Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-01

animals WILL IaCLen more readily than
others and younger animals require
richer food than older ones. In winter
fattening do not forget that much de.
ponds upon the warmth of the stable.
The warmer the cattle are kept the less
food will be needed.
To find the number of tons in long or
square hay stacks, the following is the
rule: Multiply the length in yards by the
width in yards, and that by half the
altitude in yards, and divide the product
by Is. To find the number of tons in
circular stacks: Multiply the square of
the circumference in yards by four times
the altitude in yards, and divide by 100.
The quotient will be the number of
cubic yards in the stack. Then divide
by Is to get the number of tons.-Mic..
igam Farmer.
HENRY STEWART, of New York, says
it is pretty certain that potatoes are
worth twenty-five cents bushel to feed
to hogs, cows or horses. They contain
Is or 16 per cent. of starch and some
albuminoids; q pounds of starch are
worth pound of oil or fat for feeding.
Potatoes are cheaper for stock food at
twenty five cents bushel than cotton
seed meal is at twenty-five cents ton.
As raw starch is only partially digested
in an animals stomach, potatoes ought
to be cooked. If it will pay to cook
anything it will pay to cook potatoes.
HORSES may make g. noise from vari.
Gus causes. They may suffer from a
thickoning or an liberation of the
mucous membrane, or from paralysis of
the muscles of the respiratory organs
The same apparent result of be caused
by a peculiar affection of the larynx,
and many horses are what is technically
termed "high-blowers" are very noisy
without being unsound. It is often a
nice question whether a racehorse who
is noisy is affected in such a manner as
to interfere with his speed when hard
pressed.-Saturday Review.
THERE is no better base for compost
than leaf-mold of the forest. All the
dead animals of the farm, the refuse
brine and vegetables, the leached ashes,
the WOODEN rags, feathers of the slaught-
cred hens and hair of the slaughtered
hogs, should be scrupulously added to
the compost heap. If, on entering the
village grocery, you smell old brine or
putrid fish, offer the merchant to take
the nuisance off his hands. They will
make a valuable addition to the COM
post. If there is WOODEN or paper mill
or tannery in thevicinity, these esta b.
lishments will furnish much refuse for
composing.
IT is said On good authority that beef
keeps up as high as it was seven years
ago. This shows the necessity of farm.
ers who wish to increase their profit
making use Of superior bulls to cross on
their common stock. Among the best
for the purpose of beef are Shorthorns,
the HerefOrds, and the Devons. Bulls
of these highly superior breeds can be
purchased now st very low prices, and
farmers make q great mistake in not
availing themselves of these where they
are not alredy supplied. A Shorthorn
bull crossed on a Texas or any other
equally inferior COW, gives calf worth
double, and sometimes thrice the price
of that got by a common bull.
MUCH nonsense is circulated in r.
gard to the rapid loss of fertility OF
dairy farms, by reason Of the carrying
away of the phosphates in the|milk. Now
1000 pounds Of milk contains about
four to five pounds of phosphates, of
which nearly the whole is phosphate of
lime. OF this, less than one.half is phos.
phoric acid, which may be taken as the
yearly consumption, in this way, of each
COW. As wheat bran contains 20 ger
cent. of phosphoricx acid, it needs only
that about ESQ pounds of bran be fed to
each COW yearly to replace the draught
upon the soil. There are few dairy
COWS that are fed less than this quantity
of bran or some feed equivalent to it,
and it is pretty certain very little, if any
phosphoric acid is really taken from the
roll of the dairy farm. On the contrary,
to say nothing of the natural supply in
the soil, which slowly becomes soluble,
there is good reason to believe that every
well.kept dairy farm becomes gradually
richer in phosphate each year.
A NOVEL system of agriculture has
for number of years been practised on
a farm in Hertfordshire, England. The
owner, Mr.. Prout, instead of harvesting
the crops himself, divides the fields into
lots when the grain begins to ripen, and
the crops are sold upon their roots at
public auction. No live stock is kept,
and the fertility of the soil is entirely
kept up by artificial manure. For the
thirteen years since 1866 the average
expenses of running the farm have
yearly amounted to SIG, 500, and the net
income for the same period has yearly
averaged Is per cent. of that sum, or
$3.50. It has thus proved q decided
success, while numberless farms cult
waited by the ordinary method have
been barely able to pay expenses, and
many have run behind hand.
The present is probably tho best time
to scrape and wash pear apple trees, in
order to dislodge the numerous insects
that are concealed under tho bark and
under the crevices of the wood, as we'll
as to remove the fungus clinging to the
barks and large limbs. A preparation
of whale-oil soap, in tho proportion of
one pound of soap to feur OF; five gallons
of water, has been found to be remedy
for these pests of fruit trees. Some,
however, apply q preparation of carbolic
acid, sulphur and lime, freely diluted
with water, Is equally effective, and a.
being also q protection against the blight,
and generally adding to the health Of
the trees. Perhaps the latter may prove
the most efioaoious. It ID easy to give
them trial, and we have no hesitation
to say thst The result vii b: highly sst-