Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-29
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.
EVERY farmer should have q work.

SEAs0NABLE FARM NOTES.
EVERY farmer should have q work
shop.
COMMON sulphur is the best remedy
for vermin on fowls.
COLD green tea, well sweetened and
put into saucers, will destroy flies.
FINELY ground bones is the best fer
tilizer for onions, unless it is hog
manure.
KEEP up succession of peas for the
table by sowing a row or two every week
or ten days.
SALTED soapsuds that have been al
lowed to stand until sour, are recon-
mended as means to kill cabbage
worms.
LIME wash is good purifier, and
should be used freely about the prem
ises of q farmer as we'll as about those of
merchant.
WATER is one Of the most important
elements, not only in rapid development
of beef, but in the production of choice
qualities.
EVERY dairy-man should raise at least
one-eighth of an acre of corn fodder for
each COW, to help the pasture through
the dry season.
SAVE your cabbages from gr1lbs by
winding a little slip of paper loosely
around the stem from roots to leaves
when set out To destroy cabbage
worms sprinkle them with water.
AN exchange says that there is no bet
ter way to destroy sorrel than to plough
the land in early summer and in July
SOW buckwheat. Sorrel is O potash
plant and has sometimes been used as a
fertilizer for potatoes.
A FARMER who has experimental with
poultry, we'll rotted COW manure, barn
manure and bone dust for melons, re-
ports that the best yield was obtained
when the bone dust was applied.
The latter part of July and through
the month of August, in our northern
climate, the pastures get dry in average
seasons, SO that q modified soiling sys-
tenn is desirable to secure full supply of
feed for the COWS and horses.
RAD1sHEs may be grown in very few
days by the following method: Soak
the seed i'll water for twenty -four hours,
then put in bag, and expose it to the
sun, and they will commence to germin-
ate the same day.
SHEEP can take care of themselves if
they have a shady pasture supplied with
good water. The matter of a ram to be
used later in the season should be con-
sidered now and secured in time, if not
already on hand. A full blood will often
improve the stock.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rur0I NeaU-
Yorker stops COWS or steers from Jump
ing fences by mailing horseshoe on one
forward foot. This prevents the hoof
from spreading, and consequently rcn-
ders futile any attempts of the animal to
spring.
AN old dairyman recommends having
a faucet in the bottom of the cream jar
SO as to draw off the watery portion of
the cream without disturbing the rest,
as it is this watery portion which be-
comes bitter and thus imparts bitter
taste to the butter.
The farmer who has plenty of stock
will find manure making both simple
and easy. For the land there is nothing
better than good barn-yard manure. But
in cases where there are not stock
enough on the place to yield full sup
ply it is the best to resort to composts.
CABBAGE, containing as it does q large
per cent. Of phosphoric acid, makes one
Of the most valuable kinds of food for
young pigs, calves and chickens. All
young animals require borlntiful sup
ply Of phosphate food to make bone.
Clover comes next in value to cabbage.
B. +. CoCKR1L1, Tennessee, says that
he annually expended $500 in cutting
blackberry bushes from his grass lots
until he procured a flock of Angoras,
which have entirely cleared his farm OF
briars. Joseph Phillips, Nashville,
Tenn, reports a similar experience.
MR.. SANBoRN, Of New Hampshire,
thinks, after careful experiment., that
currying cattle prevents them from fat
tening. If this is SO with fat cattle,
what must be the effect upon COWS il
milk, whose bones are so much nearer
the surface?
ToADs, according to Prof. Miles, live
almost entirely upon slugs, caterpillars
beetles, and other insects, making theil
rounds at night, when the farmer il
asleep-and the birds, too-and the in
sects are supposed to be having their owl
way. French farmers understand these
facts so well that they purchase toads a
so much dozen and turn them loose.
IT is now we'll established fact, tina
the Hessian fly is much less troublesome
on wheat that is sowed in drills, between
which the cultivator is passed now an(
then during the early growth Of tn
grain. Two fields of wheat growing
side by side, one of which is cultivated
and the other not, but alike in all othe
respects, seem strong proof Of the abov
statement.
A RUN in a good clover stubble will b
beneficial to thepigs. heyards shout
be kept as clean as possible. A quaint
ty of copperas sprinkled about the pen
will deodorize and disinfect the plac
very satisfactory and cheaply. YOUNG
pigs should be pushed now If they al
for early market. A rapid growth sc
cured now is Of the greatest importance
If the stock is not what is desired begil
to improve it at once by securing full
hooded boar of some good breed to us
in the herd.
Cows giving milk should not be al
lowed to fall off in quantity from INSULT
Gent feed. It is more difficult to increas
the flow of milk after shrinkage fro1
; lack of full feed than to keep up a fu.
activity of the secretion by artifcia
food Whom tho habit of 1;rn;o;cbe