Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15
SEASONABLE FARM HINTS.

sEAsoNABLE FARM HINTS.
THOROUGH cultivation is the best rem
edy for most garden weeds.
GIVE your poultry houses thorough
cleaning at once, if not done already.
MONEY expended for painting out
houses, wagons, implements, ETC., pays
good dividends.
The presence of the red spider in a
dollhouse is said to be sure indication
that the air is kept too dry.
CAROLINA tar applied on the cracks
and joints of lighthouses is beneficial in
sanitary point of view.
WOODEN covers should not be used for
crooks holding milk. They give the
cream woody taste.
THERE is in few old rusty nails more
health giving properties than in some of
the so-called poultry food.
DR.. HEATH says that tuberculosis or
consumption in COW is transmissable to
the persons who consume her milk.
DISCARD wooden floors in your hen
houses as they absorb and retain great
deal Of moisture from the droppings.
IFyou are troubled about the grain
chest with mice, watch for their holes
and scatter little copperas in them. A
few grains will drive them away.
In general cultivation an acre can be
made to yield three hundred bushels of
potatoes. Less than two hundred bushels
would not be profitable crop in many
localities.
To keep butter from sticking to wood
en- utensils they must be thoroughly
soaked in water under sixty-fve degrees
OF temperature. Spring water is not
cold enough.
IT is generally conceded that sweet
corn makes the most and best relished
fodder for COWS. The first seed costs
more, but nothing in proportion to the
benefit Of dairy.
WIDE boards laid between rows of
strawberries, or cuttings, will retain
moisture, prevent the growth of weeds
and answer the purpose of walk, in
picking berries after heavy rains.
A SHALLOW tub we'll filled with water
and sunk on a level with the ground, will
afford plenty of bathing room for the
ducklings until they are two or three
months old, or perhaps longer.
To prevent club root in cabbages an
exchange says: Throw tablespoonful
Of fine salt around the stalk of the cab
bage soon after it is planted. This will
make it uncomfortable also for the cut
worm.
CABBAGE worms may be killed by
sprinkling the plants with water nearly
boiling hot. The plants will not be in
jured, If the water is not too abundant.
A tea made of cayenne peppee, sprinkled
on twice a day will destroy the worms
The butter globules in milk from far.
row COWS and COWS nearly dry are smaller
than from COWS in flush of milk, and, in
order to obtain all the butter, the cream
from the former should be churned to-
gether, and the same of new milk COWS.
| The dust heap is absolutely necessary
for fowls. It cleanses their feathers and
skin from vermin and impurities, pro-
notes the cuticular or skin secretions
and is materially instrumental in pre-
serving their health.
A HORSES hoof is of the same nature
as horn. If you desire to know the ef-
fects of applying hot shoe to horses
hoof, place your comb on hot stove for
a minute or two, then let it cool, and see
how easily it will break. A hot shoe
makes the hoof brittle instead Of tough.
DUCKL1NGs are great eaters, and will
eat almost anything in the shape of food.
Feed cooked food, with plenty of green
food, until they are old enough to give
free range. Almost any kind Of food
that you would give chicks and young
turkeys is good for ducklings.
In the vicinity of Jackson, Mich, COM
plants are made that clover is being
destroyed by an insect which strips the
stalk Of its leaves, and in some instances
destroys the whole plant. Glover fields
in the vicinity Of Parma have been
damaged by this insect.
SULPHUR has been found to cure roup
in fowls when applied as follows: Open
the affected fowls beak, and with a tube,
which may be formed of paper, blow
half a teaspoonful Of sulphur down the
throat. Three applications have been
known to cure.
WHAT was once a mystery, full Of
technicalities that could be understood
only by an expert, has now become so
plain and simple that any man can I'M
derstand it. A good pedigree is one
which commences with a good animal
standing before you, and runs back
through an ancestry consisting Of good
animals only.-N0ti0n0t Line Stock
Journal.
RATS, cats and weasels show a remark
able fondness for ducklings, and you
have to look out for them. You can
trap the weasels, circumvent the rats by
housing the ducklings at night in a rat
proof coop, and when you catch stray
cat making dinner of young duck give
her lead pill to help on digestion; am
putation of the tail just back Of the ears
will also cure pussy Of this bad habit.
IT has become fashionable to buy large
quantities of commercial fertilizers.
These are valuable and produce imme
diate results. But they cost money, and
money our farmers do not always have.
The far-seeing tiller of the soil takes into
consideration his future wants, and
clover and cow-peas furnish the bulk of
his fertilizing material at insignificant
cost.
A GOOD and wholesome harvest drink
is prepared by mixing oatmeal in water,
in proportion of three or four ounces of
the meal to gallon of water. Oatmeal
possesses a peculiar aroma and acts as a
stimulant, and is Strengthening to the
system. Water alone often induces adj
ditional Precipitation, passing through
thepores as through the colander. Very
cold water should not be drank except
very moderately when the body is very
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