Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-07
SEAsQNAELE FARM NOTES.

sEAsoNAeLE FARM NOTES.
Il BUsuEL Of white clover seed weighs
slxty-five pounds, numbering $4,000
seeds per ounce.
NESTS must occasionly be renewed
and kept clean, Straw is bet ter than
hay. Tobacco stems covered with straw
are an excellent prevention Of insect
breeding, especially when the hens axe
sitting.
Az cid gardener says, with regard to
ctltivating onions, TINT if care is taken
to draw away the earth gradually from
The bulbs until they are quite uncovered,
and only tic fbrons roots are in the
earth, you will never have sctillions, but
very large, cCund onions.
Willows and alders cut close by the
roots now may give room for hay-crop
next season. A light mattoeh, a two
hand bill-hook. a grass-scythe, for sur
rounding weeds and grass, and keen
Ratchet or axe for trimming, are the
handy tools for the business.
MATTED strawberry rowe or fat land
need to have the ground rugged little
by the e..ltlvator. The rear cultivator
tooth, brushing along, serves to kill
small weeds, gather struggling runners
and cover them, making slight ridge
to prevent standing water and ice in
winter.
M1nbET and Hungarian grass should be
cut when young, just after they have
fully headed out, to be of much value
for feeding. When young and tender
cattle will eat it greelily and thrive
upon it, but if left till nearly ripe the
stalks become woody and are Of little
more value than oat or rye straw.
To destroy wire worms there is moth
ing better than to chop up some pota-
toce fine and mix sugar or lead or paris
green with them, so that each piece is
lightly covered with the poison. When
the ground is furrowed for tho corn,
these pieces are dropped in the rows or
scattered Oh the ground where the wire
worms will find it. These worms are es-
pecially fond Of potatoes.
GEN. HARDING, speaking for Tennessee,
considered Hungarian grass to be the
best forerunner Of timothy. He recon-
men1s that this be sown in summer and
harvested in August or early in Septem-
Der; and that timothy be sown upon the
stubble and narrowed in. The Hunga-
rian grass, he thinks, destroys all weeds
an | gives certain compactness to the
soil necessary to secure a good stand of
timothy.
COMPLAINTS are made all over the
west, particularly in Kansas, Nebraska
and Iowa, that wire fences attract light
ming, which often results in the killing
Of stock. The stock imagine that the
fence affords protection from the storm
and according huddle close up to it.
One instance is given where 65 head of
sheep we're killed in Nebraska at single
stroke, and another were 10 head of cat
tie were killed.
The Rural New Yorker is fully con-
WINGED that the tomato rot is caused by
the tomato worm. This green, reptile
looking pest often turns from the leaves
to the young tomatoes. eating a part of
the flesh and then returning to the
leaves. The injured portion Of the
tomato soon turns black and rot CON-
mences. Every instance of rot among
our tomatoes, the present season at any
rate, has been thus caused.
CAPT. THos. T. TURNER of Normandy,
Mo-, the well-known breeder of Jersey
cattle, sowed number of acres in
sorghum the past spring solely for feed
for his stock. He is highly pleased with
it. He is cutting it with moving
machine, letting it cure and putting It
| away COR future use. He says his stock
relish it very highly, eating it all. He
sowcd corn at the same time for the
same purpose, but finds sorgo much
preferable to corn.
The average corn.crib is not what it
ought to be, either in size or security
from vermin. Much OF the labor of the
year may go for nothing, save to feed a
swarm Of mice, If precautions are not
taken to keep these little pests from the
corn crib. At this season when the crib
is usually empty, means should be taken
to clear it Of mice, and then, if possible,
soon to be harvested. If there are any
repairs to be made in the roof, siding, or
| floor, they should be made now, that all
may be snug in the courthouse, when
snugness is Of the utmost Importance
american Ayricult,vjst.
| Sow from the wind sidewise, and when
i turning round to come back, instead of
walking back without sowing against
the wind, change hands. For nearly
fifty years have always sowcd with my
left hand as we'll as my right. Sowing
grain with both hands at once was GUS
tomary in my native land. If the wind
blows from the west, walk north and
south, and throw to the east with the
left hand when going north, and use the
right hand when going south. lean SOW
much wider, and thus save much walk
ing when the wind is high. and always
prefer to have brisk, blowing day. I
throw the seed right up, as fast as I can
walk, the hand going regularly with the
step in one uniform, swinging gait.-A
| Farmer.
THESE dry days and fierce "Ay time u
heats sorely try all young trees which
have not been planted longer than one
OF two springs, and just now, in many an
instance, the leaves are dropping, and
unless relief ia afforded the tree will he