Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-18
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

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In growing potatoes it is now general.
ty conceded that time is injurious.
A CORD Of dry horse stable manure
weighs about four thousand eight hun.
dred to five thousand pounds.
The greatest loss upon farm is its
fertility. This the farmer should neve,
dispose Of without an equivalent.
| IT is said that if sod land is plowed
just before the corn is planted the worms
] will feed upon the sod and not iniure the
corn.
Corn requires fertility and cultivation
without which, it matters not how good
your seed, you will never have a good
crop.
If you want good sized potatoes, use
! good-sized tubers for seed. Do not il
you can avoid it cut more than one eye
in set.
WHERE the ground is rich much OF
the fine grass seed will be wasted that is
put in for a hay crop with clover and
timothy.
1T is not merely for laying on fat that
oil-meal is valuable, but also in the in
crease of fertiGzing qualities of the ma
nure pile.
In France it is generally recognized as
a rule that sugar beet should never be
cultivated upon fresh manure or barn
yard manure.
PENNSYLVANIA farmers claim that bran
when mixed with corn meal of the same
weight will produce more weight in al
animal than feeding pure corn-meal.
The usual time allowed for lambs to
suckle is four months. When separated
from their mothers they should, if pos
sible, be so far removed as not to hear
each others bleat.
CONCERNING the time for Matching the
eggs of bees the worker takes twenty-one
days to hatch, reckoning from the laying
Of the egg, the drone twenty-four days
and the queen seventeen days.
RAIN brings down yearly about twelve
pounds OF ammonia per acre of ground.
To supply an equal amount of sulphate
Of ammonia at 6 cents a pound would
cost the farmer So 80 an acre, and is,
therefore, the manurial value of the rain.
To prevent sows from crushing their
young, nail boa III about one foot wide
to the side of the pen. The board is to
be put on like a shelf, so that the little
pigs can run under it to get out of the
way.
LICE may be destroyed by dipping the
plants in hot water. so hot that the hand
can just bear it and no more. Dip them
in and take them out again instantly,
and repeat two or three times. It will
not hurt the plants.
The crops that do best on rather stiff
soil are potatoes, onions, celery, late cab
bages, late beans, Hubbard suuashes.
and fruits Of all kinds. When we'll
drained, such soil will often produce
good early cabbages.
PUT the hen in warm place say
about 70 degrees, with plenty Of sun
shine; feed her with corn and food con-
tanning good supply of phosphate of
lime, and you have the hen in q place
where she can't help laying.
IF hens get into the habit of eating
eggs, take enough bran and corn-meal Of
equal parts for one feeding, and enough
vinegar warmed to make the meal wet
enough for the hens to eat. Mix to-
gether and feed it to the hens.
WARM and airy stables, great clean
iness with the animal and her products.
judicious feeding of COWS and feeding of
pastures are the indispensable means to
supply milk in quality, quantity and
soundness capable Of resisting decay.
EXCESSIVE drinking of water bv farm
animals is said to increase the consump-
ton of fat in the body. Too watery fod-
der and too much drinking are therefore
TO be avoided, especially in fattening, if
we wish to attain the most rapid and
abundant formation Of flesh and fat.
IT is said that potatoes raised in Colo
RADIO are blue inside, but are of very fiue
quality. The color is attributed to the
immense quantities of minerals in the
soil. The streams are constantly riled
with washings from sand hills, and the
water discolored by washing from gold
and silver ores.
NEVER plant onions on dry, gravelly
and subject to draught. They require
. deep, rich, sandy loan, or q we'll
worked and undergrained clay soil. If
he manure was not plowed under in the
all apply some that is finely composted
n the spring. The seed may be sown
Is early as April. !
GROUND for early peas is best MANFRED |
n the fall. If that has not been done,
blow in the manure early, letting the
ground warm day or two, then harrow
md let it have day or two more of sun
n which to warm up. By this practice
7ou will get peas earlier than if you put
he seed into the cold ground as soon as
bowed.
A LADY who had raised large num-
oer of hens says that, after vainly trying
he recommended remedies for lice, she
las hit upon the plan OF giving them
nee or twice week large loaf made of
,raham -four in which handful of sui
,hur has been mixed. The hens like it,
nd arefreed from lice, and kept healthy
trough the season.
JOSEPH HARRIS says that an excellent
manure for the gardener and fruit grower
is made by mixing two or three bushels
# bone dust through q load of stable
manure, and let the whole ferment to-
,ether. The bone dust increases the
and the heating manure
ottens the bone. The whole becomes a
trong fertilizer If the heap is properly
ttended to.
TIE latest in the ensilage line comes
rom the south, where a gentleman works
ut plan for cheapening the cost of con-
tructing silos. Trenches are to be dug
0 the depth Of thirteen feet, we'll packed
nth clay, the earth within them removed,
orming pit with four sorts Of adobe
7al]s. As the bottom will still have to
re cemented and the walls trimmed even
SO as to leave no impeachment to the SET
ling of the ensilage) it is difficult to see
'here the economy comes i'll.
In one Of DR.. Lawes' experiments the
roduce Of hay under liberal supply of
mineral fertilizers has been greatly in
reased. Though large quantiiy of
nitrogen has been removed, at the end
# twenty-five years there is no evidence
# decline in the produce. The nitro
zen of the surface soil shows ga con-
iderable Decline" otherwise DR.. Lawes
avs, "there is absolutely nothing to