Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-07-12
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

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SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.
LUcERNE resists the draught easily, as
the roots of this variety of clover 90
twenty feet down into the soil. It can
be cut repeatedly in single season.
A TREE overloaded with fruit can
neither perfect the fruit nor ripen it's
wood properly. A great many trees
are annually ruined by too much crop
ping.
EVERY farmer who will treat his cattle
kindly, and feed them all they want, will,
in few years, have blooded stock on his
farm. All blooded stock has been pro-
duced IN this way.
SINCE the advent of the Colorado beetle
it has not been profitable to raise pota-
toes for feeding hogs. The labor of
raising them has been too great, and
their price has been higher than that of
corn.
A New HAMPSHIRE farmer, in the
Boston Journal, recommended putting a
handful of corn cobs in the hill, about
two inches under ground, when planting
sqnashes, so that the worms will gnaw
the cobs in preference to the roots of
the squash vines.
PINE stumps may be more profitably
removed by blasting with dynamite than
by stump puller. A large pine stump
requires very great force to be pulled
out Of the ground, but it is easily torn to
pieces and thrown out by two to four
ounces of dynamite.
In order of earliness of green fodder
plants that have been cultivated at the
experimental farms, lucerne is first, then
cumfrey, red clover, rye, tares, oats,
millet, rape, corn, and cabbage. An
green weight and three tons dry weight
was secured.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Blacksmith
and Wheelwright says: "The best
remedy that have ever found for horses
clicking, or striking their hind shoes
against the forward ones, is to put on
high toe calks and low heels on the hind
shoes. If my brother smiths are in
credulous concerning this remedy, ad-
wise them to try it and be convinced
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Coun-
try Gentleman: I do not know how long
the wire will last. I know some fence
that has been up for six years, and the
wire looks just as it did when put up. I
find three wires plenty to fence against
cattle; five wires will make good hog
fence; they may go through once, but
once only, for hog is little like
mule-he does not like dangerous
places.
CARE in choosing valuable varieties of
fruit, in preparing the soil, in planting
the trees, in cultivating and pruning
them, in thinning the surplus off and in
picking the fruit-all this goes for
naught in the final outcome unless the
marketing of the fruit is we'll done.
Many man tolls hard the year through,
and yet fails to reap his deserved reward
because he has neglected the art of neat
packing.
G. n. JOHNSON tells The Fruit Grower
that by going carefully over his grounds
several times each season and removing
and burning all plants showing raspber-
ry rust, he has succeeded to such an ex-
tent that no more than half dozen cases
Of the disease appeared last year in the
whole of his three acres devoted to this
fruit, while another grower at some dis
lance "lost almost his entire stock with
out knowing the cause"
The Massachusetts Plowman says
leached ashes are food for almost any
crop, but should be applied with other
fertilizers that contain vegetable SUBJ
stances, like barn manure; thus applied,
Oh most of soils, and for nearly all crops,
Is cents bushel would be cheaper than
commercial fertilizers. Fifty bushels of
ashes applied to two cords of good sta
bic manure would produce better results
for most crops than $50 bushels applied
without other fertilizers, or five cords Of
stable manure applied with no other fer
tilizer with it.
POTATOES ere expensive food, that is
to say, comparatively. A bushel of pc.
tatoes (slxty pounds) contains nearly
fifty pounds OF water and only about ten
pounds Of solid nutriment, which is
mainly starch. Taking the country alto
gether, and the prices Of potatoes, corn,
wheat, etc, high and low, from year to
year, and average nutritious food OBJ
tanned in the form Of potatoes costs four
to five times as much as it does in the
consumption of com or beans, and two
the one. half to four times as much as in
the form of wheat -four, or oatmeal,
beans, rice, etc.
The best beef is young beef, reaching
its greatest point OF superiority at from
two to three years. The same is true Of
sheep and swine. A wether for tho best
mutton should be marketed at two years.
As a general rule, $50 pound pig is
much better in quality and more profit
able than hog that weighs 500 pounds.
The point Of appreciation of quickly
matured animals is being reached,
though somewhat gradually, and it re-
mains to improve the various breeds,
especial regard being taken to carefully
select those animals to breed from that
come to maturity at an early age.
IT is practice with many farmers to
place load or two of somewhat green
hay on the top of the NOV, thinking that
it will dry under such circumstances
without injury, and finally turn out
pretty fair hay. This is mistake. The
greenest hay should be placed at the bot
tom of the NOW; it will heat some and
throw off the moisture, and the hay will
come out bright green and full of aroma.
Place the poor bog hay on top of the
NOW, and it will absorb such moisture as
ascends from the sweating hay below,
and though undoubtedly It will prove
somewhat musty yet such would also be
the case with the good hay if placed on
top Of the NOW. If farmers will try
this plan, they will find they will have
first-class hay in all their mows.
ORCHARD grass is one of the earliest
to ripen, coming into flower with the
June or Kentucky blue grass. For seed
ing an early moving two bushels orchard
grass, one bushel June grass, and ten
pounds common red clover make a de-
sirable proportion. Orchard grass is
too tender to bear. very late fall seeding
but after the first year it is as hardy as
other growers. Orchard grass should be
cultivated on the best grass land, or such
as may be expected, uuder high manur-
ing, 10 produce heavy rowen crops every
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