Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18

aance OF oIuebells In the shady plscts;
a cEMson nuSh OF sunset in the west:
Inc cobwebs, delicate ~ fairy laces:
Inc sudden finding Of a wood. BIRDS nest.
Their hearts and lips are full of simple praises
~. 70 nun VINO made the earth divinely sweet;
- u a1 among the buttercups and daisies,
nno ma MS blessings streWn about their feet
But we, worn out by days of toll and sorrow,
~, AnG SICK OF pleasures that are false and vain,
"ouo Freely give our golden boards to borrow
One little hour Of childhood's bliss again.
Yet He who sees their joy belolds our sadness,
AND IN the wisdom OF Fathers love
ne Keeps tho secret Of the heavenly gladness:
Our sweet surprises wait for us above.
Sunday Magazine.
About Pastures.
The value of a pasture consists, first, in
close, strong sward. To have this, the
soil must be firm, fertile, and filed with
moisture. By this we do not mean that
1t shall be wet; on the contrary, il
must be the reverse. The moisture must
be such as is held naturally mechanical.
ly), not the moisture of saturation, but
that of vaporization. Thus permanent
pasture should never be heavily cropped,
until it is we'll set. Hence none of the
tuberous otedgrasses. like timothy are
suitable to permanent pastures. They
cannot stand close cropping nor constant
tramping. Pasture grasses, therefore,
must be the fibrous and deep-rooted ar.
leties. - Western AgrSculturist.
GoOseberries and .Currants.
Cuttings of gooseberries and white
and red currants can be made, and
planted now at any time. Single
stemmed bushes should always be pre-.
ferred; therefore, select the young
growths OF last year. which should be al
least 9 inches long, IL inches or Is
inches not being too much. Pick out all
the eyes or buds except two or three al
top, and plant firmly in rows Is inches
apart and inches apart in the row.
They will root in few weeks, and AZ
growth proceeds pick out any bugs that
may appear near the surface of the soil
or through it, the object being to form
tree that shall have asingle stem and
be free from suckers. Transplant any
cuttings that were put in last season,
giving them about double the space
which they have had as cuttings, and
next year they will be sufficiently large
to form permanent plantations. Estab-
lished plantations of gooseberries and
currants should be lightly 'spointed'
over, and liberal mulching of stable
manure afterwards given them.-Farn1
and Home.
Fruit Tree Culture.
Instead of trimming up'trees &C.
cording to the old fashion, to make them
long-legged and long-armed, trim them
down SO as to make them even, snug,
and symmetrical.
Instead of manuring heavily in a small
circle at the foot Of the tree, spread the
manure, if needed at all, broadcast over
the whole surface, especially where the
ends of the roots can get it.
Instead of spading small circle about
the stem, cultivate the whole surface
broadcast.
Prefer well pulverized, clean surface
in an orchard, with a moderately rich
soil. to heavy manuring aud a surface
covered with hard crust and weeds and
grass.
Remember that it is better to set out
ten trees with all the necessary care to
make them live and flourish, than to set
out hundred trees and have them all
die from carelessness.
Remember that tobacco is a poison,
and will kill insects rapidly if properly
applied to them, and Is one OF the best
drugs for freeing fruit trees rapidly of
small vermln.- Western Agricultetr6st.
Starch as Plant Food.
Starch is valuable form of food for
the plant, and is especially valuable as a
reserve material. Observation shows
that this is the very purpose for which
it is intended, namely, to be stored up in
large quantities and remain intact until
such time as the plant is to mike some
unusual effort, as the maturing OF the
seed or wood, or putting forth Of foliage
in the spring, when, by ordinary vital
processes, it would be unable to supply
food as it is needed. This Office of starch
is especially important in the spring
time. AS long as the foliage remains
green and healthy, the plant is able to
prepare the food required for daily
gro with, but when this foliage is lost, as
III autumn the vital activity ceases and
is dependent for its renewal upon the ap-
pea1ance of foliage. But this latter pro-
cess would be impossible without the
previous storage Of food, and to provide
against this emergency, every plant
stores up large quantities of starch in the
growing season, which with the opening
OF spring is dissolved, converted into
dextrine and sugar, as we see in the sugar
maple, and feeds the rapid growth
which all vegetation accomplishes at that
season Of the year. We observe this
provision for the nourishment Of the
young plant 10 the storage Of starch III
seeds, bulbs, tubers and roots. Every
where We find starch elforming the Of
fee of nutrition, and it may properly be
regarded as the most important and
abundant form of prepared plant food.
This, in connection with it's relation to
the food of map, places it among the
neutrality-suspicious. of vegetable products.
american AQ15cWlturist.
Young Stock.
The most appropriate food for all
kinds of young stock is the mothers
milk, and DIS soon as the young Thugs
can he induced to eat other feed, grass,
etc., they should be supplied with ground
feec, shelled corn, hay, grass and sny
other such feed, which being fed with
the dams milk, makes the most satisfac.
tory growth. The milk materially. aids
digestion, and thus it is that the large.
quantity of food lis consumed, which,
witty the milk, makes the finest possible
growth of flesh, bone az d muscle. twas
this milk and shellcd corn that made the
famous big steer in Missouri aud of the
scrub calf, and lad t:;at c IF been good
high grade still h. t''r ,eeults would
have been obtained with the milk feed
and care III that calf Cool blood is
importaut tor the H. st results Never
ase auy other tLAn FIJI; blood s,tes should
be the m.tto Of every farmer. Tncp,
with % II tOc!x th. int1,cio;1s oars. and