Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-21
SEASONABlE FARM NOTES.

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This distinction is very important.
MANURE from granted horses, fret
from straw; unexposed to weather, will
weigh about $500 pounds per cord.
STRIPS of very thin India rubber arc
beginning to be used as bandage in
grating, instead of the wax commonly
applied.
HENS may lose their feathers in sum-
mer without having any disease. 1t is
better to lose them then than late in the
fall or early winter.
ALWAYS have place where chickens
can be sheltered from storms and kept
comfortable. It is the lack of this that
kills so many chickens.
To prepare night-soil for use on land.
mix it thoroughly with any dry absorb
ent, as powdered charcoal, dry muck.
road dust, or sifted coal ashes, so that
all Jumps may be broken fine, and then
apply it Us any other manure.
IT is said tbs t kerosene oil slightly
sprinkled on the floor of the horse sta
bles will serve to abate the nuisance of
flies. It may be shaken out Of bottle
through hole in the cork. A pint will
last week for the purpose.
Do not forget to give plentiful sup
ply of cool water to stock of all kinds.
A pailful of water into which large
handful Of bran has been stirred should
be given to each COW at noon. It will
very perceptibly increase the quantity of
milk.
SUFFOLK and Berkshire pigs may be
proftably fed, to be sold at nine and ten
months, upon clover, corn meal, linseed
meal, or corn and oat meal. Half a
pound of hnseed meal per day on the av-
erage, to six-months-old pigs, would be
sufficient.
LET every farmer who is not able to
fence large pasturage get few boards,
build few rods of portable fence and
make a small enclosure for his hogs and
move it around as circumstances re-
quire. It will make pork raising more
profitable than to keep hogs confined in
pens all the time.
CABBAGE is best given to poultry
whole, hung up by the stalk. At first it
may not be touched, but when one fowl
begins to peck at it, the rest will be
tempted to keep on until little remains.
Being suspended, it does not waste or
become polluted, and it will remain in
good condition to be eaten at will.
DR.. j. LAwEs, Of England, believes
that live stock demand dryer food in
winter feeding than in summer. He also
believes that the American farmer claims
too much for ensilage, when applied to
grass or clover, since they are best fed
dry, the silo adding nothing to their
value and the process of drying in the
production OF hay subtracting nothing
but water.
WHEN fattening an animal for beef,
let the process be q quick as possible.
Any stint in feedi1 will make the meat
tough and dry. Stalled animals will
fatten more rcndily than others, and
younger animals require richer food
than older ones. In winter fattening
much depends upon the warmth Of the
stable. The warmer the cattle are kept
the less food will be needed.
SOME farmers make practice of SOW
ing few oats with their winter wheat to
protect the latter in the winter time, and
It has been found to he OF use for the
purpose. The oats grow more vigorous
ly than the wheat, and aid in catching
and holding the snow, thus acting as
protection or mulch to the wheat. The
small amount Of food the young oat
plants draw from the soil is returned
during the spring, when, being killed by
the winter cold, they rapidly decay.
The average results of experiment and
theory, SO to speak, make fifty-seven
pounds of Indian corn equal to one hun
dred pounds Of hay, Or /, 40 pounds of
Indian corn to the ton Of hay. But it
must be remembered that the nutritive
effects OF food upon an animal are varied
by many causes, and also that the COM
parisoD of food is affected by the object
sought, as fat, growth, labor, milk, etc.
The above is the relative amount OF nu-
tritive matter in corn and hay, as deter
mined by experiment and theory.
The kinds Of grass suited for perma-
nent pasture depends upon the kind of
soil. Indeed, it is hardly worth while to
try to seed down permanently any but
moist soils. For these the following
kinds of grass are best suited: Red top,
5 pounds per acre; creeping bent, 5
pounds; meadow spear-grass, 1 pounds;
fowl meadow-grass, 4 pounds; red fescue,
5 pounds; meadow fescue, pounds; tall
fescue, 5 pounds; meadow oat grass, 4
pounds; crested dogs tail, 5 pounds;
timothy, 3 pounds.
W. Il. BENTON, Of London County.
Va, says: "About twenty-five years
ago. commenced to pick out a small
quantity of the best ears of corn when
husking. The corn thus selected was
planted by itself, and had better yield
than the rest OF the field. Every year
since 1 have been saving more each
year, picking out when the corn was
husked, and spreading it in loft until
spring. When I first commenced say
ing seed, it took 500 ears to make a bar
rel, while in the last few years it has
taken but 285 ears to make barrel.
The corn is white, finty, and weighs
over fifty-six pounds to the bushel."
THE best rule for sailing butter is to
salt to suit the taste of the consumer.
There is no use in applying any partic-
ular amount Of salt for the purpose of
preserving it, because the very slightest
sailing ia always more than sufficient
for all the effect salt can have as pre-
servative of butter. Generally one
ounce Of salt to sixteen ounces of butter.
SO as to obscure in measure the faulty
taste, the favor of salt, being less OBJ
jectionable than q wrong or faulty. taste
in butter. But if the flavor is very fine
and full it will not be desirable to hide
it, but, on the contrary, to give it more
prominence, hence less salt, say one
ounce to twenty OF butter, will give q
better effect.-Prctessor arnold.
THREE or four weeks is the age at
which pigs need the most careful atten.
ton: At about this period the pig
reaches point when the milk of the
SOW is not sufficient to keep up healthy
growth, and unless the pigs have been
taught to eat before this time, there will
always be trouble with them. The only
way 10 avoid it is to teach them to eat