Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
AGRICULTURAL.

Inc SKIN OF the 6nanK ana feet. They
> may be destroyed by applying mix
J ture of lard and kerosene oil
WINTER is the time for the limbs anc
muscles to rest, and for the activity o.
the brain and intellectual energies. II
the farmer neglect these, he is FORGETTING
his best opportunities and interests.
WooD ashes are beneficial to all crop.
Of grain, roots, grass and fruit, and can
not be applied amiss. From ten to thir
ty bushels per acre can be applied
without danger Of excess. Scatter then
over the plowed land and harrow then
in.
Two happy results characteristic oil
the farm schools not only of France but
Of Belgium: their balance-sheets indicate
not valued but an actual cash profit
aud the number of pupils trained follow
instead OF, as hitherto, leaving agricul
tural pursuits.
UPoN the heels of advice for the de-
strnction of English sparrows, comes
the statement from the Forest and
Stream newspaper, that insectivorous
birds have no more destructive enemy
than domestic cats, and advise farmers,
it they would have birds, they must kill
cats.
We have found the following as a
cheap and easy mode of freeing plants
from leaf lice: Mix one ounce of flower
of sulphur with one bushel of sawdust;
scatter this over the plants infected by
these insects and they will soon be free,
though second application may posi-
bly, be necessary.
In order to keep their butter over the
period of low prices and hot weather,
California dairymen simply seal up
their products in tin cans, sinking the m
to the bottom of cold streams. Butter
made in April comes out in October in
good order, and continues to keep fresh
in cold weather Of winter. Forty
pound cans are commonly used. -
1 For winter feeding, where cattle are
kept in stalls and heavily fed, there is no
better divisor for cornmeal than wheat
bran. It is also cheap, and furnishes
what the cornmeal lacks. When cattle
are fed on cornmeal as the principal
food for fattenniug, it il apt to cloy if
fed in too large quantities, hence our
best feeders are in the habit of using
bran as the cheapest and best means for
rendering the meal fed more digestable
In this each feeder must use direction as
to the proper quantity used.
It is, well-known by all hunters that
rabbit is never found in the same bed
in which one has been killed the same
season, especially if one particle of
blood has been split; therefore, if you
will kill hare and rub the blood, even
very small portion, on the body of a
fruit tree, it will not be molested by
them that winter, 1 have 100 trees /
; have treated thus for fourteen years,
and never had them barked. unless I
happened to miss one. One hare is
sufficient to rub fifty trees-Lolman's
Rural World.
A CORRESPONDENT tells how he makes
a cheap yet sufficiently effective ice
house, in the form of rail pen. He
lays down some rails for the bottom, on
which he places a fifteen inch layer of
sawdust. He then packs his ice, leaving
around the outside space of fifteen
inches, to be packed with sawdust..
Straw or boards can be used to prevent
the sawdust from escaping through the
cracks between the rails. Two or three
feet of sawdust should be placed on the
top of the ice; and, finally, four posts OF
forks should be set up, one at each cor
ner, to support some planks for a COW
ering. 1t would be we'll to place the
whole under a good shade tree, and
with such a device one may have ice
through the. summer.-RurQI New
Yorker. $780,.
DURING the cold season it is often
complaint Of farmers that fodder plants
are frozen. A German chemist, DR..
PARCEL, has been inquiring as to the effect
of frost on such plants cabbage plants,
etc. and the best mode of utilizing fro
zen plants. The principal change effect
ed by the frost he finds to be q forma-
ton of sugar from starch -four; and as
sugar has nutritive value correspond
ing to the quantity of starch -four from
which it has been produced, he consid-
ers that no reduction in the nutritive
value of plants occurs through freezing.
Care must be taken, however, about the
delivery of frozen plants. First, they
should not be given in the low state of
temperature they posses, and then they
must not be allowed to lie long after
thswing, else (prebably from the forma.
ton of diastaic ferments), they pass into
putrifaction and 80 may easily do harm.
They are probably best used when given
as fodder Immediately after thawing or
after preparation in hot water or steam
ing. A long time after thawing frozen
plants cannot be given as fodder with
out danger.
CHICKEN cholera proceeds simply
from Indigestion, and this is caused by
bad food, over fatigue and unrest,
brought about by the presence of YER
min in great quantities on the body.
It disorders the whole system. Too
many fowls, either old or young, should
never be herded together. Chicken
cholera, as we'll as most other fowl dis
eases, is no more contagious than q
common cold. The same feed and the
same atmosphere that affect one affect
all alike, hence the idea of contagion.
A hen will not lay unless she be we'll,
hearty, and healthy. In the opinion of
the writer, a laying hen is unfit for
table use. A regular sitter Is. prefer
able. The flesh of a layer -is apt to be
tough, whereas the flesh of assitting hen,
especially If an Asiatic; will be sweet,
tender, and juicy. Many people dosnot
consider fowls suitable for table use
untilthey have been. confined and fed
on good 1weet grain On meal for asoertaiu
length Of time. srtalin ;it;is compost
fowls Arsahot ovA1s choice about t6eir
food, and all poultry have i more, or less
indiscriminate aPpetite, be they ever2so
choieely, bred and matured.: Therefore
it behooves US, since, the, Aesh savors Of
the material that produces IL to fatten
our chicks in clearly quarters, and upon
good feed, for q certain period.-G B.
In Country Gentleman. ~: ..
WHEN a man begins to 60 down hill,
says the Lady's Journal, he is apt to
betray the fact by his exterior appear
ance; he wears q long face, allows his
clothes to go shabby, and acts like ono
bereft Of hope or prospects,. Now this is
| VerV DOOR policy. the svmDathv Of