Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

aauce 70 poultry Is quite as OD1ectlOnabl
and alike deserving of encouragement
Give the chickens a good, warm house
keep it clean. Let them have eoo6
clean food and water, and then you ca
rest assured you have done your duty
and they will do theirs with interes
aasded. -Aneerica,s iStockman.
In answer to questions as to the bes
time and manner of sowing salt. as ais
the proper quantity to use, the followin,
answers are given: The best time t,
SOW salt is in the spring; and it ought t,
be the first thing done on either fall o.
spring Plowing, as all the after-stirrine
Of the land assists in it's equal distribu
ton through the soil. The best ano
eas1est method Of sowing salt, in the
absence Of machine for that purpose
Is to SOW it out from the rear end of .
wagon--the sower using both hands
while the team is moving at slow walk
in this way, thirty to forty acres can be
sowed in one day. The quantity used
may be from $50 to 800 pounds per acre;
but the greater quantity is the better
| Prairie Farmer.
Now that Alsike clover seed has he.
come comparatively plenty and cheap. il
is common to SOW from three to five
bushels to the acre. It should be sown
quite early in the spring and covered
very lightly. A pound of seed to the
acre may be sown to excellent advantage
on land seeded to timothy and red clover
two or three years previous. The red
clover generally disappears at the end OF
three years, and Alsike may be made to
take it's place with little trouble. Before
setting apart field to pasture animals il
is well to SOW Alsike clover seed on the
sod and to scratch it in with light har.
row. No beekeeper can afford to be
without patch of this valuable honey
plant. Alsike clover is ornamental ar
well as useful. Sown Oh the banks of q
stream, along the sides of fences and
roads, and on hills and knobs, it pre-
sents beautiful appearance.
G. T. A1voRD contributes the follow
ing to the american, Cultivator in re-
gard to his method of feeding lambs:
GAS soon as they bad got to eating hay
well, I commenced giving them Swedish
or rutabaga turnips, cut fine, once day.
After they would eat turnips well I
commenced giving them little
COIN once day, and after that I grad
ually increased the feed of turnips and
corn from week to week, as they would
bear it, being careful to give them no
more at time than they would eat up
clean. The same rule was also observed
in feeding them hay, only rowen hay
being fed to them. They were fed with
hay the first thing in the morning. and
after they had eaten their hay the trr.
nips were fed. At noon they were again
fed with hay. At night they were fed
with corn, and, after that hay was given
them again. They had access to water
once day, and were given salt once a
week.
VERY few plants produce as much or
as valuable food as red clover. It makes
excellent hay, although it is more diff
cult to cure than the common grasses
Hogs will not do we'll on grass, but they
will thrive in clover pasture. They
will even eat large quantities of clover
after it is cured. The cheapest way to
cure hogs during the summer is to give
them the run Of a clover pasture well
supplied with water. Glover produces q
large amount of milk which has a pleas
ant aroma. Sheep are very fond Of
clover, either in the green or dried state.
Glover affords in this region excellent
peet.e<ese- for oil kinds Of stock lutte in
the season. Many of the grasses that
produce much food in the early part of
the season afford very little after the
drought that ordinarily prevails during
ond start, " and grows very rapidly on
1$ IN E,sok II
rainfall.
ON warm days the boxes of plants
should be carried out of doors, where
they will get more air and be gradually
hardened or accustomed to the change
which they will undergo when set out in
the garden. Many persons fail to raise
stocky and healthy plants in this way,
because they SOW the seed too quickly
and then neglect to transplant thu
seedlings when young. As soon as toma
to plants are an inch or two high, the,
should be transplanted from the boxes
in which the seed was sown into other
provided for the purpose, and in doing
this allow sufficient space to permit 1
good stocky growth. The boxes ma,
not be more than three or four niche
deep, and of size convenient to handl
or set on the window sill. It is also
good plan to pinch off the top leaves Q
the plants when three or four niche
high, as this will make them throw on
side branches, and prevent their be
coming too tall and slender.-Neav Yor
Sun.
How often have we suggested to thoa
) having sufficient ground for garden
+ and especially farmers, to pay increase
, attention to this important appendage
family comfort. Farmers, as q rule, Of
entirely too careless about their GARDEN
/ their whole minds being placed upo
their field crops, etc. The women woul
in most cases be competent and glad
: willing to take charge Of large porto
Of the labor necessary to the proper Gu
tivation Of the garden, if the men woul
prepare the ground to their hands. Il
: deed, it is fact that those who purs,
. the cultivation of the soil as their bus
+ ness, rarely enjoy garden product in pc
o lection, just because they appear to i
!, sist upon the error that they don't pa
t Now Is the time to think about how Il
J garden can be enlarged and the numb
# and quantty Of thecrops increased II
3 stuff can also be got ready for the ado
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