Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-08
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

g sEAsoNABlE FARM NOTES.
It IT is estimated that the stalk CROP {
the country annually amounts to go,
9 OOo, 600 tons, worth over $3.50, 600, 900.
RAPID drying of paint is insured b
e the addition Of small proportion q
e itharge, sugar of lead or Japan yarnish
!, according to material or color.
A NERVOUS, excitable steer is not q
profitable to feed as Emphatic on
with broad, deep chest, for this last i
seldom disturbed much by anytbing-h
feeds well, sleeps well, and fats well.
THERE are $50 named and describe<
= varieties of wheat, and yet one-half til,
people who grow the grain don't know
the difference-such is the lack of train.
. ing in the natural history OF plants.
NONE but earth colors shoul1 he ,,sef
III painting floors, and the rapid wearinf
off Of a coating of oil paint on O floor il,
, sure indication that white lead has beer
mixed with the paint. It is important
that the first coating should be perfectly
dry before the second is laid on.
J SUFFOLK and Berkshire pigs may be
profitably fed to be sold at nine and ten
months, upon clover, corn meal, inseed
meal, or corn and oat meal. Half 8
pound Of inseed meal per day on the
average to six months-old pigs would be
sufficient.
FEW dollars expended for tarred
paper and lumber to render stock CON-
Portable will be saved in one season in
the lessened amount of food required.
besides adding to the comfort and tn rift
Of the animal and the ease of conscience
to the owner.
In selecting COWS for milking the free,
easy step, the pleasant and comfortable
expression OF countenance and the round
capacious form Of body, are far more i'm
portant than the line OF decent Or family
history. Pedigree goes for little unless
it carries with it the marks of good
mixer.
AN old veterinary surgeon OF the army
gives the following simple and safe
cure ;, for the epizooty: "Take one
pound gum asaf9tida; mix it with one
gallon Of boiling water; stir the mixture
ntlyrntil the asafetidais dissolved
let the mixture cool; strain and give one
half pint every three hours. This will
relieve the horse within twelve hours,
and give him good appetite.
a WE'LL known and successful wool
merchants says that ullwashed Cotswold
wool will not to-day sell for more than
twenty-five cents per pound in any mar
ket III the United States. Yet it shrinks
tar less in securing than do the fine
woods. At present the best selling wool
seems to be that produced by topping
half Or three-quarter blood Cotswold
ewes with Merino rams.
iStoc&n1on and Farmer.
KEROSENE oil mixed with lard. or any
pot grease, is the best remedy for lice,
it should be thoroughly rubbed into the
hair, and the whole body covered. This
is also an excellent mixture to rub on
hogs back to loosen the sc,1rf, or to
heal sunburn, and also for scab. Use
equal quantities of grease and oil for
severe cases, with less oil for milder
ones. This mixture is one of the best
cures for 4 raw breast on horse, or
other flesh wounds. It is both healing
and antiseptic. Country Gentleman.
Cows that feed on pasture which re-
ceive free sprinl1ling of plaster in the
spring will be found to remain in good !
flesh through the milking season, and
give larger quantities Of milk, that con-
tains more butter, than when fed on
pasture that has never been given this
dressing. The juices of the grass are
richer and healtier. The hay, too, that
has been cut from meadows where
plaster has been sown, contains larger
Of ,f,s1r1 r. |
nal.
The sheep has always been a wealth
producer. The latter end of Job twas
blessed Tor he had II, 900 Sheep" which
would mean to one of us an income Of
just so many dollars per year, if not
twice as many. What an investment for
capital, that brings in so or go per cent.
yearly, with almost the certainty that ap-
pertains to United States per cents! A
lock will easily increase 60 to 70 per cent
yearly, and half that will be COMPOUNDED
after the second year. This rate of in
;erest is enormous and sufficiently points
% the vast profits that are made from
successful sheep rearing.
D. WILLIAMS, Montclair, n. j.,
orr1nes weigelias; spiraeas and similar .
shrubs after blossoming, removing what
wood is necessary to bring the bush in
% free and natural form. The new
wood that grows through the remainder
If the season will produce flowers the
1ext spring. This explains the ill sue
cess of novices who cut their shrubs
back severely in the early spring, there
~ removing much OF the young wood of
lie previous seasons growth and caus-
ng lack Of flowers. Such shrubs as
he aithaeas, whose blossoms appear in
he fall, and are produced on wood of the
years growth, are an exception
% this rule, and spring pruning is in Or
Ter for them.
The difficulty Of establishing the
value OF each COW in the dairy is not so
great as is generally supposed. The
method usually employed is to weigh
each cows milk upon spring scale as
soon as it is drawn, and before pouring
it into the general receptacle. A 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
through the year one weeks trial for
each month is sufficient. In making
tests for butter it is only necessary to |
set each cows milk separately and |
churn it by itself, which will give the |
yield OF butter for certain quantity Of !
milk.
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