Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-06
AGRICULTURAL.

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herd poorly cared for.
~ HAVE no luck raising fruit" 1t
is good soil, good management and close
attention that raises any kind of a crop.
AN old and experienced fruit tree
planter being asked how deep and wide
to dig holes answered dig 'em us big
as the orchard.
In the dairy region of New York
there is no trouble in finding girls who
can give lessons ON the piano, but there
is al alarming scarcity Of milk-maids.
IT is claimed by some that a full
blood black Berkshire must have few
white hairs about his hoofs, white star
on his forehead, and the tip of his tail
white.
\ CORRESPONDENT wishes to know
how to keep milk from becoming bitter
in cold weather. If the milk is scalded
when strained, it will not become Bit
ter, and it will not injure it for cream
nor for any other purpose.
The cows should be cleansed before
morning milking, then fed-the feed
having been prepared, as far as possible,
the previous evening. This with the
care of horses, and light feed to the
small stock: should occupy the time be-
fore breakfast.
To measure round timber, take the
girth in inches at both the large and
small ends; add them, and divide their
sum by for q main girth, then multi.
ply the length in feet by square of !
of the main girth in inches, divide the
product by III and the quotient will be
the contents in cubic feet.
A PRACTICAL farmer writes that for
killing lice ON COWS or hogs, he has al.
ways found the following application
successful: Take the water in which
potatoes have been boiled and rub it
over the skin Of the animal to be treat
ed. The lice will be dead in two hours
and no further progeny appear.-Er.
AN English farmer, very successful
during ten years in fattening cattle and
sheep, supplied ration as follows:
Eight bushels corn soaked in ten pals of
water two days, then simmer for an
hour, afterwards mix with fourteen
pounds coarse, cheap sugar, and COM
mingle with cut straw, hay or other
fodder.
RED clover came from Flanders to
England, and from England to the
United States. Its adoption was strong.
ly urged by Sir Richard Weston in 1913,
who saw it growing near Antwerp in
1914, and noticed the speed of its growth
and how soon it recovered after now
ing. In ten years it had spread through
the kingdom and made its way to Ire
land.
EVERY farmer may not be able to
reach the maximum of production, yet
he can make his land produce what he
need and what an accommodating mar
ket will pay him we'll for, when he has
it in excess for home wants. No far
mer in the land however poor his soil
may be at the outset, has any excuse
for not making every acre contribute to
his own and the general good.
AS the fall of snow has been so very
heavy and so general throughout the
country this winter, it behooves the
protectors Of game birds to keep their
eyes open. Unless watched the pot.
hunter will do a land-otfice business
with his traps and shotgun. The birds
are heavily handicapped in fighting, at
one time, the snow barriers and the pot
hunter. Now is the time for their best
friend, the sportsman, to be strong and
and Farm.
SOMEBODY tells about paying men
$l.25 a day last year for digging pota-
toes. Finding it cost at the rate of 6
cents bushel, he told the men he
would pay them 5 cents per bushel to
do the work. They took the Job and
dug and pitted 100 bushels every day,
quitting sometimes at o'clock. They
earned $3.50 per day, and the empl oyer
saved 81 per day. If it costs the men
81 per day to live, they made above
expenses six times as much as before,
There is nothing like direct interest
in the result of ones labor.
WITHIN the past year the Oldest COW
probably, in New England has been fat.
ted and sold for beet. She was owned
by E. L. Metcalf, of Franklin, Mass,
and on the day of her sale she was within
eleven days of being twenty-eight years
old. She was Jersey, and was giving
four quarts of good, rich milk per day !:
had given birth to but one bull calf,
and all her heifer s, with but one excep-
ton, had been raised by Mr.. Metcalf or
his neighbors. The last five years she
gave milk constantly without breeding.
In Saxony, where the cold water
system is carried out in large diaries, an
apparently efectual plan has been hit
upon for preventing the milk turning"
suddenly in tempestuous weather. A
thin iron wire chain is passed through
the milk pans, the ends of which are
kept constantly in cold water DR..
Fleischman, of Baden, testities to the
practicability of this method, for, he OBJ
serves, authorities on the subject main
tain that milk is less sensitive to the
electricity of the air than to the tenn
perature that surrounds it more imme-
diately. The fact that milk kept in
enamelled or timed vessels is less liable
to sour in hot weather is thought to
speak we'll for this new theory.
The so-called blind teeth, or VOLTS
teeth. in horses, often seen in front of
Iuo mOAd1 tcotA VI gIluOeI 10 not, rs
often imagined, interfere with the organs
or vision. They are simply supernum-
erary teeth, which are entirely harmless
unless they should deviate from the
straight direction, leading inwards OF
outwards, and thereby interfere with
mastication. When this condition,
which is very rarely met with, should
exist, they may be removed with pair
of small pillars; otherwise they should
be left alone. To knock them out with
hammer and chisel, or similar means,
is barbarous practice, which often re-
suits in breaking off the visible portion
of the teeth, and leaving the root in
the gums, where often long-continued
and considerable irritation is produced
The German army horses are now
fed on biscuits of three parts each of rye
flour, oat -four and dextrinated pes
flour and one part of linseed -four. The
biscuits are made with a hole in the
middle of each, so they can be strung on
a string and hung to the saddle-bow OF
be carried carried by the trooper around