Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES,

quality, and three weeks earlier than tn
Concord, is announced by D. NJ. Day o
Killingly, Conn.
The moving machine ougnt not to b.
gagged to cut low. If grass is cut too
short the succeeding crop is much in
jured, especially if the summer is dry
one.
In Gibson county, Ind, 1900 acres, i
is said, have been planted to watermelons,
and it is estimated that over 1900 cal
loads of fruit will be shipped from thai
section.
MANY persons fail to grow crisp, per-
feet radishes because their soil is not
right Radishes delight in a sandy
loam-in fact, as fine radishes as We
have ever seen or tasted grew in sand
bank.
/ A FEW applications of air-slacked lime
upon currant bushes is considered to be
very effective in destroying the currant-
worm. Not more than three,'applications
are necessary for the season, and the
LIME will injure neither bush nor fruit.
ACCORDING to the average of thirteen
analyses made by Professor Emile Wolf,
OF Germany, green grass contains SO per
cent. of nutrition. II utwhile in bloom,
it will contain but 62 per cent, whereas,
| if not cut until the seeds are fully form
ed or ripe, it will contain only 81 per
cent. of nutrition.
ROBERT McK1NsTRY, of Hudson, New
York, is believed to own the largest
fruit orchard in the United States. It
contains $4,000 apple trees, 1,706 pear;
1900 cherry, 500 peach, 200 plum, 200
crab apple, Is, 900 grapevines, 5000 cur
rant bushes and 500 chestnut trees. AS
many as 10000 barrels of apples alone
have been produced in season in this
gigantic orchard.
PROF. KEDz1E,. Of the Michigan Agri-
cultural college, in fate address, said
that cane sugar is two and one-half
times as sweet as grape sugar, closely
allied to it, and differs SO little from it
that some persons cannot Gstin-
guish it. By cooking, the cane sugar
may be changed to grape sugar, and
thus lose its sweetening power. Some
women put the sugar in with mass Of
acid fruit to be cooked, and keep cook
ing, and adding sugar while it keeps on
growing sourer.
PROF. KEDz1E, of the Agricultural
college of Michigan, an expert chemist,
recently said that a paint or wash made
Of skim milk, thoroughly skinned, and
water brine would render wood uninham-
mable, and he proved it by experiment.
He said this paint, or whitewash, is du-
rable, very cheap, impervious to water,
of agreeable color, and as it will prevent
wood from taking fire, he urged it's use,
particularly on roofs, outbuildings,
barns, etc.
In writing to the Gardeners Chroni-
Gle, an English gardener says his exper-
peas at the time of sowing have proved
very successful. The peas thus cult
waited grew very strong and resisted mil
dew entirely, while those grown in the
usual manner were total failure, the
mildew attacking them as soon as they
were in flower. The charcoal used was
finely-powdered refuse of chemical
works.
HIGH prices are producing an immense
increase in our imports. The United
States furnishes at present a most excel
ufacture, and the languishing industries
Of Europe are not slow to avail them
selves Of the opportunity offered. If we
are not careful we will find ourselves in
the near furture bur1ened with another
foreign debt, which we will be compelled
to pay, as we did the one incurred during
the years of imitation, by selling our pro-
duce at ruinously low figures.
The last Iowa legislature passed law
providing that lawful wire fence shall
be one whose posts are not to be more
than two rods apart, with two stays be-
tween, or one rod without stays; top wire
not to be more than fifty -four inches or
less than forty-eight inches from the
ground; wires to be securely fastened to
the posts, to be three wires barbed, OF
four wires, two of which shall be barbed,
with not less than thirty-six barbs, with
four points each, to the rod. The act
goes into effect July 4th next.
+ IT requires considerable pains tc
destroy some large weeds, as burdocks,
mullens, and Canada thistles. The
stalks must be cut several inches below
the surface, Of the ground, or they will
throw up suckers in the same manner as
trees and bushes. A sharp spade or q
narrow steel blade fixed to handle is
the best implement to use for the pur-
pose. After the stalk is cut and re-
moved, it is we'll to drop a handful Of salt
on the stump that remains in the earth.
A; drop of sulphuric acid, applied on the
end of a stick, is effectual in destroying
the life of the roots of weeds. Strong
lye, Paris green or London purple may
also be employed for the same purpose
with most excellent results. It is always
best to make sure work with large and
troublesome weeds.
A FEW years ago stables for sheltering
stock under barns were generally recon-
mended. Later they we're quite as gen.
orally denounced. It was held that the
foul air rose from them and injured the
hay and other fodder stored above them.
They were also objected to for the rea-
son that they were generally dark and
damp. Basement stables if rightly con-
structed have many advantages, and
farmers who are erecting barns the pres
ent season would do we'll to consider
them.> They are warmer in winter and
cooler in summer than stables that ore
built entirely above ground. It is com
paratively easy to build them in such 9
manner that they will be free from the
objections brought against them. Bad
odors may be excluded from the hay-loft
by the employment Of sheet metal below
the plank floor. Any amount of light
may be admitted by means of glass win.
dows fitted 50 as to shade and admit fresh
air, and the floor may be raised to such
all extent as to afford a dry bed for stock.
Bologna. 1888.
Bologna is walled city in Italy,
yet it invented sausages. Bologna has
no. hogs, yet the shops reek with the
odors Of 1eeks and. garlic. Cairo may
have forty-nine smells, but how many
has Bologna? There are nineteen kinds
of cheese Chat are good), and each with
smell--7-oh, what smell! There are
the. shops Of cooked vegetables where
you buy a boiled hot potato for sold,
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