Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-26
WHAT Farmers Should Study.

And the fairest crown of all, will be given
Unto the wayworn farmers wife.
WHAT Farmers Should Study.
The farmer should study the law of
concentration. He should learn how to
concentrate his crops on the best paying
articles. Does ne consider that butter,
beet, pork, ADD NATION represent only y
certain amount Of hay, grass, or grain
that bis farm produces? That instead
by putting them into these articles, get
much better returns for his products ?
His study should be how to transform
the products of his farm into something
that is concentrating and will bring him
the most money. What he raises has
got to go to some market. By concen-
trating it, little freight will have to be
paid and thus much will be saved. A
farm is not only farm; 1t is, or should
be, factory for changing the products
into articles of general consumption that
have commercial value the world over,
that are of the best quality, that will
keep and sell we'll, and bring prices that
will pay well for the skill, labor and
capital employed in producing them.-
Petersburg Messenger.
How to Drive Flies Out Of a Room.
Observations made by NJ. Rafford, a
member Of the Society d. Horticulture at
Limoges, show that oastor-o plant
having been placed in a room infested
| with Aies, they disappear as by enchant-
ment. Wishing to find the cause, he
eoon found under the castor-oil plant a
number Of dead flies, and a large num-
Der of bodies had remained clinging to
the under surface of the leaves. It
would therefore appear that the leaves
of the casto1-oil plant give out an essen
tial oil, or some toxic principle which
possesses very strong insecticide quail
ties. Castor-oil plants are in France
very much used as ornamental plants in
rooms, as they resist very we'll variations
of atmosphere and temperature. As the
castor oil plant is very much grown and
cultivated in all gardens, the Journal
d'Agriculture points out that it would
be worth while to try decoctions of the
leaves 10 destroy the green flies and
other insects which in summer are SO
destructive to plants and fruit trees.
Anyhow, M. Rafford's observations merit
that trial should be made of the proper
ties of the castor-oil plant for the
destruction of flies in dwellings and OF
other troublesome insects.-Britjsh
Medical Journal.
How and When 10 Apply Manure.
/ A writer in the Western Rural says: ]
have been experimenting some for the
last twenty years, and find the best re-
suits obtained by hauling the 'raw d
manure out in the spring and spreading
it broadcast from the wagon, on my corr
ground, and blowing it under. have
found better results from an equal mum
Der of loads OF raw than from the same
plumber of we'll rotted manure placed
side by side on the same kind of ground
Anyone knows that q manure heap lying
In barnyarl, as most farmers let it lie
will lose nearly one bali its bulk during
the summer. Then the satisfaction o.
having ones cattle aud sheep yards clear
enough to hold Sunday school picnic
in, ia certainly something. It may bt
limited that the spring is busy time o
year to do 60 much work. just al
much make it a point to hire an e1trt
force Of help to put out my manure ii
the spring as I do to cut my hay ant
harvest. ANY one that will mount thu
wind mill tower and look over the corr
fields to-day, can see to the very row O
corn where the last load Of manure wa
put. In recent conversation with al
Intelligent young English farm hand, h
informed me that there had been an en-
tire change in England in the last TWEEN
ty years on this subject, and that the.
were now putting the manure on tn
land unrotted. There is one other YER.
important feature about it. Since
have adopted the plan of thorough.
cleaning up around my outbuildings, W
are not pestered with such swarms Q
house flies on the door and windo,
screens of the dwelling. Let's bear tn
experience of others on this subject.
Increasing Lean Meat in Pigs.
We may we'll suppose that the hab1
ii the pig in laying or an excessiv
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