Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-16
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
A TH1RTY.sEvEN-PoUN turnip was
lately produced in Mendocino county,
Gal.
THERE are hogs in Missouri that suck
cows, sitting on their launches to per-.
form the operation.
~s' In Santa Clara county, CAL, a farmer
raised thirty-eight tons of pumpkins
and 800 bushels of corn on seven acres,
without irrigation.
PRAIRIE fires in western Nebraska and
the northern cattle regions, ret by In
dams, are reported to have burned over
such extended districts as to cause we'll
grounded fears that Thousands of cattle
will be starved before the new grass
comes. .r'- .,...r 4 -.
The Colorado Cattle Growers Asso-
citation will hold q meeting inDenver on
the 18th of January. 1t will be largely
attended by representative cattle men
from Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and
New Mexico. They propose to organize
for self-protection.
The first importation of American
meats into Germany, some years ago, re-
suited in failure. The last season 49,
100000 pounds were imported there of
beef of the best quality, sewn tightly in
thick canvas, and kept while on board
in cases constructed for the purpose, and
kept cool.
The London agricultural Gazette saye
the council of the Hereford Herd Book
Society have come to q decision in all
cases as to the reception or rejection of
entries, and hope to be able very shortly
to place it in the hands of the printer.
Certificates of entries for volume 10 are
$50 bulls and 1888 cows
AT a late meeting of committee of
the Suffolk Stud Book Association in
England, it was resolved that entries for
the first volume of the Stud Book should
be closed on March l, and that the list
of subscribers to whom alone copies
would be issued Except with permission
of the committed would close at an early
date.
MEssRs. D. TALMADGE's Sons & Co.,
New Orleans, in their annual circular,
report a larger area of rice planted than
usual in Louisiana. The yield is hardly
up to earlier expectations, but the aver
age quality will be better than last sea-
son. The crop of 1877-7S was 5000
barrels; this of 1878-79 is estimated at
l55, 900 barrels.
The hulless-oats fiends are again in
the field in those sections were live
newspapers are not taken. The men
who do not believe in "book farming"
are the ones swindled with this new oats
at $l0a bushel. They have been known
in the west among reading farmers for
forty years, and discarded as of no prac-
teal value; but that makes no difference
to the on.reading farmer, whose cupid
ity tempts him to put faith in oily gam
mon sharks Prairie Farmer.
TIE best whitewash for poultry
houses: Into the whitewash pail drop a
tea-cupful of soft-boiled rice, and mix
thoroughly. Then pour into quart of
cold water, say ten or twelve drops of
crude carbolic acid. Mix this into the
rest and swab the interior of your hen
house with it. For outside, use rock
salt dissolved instead of boiled rice, and
dispense with carbolic acid. No other
preparation of whitewash equals this for
poultry houses.
In no other business does filthiness
and negligence work so much mischief as
in the handling of milk. Wooden pals
are unfit for use in the dairy, because it
is next to impossible to keep them clean,
while tin pals are easily kept clean.
Sugar of milk, when dried into a gum,
is very difficult to dissolve and can only
be removed by careful washing and
scalding. The fumes of stagnant Stops,
when conveyed to the milk, carry with
them the seeds of destruction, which
readily multiply and destroy it.
ONE of our readers sends us the fol-
lowing, clipped from a local paper, and
asks, aWho can beat it," '"Mr. Ma
thias Wellendorf, of St.. Mary's, Elk
county, Pa, has an acre of ground from
which he this year produced $50 bushels
of turnips, 10 bushels of potatoes, 60
bushels of corn, u bushels of beans and
two loads of pumpkins. The turnips at
40 cents bushel are worth $50; the
corn at rs cents, $45; the beans at So,
So; and the pumpkins at 81 load, 81,
which makes grand total of 5000 as the
proceeds of one acre. Practical Former.
A HANDY THING to have in the
house is a jar or bottle of lime-water.
Pour water over unslacked lime (the
quantity is not important, as only a Ger
tain amount will be slacked), and cork
up for use. A spoonful of clear liquid
stirred into milk, cream or bread sponge
in danger of souring, will prevent that
catastrophe. It also cleanses bottles,
etc., that have an unpleasant odor. A
person who needs mill, but whose diges-
ton is SO weak ~ not to manage it, will
find no Inconvenience if into q glass of
the tactical fluid is stirred wine-glass of
lime. water; The difference in taste is
not perceptible.
LIVE HOGS are now worth but from
81 to 4 cents a pound in our market, and
yet we are importing bacon and hams
from the east, and it costs the consumer
from 16 to Is cents pound. It would
seem that here is q margin for good prof
its to those who have the means to buy
hogs and the skill to convert them into
the articles above-named. That just as
good bacon and hams can be made in
California as in any other coun ~, has
often been proven by the doing it, and
yet we have but few regular slaughter
Ing establishments in the state, where
Strengthening is carried on systematically,
and where bacon and hams are cured for
general consumption California Pepper.
IT may afford crumb Of comfort to
American agriculturists who are dread
ing the results. of oyerproduction, to
know that English writer's like Mr.. Card
have forcibly summed up the broad view
Of the present state Of matters, when
they tell us that quite one-half of each
loaf consumed in England is of foreign
origin; that one-f fourth part of their
whole meat and dairy produce comes to
them from across the sea, and that almost
the entire additions which may hereafter
be sought to fill the ever-multiplying
mouths Of their dense population must