Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES,


pigs.
IT pays to feed COWS giving milk
literally. Butter is high, and now is
the time to feed protitably.
| On many farms there are some old cat
tie and old sheep that can only be kept
at loss. It is economy to fatten them
for the butcher.
To prevent lameness and keep your
| horses feetjn good condition, stuff them
frequently with linseed meal mixed with
soft soap.
KEEP barrel Of gypsum in the stables
where COWS are kept, and sprinkle the
floors with it after the stalls are cleaned.
1t is valuable absorbent Of LIQUID
manure and an excellent deodorizer.
SAVE the SCOT that falls from the CHM
neys. A pint of SCOT to pailfull of wa
ter will will make liquid manure of
the greatest value for flowers and plants
of all kinds.
FEED stock regularly ut stated hours
each day. Stock becomes wonderfully
observomt on this point, and becomes
restless when the time arrives for giving
their food, should that food not be at
hand.
FoR two years we have tried stacking
fodder and tiny that it keeps as we'll as
when stored In the barn, and it is on
hand when wanted. We put about
thirty shocks in a stack and do not build
very high as it is heavy to pitch.
SUFFOLK and Berkshire pigs may be
proftably fed, to be sold at 8 and 10
months, upon clover, corn meal, inseed
meal, or corn and oat mdal. Half a
pound OF linseed meal per day on the
average to six months old pigs would be
efficient.
THERE are twenty-siX pounds Of phos-
phoric acid in twenty-five bushels of
wheat; if there are nottwenty six pounds
Of available phosphoric acid in the soil, it
matters not how much there may be of
other elements, you cannot have twenty
five bushels Of wheat to the acre.
STRINGHALT is al affection Of the
nerves, and is incurable. It is caused
by loss Of power Of the nerve which
controls the muscle by which the leg is
lifted; the action is then spasmodic, IT.
regular and excessive, causing the high
lifting usual in this disorder.
PERHAPS theheaviest returns ever OBJ
tanned in this country from a single
sheep was secured last year by Daniel
Smith of Hinsdale, N. H., who raised
from a Shropshire eve three lambs,
which he sold for SIS, aud the wool OF
the eve for $3.50 making the total in
come from the sheep $3.50.
The celebrated Hereford bull,
Anxiety, belonging to Mr.. Culbertson,
of Chicago, and kept on his farm at
Newman, ILL.,, died on the 2Sth ult.,
from impaction of the manifold, also
called dry murrain, caused by exposure
and the yicissitules Of travel between
the state fairs. He was probably the
finest Hereford bull ever imported. His
value was $4,000.
DR.. ANDERSON of Scotland estimates
that one COW, well fed, will furnish an
amount of manure annually which
will yield 103 pounds of ANN onia,
lightweight pounds of potash, and
sixty-four pounds Of pbosphoric acid;
and that these elements represent q
value Of $22.75, based on their avail
bility, as compared with the artificial
fertilizers in which they are found
A NEW system OF cattle farming is
coming into vogue in Nevada. After the
manner of alteration in making oxen
they alter their COWS by extracting the
ovaries. Though unsexel, they con-
tinue to give milk indefinitely. They
increase notably in weight, and their
flesh becomes juicy and tender as that Of
oxen. In the valley Of the Humboldt
and it's branches the assessor returns g.
900 spayed cattle at double valuation.
It is seldom that ono is lost in the surgi-
cal operation.
The Columbus "Ga.) Eu1ui1ey-4>"u
tells this champion gourd story: Mr..
E. I. Hickey has a gourd vine covering
about one-fourth Of an acre, and upon
which is over 100 gourds which will
hold over gallon each. 1t was planted
by little girl, daughter of Mr..
Hickey, and has not had more than half
a chance, as the hogs, sheep and goats
have all been running over it. It has
run down into the ravine and damned
the stream"
As general rule the farmer should
not desire that his poultry should be
very fat, fol- there is kind Of antag onism
between production and the storing OF
much fat in the tissues. If it was q
mere question of what to 10 with the
material there would seem to be no
reason fowl, once having attained her
full weight, should not then always be-
gin to lay. Fat in a living being is
generally as foreign to the system as il it
were tried out and slowed away in a
pantry: and yet q certain proportion OF
it seems to he to be the rule with all ami
mails in their ordinary health, the
amount varying with the individual.
The difficulty Of establishing the
value Of each COW in the dairy is not as
great as it is generally supposed. The
method usually employed is to weigh
each cows milk upon spring scales rs
soon as it is drawn, and before pouring
it into the general receptacle. 4 small
record-book, containing the name of
each COW. and columns for date. weight
OF milk, ETC., renders it comparatively
easy matter. TO get a fair average for
the year one weeks trial for each mouth
is sufficient. In making tests for butter
it is only necessary to set each
~" Al1h oCEfAatCcly siuN CuuTu IL Dy
itself, which will give the yield OF but
ter for certain quantity Of milk.
Prairie Farmer.
The farmer who lets all the iqnids Of
his barnyard run to waste is a spend
thrift, however close-isted he may
be with money. Said a particular far
mer recently: con my farm I have
built cisterns under the barn and stable.
in which this liquid is collected. These
cistems are all connected, and one being
built on lower grade, they all empty in
to this one. When it rains put force
pump into the cistern and fill two water
carts, such as are used in Watering our
streets, and scatter this liquid over our
meadows; in forty-eight hours afterwards
change is perceived in the color of the
grass Another farmer who has q
similar arrangement in his barnyarl,
says he saves 100 loads every year, and
thinks the liquid worth as much as SC
many loads of solid manure. -. .: ,
SOME way or other agriculture seems
incomplete without flock Of sheep.
They are essential to the thick-set 1Ono,