Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
A STEER ct Rensselaer,, Indiana, twen-
ty-throe months old, weighs ]. 700 pounds.

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apiary than upon those close by.
A COW that has accidentally eaten her
fill of meal should be kept in the stable,
and not allowed to drink. As soon a.
discovered she should be given pound
or two of epson salts, repeating the dose
till q movement of the bowels il obtain
ed.
THERE IL no question but that stock
must have water, and in abundance, also
of good quality. Most farmers will
claim that stock do not know the differ
ence between good and bad water, but it
can well be proved that they do, by any
one who has studied theft habits
Turf, Field and Farm.
A FARMER near Bangor, Me-, noticing
that wheat was being picked from the
heads OF standing grain, and, finding
flocks of yellow birds flying about, shot
some of them. On opening their crops
he found only three grains of wheat,
and, by actual count, $50 weevils. It is
better that farmers know whether they
kill friends or foes.
The West Chester, (Pa.,) Village Re.
port says; 1.-THE Farmers Club fix the
rate of temperature for scalding hogs at
from 145 to 155 degrees. Townsend
Speakman states that he has succeeded
we'll with the water at AS degrees. J.
Hubbard Bartram, of Westewn, uses
three parts boiling hot water and one
part cold spring water"
BRAN is q valuable food for horses in
reducing the inhammatory effects of
stimulating food. Made into mashes it
has q cooling and laxative effect, but
used in excess, especially in dry state,
it is apt to form stony secretions in the
bowels of the horse. Stones produced
from the excessive use of bran have been
taken out of horses after death, weigh
ing many pounds.
JAMES WATERMAN, of Williamstown,
Mass, once had a COW, cross of the
Durham and Jersey breed, which yielded
him in eleven months 528 pounds of but.
ter, besides furnishing what milk his
family wished to use. He since then
has kept COW of the same breed, which
COW, when three years old, yielded 4O7
pounds of butter per year, and now
annuity yields 500 pounds of butter be-
sides milk for the family. The first COW
gave thirty.eight pounds of milk per
day, and the latter forty pounds.
Some one wrote to the Rural New
Yorker to know if kerosene would not do
to prevent bark lice. This brought q
reply from Mr.. Charles Downing, who
says: have not had any experience
with kerosene, and would not like to
risk it. I have found potash dissolved
in water q good remedy-one pound of
potash to one and a half gallons of water
put on with paint brush; and now is
a good time, when the leaves are of, or
any times before the buds begin to swell
in the spring. The trees should be wash
ed as far up az there are any insects,
even to the ends of the branches"
The barn.yard is the field for winter
work. Much may be done here by skill.
full management. Manure, 80 long as
it is frozen, remains unchanged,
and the best preparation of
the manure in the best manner for use
in the spring makes no progress. Make
q central heap in the yard, and by means
OF few planks and wheelbarrow move
the manure from the stable each day to
this heap. If the heap is built up
square, and made four feet high, it will
keep warm in the coolest weather, and
while warm it will ferment and rot.
PROF. BEAL objects to the practice of
scraping the trunks of apple trees, and
thinks that, as the rough bark protects
them from the intense cold of winter, it
is worse than time thrown away. He
remarks that old trees do not receive
nourishment through the bark, but
through young twigs and leaves, and
that moss on trees is not q parasite suck
ling.
A correspondent in the Country Gen.
tleman says: "Many a field might be
made clean by little labor and atten.
ton in this direction. It is about as
important to clean the grass fields as
those devoted to hoed crops. My door
yard was at one time overrun with
thistles. killed them in single season
by cutting them of at the surface, and
not allowing them to show themselves
long enough to take breath. They are
ugly customers to deal with, but in my
experience they may be seriously check
ed, and often destroyed, by repeated
cuttings. Where it is not practical to
cultivate the land and eradicate them bv
keeping the surface clean, this il about
the only thing that can be done.
GRASS causes the most liberal secre.
tions of delicious milk. But this rendi-
ton of young, succulent and plentiful
grass can not be relied upon as alone
sufficient food for the largest milk pro-
duction 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
for the different seasons. In the early
season, green rye, green oats, earlier and
later roots, green corn and hay. But
green corn can not be proftably fed till
in early tassel; nor should cornmeal be
fed in hot weather, nor for the same
reason should cotton seed meal and lin
seed cake be fed until the cool or cold
season, or less animal heat is required to
be supplied to the COW. :,
. DE-. NICHOLS, of Massachusetts. saws
in the Boston Ploughman, that being in
doubt as to the desirability of using cob
meal for etock, he selected q well formed
ear of corn, and removing the kernels,
subjected the cob to analysis with the
following result: :.
Water. ...................... 7.4S per cent.
Crude dbre.................-... ... 30.6; g..
ASn........ ........... 1.16
Carbohydrates, fat and album.
inoids. ............................. 6O.41 g,
100 I"
The resultof this analysis proves that
there is in corn cobs considerable quan-
tity of fat producing and flesh forming
constituents, equal in value to the best
of oat straw.
CRUDE petroleum is the cheapest and
quickest dressing for steel and iron sur
faces that are to be kept from rusting
over winter, such ~ plowr, cultivators,
scrapers, etc. / don't see why it would
not have been just the thing to have
wiped our laid away stove pipes with
last spring, If We had thought of it in