they rush
and try to engage theirs before it gets
down any lower, and 90 they help to
make the market duller by overstocking
it, whereas, if they would stay home, it
would not be long befor butchers weuld
be coming to them and bidding ,ups the
price. This suits the butchers who
help to growl and run the prices down,
while they expect to double their money,
invested. There is no reason Why pork
should be so low in price, except the
panicky pressure made by the farmers
themselves.
To aid farmers in arriving at accur-
acy in estimating the amount of land
in different fields under cultivation, the
following table is given: yards wide
by 968 long contain l acre; 10 yards
wide by 4S4 long contains l acre; 20
yards wide by 242 long contains acre;
40 yards wide by III long contains l
acre; 20 yards wide by 693 long con-
tains / acre; 80 yards wide by 604 long
contains l acre; 60 feet wide BY 72S
long contains acre; ITO feet wide by
1877 long contains acre; 100 feet wide
by 1853 long contains / acre; 22O. feet
wide by 1919 long contains acre; 40
feet wide by 80 long contains acre.