Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-13
AGRICULTURAL.

MusrY hay and damaged grain cal
not be fed to stock with impunity.
A SOFT trim, velvety skin is nearl,
always found on good COW, and'a thicl
hard hide on poor one. ,,,4 - IL
FEED turnips to mich COWS just afte
milking. The milk will not then b.
turnip favored.
COOKED meat chopped up and mixet
with other feed IL not only relished BY
fowls, but gives back the strength lost
during the moultiog process.
FILL up all depressions in the surface
coil around buildings, 80 that there MAY
be no standing water, no matter how
much rain may fall.
MR.. MERRIAM, a horticultural Of
much experience, says he never saw
blight on pear trees that were white
washed. He believes it to be an absolute
remedy. 800 .,' i,,s,
BREEDING ewes should be fed q daily
ration of about one gill of corn, OF, bet.
ter still, about one. pint of oats. They
should be warmly sheltered from cold
winds and drenching rains. Such treat.
ment will give strong; healthy limbs.
AN excellent farmer says that for
every sheep he kept last year he sold, in
lambs and wool, an average of IS worth
per head. He said also that his sheep
paid him better than anything else
grown on the farm.
OATS vary in quality with the soil on
which fhov a 10 orOwn TIA vooo1 ~ odo
from oats grown upon clay land is the
best in quality, is the " thriftiest,"
keeps the longest and is i. worth the
highest price,
ANY dairyman troubled with COWS
having sore teats should use plenty of
linseed oil before and after milking. He
will find but few, if any, sores abeut his
cows teats if this be done, Many COWS
that are kickers would delight to be
MIXED if little linseed oil was used
on the teats.
FARMERS who have young orchards
should lose no time in giving them thei.
attention by stamping the snow around
them quite solid. This has been found
an efectualpreventive against the work
of mice, which are very destructive by
the gnawing of the bark when the snow
lies deep for any length of time.
No animal should be killed for food i'm
mediately after violent exercise. Under
such conditions the meat will keep but a
very short time, and sometimes it is i'm
possible to keep it sweet with all the salt
that can be used. Hogs, especially,
should be be butchered early in the
morning after a quiet rest during the
night.
EVERY farmer may not be able to
reach the maximum of production, yet
he can make his land produce what he
needs and what an accommodating mar
ket will pay him we'll for, when he has
it in excess of home wants. No farmer
in the land, however poor his soil may
be at the outset, has any excuse for not
making every acre contribute to his own
and the general good.
A GOOD and cheep rack in which to
place fodder for sheep may be made of
rough boards nailed at the corners to
A good size is 10 by d feet.
Two boards, l foot wide, with space of
inches.between them, constitute the
sides and ends. The ed ges of the boards
next to the opening should be round ed
to prevent Injury to the: necks of the
sheep. >,
NEVER begin until. you are ready is
as good advice in farming as in any
business known. Last spring Henry,
under orders, got his millet in early in
April, and it staid in--or the little that
lid come up looked so frightened that
late in: May the five acres had to be re-
plowed and reseeded, which then only
resulted half crop.
LOOK out for the low wet places in
your grain fields when the thaw begins,
md see whether few spadefuls of earth
would not let the water out. Such
trifling attention we have known to pay
. bushel of wheat for shovelful of
earth-.'certainly percentage of profit
enough to satisfy the most miser1y, to
'ay nothing Of the LATEST. The latter
ire the greatest usurers.
A SINGULAR chemical change is some
lines effected by the mixing of the
cream of a'ful mich COW with one well
.long with calf, or if it is not chem
cal change, what is it? The cream, as
lbove indicated, has been !churned hour
'fter hour for a whole day with no ap.
of producing butter, and
inally abandoned as hopeless case, but
1pon withdrawal of the cream of the
,ow in calf, the other would make but
;er with no difficulty. - s>'.i
The following is a.good eceipt for
worms in horses: Powdered poplar
park, two ounces; powdered sulphur,
our ounces; salt, three. ounces; mixed
we'll. Divide this mass into twelve
PARTS, and mix one with the food every
hight. This will not only remove worms
)ut also tone up the digestive organs, so
hat the parasites cannot find foot
1old.-C0unt1y Gentleman. Three parts
GOOD ashes and two of salt, a table,
poonful fed daily with the feed, is q
imp]e and efectual remedy.-Record.
In no other business does filthiness
md. negligence work 80 much mischief
Is in the handling of milk. Wooden
'ails are unfit for use in the dairy, be-
'ause it is next to impossible to keep
hem clean, while tin pals are easily |
Iept clean. Sugar of milk, when dried
nto a gum, is very difficult to dissolve
md can only be removed by careful
Washing and scalding.. The fumes of |
tagnant slops, when conveyed to the
milk, carry with them the seeds of de.
truction, which readily multiply and
lestroy it. -. -. '.''4i ri: ~ j., Is.
TIE result of experiments made in
nulching winter wheat 1.-THE Expert
mental University: farm in Iowa, while
lot exclusive, is favorable to this prac-
ice. Professor Henry. 81. McAfee, says
hat, taken with former experiments