Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24

A STANDARD bushel is measure eight
inches deep and eighteen and one-half
inches in diameter, containing 2,15O
cubic inches. The heaped b,lshel re-
quiress six inches in the height of the
cone above the top Of the struck bushel,
and contains 2,748 cubic inches in all.
From these figures the farmer may cal
culate the contents of his granaries, and
divide them, into different quantities by
horizontal marks, so that he may know
very nearly at any time how much grain
there is on hand, by observing the num-
bers on these marks.
A POOR farmer cannot conceal the fact
that he is a poor farmer. All his sur
roundings proclaim the verdict against
him-his horses, cattle, wagons, harness,
plows, fences, fields-even his wife and
children bear silent but unmistakabIe
evidence against him. Onthe other hand,
all these things will testify favorably on
behalf of the good farmer. Every pas
ser-by can read the evidence pro or con,
This fact alone ought to stimulate every
farmer to do his best for the sake of his
own character, as we'll as interest; for he
may rest assured that every passer-by
will pronounce judgment according to the
evidence Dirigo Rural.
DEATH by strangulation always pre-
sents bad appearance, because the
blood is instantaneously arrested, and
baving no outlet to flow off in, it
coagulates in the veins, presenting
swollen dark appearance This may
take place, to some considerable extent,
when death is produced by any sudden
manner; therefore, the best way to kill
fowls for market is to cut off the main
arteries by putting sman-blade knife
into the mouth or upper portions of the
throat, and thus bleed them freely, hold
ing them quietly until the struggles
cease. Fattening is not to he done to
prepare for market. But to have poul-
try well dressed, preserving the color
and freshness which most nearly resem-
BILE the living flesh, is matter of prime
importance in determining prices
Poultry World.
A CORRESPONDENT makes the practical
suggestion that it costs no more to WIN
ter an old hog than it does a pig. The
practical difference is that breeding
SOW may be kept on the same feed which
pig would require, and in the spring
litter Of young ones would make large
enough margin in favor of the old ones.
Old sows are twice as profitable as young
ones, as the offspring are always larger
and more of them. They may be kept
number of years with profit. When
year old, small-bened breeds will have
their growth and require but little food,
only enough to maintain life and loco
motion, whereas growing pig requires
food for the same purpose and to pro-
mote it's growth.
A FARMER of somewhat extended ex-
perience seeds down his land as follows:
I plough the land about four inches deep,
thoroughly harrow it, SOW six quarts Of
mammoth clover seed per acre. then
brush or roll, and never fail Of getting a
good stand of clover. I had twenty acres
over-cropped two years. I planted it to
corn, sowed rye in the corn the last of
July, cultivated it on ten acres, kept
sheep on it in the winter and early
spring, and ploughed the rye under when
the berry began forming. The other
half was well MANFRED and sown to wheat
and clover on the 10th of September:
The result was twenty bushels of wheat
per acre and a good seeding. Where the
rye was I got the best wheat.
AN old man who has had much expert
ence in handling and dealing in horses
for more than half century, says that
he has never known horse to get "ten-
der-footed" that was kept loose in shed
and yard, OF in a box stall; that turning
round and treading with their forward
feet in the manure keeps them constantly
moist and soft. His theory seems per-
fectly reasonable. He bad no box stalls
but used shavings for bedding, and every
morning with large shovel moved the
wet shavings from under the horses
front feet, and then the last thing at
night covered these with dry shavings
for him to lie on. He also remarked
that he had never known flat-footed
horse but what was great worker.
WESTERN pork is not New England
pork, but the flavor Of the western arti-
Gle could be much improved. It is be-
You'd a doubt that cleanliness has much
to do with that. The filthy state with
which many fattening hogs are kept has
a tendency not only to give rank taste
to the meat, but to render it positively
unwholsome. By many it is claimed
that pork is unfit for use, anyway, but
when properly cooked it seems to be in
dispensable, especially in many instances
on the farm. A very common mode of
penning hogs at this season is rail pen,
without protection from the weather.
The consequence is that such pens are
not fit to keep living animal in; wet,
filthy, cold and uncomfortable, hogs will
not take on fat, and great proportion
Of the food fed them is wasted, while the
hogs will consume considerable amount
of filth, which is detrimental to their
health and to the health of those that
eat their flesh. It is not only safer, but
more economical, to give fattening ami
mails good shelter, and dry beds and lii
ter, to keep them clean. The labor will
be well paid. vac