Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-03-23
SEAS0NABlE FARM NOTES.

CouNTERFE1T butter began with
coanterfeiting the yellow color.
THERE is talk of letting horses 20
barefoot altogether, and, in that case,
stock reared in stony and gravelly
country must have the preference.
IT has been proposed that farmers
should pay their daughters for labor as
they do their sons, and allow them some
social freedom, in order to prevent them
from longing for city life and seeking it..
The best deodorizer III stables is
ground plaster. It may be sprinkled
about the stalls and over the manure
heap daily. It will absorb the ammon-
iacal odors and retain them, thus in
creasing the value of the dressing.
Mr.. MARDEN, near Baltimore. reckons
he saved a portion of his $4,000 pear
trees from frost last spring by building
fires around them. Brush from the
winters chopping aud pruning might be
made to protect strawberry bed in the
same way.
| A LAWYER in the North Carolina
legislature put the grangers in that BODY
to silence the other day when they were
attacking aristocrats by asking them il
they had not observed that when they
hauled load of potatoes to market the
big ones always got to the top.
JONATHAN TA1corr, of Rome, tells the
Country Gentleman of feeding single
hog on boiled sugar-beets, only from
August 18th to November LIST. Being
very gentle, the hog would walk out Of
his pen upon the scales to be weighed.
which wasdone once in two weeks, show
ing gain of two pounds daily.
PAUL BoYNToN told the American
Farmers Club that he could give an in
falible rule for making hens lay: "Put
the hen in warm place, say about 70
deg, with plenty of sunshine; feed her
with corn and food containing a good
supply of phosphate of lime, and you
have the hen in a place where she can't
help laying"
A GROWER of roses on the shore of
Lake Erie doubts the value of tobacco
stems for ordinary manurial purposes.
but finds heavy mulch of them in fall
or early spring-to remain all summer
prevents the rose-slug, The roses
grow with can additional vigor" under
the treatment, as anyone would expect
who knows the worth of tobacco-waste as
fertilizer.
They have what they call winter oats
in Oregon, they are sown at any time
during the year-say from the last of
September up to the middle of March.
provided the ground is in favorable con-
dition. These oats are used chiefly for
milling; they yield larger grain, heavier
and more uniform in size, than summer
or spring oats, and at the rate of from
forty to eighty bushels per acre.
THERE are ingredients in the soil
which could not be spared for all that
they Immediately contribute to the
nour1shment of crops, yet such are
frequently the chief factors of fertility.
on account of their indirect action or
because they supply some necessary
physical condition. Humus is not ct all
essential to the growth of agricultural
plants, for plants have been raised to
full perfection without it, yet in the soil
it has an immense practical value, for it
stores and supplies water and assimi-
lates nitrogen.
IHE Poultry World remarks that in
very many cases the poultry house is
built with sole reference to keeping the
fowls warm. No provision is made
against the heats of summer, and con-
sequently in warm weather the hens
pant and swelter upon the roosts and fall
away in health and stop laying. A mer-
eiful man is merciful to his beasts.
FRESH ar Is necessary at all reasons and
lmPeratively demanded in summer, A
building with roof and no sides is the
best thing for fowls during half the
year. If summer quarters of this sort
cannot be afforded, separate from the
winter house, the next best thing is to
build the latter so that the sides and
ends shall consist entirely of doors.
Keep these open; then have wirowork to
keep the fowls in.
P. N. E., WASHINGTON. N. J.. writes.
"Covered drains for CARRYING off the
waste from sink, Mushroom, etc., of the
house should never be constructed of
brick, for there is not only danger of
leakage, both Of fluids and gaseous con-
tents, but the drains are liable to be
eaten into by rats. Sewerage pipes of
cement, fitted together and cemented at
the Joints to prevent leakage, serve an
excellent purpose. These ought to be
laid at depth of about three feet to be
out OF the way of frost. Four-inch pipe
should be employed as far as there ar Q
crooks or connections, but the straight
portion need not be more than three
inches. Care should be taken to secure
continuous fall. The safest plan is to
employ level for guide when leaving
the sink"
The latest science for balky horses
requires light loads, with strap to
buckle up one fore leg. Three legs only.
in connection with the ground, disturbs
the electric Observation-Disclosures in
duces meditation. The driver must
make no positive appointments, and be
IN no hurry to get anywhere. He needs
a small library of entertaining reading.
with an umbrella for storms and
luncheon for the stomach's sake. The
horse must be allowed to smell of the
strap every time and after month or
two Of balks, wayside picnics and medi-
tations upon three legs, he may be ex-
pected to move on at sight of the strap.
Lettering along the road may have
spoiled the driver, however.
Co,tra,at.
DURING the past season the Kansas
State Agricultural College has kept an
exact account of the cost of raising corn.
winter wheat, oats and millet. Corn.
221 acres, AZ bushels per acre, costing
IA cents per bushel. Wheat, II, acres.
II bushels per acre, costing 81 cents per
bushel. Oats, Is acres, yielding 20
bushels per acre, costing % cents per
bushel. Millet, II acres, yielding two
and nine hundredths ton per acre, cost
ing 81. 10 per ton. The account in
cludes the cost of seeds, planting, cult
waiting, harvesting, and marketing, the
item of labor being charged at the aver
age price. The amount of wheat per
acre was very light, the weather in
early spring having been exceedingly
dry and very infavorable to the grain.
Twenty-Five to thirty bushels to the
acre, fair average yield, instead of
seventeen, would have reduced the cost
OF the wheat very materially.
TIE rule, as generally stated, is 500
cubic feet of hay to a ton, but to this
like many other rules, there are MANY