Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09

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soil.
SHALLOW blowing operates to impov-
erish the soil, while in decreases produc.
ton. Subsoiling sound land, that is
not wet, is also eminently conductive to
increase production. Deep blowing
greatly improves the productive powers
of every variety of soil that is not wet
A Mr.. CHAUNCEY EDMUNDs, of Ed
mundsburg, Mich, states that peach
leaves or turnips boiled in water, to
which an infusion of peach leaves is add
ed, il q preventive, as we'll as sure cure
for cholera, and now the question recurs,
what is the use of the turnips anyhow.
THERE is more in the feed than in the
breed-the fowl that has been we'll fed
and well cared for from the shell to
slaug htering time, will make the best
table meat; if you want chickens that
will be good eating after they are dead,
see that they eat we'll during their lives.
IT ie with people as with trees. If you
lop off their finest branches, into which
they were pouring their young life
juice, the wounds will be healed over
with some rough boss, some odd excres-
ence; and what might have been q grand
tree, expanding into liberal shade, is but
whimsical niahapen trunk.
AN old poultry raiser, who believes in
milk for fowls, says: cts meat and
drink both. Some of the best chickens
I ever saw were raised upon the free use
of milk with their food. Hens lay as
well, or better, when furnished with this
than upon any known article offered
them"
The result of late experiments in
England show that 154 quarts of milk
of short horns is required for pound
of butter. The same amount was pro-
duced from 103 quarts of Ayrshire milk,
81 quarts of Galloway milk and 81 quarts
of Kerry milk, the milk being produced,
al nearly as possible, under the same
conditions.
For the cleansing of outbuildings,
sheep barns, COW stables and hen roosts,
as we'll as pig sites, there is no renovator
or purifier like lime. A coat should be
spread over the inside of these buildings
at the close of the summer season In
order to destroy all vermin or eggs that
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cracks, ready to prey on the animals,
when they come home 10 their quarters
in the chilly autumnal nights.
Sow the grass seed on the wet ground
at any time of the year that is con-
venient, it does not matter much when.
Red clover wants to be sown early in
spring; but timothy, red top, blue grass,
white clover, lawn and orchard grass can
hardly be sown amiss. The land really
should be pastured when the seed is
sown. Hogs, however, are bad on all
such land the first year unless the pasture
is very large and the number of hogs
small.
HOG manure is an excellent fertilizer
for corn, and even if it is carted to the
field in the fall and placed in a pile,
exposed to the storms of winter, it will
not suffer in comparison with fresh
stable manure in its effects. Where the
hog manure, which was made up largely
of sods that the swine had worked over,
was used, the corn is fully as large again
as that where the green stable manure
with all its juices and strength was used.
MANURE applied broadcast to meadows
early in autumn, or later if it has not
been done sooner, increases the luxuri-
ance of the growth before winter, and
gives the grass an cary and luxuriant
start in the spring. Manure which was
too coarse or fibrous early in the season
has rotted enough, if piled in heaps, to
spread we'll. An equally beneficial re-
suit will follow top-dressing grass lands
intended to be plowed and planted with
corn next season. Evenly spreading
ever the surface is essential.
The horns of our COWS seem to be
neither ornamental nor useful. As a
means of warfare they can only have
consideration, but warfare and goring is
precisely what We want to keep away
from the barnyard. English farmers,
where herds are probably more precious
and closer confined than in America,
have introduced the practice of unborn
ing cattle by clipping the small projec.
tions in calves, when half an inch long,
using simple strong pair of shears. It
is true it hurts the calves somewhat
There will be little bleeding, but that
will stop in an hour or two, and the
calves will soon resume eating.
ADRY, cold airy loft is the best for
to store onions. Do not let them lie
more than two or three bulbs thick, and
look them over often, and pull out the
bad ones. Do not remove any of the
outer rind but what comes off in the
handling. They also keep we'll in ropes
and hung up, the easiest way to make
which is to tie them on to q hay or
strawband which is better than a stake.
This plan is useful where shelf.room is
scarce; but the points to observe are q
cool airy situation, warmth and moisture
being more inimical to the keeping than
frost. 80
In cold weather give horses one pail
full of water at q time, three times a
day: This is enough, unless you are
working them regularly; then give a
little more, but not to exceed four pail.
fuls day. In warm weather when they
are brought in, first sponge out the
mouth and nostrils we'll with cold water.
After few spongings they will wait for
it to be done. Then give them not to
exceed pailful apiece, and after feed.
Ing give one more pailful before you
commence work. Don't let them 20
without long enough to make them want
more than this. It allowed, q thirsty
horse, when warm, will drink too much.
A common twelve quart pail is the size
referred to above. - ~. IN
CoRNs In . horse are different from
those on the skin Of Z human being.
They are first produced By blows or
bruises, which start inflammation and
formation Of matter under the sole, or
cause = deposit Of horny matter which