Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-02
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME

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NY Second Love.
I have confession to make, my wife;
have fallen in love again,
And think the young lsdy returns my love;
OIL amt the worst Of men $ss'ss
She is younger than you, this new-found love
And her check 10 softer, ween;
Her hair Ia fAirer than threads Of gold,
And her feet are the smallest I've seen kS
She loves me, I think. though she says not 10;
For she smiles when she sees my faCe,
And often rests In my arms content,
While ! hold her In close embrace.
Hove her As truly 40 man ever loved;
miss her what time she's away,
And the emile with which she bade me goodbye,
It blesses me through the day.
< And now, my precious, confess the truth;
Come! Say you are jealous, dol
Before toll you my two true loves
Are My baby Belle and you.
WIS. Faris, in The Crescent.
Value of Skim-Milk for Cheeso-Makine.
Mr.. Hiram Smith, one of Wisconsin's
best-known and most successful dairy
mon, says, "Skim milk is worth about
an average of thirty-fve cents per hum
dred pounds, to make into skim cheese,
exclusive of labor; the labor goes into
the general farm work, and making of
the butter and cheese. We don't fig
ure on these branches, but on the labor
on the farm. It is worth about thirty
five cents hundred to make into skim
cheese to sell to those that want it.
There is just as good market; Just as
legitimate market for skim cheese as
full milk cheese. And it is folly for
farmers to take their milk to the fac
tories and make cheese, and get about
ninety-two to ninety-three cents per
hundred, while if they manufacture it
into butter, they get more than that for
the butter, and enough to make up a
dollar and forty cents per hundred for
the milk ....e
The Tulip Tree.
There are few American trees more
worthy of cultivation than this. It is
also called yellow poplar" and "white-
wood" both of which are misnomers.
for it is not poplar at all, and the wood
is of various shades of yellow. Its boz
tanical name is Liriodendron tulipifera.
As lawn tree it is highly ornamental,
with glossy, peculiarly cut leaves, and
an abundance of greenish orange bios
SONS, followed by the tassel-iike seed
vessels. In autumn the foliage turns
to rich golden yellow. So far as
known, it is wholly exempt from insect
pests. AS timber tree it is valuable,
being rapid in growth and furnishing
the well. known white wood" so useful
in cabinet and other fine work. It is
found in all parts of the country, but
reaches its highest perfection in rich
soils from Western New York to the
Mississippi River. It is not uncommon
to find trees 4 to s feet in diameter at
the stump. The demand for the wood
of this tree is so great that it is rapidly
disappearing.-[Prairie Farmer. -
Wild Plants for Hanging Baskets.
There is plenty of material growing
on the broad prairies as we'll as in the
wooded dells, that, with little skill and
taste, will make up baskets quite as
beautiful as the most costly work of the
city florists. For foundation nothing
is better than moss-lined wire basket.
but in it's absence, an old wooden bowl,
or tin pan, covered with rustic work, or
a basket woven from twigs of beech,
hickory, or Usage will last through one
season. The latter is to be lined with
moss. In the center place fern root
surrounding it with some of the many
beautiful wild plants Astounding in the
roads and fields, such as either the
erect or creeping potentillas or give
finger cinquefoii, ground ivy, and even
wild strawberry, squaw berry (Michella
repens), hawkweed, saxifrage, and many
others. An additional advantage is that
these things will flourish in shaded
north windows where greenhouse plants
would become spindling and sickly
Such basket, if well cared for, may be
a source of unfailing pleasure. "
r.. Z. F.
Points of Good Farm Horse