Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-06-24
greatly accelerates the work during
the entire season.-Country Gentleman.
Gleanfngs.

Gleanfngs.
When an orchard ceases bearing while
the trees are still sound and healthy, it
is certain that labor and manure applied
IN restoring it to productiveness will paw
better than anywhere else on the farm.
1t has been ascertained by carefully
repeated experiments that the first
drawn milk contains five, the second
eight and the fifth seventeen Der cent.
of cream. Thus a COW three-ouarters
MIXED is not half MIXED, if butter is
the object.
| The statistical account of the produc-
ton of wool throughout the civilized
world shows that in the year 1880 it
was 32O, 0OO, 900 pounds, in 1871 it was
nearly 1000, 100000, while in 1883 in
the United States alone the production
in the whole world in 1880.
The egg plant seed, says Mr.. Wick,
may be sown with tomato seeds: but
more care is necessary at TRANSFORMING,
! to prevent the plants being chilled by
the change. Those who have no hot
beds can SOW few seeds in boxes in
the house. Hand-glasses are useful for
covering at time of transplanting.
A grower of small fruit has found
that salt hay, spread over the whole
surface of the ground 10 the depth of
three inches, will prevent mildew on
gooseberries. This grower, who resides
near the sea-coast, obtains his salt hav
from the marshes which the tide over
flows. Common, coarse hay or bog
grass, soaked in brine, would probably
answer just as we'll.
The Germantown Telegraph AYERS
that ounces can be raised as readily
as apples or pears. But the ground
where they are growing needs to be kept
from grass and weeds; and it is an ex-
cellent practice to spread ashes of
any sort and lime around the trees,
and dig such fertilizing material into
the soil. Ounces sell. as high as $40 a
barrel, and they have always been high.
DR.. Nichols, of the Boston Journal
of Chemistry, found by repeated and
careful experiments, that the cooling
of cows legs by standing in pool Of
cool water in hot summer days, sensi-
bly, diminished the milk secretion, so
sensitive are COWS to the influence of
cold. Yet many farmers subject their
mich COWS to frequent and severe chills
during the winter, both indoors and
out.
England imports nearly $25,000,00O
worth OF cheese year. The average
price paid for the imported article is a
little less than eleven cents per pound
Canada sends higher priced article
than the United States, and the largest
amount of any one country in COMPARE
son with previous years. The increase
from the United States has been slight,
and the product of Holland cannot COM
pete with American cheese.
A Pomfret (Conn.) farmer, whose
COWS are accustomed to run beside
barbed wire fences, wishing to open a
part of the moving to them for fall feed,
drew two lines of old cord and other
pieces Of Irvine across the field, making
them fast here and there to some bean
poles. The whole thing was the work
OF only few minutes, but not one of
his eight COWS ever crossed or molestcd
that fence. They fed up to it and then
turned aside. Such is the force of habit.
The latest improvement in raising
lima beans is to use brush about eight
feet high, stuck like pea-brush, instead
ofpoles, as commonly practised. Plant
in hills about three feet apart in the
direction of the rows, two or three
plants to the hill, and the rows six or
eight feet from each other. Cut off the
tops of the plants when they get above
the brush, and stop all the side shoots
when they are two feet long. The
vines are much better exposed to the
sun and air in this manner, and far
larger crops are said to be matured
than by polling.
The Poultry Monthly has some ad-
vice to give on the care of young chicks.
1t says: For the first twenty-fo hours
do not give them any food whatever,
and do not give them raw food until
three or four weeks old, but cooked in
gradients, stale bread soaked, hard
boiled eggs, thoroughly boiled potatoes,
fine corn-meal, etc. This food should
be given them eight or nine times day
during this term, and if you can give
them milk to drink so much the better
for them. When they are past four
weeks old then give them cooked meats,
vegetables, with some wheat screenings.
Many careful and painstaking farm
ers have demonstrated the fact, that
old animals, of any kind of farm stock,
cannot be protitably kept upon the farm,
as a general rule. We saw it stated
that a gentleman who served on the
committee of cost of production, at the
late Chicago Fat Stock Show, said the
fact was established, that profitable
feeding did not extend beyond the two
year-olds. We find it convenient to
keep our steers till three years old, but
we doubt if there is much profit in
keeping them greatly beyond this age.
AS to pigs, eli ght to ten months will
give greater profit than if wintered over.
Fruit-growers must now prepare for
the coming of two broods of locusts-
the seventeen-year and the thirteen
year. The entomologist of the Agri-
cultural Department gives warning
that they will soon be here, and will
remain until late in July. Fortunately
he is able to predict that they will not
do a great deal of harm. For the first
time in 22l years the two broods will
appear in con junction. A short arith-
metical calculation will prove that only
once in 221 years can these two bands of
marauders meet and become acquainted
with each other, if they strictly observe
the periods of what may be called
their revolutions.
Ancient Temperance Pledge.
On the blank leaf of an old English
Bible which has been transmitted from
sire to son through many successive
generations and appears as the prop
erty of Robert Bolton, B. D., and
preacher of Gods Word at Broughton,
Northamptonshire, is inscribed the
following pledge: .'From this day for,