Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18

a nice little sum to purchase Christ
mas presents with. So much for car
ing for the little things on the farm.
Is He Prejudiced?
A correspondent of the Breeders
Gazette, writing of pleuro-pneumonia
in the large cities of the Atlantic coast,
says: '"To my knowledge this disease
has been around Baltimore, Nd, for
ten years. Of late there has sprung up
quite trade from that section to
Ohio and west. There are plenty of
chaps who, as they express it, Having
bought the devil will see him again.
Heretofore the best market to unload
in has been the low-class butchers but
this Western trade pays better prices,
and as soon as last summers scare
subsidies it will come again. This may
be no more than you know, but I
thought that while so many are carp
ing at your treatment of this matter
it might not be out of the way for
those who must heartily approve OF
your course to tell you so. 1.-THE case
would justify the expense, and you or
any one else will send a competent de-
tective to the dairy region mentioned,
and especially to Baltimore, Nd, who,
without making any noise about it.,
will get acquainted with the tricks OF
the trade. he can find as many cases
of this disease as he wants. OF course
he must be a man who wants to find
it and knows how. I lose all patience
with a stockman who denies the dam
ger and Importance of this disease;
have seen it and I know. was g.
dairyman there once myself
The Merits Of Cows.
The National Live Stock Journal,
in an article urging dairymen to know
how much butter each of his COWS yields
says: 1t now becomes important to
know the quantity of milk for butter.
The test can only be made by churn-
ing the cream of each COW separately.
The bulk of cream is no test. It
will be a sufficient test to learn the
particular quality of the milk of each
COW by setting her milk for two or
three days by itself, and then churn
the cream by itself. The amount of
milk set should be weighed. The test
may be as we'll made two or three
weeks after calving. A small churn is
easily made by taking small crock
and making a dasher for it. Such
cream will usually churn to butter in
ten to fifteen minutes, so that the Ia
Dor is not great. In this way you will
get the actual richness of milk.
And when this test is made the dali
ryman will find the middling COW that
yields a moderate quantity of milk
the best COW in the herd for butter.
This, of course, is not always the case.
When this butter test is made the dali
ryman will know both the quantity
and quality OF milk from each COW in
his herd, and he can, without mistake,
select those he wishes to keep and those
he wishes to sell. And by such selec-
tions, and building up of his herd with
the best, he will soon find the profit
doubled or even trebled. Let not the
dairyman wait to change the blood of
his herd, but make the best of the
blood he has. He will, of course, find
it profitable to seek full-blooded sire
of the breed he desires to cross on his
selected herd, and then he will be able
to perpetuate their good qualities.
Force of Habit.
Farmers and their sons frequently
dwarf their intellects, and dull their
natural aptitude for successful bust
ness pursuits, says writer in the
Iowa State Register, by neglecting to
be constantly learning something USE
full. It is the impression of many
farmers that they have no time to
read the standard useful books, from
thefact that after a hard days toll,
they are too weary to read while they
rest. There may be some plausibility
in such an excuse to one who has new
ergone through the hurry and drudg-
cry OF long and weary days on the
prairie. But it is not true. It is q
rare case if farmer has not many
leisure hours in each week, not required
for labor or sleep, which could and
should be devoted to storinghis mind,
and making it active and useful. The
mind, like the muscles of the BODY, if
not exercised and strengthened by
use and culture, will become inactive.
dormant and feeble, so much so that
the man has not the ability nor in
clination to read Or study, and there
fore concludes there is no time to do
so. The writer, in his long life, has
witnessed bright boys growing up to
manhood, neglecting to store and
strengthen their minds until by long
habit they had no desire or hardly ca
pacity to exercise the brains Provi-
dence had endowed them with. Such
living cases are now in our minds of
aged farmers who started out in life
with q reasonable amount of intel
lect, and who mig ht have been bright
and useful men, or ornaments to So
ciety, and an honor to the families
they have raised. But they CON-
menced, as too many do yet, worked
hard with limited educations, but who
never appear to appreciate the value
of useful lessons to be acquired bv
careful reading, at leisure time, the
standard books on history, art and
science. Habit soon deadened all
such aspirations. They reared large
families of q down grade of intellect,
and accumulated property, but when
they really ought to have been in the
prime of life, they werepremature old
men and have q poor prospect of en-
joying that evening Of rest and con-
tentment which beauties and blesses
the man who has lived right! Instead
of enjoyment in life's evening of phys
ical rest, by the aid of an active mind,
still eager in the desire to acquire more
mental diet ola character to prepare
them not only for LIES afternoon, but
for eternity, they are barely waiting
to die. ), ~ 49,. :...: I'll: :
The writer last fall visited the scenes