Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-08
FIELD AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farming Notes.

Farming Notes. &
Mrs. Hayes poultry yard At fremont
is said to be the best in Ohio.
s@9 The abolition by the Patrons OF Hus-
bandry Of " Grange No. 49," Of Boston
with which the Commissioner Of Agri.
Z culture WAS connected, Is characterized,
by The Maine Farmer as "a triumph o.
principle" ~
Mr.. Robert Burch, Fairport, n. ",
4 buys manure largely, We learn FROM The
Midland Farmer; keeps three assistants;
culiivates on the extensive system. and
gets an average annual return OF $o, 4Oo
from his twenty-seven acres, mostly de-
4 voted to cabbage and onions. ii a..s.
A correspondent Of The American
Stockman thinks very we'll indeed OF
the pretty Jerseys but suspects that the
elite are ratheg OVERRIDING the boom to
the injury of the breed, and suggests
that the following course may become de-
sirable. ''If things go on in this direction,
gathering voluu.e as they 60, twill be
breeders who understand their business,
TO buy all the Jersey stock OF the insur-
snce mon, dry goods merchants, doctors,
lawyers and the kid glove gentry in gen.
eral, and hire them to keep out OF the
business" CIV
The country is suffering from tro.
mendous overstock of dog supply: Five
per cent. of the CANNES in the United
States could do all the business. s.
It is estimated that there are now in
the United States Is 000,0O0 milch cows,
and that there are made annually $780,
O00, GOO pounds of butter and 450, GOO 900
pounds of cheese.
Attention OF drivers is invited by The
National Stockmen to a horse fact worth
remembering, especially in spring:
Don't think your horse in best condi-
ton to endure long trip or hard drive
because he has stood in stable Tor weeks
and done nothing. If there is ever o
time that he 10 soft it is after long idle
spell, but many unthinking men do not
realize this, aud horses Of standing and
staying qualities are often injured by be-
ing brought too suddenly from idleness.
DR.. c. II. Fernald, State College, Or
onto, Me-, finds "a vast amount ofamuse-
ment and instruction" in observation of
insects. Here is an example, fcc m Home
Farm: "Under another jar / put fam
lily Of grasshoppers, and the amount Of
grass those gourtnands ate VS. sone-
thing marvellous. II was interesting,
nevertheless, to see one Of those six
legged sayages stand up on four hind
legs and hold blade of grass in his two
fore legs and Ghew away on 1t til! 1t was
all devoured"
1r. +. M. Hexamer mentions two in
stances of this increasing danger which
recently came under his personal obser-
walton. In one Csc, canned peaches, eat
en- by strong, healthy boy, produced
severe pain, vomiting and diarrhea;
in the other, canned beans poisoned an
entire faulty, nursing baby even being
affected through its mothers milk. The
symptoms were exactly those of poison
ing from some zioc or copper salts, and
serious results might have followed but
Mr.. Adam Hood, Markham, Canada,
has according to the Toronto Globe,
practised for two years q successful plan
for saving turnip plants: "The
scout turnip is first sown in drills,
and then the white turnips are
sown broadcast between. The latter
comes up first and is relished best by
the flies, and by the time the white
turnip is eaten the scout. has become
too tough to be relist1pd bv it's insect
enemy, and so escapes with compare
lively little injury"
.. Mr.. Joseph Harris. tiecribes his econ
omical culture Of carrots, by which he
raised satisfactory crop with no more
outlay Of labor than is required for
potatoes; the plants came up thick
from seeds sowed in rows twenty one
inches apart; the cultivator was run
ming within an inch Of the plsnts, which
kept down the weeds, and the carrots
grew with astonishing rapidity. But
they must be thinned, or the crop
would be worthless, go the men went
through the patch with hoes and cut
spaces clear across, the width of the
hoe, leaving punches of four or ten
young carrots. The cultivator WAS kept
going, and after harvest the weeds
which escaped were cut out by hand
The roots we're diverse in size, but the
whole crop was larger than where regu-
larry thinned"