Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

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good daily ration for a working horse.
AT odd times, during rainy days, etc.
it will be profitable to took over the ma
chinery and utensils used in haying and
harvesting, and see what needs to be
bought or mended, and thus be in readi-
ness when the clover is to be cut or when
the wheat is ripe for the harvest.
ERAsrus CoRN1se, of Albany has pur-
chased a remarkable COW in Herkimer
county. She is Of the Jersey breed and
is five years old. 1t is claimed that
twenty-three per cent. of her milk is
cream, and that she can produce eighteen
pounds Of butter week. Herprice was
81, 500.
ONE greatpoin in improving the corn
crop is to carefully select the seed from
prolific stalks, that have through series
OF years yielded more than one ear to the
plant. 1t is safe to say that aproper at
tention to the selection of seed will
double this valuable crop on every corn
growing farm.
IT may be we'll to remember that as
each female potato beetle is capable of
laying about ,000eggs (sosay entomolo-
gists), it is matter Of considerable i'm
portance that those which have passed
the winter III the ground and appear in
the spring should be rs nearly exter-
minated as possible.
WHEN an orchard requires fertilizing
it is best to do this all over the ground,
and not to apply manure only near the
trees. This produces largo growth Of
roots close to the trees, for roots grow
where soil is richest. Orchards need
lime and ashes more than manure, and
these soon produce healthy, smooth bark.
PICS profit by a run to grass. When
the trees in the orchard are large enough
it should be seeded to clover as pasture
for the pigs. This will afford them good
grazing, and ut the same time they will
destroy many of the orchard vermin
Young pigs will need plenty of good
milk, which should be given them scpa-
rate from tn, older ones.
A FRENCH paper relates the following
experiment.: A COW was MIXED three
times day for eleven days, and yielded
40 quarts of milk. With two 1hilkings
daily she gave only 146 quarts in the
same number of days. Analyses, more
over, showed the milk in the first case
was richer in butter globules by more
than one-seventh than in the second
case.
WITH the hard work of the month the
horses require the best care, which in
cludes carding and brushing. Too much
corn, fed now, make the animals restless
by producing an irritation Of the skin.
A moderate feed of green rye will be very
acceptable to horses, and promote their
health. If the land is not stony the
shoes may be removed from the farm
teams, for time at least, with benefit.
IT is best to set blackberry and rasp-
berry plants in the early spring, but it
may still be done. Some means OF hold
ing up the growing canes should be pro-
vided, either on single stalks or trellises.
The canes produced last year bear the
fruit, and the new ones are for fruit
next year. All suckers at a distance
from the rows, unless new plants are de-
sired, should be considered as weeds and
cut away.
YOUNG chickens will now be coming
forward. Those of good breeds Matched
this month will begin to lay in the fall,
and with care will continue through the
winter. The chicken coops need to be
moved frequently. There is no better
place for young chickens to forage than
the vegetable garden; they will destroy
many insects. They should have an
abundance of fresh water and the coop
be set in a dry place.
Grape vines that have been kept dor
mant III cool cellars may still be planted.
The cost of few vines is but trifle and
the returns are great. All persons who
have ground enough for garden, how
ever small, have room for at least one
grape vine. Newly planted vines should
be allowed to grow but a single shoot
this year. Tie it to q support. The
fruit bearing shoots for this year should
have their further growth in length pre-
vented by pinching off the end of the
shoot at two or three leaves above the
uppermost cluster. The earlier this
work is done the better.
THIS is, over most of the country, the
month Of corn planting, and now is the
time to look to the improvement of this
great cereal grain. No crop in the
United States has greater possibilities,
and none is grown at the present time
with less care for the increase of it's
value. The average yield is not far from
40 bushels per acre, while the best pos
sible crop, with the best seed, under
proper culture, is not far from 200
bushels. With the hills 81 feet apart,
giving 1856 hills to the acre, and four
ears to each hill-the ears averaging 100
to a b,lshel of shelled corn-we should
have about 40 bushels per acre.
GRATING is an operation that had bet
ter be done too late than too early. The
best time is when the buds on the stock
are swelling, and if necessary may be
continued until the trees are in full
bloom. At this season the bark slips
readily, and much care will be required
when saving off a limb, not to make a
bad wound by peeling down. This can
be prevented in great part by cutting
through the bark with a strong knife all
round the limb where the saw is to 60.
Buds should be left upon the stock I'M
til the union of the graft is insured,
which will be known by the buds of the
graft starting into growth. After this
rub off the buds upon the stock.
The short season that is just opening
for spring seeding should be improved
at once by seeding down more of our til
liable land to grass. The growing ten
dency toward more live stock, more beef,
! butter. wool and cheese shOuld encour.