Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-20
Observation-Disclosures:

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Do not forget that turnips assist win
ter feeding of cattle.
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WHEN commencing your agricul-
tural life remember that industry,
economy and integrity will insure sue
cess, and form the best capital that can
be employed.
The temperature of cellar may be
suddenly raised byi burning g SAUCER
full OF alcohol. A kettle of live wood
Goals will soon warm it up to the desired
point,y but' considerable carbopiQ! Acid
gas will be generated.
ALTHOUGH, their products sell for
much lower prices than they did 4 few
years ago, sheep are among the most
profitable animals which can be put
upon q farm. but, in order to yield the
highest returns of which they are capa-
BILE, they need to be properly cared for.
AVOID hollows, ravines and any spon-
~ black land. Even if we'll drained,
such land grows trees which are likely
to be sue culent and short-liyed. Cold
air settles in the hollows, which are
colder than the hills; for an orchard,
choose land that is high or relatively
high. The land may slope ip either d.
rection. There is not much choice un-
less the land is very steep.-l'rcttssor
Bsal, Michigan.
CARROTS form a palatable and nutri-
tious food for almost every species of
stock. They may be given unboiled,
mixed with cut hay or straw. There
are few things that will better support
the horse, while colts are brought into
excellent condition when fed with them.
To the COW they afford a wholesome
iood, coloring and favoring the butter
agreeably. The hog eats carrots raven
Qusly, and thriyes upon them.
IT may afford crumb of comfort to
American agriculturists who are dread
ing the. results. Of over-production.s to
know tkat Baglisk writer's like Mr..
Card have forcibly summed up the
broad view of the present state of mat
tiers, when they tell US that quite one
half of each loaf consumed in England
is of foreign origin; that one fourth
part of their whole meat and dairy pro-
duce comes to them from across the sea,
and that almost the entire additions
which may hereafter lie sought to fill the
ever multiplying mouths of their dense
population must be drawn from other
lands.
THREE years ago Ben sowed clover
seed on grass plot, after which he ran
the roller over it; the next year there
was a fine crop. In 1876, he again
seeded with: clover and rolled as before,
and had the same success. Since then,
all the grass lands are sown with clover
and timothy as early in the spring as
they can be gotten on with the team to
roll them, and it has kept good sod.
This spring lie: purposes sowing orchard
grass with the" other seeds, thinking it
will not only give larger yield for first
crop, but make the second crop more
valuable.
In Saxony, where the cold water sys.
tenn is carried out in large diaries, an
apparently efectual plan has been hit
upon for preventing the milk ":turning''
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thin iron wire chain is passed through
the milk-pans, the ends of which are
kept constantly in cold water. DR..
Fleischman, of Baden, testiies to the
! practicability of this method, for, he
observes, authorities on the subject
maintain that milk is less sensitive to
I the electricity of the air than to the
! Temperature, that surrounds it,. more
Immediately. The fact that milk kept
in enamelled or timed vessels is less
liablesto sour;in hot weathgr is thought
to spsak we'll for this nevstheory.
A coNrEMPoRAEY says: "There is NJ
reason why farming may not be made t.
pay much oftener than it does. Very
few have learned to regard it as bust
ness. 1t is a sort of chance woik al
round. Most men look on it as a sort O.
real estate transaction. They hope on.
day to sell out at a big figure, hence arr
(afraid to improve their farms with {
view to agricultural operations, for fea,
that whoever buys the land will not
care for these little things. We hav.
often heard some improving farmer
ridiculed for his expenditures BY som,
knowing ones, who were very sure 81
and so would get no more for his place
than if he had thrown his money in tn,
dirt"
THERE are many ways of making
grain troughs for sheep, but they ar
best constructed SO that they may b,
revolved.' Double boxes may be mad,
by simply mailing three boards together
: .tW0Of them seven and one fourth inche
I wide: Set the narrow upon one edge
lay the surface of one of the wide one
upon II, and hail it firmly down through
the centre of the wide into the edge o
the nar10& or then. turn the marrow
s6oard upside down, ind nail6nAthe othe
wide board in the same way, and 20,
have q good durable trough. Qn tn
ends Of this nail & piece. Of board: ffiffteel
inches long and twelve inches wide, ant
I you have an INEVITABLE grain trough
Be careful that the pieces are allied q
that the ends of the trough will be ex
d city in the centre of the end boards.
Rural Ne,o Yorker. 80. =. 49,
EXPERIMENTS made BY Lehman upo1
! young animals showed that food con
I tanning an insufficient amount of phos
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the skeleton, but has an essential influ
snce~ upon. ita- separate parts A ,youn
4 !Pig was fed l26 days upon potatoes alon
and it had; result of this insufficient
food, ,yoehitis (rickets, or softening o
1.-THE bo16. }Other pi8s, from the sam
litter, fed upon potatoes, leached.out
meat, and additional phosphates, for til
same length of time, had a. norm3l Skele
ton, yet even in these animals there wa
a difference according to the kind of phos
phate added. Two that were fed OF
phosphate of potash had porous bones
specifically lighter than the others
which were fed upon phosphate and car
Donate of Scientific American.
PERHAPS one of the most appropriate
uses of an old fruit can that can be de
yiseds lis to. make it. contribute to tn
growth Of new fruit to fill new cans
This is done in the following manner
The can is pierced with one or more pi