Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
FARM HINTS.

and prevents sickness among live stock.
A MAN in Easton, Maine; has this year
harvested 10, 900 bushels Of potatoes from
forty-fve acres of ground.
BucKwHEAT -four is recommended for
giving the hair of horses a fine, smooth,
brilliant appearances:
GIVE hens constant access to lime in
some form. Hens must have the raw
material in order to manufacture shells {:
they can not make them out of nothing.
STAaNANT and impure water which
COWS drink while at pasturage is one of
the most prominent causes Of bad odor
in milk.
DAMAGED corn is exceedingly iniuri-
GUS as food food for horses, because it
brings on inflammation of the bowels and
skin diseases.
A JERSEY COW in Memphis has sur
prised her owner and the farmers there
abouts by giving milk that made three
pounds of butter from one gallon of
milk. So the papers say.
The best remedy for the sting of bee.
wasp or hornet is liquid ammonia, and
nothing will equal it's dilution in water
iu allaying the irritation caused by moss
quitoes.
AMERICA stands first in the world for
honey production, as we'll as for scien-
tific management and improved nipple
ments for their apiary; next comes
Switzerland, then England and France.
HORSES contract habits very easily
when improperly managed, and transmit
them to their offspring. The balky
man makes balky horse. "'Tis easier
to prevent than to cure.''
FARMERS should bear in mind that
frozen meat will not absorb salt. Before
either frozen beef or pork is put in the
barrel for sailing it should be thawed
out.
The reason that cabbage emits such a
disagreeable smell when boiling is be-
cause the process dissolves the essential
oil. The water should be changed when
the cabbage is half boiled, and it will
thus acquire greater sweetness.
WHEN horse is worked hard his food
should be chiefly oats-if not worked
hard his food should be chiefly hay, be-
cause oats supply more nourishment and
fesh-making material than any other
food-hay not so much.
To utilize feathers of ducks, chickens
and turkeys, generally thrown aside as
refuse, trim the plumes from the stamp,
inclose them in a tight bag, rub the
whole as if washing clothes, and you
will secure q perfectly uniform and light
down, excellent for quilting coverlets
and not few other purposes.
To cure gals on the shoulders Of your
horses: At morning, noon and night
wash the shoulders well with water and
apply with feather the following: Six
drachms of iodine dissolved in half a
pint of alcohol. It is good preparation
to keep in the stable at all times.
Work horses and those kept for driv-
ing purposes often receive permanent
injury at this season Of the year, between
wheeling and sleighing, by being shut
up and deprived of exercise. Lung,
bowel and foot diseases are frequent
penalties of neglect of regular exercise
when not in use.
IT is held that England will eventually
become one of the best customers for our
mutton sheep. To accomplish this, how
ever, our stock of mutton sheep must
not only be increased, but especial care
must be taken in breeding, and especial
pains used in fattening. In beef cattle,
what consumers want nowadays is supe-
rior flesh not masses of tallow.
IF you take into consideration hard
ness, prolifcacy, weight of fleece and
average weight when full grown, you
will find that the Cotswold will best an.
swer your purpose. The average weight
of the most common breeds of sheep
when fully grown, is about as follows
Cotswold 200, Leicester 1876, Shropshire
Down ITS, South Down 1856, American
Merino 103 pounds.
PLow1NG land when it is very dry il
nearly rs hurtful as when it is very wet
But any experience is with heavy clay
or land in which clay is an importan
constitution. Such land when plowei
dry breaks up lumpy, and consequent
rains do not dissolve the Jumps. It il
my opinion that there is never a NOR,
suitable condition for blowing any sol
than when it has enough moisture t,
cause the burrows to fall loosely from tn
pillow with no appearance of packing an,
no Jumps. William Armstrong, El,a1
ro, N. Y.
The objection to rolling wheat field
after being sown has been made that th
snow will blow off or collect in drift
here and there. But if wheat is SOW
early the leaves should cover the entir
surface before winter, and we shout
suppose Would hold the soil as well as
rough soil surface. Whether this sup
position is well founded or not, we hav
this fall rolled five fields after the see
has been drilled in or sown broadcast
and another season will probably enabl
us to test the question.
PROF. L. B. ARNOLD advises skim
ming the milk as soon as SOUL
ness is perceptible, and to churn1 g
go degrees instead of 70, before til
cream gets sour. When the butte
comes it granules, enough cold water c
brine should be put in to reduce til
mass to about IS degrees, when after
little slow churning, the granules wi
become hard and distinct, and the butte
be in candition for washing out all til
buttermilk. The salt should then
worked in with as little labor as possible
and after standing while it will (
ready to pack.
Hoes when nearly fat are liable
have disordered stomach through owe
feeding, refusing their food. The be
} antidote for this is charcoal. If the cha
coal is taken from the stove when co
, there will probably be ashes taken up
, the same time, these will not hurt Il
| hog should he eat portion of ther
Charcoal is best taken from an open fir
place. It would be well to have on haa
at all times barrel or two of charcoa
t Charred corn cobs or charred corn ha,
{ q good effect. There is nothing bett
: than these substances where hogs ha'
!. the sours.
E OF the many errors that farmers a
t likely to fall into there is none more pr
= life Of injury than that of closely fee
), ing those fields from which the hay or,
t has been taken, and from which it is e
!. pected in the future. During the Ia
r summer and early fall months, when &
j. feed in pastures becomes short, and t
e flow of milk diminishing, with field