Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-02-05

The better plan is to feed with chopped
hay from manager, because the food j,
not then thrown about, and is more easil,
chewed and digested.
THICK lime whitewash, thinned will
a strong decoction of tobacco stems, ap
piled to fruit trees, is recommended al
q preventive against rabbits and othe1
animals gnawing them during the winter
season.
| SUN-wARs1ED water is regarded as 6
fruitful source of cholera, diarrhea anc
other diseases in chickens. Be this as il
may, cool, fresh water should always be
supplied. Stagnant water, containing
organic life, is especially to be avoided.
For scabby legs in poultry, take equal
parts Of lard and kerosene oil, and thick
en- with sulphur into a paste. This
should be rubbed upon the legs until
the scabby parts come of, when they
should be smeared with sweet oil.
CATTLE like change of diet occasion
ally, as men do. Keeping cattle on hay
or straw alone is a little like living
on bread, or potatoes, or meat alone,
with nothing except that one dish.
Therefore feed some roots, as well as hay
and meal or shorts. If you havn't the
roots on hand, be sure and have sup
ply next winter.
The Land and Home says that the
canker worm, which attacked an orchard
of over 5000 trees in Ontario county, N.
Y, last year, were brought to the ground
dead in few hours by showering the
trees with mixture of two pounds and q
half of Paris green to 200 gallons of wa
ter. A force pump threw stream high
above the trees, where it broke into
spray and sprinkled every part.
In nearly all soils ashes are beneficial.
They are twofold; they supply to plants
inorganic constituents which they re-
quire, and they act chemically as SOL
vents upon other salts in the soil, or
they neutralize acids, etc. They are
more beneficial on sandy and gravelly
lands than on clay. For plants that con-
tain q large percentage of potash and
phosphoric acid, rs carrots, turnips, po-
tatoes and cabbages, ashes are an essen
tial manure.
MANY little farms well titled, with many
industrious, sober farmers to till them.
constitute the highest degree of agricul-
of persons who own land in any COM
munity, the more interest will they take
in it's improvement. People who rent
land as rule care nothing for the soil
they work, further than what it will
yield them; but a man who owns land
wants to see it's fertility and productive
capacity kept up, not alone for his own,
but for his children's benefit, who will
inherit it after him.
To TEST the richness of milk, procure
any long glass vessel-a cologne bottle
or phial. Take narrow strip of paper,
just the length from the neck to the bot
tom, then mark it off with 100 lines at
equal distance; or into fifty lines, and
count each as two, and paste it upon the
phial, so as to divide it into one hundred
equal parts. Fill it to the highest mark
with milk fresh from the COW, and allow
it to stand in a perpendicular position
for twenty-four hours. The number of
spaces occupied by the cream will give
you it's exact percentage without any
guesswork.
A COUNTRY woman says: "The wise
man, in enumerating the time and sea-
son, made no mention of the time to
skim milk; yet, nevertheless, there is a
time-a right time, too-and that is Just
as the milk is beginning to sour in the
bottom of the pans. Then the cream is
all at the surface, and should at once be
removed-with as little milk as possible
If allowed to remain until the acid
reaches the cream, it impairs it IN quail
ty. The house or dairy maid who
thinks to obtain a greater quantity by
allowing the milk to stand beyond that
time labors under most egregrious mis-
take.
CAREFUL observation of the growth of
crops will enable the farmer to ascertain
the wants of his soil, while by the appi-
cation of few general principles he may
be led to the general improvement of his
lands. If, with good sun exposure, his
crops wear pale green, he may safely
infer lack Of nitrogen; if the straw is
soft and too weak to bear the head, it
will teach him that his soil is deficient in
available potash; if he has good growth
of straw and a light yield Of grain, he
willfind, by interpolation Of phosphates,
that the yield Of grain will be largely in
creased, though while growing his crop
may not appear to be benefited.
Stock fattened from birth will make
the best profit when slaughtered ct two
or two and half years old. Good iudg-
ment, care and skill are required. Only
those feeders who exercise these quail
ties can make the business. The west
has certain advantages that ought to be
counterbalanced by better system in
the east. With us, the feeding of cattle
must be reduced to rs near science as
possible. It is said to be an established
fact that the young animal takes the
least amount of food to make pound of
growth, and all things being equal, each
succeeding pound of growth or live
weight up to the maturity of the animal
costs more than the proceed ing pound.
AN authority in dairy matters explains
how rancid butter may be greatly i'm
proved, and almost restored to is orig
inal excellence, by kneading it well in
fresh milk and then washing thoroughly
in cold water, with the addition of little
salt. LIN almost every parcel of butter
some small proportion of casein is re-
tanned, and the decomposition Of this is
accompanied by the formation of butyric
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and smell known as rancidity. This
butyric acid is really soluble in fresh
milk, and hence can easily be got rid Of
by the simple method of treatment
recommended.
GRASS causes the most liberal secre.
tions of delicious milk. But this oondi-
ton Of young, suoculent and plentiful
grass cannot be relied upon as alone suf.
fcient food for the largest milk produc.
ton for more than sixty days of the
whole year. The rest Of the 305 days
the COW must have extra feed. This must
consist of different kinds of fodder fol
the different seasons. In the early sea.
son green rye, green oats, earlier and
later roots, green corn and hay. But
green corn cannot be proftably fed until
in early tassel; nor should corn meal b.
fed in hot weather; nor for the same rea.
son should cotton-seed meal and inseed
cake be fed until the cool or cold season,
or less animal heat is required to be sup.
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