Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-02
Agricultural Miscellany.

A. A. Bonner, son OF Robert Bonner
of the New York Ledger, said to re-
porter, anent Maud SIS last perform
ance: Father is An enthusiast on
horse shooting; he has made lifelong
study Of it; :. and since he has owned
Maud s. she has been shod according
to his directions and it has improved
her materially She is an ideal trotter,
perfect single or double, on the road or
on the track. Then she is bred &C
cording to the latest and most approved
methods Of producing speed and last
ing qualities. Her sire Harold is by
old Hambletonian, his dam being by
Abdallah. Yvu see he is strongly in
bred. Mauds dam, Miss Russell, was
by Pilot, Jr.. and her dam by Boston.
Consequently Maud S. combines the
best trotting and the best running
blood in America"
Does the number of ROSTERS kept in
flock Of fowls influence sex? Who
can tell? The question is submitted to
our experiment stations as one fully
worthy Of investigation. Until the
past year one of our neighbors thought
it we'll to have rs cocks to 1875 hens
White Leghorns. The chickens aver
aged about one half roosters. The
past year he changed the proportion so
that there should be but one cock to Is
hens. He raised Is chickens the past
season, Of which number 10 were roos-
ters. The hens ejust as well content
ed in the one case as in the other.
II you want mess Of green peas
next Spring, before any Of your neigh
bors, try the following method: Take
seeds of the earliest peas, and sow them
in sand and keep the box in warm
place where it is to remain until the
seeds have sprouted, keeping the sand
moist all the while. II the weather
should he too wintry, the box may be
placed in cool part of the cellar where
it may remain month, if necessary.
As soon, however, as the weather per-
mits, plant the sprouted peas carefully
in the open ground.
In reply to query about worms in
swine, the Live Stock Monthly advises
in such eases to give each animal, first
thing in the morning. a teaspoonful Of
oil Of turpentine, mixed with quart Of
sweet milk or thin Cruel. They will
drink this voluntarily, and it may be
continued every morning during @ week.
If found necessary, it may be repeated
after MI interval Of ten or fourteen days.
Give plenty of sour milk or butter milk;
also access to ashes, charcoal and salt,
which may be PLACED in separate. small
troughs and should not be mixed With
their food. A few sliced raw onions
may be fed with their food.
Admirers Of Sweet Peas who are &C
customed to see the vines wlther after
the first flush of beauty will be glad to
know that it IS possible to have con-
slant succession of flowers through the
entire season. 4 correspondent of
Gardening Illustrated knows this to be
true by repeated experience of many
many years, and here is the secret of his
success:
"The first requisite is we'll manured
soil, and in light soils surface mulchings
are necessary. The seedpods should
be kept picked off; our plan is to go
over them for this purpose regularly
once week. The points Of the haulm
are pinched when about three feet high,
and this causes lateral extension; they
are again pinched at five feet, and it is
to these side shoots that the extended
season Of Towering is DUE"