Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-12-24
Farm Notes.


premiums for the products of the
farm and garden, for the handiwork of
| our wives and daughters, for our best
horses, cattle sheep, swine and poultry,
and less money for the fast horse. We
insist that in a rural community, at
| least this "fast horse" business should
be n secondary consideration at our
| annual fairs. We do not suppose that
morally speaking there is any great
harm resulting from the lions share
| of the funds of amy agricultural So
ciety being bestowed to horse running
or horse trotting at the annual fairs,
but by placing the purses as high as
they have been heretofore, n real act
of injustice is done in regard to the ag-
ricultural, horticultural and mechanic
cal interests of the members of the So
ciety. Not one in a hundred of the
members own fast horse, but they
do own farms and should be encour-
aged to raise choice products so that
they could compete for liberal premi-
ums.-Furmer' Tribune.
The annual loss to the farmers in
the Northwest in consequence of their
potatoes being frosted amounts to a
good deaf of money. The frost in
most of our winters is liable to pene-
trate into our cellars and root houses.
The only safe way to winter potatoes
in this cold climate is to store them
beyond the reach of the extreme frost.
There is not much danger of having
our pits and cellars too warm; neither
is there danger of our potatoes heating
or sprouting during the long winter
months. Most of the potatoes raised
are stored in the cellars of the dwell
ling houses, and in consequence of the
imperfect banking OF the houses, the
cold is liable to creep into the cellars.
Every farmer should at once see that
his house is properly banked up.
1t is said that one OF the most seri-
Gus mestakes which almost everyone
makes in cultivatiug house plants is
trying to keep 100 great variety.
Professional florists, as Well as anna
teurs, fall into the same error, and the
results are fixtures with a greater or
less number of species. If the house
is kept warm enough to make a GER
tain species thrive, others are likely to
fail because the temperature is too
high for them, and mlldew and rust
follow. An atmosphere in which
geraniums and helithrops thrive is
too warm for camenas, heaths, and
azaleas. The beautiful orchirds are
certainly very tempting plants, but
one needs a house especially arranged
for their culture; and the same is true
with many other orders, families, and
genera, and it is far better to con-
fine ourselves to q few species, and of
these select the best varieties growing
to perfection than to undertake more
than we can accomplish. Ladies Of
ten complain of certain plants failing
under the best care they can give,
while others succeed perfectly, which
only shows that different plants re-
quire wildly different treatment.
The Enquirer has been looking up
the curlously changed values of
money and wages since the fourteenth
century. That paper says:
In the year 1852, twenty-fifth Ed
ward Ill, wages paid to hay makers
were Id day. A mower of meadows
Sd per day or sd an acre. Reapers of
corn in the first week of August I'd in
the second Sd per day and so on till
the end of August, without meat
drink, or other allowance, finding
their own tools. For threshing q
quarter Of wheat or rye 215 quarter
of barley, beans, peas and oats, I'D.
A master carpenter, Sd day; other
carpenters, I'd. A master mason, 4d
a per day: other masons Sd: and their
servants, ~ per day. Tllers Sd; and
their "knaves" II. Plasterers and
other workers of mud walls and their |
knaves in like manner, without meat |
or drink, and this from Easter to
and from that time less,
according to the direction of the |
justices,
Buckwheat is one Of the best grains |
that can be fed to poultry, and may
Il taI rnio0fn6
cracked corn. Do not use the same |
feed daily. Frequent change is as
beneficial to poultry as to larger farm
stock.
Wyoming has 100000 head of cattle,
valued at 81 100000. Seven compaies
own one-third of all the cattle in the
territory. Of the vast herd of cattle
in Texas it is claimed that 100000
head are owned by parties living out
side of the state, and that revenue of
flo per head is annually received by
outsiders on the INSTRUMENTATION
sas Cowboy.
Smutty corn should not be fed in a
raw dry state. 1t has been known,
when thus fed to cause violent infiam-
natory and other diseases in the an
mails consuming it. The ears affec-
ed by this fungoid growth should be
Kept by themselves at husking time,
ind then be used as pig feed, first
polling them and pouring off the
water in which they were cooked.
The real value of corn when estirna-
ed by weight is almost as inaccurate
IS that estimated by measure, says
he American Agficultnrist. The
rue worth of the grain is the actual
ry matter it contains. The moisture
aries at different periods after har-
esting andhas been known to contain :
My thirteen per cent, when one year {