Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-03-07
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D. M. Moninge gen, iii relation to beef
cattle, and preparing them for fat stock
shows, says . are all after the cat
tie that mature early It IS from this
type only that we can make up the
steer that Will dress 70 per cent. and
over at three years old This tells the
quality Of the animal, and also the skill
of the feeder and breeder. In the
rings Of one, two and three-year old
steers, IL IS all wrong to make such re-
marks as IS Too fat. - Such remarks
lnlis1ead the feeder who is preparing for
the fat stock shows. I think we want
fat cattle fully ripe, and no other kind,
at a fat stock show,
Darwin gives much evidence to the
effect that bumblebees are necessary to
a full crop Of clover seed. DR.. w. j.
Beal, who has experimental largely for
the past few years, says: These exper-
iments, with those made by Darwin and
others, make it look as though bees and
bumblebees help to fertilize the flowers
of white and red clover, and cause the
plants to set seed more freely" There
seems little doubt that scarcity OF
bumblebees would lesson the crop Of
clover. The common black bee cannot
work on red clover, and as the humble
bees are few in numbers early in the
summer, we see q very plausible expla-
nation Of the commonly observed fact
that the first crop Of red clover seeds
poorly while the second crop bears
well. The italian, Cyprian, and Syrian
bees work on red clover, and so may
make us less dependent on the humble
I bees. nG@ ..s4., =
Do. what fencing you can at once,
says the Maryland Farmer, and prepare
the fencing stuff. during bad weather,
that it may be ready for use when
wanted. If you intend to use wire, get
it at once, and get the posts ready, so
it can be put up speedily as soon as the
ground permits it to be done well and
soidly. We should put four wires and
plant post every rod apart. See that
the starting end and corner posts are
we'll rammed, secured tight and proper
~ braced. Remember wire is only a
cheap and durable fence when properly
built. Once we'll done it will give no
trouble for many years. Plant locust
or pear trees every Is or 20 feet along
the line to furnish living posts for the
fence, as the posts now painted may
decay OF want renewal. IS ...
A correspondent of the Husbandman
says that sulphur is preventive of po-
tato rot, and this is confirmed by the
experience Of Vermont farmer, who
rolled his cut potatoes in fine sulphur
at planting and busted the plants as
they appeared above the ground.
Neither rot, worm nor insect touched
them, though potatoes on neighboring
farms were badly damaged. His pota-
toes were excellent and the crop yielded
we'll There is no doubt that sulphur
will assist materially in preventing fun
gus growth in other plants as well as
potatoes, and it would be we'll if farmers
give it a trial for such purposes the COM
ing season. .'.,.~z. 7'-'..- "'
It is from the west that the Ioudest
call for action, on the part of the gen
eral government, in stamping out pleu-
ro-pneumonia among the cattle. The
west has more than one thousand mil
lions of dollars invested in cattle, and q
large part Of these cattle are'handled
on the ranges in such way that if the
disease once makes it's appearance it
would be as useless to attempt SO save Q
powder magazine after spark. had ig-
nited it. This may seem an extraya-
giant statement, but the fearful expert
ences of Australia, South Africa and
Russia will bear it out. Whatever steps
congress decides upon taking it should
be borne in mind that no halfway
measures will do. If it is right to un-
dertake the work of discriminating a
malignant disease which has cost Great
Britain and her dependencies $500, 000,-
600 according to the London Times)
and which may cost us as much more, it
is right to do the work Immediately and
efectually.
There is to much neglect by publish
ers Of American papers in changing Eng
ish prices current to the comprehension
Of American readers. Not half the
readers of American newspapers can
tell the price of wheat when it is quoted
s'37s per quarter" Even if qualified,
it would take some time to figure out
what that would be per bushel. A
':quarter" of wheat in England means a
quarter Of ton, Or about eight and one
third bushels, but practice calls it eight
bushels. A shilling English is "a cents
American. So it can be ascertained
that wheat at 37s per quarter is Sill
per bushel. So our friend, as we'll as
all our readers, will know how to esti-
mate the price of wheat in England.
But the publisher of paper could cas-
Ter translate foreign prices from Eng
lish to American than for 5000 Of his
readers to do it each for himself, and
the other 5000 forever remain igno-
rant Of what it means. ~
y Lightain the Barn. &s,..; ;.
Under the head Of flights in the
Barn" the Agriculturist says: 'It is
estimated that nine- tenths of all fires are
causedrby carelessness. Nov is the sea-