Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-05-23
Choice Farming Condensattons.

Young sows that are to come in should
be put in the best possible condition.
A young SOW not fully matured is still
in growing condition, and as she must
provide growth for her embryo litter as
we'll as herself she must not Gully be
fed with view of being kept in good
condition: but must be made comfort
able in every other respect, as the care
of the little after birth is greater tax
upon her than would be the case where
she an old SOW.
To getrid of the cabbage-wormI have
successfully used butter milk and water
the last two. years--about one-third of
the former to two-thirds of she latter.
My cabbages were also badly infested
with lice, but two applications freed
them completely. The brown and yell
low stripped bug, the great pest to Gu
cumber and water mellon vines, will do
no damage if the vines are occasionally
sprink1ed with the mixture; but think
they require sprinkling oftener aud with
a stronger solution of butter milk than
the cabbage.
The true inwardness of tile opposi-
ton to the trade in western slaughtered
beef seems to be that the railroads have
large interest in continuing the pres
ent system OF live stock shipment, with
all it's barbarities. The feeding of the
stock is one of the perquisites of the
railroads, and is very profitable, hay
costing So per ton being charged to the
shipper at $50. Besides, two carloads
of live cattle can be put into one car
when slaughtered, OF "a reduction of one
half the freight; and so cry is raised,
that western slaughtered. beef is IN
wholesome; that diseased cattle are
killed. for beef, that could! not be sent
forward. alive, and that the gases usedi
in the process Of refrigerating injure
the, meat. Truly, we may say with old
Jack Falstaff, "LordA. how men are
given to lying!"'
Farmers 10 not consider the profit
there is in rearing horses for sale :; g. 1900
pound horse Will sell In the market for
$780,. or about 20, cents, a. pound live
weight. At three. years:a horse is earn
ing his feed and paving back for his
previous cost. ATT five years his work
has left him out of debt, and if sold for
$3.50, this is clear profit. Compared
with q three year~old steer weighing
1900 pounds, and selling for six cents
per pound live weight, the horse shows
an exceedingly greater: profit. Maine
farmers always had o reputation for
shrewdness, and when the agricultural
reports from that state show a large in
crease in the business of rearing horses,
for sale in the Boston market, it shows
the reputation is not got undeservedly.
A New Englanaer says he has; lived a
poor man forty years and grown pre-
! maturely old on a stony farm, some OF
the objections to which he names in
The Manchester Mirror:
eff one has; to clear the land of stone,
The cost will generally be more per acre
than the price Of the land, and on many
| farms, after the surface stones are re-
| moved, it win be necessary to pick of
the loose stones after each plonghing.
The land is lowered by the stones re-
| moved so That the plough runs deeper,
and by the action of frost the stones
are constantly rising to the surface.
! DuCu IAu&o Ao MUi0 6A4lNu6lto W
| plough and to cultivate, wearing out
more tools and requiring more time and
strength On such lands at least double
/ the amount of labor is required. {" 81
| A well known nlinoisian reports as a
fact that 500 will just now buy ], 900
bushels of potat oes in Illinois. At this
price it will pay to feed potatoes to stack
Of all kinds A few are exceedingly
useful TO horses, and especially to those
suffering from heayes or broken wind
When potatoes are fed to cows tho tub.
ers should be boiled, by which any irrii.
tation to the bowels from indigested
starch granules IS avoided. Raw pota.
toes will effect the flavor Of milk, ant
! of course thatof butter, but boiled apota
i toes, fed cold, are easily digested, AMI
, il mixed with q little bran and lightly
4 salted, are very palatable and nutrii-
i oious. Potatoes contains 20 per cent. 9
starch corn contains 80 per cent tthel
Il il corn IS worth SO asnts 8 busheb spota
, toes are worth about IL cents d b1isfie
| to feed. But they are worth 10 cents