Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-06-03
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES,

PICS should be castrated at from four
to six weeks Of age.
Coal ashes are always good and fowls
seem to delight in scratching and picking
them over.
One drop of sulphuric acid in the
heart Of plantain or other weeds will
destroy them completely. Care must be
exercised in it's use.
VIM. j. SCARCE, Hendricks county,
Ind, has lamb at thirty days old that
weighs fifty-fv pounds. It is a cross
of the Cottswold and Southdown breeds.
A FARMER in Montgomery county,
Tenn, drove the bugs from his tobac-
eggplant beds by treating them to a dose
Of rotten eggs.
LETTUCE is quick crop and occupies
the ground but short time, therefore
farmers frequently make early planting
on land afterward given wholly over to
melons, cabbages and the like.
RYE sown this month will make an e.1.
cellent summer pasture for mich COWS
and give larger return of rich milk and
butter than the wild and coarse grasses
and weeds of the woods.
This is the season that leeks grow in
the pasture, which if eaten by the COW
will give the milk an onion taste. IF the
COW is well fed with ground feed she will
not eat the leeks.
A CHICKEN fancier says that he stuc,l
court plaster over an egg found broker
in the nest after the hen had been sit;
ting week, and in due time it gave {
chicken as sprightly as any of the brood,
SATURAT1NG ashes with kerosene and
applying handful in hill, will keep
the striped bugs from cucumbers. It is
not the bugs that recommend the recipe,
but the people who have tried them.
| THERE is contained in the corn cobs
raised IA the United States from lis to
| 120 minion pounds Of carbonate of pot
ash, which is the third most valuable ar
ticle required in agriculture.
EVERY needed means for the approach
ing harvest should be made ready. Now
ers, rakes, scythes, barns, stack bottoms,
etc., should all be examined and put in
order. Whatever help may be required
should also engaged beforehand.
WHITE Cochins should be kept Only
| by persons in granite districts, where
there is much white or ight-colored
sand, and not in clayey or muddy local.
ties, for the beauty OF their plumage de-
ponds upon their clean and unsullied
condition.
I A New YORK farmer kills the cabbage
worm by sprinkling the plants with COM
mon black pepper from an ordinary tin
box-a pound to $50 plants ometimes
previously sprinkled with soapsuds from
the weeks washing.
| IT is said that an English grade grower
stopped the profuse bleeding of thrifty
young vine by forming a sort of hard &C.
ment over the cut ends by repeated dust
ing at short intervals with Portland
cement.
GREEN crops for manuring should not
be plowed deeper than four inches; if
they are turned under more than this
they will not receive enough OF solar
heat and atmospheric air to ensure rapid
decay, and when covered too deep their
full beneficial effect cannot be realized
till the next blowing, when they are
brought nearer the surface.
THERE is general agitation in the
live stock papers looking to the produc-
ton of beeves, sheep and hogs yielding
fine quality of marbled meat, rather
than huge masses Of indigestible fat.
The present tendency of fat stock shows
is decidedly favorable to the rearing OF
animals of less service to the table than
to the lard-rearing industry.
IT is said that the best way to manage
sickly plants is to turn them out Of the
pots, shake or wash off all the soil from
the roots, and if any are decayed cut
them off; also prune the stem and branches
severely, and pot again in fresh soil. Set
them away in shady place, after giving
water sufficient to settle the soil, adding
little from time to time as returning
health and growth appear.
The Chinese and Japanese excel all
other nationalities in the culture of early
vegetables. This arises from the fact
that they use only liquid manures, hence
the growth Of the plants is most rapid,
and as natural consequence the vegeta-
bles are very brittle and tender. Let
tuce and radishes they force rapidly,
giving the plants sprinkling once day.
Tobacco and kthe tea-plants are also
treated in like manner.
In the principal dairy districts of
France many of the dairymen milk their
COWS thrice daily. A French paper al
luding to the marked advantage over
the practice of milking but twice daily,
says: In an experiment with three
milkings day, for eleven days, a COW
gave 40 quarts of milk. With two
milkings the same COW gave only lac
quarts in the same number of days.
Moreover, analysis showed that the milk
in the first case was richer in butter
globules than that in the second case in
the proportion of 4. l to 3.5."
B1AcK1NG the outside of horses hoofs
to make them shine and show we'll, is ar
injurious practice, for if done, as is
usual, with a mixture of grease and
lampblack, as soon as the horse il
brought out on the road, dust begins tt
adhere to the hoofs, which are naturally
porous, and thus stops the circulation O
air in them, causing disease. The best
treatment for the hoof is to keep it clean
and leave it to show it's own natura
color.
The scales which fly off from iron be-
ing worked at FORCES, iron trimmings, fl
ings, or other ferruginous material, i
worked into the soil about fruit trees, O!
the more minute particles spread thinl,
on the lawn, mixed with the earth O
flower beds or in pots, are most valuable
They are especially valuable to the peac]
and pear, and, in fact, supply necessar,
ingredients to the soil. For colore'
flowers they heighten the bloom and in
crease the brilliancy of white or nearl,,
white flowers of all the rose family
!: american M1cHimSst.
A FLOCK of sheep ought not to b
robbed of it's wool until the weather
warm and settled, or burdened with
after such time. May is the mont
usually devoted to shearing in the north
ern states among hock-masters who hav'
means for sheltering the animals fro1
sudden changes in the weather and fror
, storms. Many sheep are annually kille
outright by exposure to cold and rain
Immediately after shearing. The ski
? being loose and open,,' when relieved c
its protection is easily penetrated by bot
rain and cold and congestion of the vits