Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03

upon it. When cool use it to water
your plants every few days. The effect
upon plants is wonderful in producing a
rapid growth OF thrifty shoots, with
large, thick leaves and a great number of
richly-tinted roses.
If, after wool has grown in consider
able length, sheep or lambs become
annoyed with lice or ticks, wash them in
a strong decoction of tobacco. Another
way is to take pair of bellows and in
hale tobacco smoke with considerable
force among the ticks. This will prove
instant death to them.
ASPARAGUS must be allowed time to
grow its foliage, and prepare nourish-
ment for next years crops. From not
understanding this, many exhaust their
beds by cutting too late. The old rule
to stop when green yeas come is good
one. When cutting ceases, let the tops
grow; their shade will keep down the
small weeds, and the few large ones
that may appear are to be pulled by
hand.
The Cultivntor says of squashes:
"The seeds of the different varieties are
apt to mix when planted in close proxim-
ity, and hence it is rather hard to get
pure seed, the seed-growers often being
too careless about the location when they
have seed. Unripe or partly decayed
squashes are often fed to stock and
make good fat. They should, however,
have the seeds removed first, as these
have diuretic effect very injurious to
cows.
The orig nal Southdowns were the
purest blood of any English sheep.
their improvement was accomplished by
judicious selection from various focks.
Great symmetry of form has been
attained, large size and fattening
qualities. By reason of their purity,
they have stamped their fattening
qualities more certainly upon their off,
spring than any other English breed.
Lord Walsingham's flock is the most
celebrated.
WE learn from the Western Rural
that French chicken.producers find
that feeding the fowls with boiled or
steamed carrots, chopped into small
pieces, rapidly fattens them and imparts
an agreeable favor to the flesh greatly
relished by epicures, and that fowls
thus fed sell more rapidly. The expert
ment at least is worth trying here. If
spring chickens could thus be increased
in weight and SAVIOR in few weeks both
producers and consumers would be
benefited.
CAT1LLoN, French Psychologist,
found that the addition of from seven 20
eight grains of glycerine to the daily
ration of lot of guinea pigs increased
the effect of their food so that they gain.
ed from one.tenth to one-ffth Of their
weight in given time, while second
lot fed on the same ration, but without
glycerine gained nothing; when the
dose of glycerine was changed to the
second lot they gained in weight, and
the first lot gained nothing. Large
doses of glycerine, however, cause de-.
rangement of the digestive organs.
A GENERAL western practice is to
plant corn on stubble land. The in
creasing use of artificial fertilizers has
shown that we may often ignore rota-
tions, and repeat the same crops when
we desire to do so. English farmers are
depending less upon rotation" and our
farmers are losing faith in the necessity
for it. Experience is showing that we
can supply the soil with the elements
needed to grow any crop whatever
without regard to its previous condition,
and that as good and profitable a crop of
corn may be grown upon stubble as upon
a sod.
WEneed to double our number of sheen.
Let no one indulge single fear of
an over production of either mutton or
wool. Could our focks be tripled or
quadrupled they would add not only to
the comfort and healthfulness of the
people, but to their intelligence and So
briefly, as we'll as to the productness of
every field used as a sheep pasture. We
hope that every farmer who reads this,
will at once consider how much his in
terests would be subserved by adding a
score of sheep to his stock. These fur
nish choice food, and their increase and
feeces are always in demand, and that,
too, at fair prices.-Chicago Drouer's
Journal.
No quarter should be given to the
insect pests which remain year after
year simply because we permit them.
The potato beetle exists 50 plentifully
because some careless farmer actually
breeds myriads of them. Many fields
Of potatoes were abandoned by them last
year, and the neighboring country was
thus stocked for this year. This is one
insect that might be abolished by
combined effort of year or two.
is the cattle gad-hy, which may
be found now in the backs of the cows
and oxen in small Jumps or tumors,
called MARBLES. The grubs may be
out of these tumors through
the breathing holes aud destroyed.
Otherwise they will escape, change to
flies and continue the mischief.
The desire for large animals is not
always judicious. With cows it is
questionable if the largest are the best,
when the cost of feeding is considered.
There are cases in which q dairyman's
fancy for large, snowy animals may be
justified, and it may be granted that
stable filled with large, snowy, Dutch or
,borthorn cows is very pleasing cx-
hibition. But when we come to figure
up the cost of the product, it may be a
question whether, is the same amount Of
food was expended upon an equally
good looking herd of Ayrshires, the milk
might not be more cheaply produced.
Where the final end of the COW is con-
'idered and the amount of beef is an
object, that, of course alters the bear.
ngs of the question. But bigness in
cows is not always best, either for beauty
u profit to the owner.