Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15

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FARM NOTES.
RUBBER bits are the best for winter
use on your horses.
The mortality among horses is greater
between the ages of four and eight years
than at all other periods in life.
CHOPPED onions, with q little ginger
mixed in, is said to be sure cure for
chicken chetera.
COUNTRY people are always good.
The wife may sew tares, rip and Darn in
the house, while the husband goes down
to the meadow and dams the brook.
GUINEA fowls will keep all bugs and
insects Of every description off garden
vines. They will not scratch like other
fowls or harm the most delicate plants
TIE Massachusetts P1oughman says
that heifer should be nearly or quite
three years old when she has a calf, if
the calf is expected to be healthy and
vigorous.
Hoes intended for slaughter should
receive all the food they will eat, and
should have a warm, dry bed, that they
may sleep comfortably and grow ia,
fast.
TURN1Ps are healtbful for horses
They should be cat in slices, or, what is
better, pulped finely and mixed with 9
little meal and some salt. Rutabagas
are better than white tnrnips.
A MISSISSIPPI farmer dashes cold water
into the ears of choking cattle. This
causes the animal to shake its head vio-
lently and the muscular action dislodges
the obstruction.
He who administers medicine to his
horse when in good health does injury
instead of good. Too much medicine il
given to our domestic animals under the
false impression of bene6ting their con.
dition.
A CELLAR that is cool, dry and dark,
and yet we'll ventilated, is the place to
preserve potatoes in large quantities.
When smaller quantities are to be pre-.
served there is nothing like dry sand
The same may be said of fruits and roots
of all sorts.
PLANT tansy at the roots of your plum
trees, or hang branches of the plant on
the limbs of your trees, and you will not
be annoyed with curculio. An old and
successful fruit grower furnishes the
above, and says it is the most successful
curculio preventive he has ever tried.
KEEP1Ea sheep is pleasant and profit
| able, if attended to properly. Wool is a
sure thing every year and brings cash.
1t has its ups and downs but let any
man make up his mind that none but his
wife or his administrator shall sell his
wool for less than so cents per pound
and he will come out all right.
THOROUGH undertaking and the use
of clover, manure and supherphosphates
have, at least, doubled the entire pro-
duct of the soil in some of the best farm
ing districts. Again, the infusion of the
best blood into our herds of cattle, sheep
and swine has produced great change.
KANSAS is the headquarters for castor
beans. The crop in Kansas this season
is estimated all the way from 5000, 900
to 10000, 900 bushels and represents
nearly as many dollars to the shippers.
The market there at present ranges from
ninety. eight cents to one dollar per
bushel.
WARM the bit on your bride in frosty
weather before putting it in the horses
mouth. The bit full Of frost, coming in
contact with the tongue and lips, adheres
to these soft tissues the same as it would
do when red hot, leaving the animal with
sore mouth. If you do not believe it,
place your own tongne on a piece of
frosted iron some cold morning and be
convinced.
The american Cultivator says that it
may be a comparatively slow operation
to milk one COW in five minutes, while
on the other hand ten minutes time
might be called quick operation in
milking another. Any person whose
hand is at all sensitive to the touch will,
if he forces the milk down to the end of
the teat faster than it can escape, find
the milk rushing back, meantime the
COW showir & the movement to be one of
pain. Always milk 90 that the operation
shall be pleasant one to the docile ami
NAL, aftording her relief in the careful
emptying full bag of its contents.
Where care and gentleness are the rule
in this particular, the COW will welcome
the coming of the mixer as the approach
of friend.
THE tendency of agricultural refine
ment is to make good deal of expense
about butte making. The movement is
meant for the benefit of those who can
afford, it however. People who pay a
large price for butter will not fling away
their money so long as they make certain
that it is really 80 much better, on the
average, than other butter as the price
would indicate. That sort of manage
ment paying merit, and merit only, will
in the end, elevate the standard of our
butter.making as nothing else will. The
man who puts capital into dairying and
works it there intelligently, employing
the best help, and keeping the best stock
of cattle in the best manner should have
his reward. After awhile, be sure the
good of his methods will not die with
him.
Mr.. s. D. GAYLORD of, Ashford, tells
the Farmer that he believes he has the
simplest, cheapest, and most efficient
churn made. Any good carpenter can
make one and there is no patent on it.
just this-an oblong box of the size suit
ed to the size of diary, made of white
wood, hole 8x10 inches cut in the top,
and fitted with tight cover, and hole
to draw off buttermilk in the bottom.
This box to be suspended from the cell.
ing by two iron rods, fastened on the
churn at either end with link, and to
the ceiling by rings The rods should
be long enough to give good swing as
that is the motion used to separate the
butter. 1t can be swung by hand, or
have it by sheep power connected by
levers to the churn. This gives the
oscillating motion 30 desirable in churn.
ing, with much less loss of power from
fricti ion of machinery, etc, than with
the Billiard churn and with the advan-
tages gained by any. The principle is