Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-07-27
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

AT this season Of the year there is nc
better feed for ewes that are fattenine
lambs than good pasture grass.
BREAK Off the young sprouts or suck.
ers that start from the roots of currant
bushes and there will seldom be any
trouble from the c1lrrant worm.
YOU'VE pigs will drink cows milk very
soon after they find out where the feed
trough is. 1t should be supplied to
them in plenty when the litter is large.
If a good brood SOW if rightly kept,
the pigs from her will more than pay
for her keeping by the sale of some
over and above those intended to be
kept.
A BILL was introduced into the New
York legislature last week, for the pro-
lection of skunks, because they eat the
grubs which are injurious to the hop
vines.
A SMALL, early maturing hog is much
more valuable than a larger one, as no
more food will be required to raise two
good quick growing ones than it will for
a large, but slow, all-lard hog.
COOP sows should be fed on slops con-
tanning plenty of vegetables. Rich food
can be supplied, but it will not do to
have it too concentrated. Give all the
slops, rather watery, they will eat.
LICE and mortgages are the worst
things that can get on the backs of your
animals. Keep the former off with
kerosene and water in proportion of one
to three parts, and the latter with econ
omy.-NeeU York Tribune.
IT is found in my own experience that
the urine collected into tanks from fifty
COWS tied up during the winter months
is sufficient to keep in high condition
seven or eight acres of meadow land.-
London agricultural Gazette.
WHEN the paint gets off the rims of
the best wagon wheels they lose moist
ure and shrink very fast in dry weather.
The quickest preventive is a mixture of
petroleum and linsecd oil applied to the
felloes with brush, several times over,
where they are dry.
WHENEVER COW manifests the slight
est constituencies when being MIXED, the
udder should be thoroughly examined.
Milking is a pleasure to the COW when
all is right. Whenever it ceases to
her there is evidently something wrong,
which should be attended to right away.
THERE is a girl in Clark county, Iowa,
who lately had her flock of sheep sheared,
consisting OF ninety-two head, and got
an average Of fleece of eight and one
half pounds She lost but eight full
grown sheep during the entire winter,
severe as it was, and they were killed by
a vicious horse.
The largest yoke Of oxen in the state
Of Maine is said to be owned by William
Oliver. Their girth is eight feet three
inches; height, sixteen and half hands:
width across the hips, two feet eight
inches; length from shoulder-blade to
bullock, six and a half feet; depth OF
Hank, two feet seven and a half inches.
GARDENERS should always bear in mind
that the best exterminator of weeds is a
light steel rake, which enables the oper-
ator to pulverize the surface Of the soil
frequently and rapidly, breaking and
destroying all incipient weeds before
they can reach the light, saving labor
and preventing the formation of hard
crust.-1ndi0n0rolis Sentinel.
SPEAKING of farmers horses, the Ma
tionM Livestock Journal says the kind
Of animal needed by most farmers is one
weighing from twelve hundred to fifteen
hundred pounds, and fifteen and a half
to sixteen hands high, compact, vigor-
orous, hardy, active and docile. If, be-
You'd this, it has fine form and style al
RI lo
VERM1N on fowls and about hen
roosts will leave headquarters by inject
ing from syringe weak steep in water
Of pennyroyal herb tea. Drive this
weak steep thoroughly over the roosts
and the poultry and it will cleanse them
from lice. Several varieties of flies an
noy and suck blood from horses and 9TH
CT animals. Pennyroyal steep will drive
them away if the animal is washed with
it.
On fatlands, says the American Guilt
vator, the best way is to plant corn three
and Il half feet apart each way, so that
| the cultivator cen be run both ways. By
this method, ono man with horse may
| take care Of forty acres, though it will
have to be done without using the hoe,
The use Of the hoe can only be made
profitable upon vegetables, and must
be dispensed with there whenever posi-.
bic.
AN Indiana farmer tried four different
fertilizers for melons-poultry drop.
pings, we'll rottcd COW manure, barr
manure, and old bones gathered upo1
the farm aud reduced by placing then
in alternate layers with ashes the previ.
GUS year), mixing all literally in the diff
ferent hills, which were eight feet apart
each way, and he says: "Such cror
of melons as camc from the hills that had
the bone-dust I never saw before
As soon as the the first cut Of grass
is made an application Of well-rotted
| finely-divided manure may be made
with very profitable returns. The ma.
nnre protects the exposed surface of the
base Of the grass plants from the heat
| of the SUN, and furnishes the necessary
nourishment to the roots of the plants.
A new growth is so N produced, making
the land profitable either as pasture OF
for second neutrality-suspicious..
PosEY COUNTY, Ind, claims to have
raised the largest COW in the world. He1
name is Lady Posey, breed mixed Dur.
ham and Big English. Her measure
ments are: Greatest height, five feet ten
inches; girth, eight feet nine inches
length, ten feet six inches, or including
tail, seventeen feet; her form is good
and, although not fat, she weighs 5000
pounds. Her color is red and white
red predominating. Age, six years