Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

sEAsoNAELE FARM NOTES.
The usual time allowed for lambs tc
suckle is four months. When separated
from the mothers they should, if posi-.
bic, be SO far removed rs not to hear
each other bleat.
DIR. HExAN1ER, noted rs a potato
grower, attributes the scab in potatoes
to the stable masure, and writes that
since he has used commercial fertilizers
exclusively the scab has disappeared.
PUMPKIN seeds act as dinretic on
cattle. Cows in milk should never have
access to them. Before pumpkins are
fed the seeds should always be removed,
for they decrease the flow of milk very
rapidly.
| A CORRESPONDENT of an agricultural
journal says: AS a remedy for the cab
bage worm, an occasional dustiug with
wheat bran will answer as we'll as Paris
green does for the potato bug. It is
very simple and worth trying.
In transplanting both plants and trees
the greatest care must be taken to COM
pact the soil around the roots. If left
loose the plant or tree will make poor
and unsatisfactory growth, however we'll
all other points may have been attended
| to.
AS ~ simple means for keeping flies
away from horses it is recommended to
moisten their hair, especially of their
tail and nostrils, with a strong decoction
of haZel-nut leaves. By means of this
decoction the eggs which the flies lay on
the skin of horses are also destroyed.
WHEN COW disgorges her food it is
symptom OF irritation in the stomach
and indigestion, probably arising from
the presence Of too much acid. Give
her two drachms of carbonate of ammo
mia, with one ounce of ground ginger,
in some scalded bran once q day for a
week. Afterward she should have q
little salt and pounded chalk to lick ev-
cry day as long as she will take it.
IN nearly all soils ashes are beneficial.
Their action is manifold; they supply to
plants inorganic elements, which they
require; they neutralize acids; they act
chemically as solvents upon other salts
in the soil. They are more beneficial on
sandy and gravclly soils than on clay.
For plants that contain large amount
OF potash and phosphoric acid, as car
rots. turnips, potatoes and cabbage,
ashes is an essential manure.
No attempt should be made to grow any
crop in the orchard without heavy ma
nuring, but if no crop is grown heavy
mulching will keep the trees in thrifty
condition until they come into bearing.
providing the land was in good condition
Wy
trees begin to produce fruit, every few
years the land should receive a good
dressing of manure, which should be
spread on the surface before mulching.
If there is anything certain in farm
ing it is that stable manure will repay
its application to crops. The expert
euce OF ages has settled this point, and
no man who cultivates land entertains
a doubt as to its effects. By the aid of
agricultural science we have learned Just
what it is in this manure that is valu-
able. We know it is the potash, phos-
phoric acid, magnesia, lime, etc., that is
of benefit. These ash elements of
stable dung are what we need, and, with
the exception of the mechanical action
on the soil, are all there is that repays
the farmer for the application.
AFTER reading all that h IS been writ
ten by the best authorities on the sub
ject Of deep and shallow ploughiug the
farmer must still be guided by his own
judgement. In some soils it would be
ruinous to plough deep. Where there
is a rich soil four or five inches deep,
immediately underlaid with the same
depth Of sand or gravel, to plough deep
would be to exchange good soil for
poor one. In all soils Of this kind 90
down gradually, and enrich as you go.
For all grasses except clover, wheat,
barley and oats, the riches soil must be
on the top to give the best results.
IT is said that some exhaustive expcr-
iments were recently made in order to
settle "whcther young animals put on
acsh more Ia pidly when fed with nor
NAL allowance Of food from the first, or
when fed with specially fatteuing foods
under cover, and which OF these methods
ins''res the best use of the food en-
ployed. Tho experimcnters found that
it is most economical for tie production
of good meat that sheep Of about year
and a half old be fattened as rapidly as
possible with the more concentrated
foods. This conclusion is based on
numerous exhaustive analysis of the
flesh and of the slaughtered animals. -
! Courier Journal.
THE National Live Stock journal SAYS
that the practice of feeding soaked
shell corn during the summer and early
autumn months is one generally fol-
lowed by the large swine raisers of IL
linois. II soaked to the cob the grains
swell up and tighten to the cob so that
the pigs experience the same trouble in
getting them off that they find with the
new corn when it is first fully and firmly
ripened; but if first shelled and then
thoroughly soaked it is easily masti-
Gated; but it is not so palatable and is
not eaten with such relish as new corn
while in the milk or doughty state.
When feeding soaked corn we have
usually followed the practice of alter
mating it with dry shelled corn one or
two days in the week, and we have
thought that our pigs always did better
under this practice chan when confined
exclusively to the soaked corn dust.
The Mark Lane Express, London.
says that an American writer says that
as chemical analysis proves wheat to
contain more albumen than any other
grain, it should be the foundation Of egg