Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-16
FARM HINTS.

FARM HINTS.
To cure scab in sheep, rub it will
plain petroleum with q sponge three
times a week. Dogs can be cured O.
mango in the same way.
CLEAN all dairy utensils by rinsing
wards scrubbing them with boiling wa
ter, after which repeat the cold rinsing
ALL lands on which clover or grasse
are grown must either have lime in then
naturally, or that mineral must be arti'
ficially supplied in the form of stone lime
oyster lime, or mari.
For throat distemper, CRATE fine s
small green wild turnip, or, if dry, Civ
heaPing teaspoonful, mixed with brar
or oats. Never fails. Good for cough
also.
IT is stated on what is considered ex
cellent authority, that the cabbage worm
which has become so destructive in many
places of late years, can be destroyed by
sprinkling lime water over the growing
plants.
A mixture of two parts of olive oil
and one part of kerosene, is said to bt
efectual in Kidding hogs of lice, if light.
ly painted on. One, or at most two
applications at an interval of q week is
said to be sufficient.
THE weekly (Toronto) Globe says the
golden drop wheat as raised there il
naturally spring wheat, but that it
can be grown successfully as winter
wheat. That the grain is plump, and as
large as the best samples of fall wheat
the straw is particularly clean, and has
not been troubled with smut or rust.
IT is believed by many that red clover
is one of the most valuable of soiling
crops, though it is not much used for
this purpose. A half acre will keep one
COW throughout the months OF June,
July and August, if cut and fed at the
stall; while more then twice this amount
of land, if grazed, according to expert
ments in England, will barely subsist q
COW during the same time.
The cob of Indian corn draws largely
in its growth upon the potash of the
soil, the average amount which it con-
tains carbonate of potash) being about
seven pounds and half in the hundred,
or twice as much as is found in the ash
of the willow, the richest of all woods in
potash. If it were practicable to pro-
cure and remove the potash from all the
cobs of Indian corn grown in the United
States annually, it would make a good
sized mountain of alkali.
A GOOD filterer for cisterns is made by
passing the water through large barrel
half filed with fine gravel, and pounded,
freshly burnt charcoal, free from dust,
distributed in alternate layers, each sew
eral inches deep. Over this spread a
thin piece of bagging, and fill in with
fine gravel or coarse clean quartz sand
for twelve inches or more. The inlet
pipe should discharge at the bottom of
the barrel, the filtered water flowing
from the top.
A WRITER in a French horticultural
journal relates this suggestive expert
ence: After sunset place in the centre
of my orchard an old barrel, the inside
of which I have previously we'll tarred.
At the bottom Of this barrel l place a
lighted lamp. Insects of many kinds,
attracted by the light, make for the
lamp, and while circling round it strike
against the side of the barrel, where,
meeting with the tar, their wings and
legs become so clogged that they either
stick fast or fall helpless to the bottom.
SHEEP, owing to their shyness, should
be treated with great kindness. The
treatment should be such that they will
actually learn to entertain an affection
for their keeper. A flock Of wild sheep
is about the most Improbable invest,
ment that farmer can make. They are
continually getting themselves into
trouble and causing great annoyance, if
not loss to their owner. Never haul
them about by the wool, but place the
arms about the body and round the
foreleg. In catching them, take them
by the hind leg lust above the hook
Kansas City Price Current.
KEEP sheep dry under foot with clean
litter. Never let them stand or lie in
the mud or snow. If a eve loses bel
lamb, milk her daily for few days, and
mix a little alum with her salt. Never
frighten sheep; if possible, avoid it
Separate sick or thin sheep from those
that are strong, and give them specia
care. If a leg is broken, bind it with
splinters tightly, loosening as the liml
swells. If sheet is lame, examine hi
hoofs; if unsound, apply tobacco, will
blue vitriol boiled in a little water
Shear at once any sheep commencing Il
shed its wool, unless the weather is to-
severe.
SWEET corn is much better than tn
field sorts to grow as fodder. TIL
stalks are sweeter as we'll as the grain
It should not, however, be sown
Grown in close, compact masses, ex
Guiding the light, the stalks possess littl
value and will not be relished. TIL
better way is too drill widely apart, 81
as to give room for the cultivator t.
work between the rows. Then cut a
the ears are beginning to form. Swee
corn is more difficult to cure; but thi
is not its best use. Enough should b
sown for feed in August and Septembe
for the cows, and if grown as directe
above it will not disappoiut REASONABLE
expectations.
A METHOD in practice among the bes
butter makers in England, for renderip
butter firm and solid during hot wealth
er, is as follows: Carbonate of soda ali
alum are used for the purpose, mad
into powder. For twenty pounds q
butter, one teaspoonful of soda All
alum are mingled together at the tim
of churning, and put into the cream
The effect of this powder is to make tn
butter come firm and solid, and to civ
it clean, sweet flavor. It does not e1
ter into the butter, but its action is upo
the cream, and it passes off with th
buttermilk. The Ingredients of tn
powder should not be mingled togetbe
until required to be used, or at the tim
the cream is in the churn ready fe
churniDg.
MANY farmers labor for years ignoran
of the fact that a close well set sod
the foundation of good farming and tn
basis of good crops. Soil that will pr,
duce an immediate and firm set of graz
will bring a good crop If any kim
There is no better way to test the pr,
ducing capacity of soil then by its graz