Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES,

DARK stables are injurious to the
eyes of horses.
1T is said that q pullet's first eggs are
not so good as those laid later.
The bulbs of the tuberose never bloom
but once. They require sandy soil.
GIVE the boys chnnce, and the girls
also, to have gardens of their own this
year.
REFUSE salt and brine from the pickle
barrels should be sown broadcast under
fruit trees.
NEVER overload team or discourage
it by 4 too heavy pull at first starting;
nor start from q bad place, if possible to
avoid it.
WHERE wood ashes can be purchased
cheaply enough it will pay to procure
quantity and scatter literally under the
fruit trees.
If bone-dust be applied now the result
will be greater after two years than they
will be the first season. It does not
operate quickly.
DEcAYED grain OF any kind is highly
injurious to stock. 1t has a paralyzing
effect upon the animal fed with it, often
AueS causing OeaCn.
Fowls seldom tire Of milk. They
may eat too much grain or meat for
health, but milk in any form is both
palatable and healthy.
Fowls seldom tire of milk. They
may eat too much grain or meat for
health, but milk in any form is both
palatable and healthy.
One of the most deleterious systems of
gardening, says the London Chronicle,
is to spade about foot deep, while the
subsoil remains untouched.
FLAX is crop which would follow a
clean cultivated crop of sugar-beets or
nlangels. It can only be grown to nd
vantage on well.fertilized lands.
LIME is an excellent fertilizer on clay
soils, Oh account of it's power to render
soluble many Of the component parts of
the clay, and also to make it more
porous.
AxLE-aREAsE and lard, we'll mixed in
equal proportions, and rubbed on young
trees, will protect them from rabbits.
Very little need be used, as only the
scent is necessary.
PICS that have been raised on millet
grass, clover, tubers and roots until
they weigh 100 or 200 pounds are gen.
orally healthy. They are then in good
condition to fatten.
A SINGLE horse or a pair will draw far
more and easier after getting up to their
work than when first starting. Never
draw the check-rain tight in heavy pull
ing or in driving fast gait.
Do not undertake to keep sheep on
low, undrained land. They will surely
contract disease, and sick sheep is
about as mean thing as we know OF,
not excepting a sick chicken.
KNOTS on plum trees are caused by a
fungus and should be cut away as soon
as discovered. Gut off and burn badly
infected branches. Scatter couple Of
quarts of salt on the ground under each
tree.
The prevalent idea that shallow plow-
ing is sufficient for grass seed in an err
roneous one. Unlike corn, the roots of
which keep near the surface and require
heat, the roots Of grass require depth,
moisture and colder soil.
Potash, says writer, is absolutely
necessary to successful potato growing
The easiest and best mode of 81 pplying
it is in the form of wood ashes. It is
furnished also in soft coal ashes and
well-rotted yard or stable manure.
A New YORK farmer says that potato
tops make the best mulch for strawber-
ries. They are free from weed seeds.
heavy enough not to be blown off and
will pack and smother the plant as straw
or hay will sometimes do. In spring
they :ue so we'll rotted as not to need re-
moval.
The most successful fruit growers.
east and west, have decided that there is
no better remedy for the codling moth
than to pasture hogs in the orchard, to
eat the 'wormy apples and the worms
therein. If the orchards are too large
for the number of hogs kept, sheep are
turned in.
"W. S." asks if cutting potatoes to
one OF two eyes in hill would be too
small to produce good results. The
best crop of potatoes we ever saw was
from potatoes cut to one eye and plant
ed one piece in hill. There is a great
waste Of seed potatoes every year in our
country through ignorance. -Ne,u York
Herald.
A COMPOST heap should be perma-
nent institution i'll every garden, and it
will be found surprising how much fer
tiizing matter can be accumulated dur
ing year. Such a structure need not
present an unsightly or Objectionable
appearance; it may be built behind some
hedge, or in a fence corner, and protect
ed from sight by a few evergreens.
THERE is said to be no cure for the
disease in calves knows as black leg or
carbuncular erysipelas, when the swell
ings on the tanks and legs have appear
ed. In fact, cure may be said to be i'm
possible at any stage, but prevention is
easy. 10 prevent danger give each one
one ounce Of inseed oil daily for three
days, and do not let the calves overfeed
themselves.
SAYS the Rural New Yorker: For
early melons OF cr1cumbers many plant
the seeds on inverted sods cut about
four inches square. The sods are placed
in a frame of any kind and covered to
the depth of half an inch with mellow.
.o'A va VIZ AAO P1dDCo AOOG uI1uly III
these sods the same as they would in
small aower-pots and may safely be
transplanted as soon as the weather be-
comes settled and warm. For melons
this is an excellent plan, since our sea-
sons are scarcely long enough to ripen
them before the cold nights Of autumn.
when the seeds are planted in the ground
in the usual way. Late melons are
never sweet.
A FRENCH journal, LIE Cultivoteur.
says that if chloride of lime be spread
on the soil o1onear plants, insects and
vermin will not be found near them.
and adds: By it's means plants will be
easily protected from insect plaques by
simply brushing over their stems a
solution of it. 1t has often been noticed
that patch of land which has been
treated in this way remains religiously
respected by grubs, while the unpro-
tected beds around are literally devas-
tated. Fruit trees may be guarded
aga nst the attacks of grubs by at
taching to their trunks pieces of tow
smeared with a mixture of hogs lard.
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