The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-03-27
For The Farmer.

California grows large crops of the
succulent peanut. The product Is
especially fine near Santa Barbara.
A little air Stacked lime sprinkled
over the potatoes in the cellar will tend
to prevent rot and purify the air OF the
cellar
An averaged-sized horse is said to
have stomach capable of holding
about three gallons. The stomach Of
an ordinary-sized dog holds about halt
a gallon.
In order to keep the striped beetle
from the vines the experiment was tried
OF placing corn-cobs dipped in coal tar
near the hills. While the practice did
not entirely prevent the ravages of the
beetle, their numbers were largely
diminished.
There Is he ration which, fed to 0
cow, will give as good mifk-Sr butter as
cornmeal and good wheat bran. There
may be others which will produce these
products cheaper, but the quality will
be inferior; so says the wideawake little
Farm Journal.
He who would succeed in feeding
cattle for market should house his
beeves in warm, dry, clean stalls; never
leave them in the storm, shivering, nol
keep them knee deep in mud. All the
food used in keeping an animal warm
is so much taken from the fattening
supply.
New Eugland's few acres of corn
produced an average yield of thirty.
three bushels last year. Only Kansas
and Nebraska did better. yet all of the
Western States should be able to show
a greater average crop. Extensive
farming is not so good as intensive
farming
Kindness to domestic animals means
thrift and prosperity; abuse and neglect
result in viciousness of disposition, loss
Of time, unthrift, aud reduction OF
market value. When this understand.
ing becomes universal. mans happiness
and prosperity will have been greatly
augmented.
Soapsuds applied to gooseberry or to
currant bushes will kill moss growing
on them. The application may be
made at any time, but better when no
leaves are on. Several applications
may be required, but as the suds is an
| excellent fertilizer the trouble will be
more than compensated for by the in.
creased growth.
There is great and increasing
demand for horses of the heaviest type
in the seaport towns of this and other
countries. 1t is found that the docks
ut New York and the streets of other
cities have become so crowded that il
is far more convenient to use one horse
that can move several tons than some
two or three which takes up so much
more room.
The common rule for reckoning the
quantity of hay necessary to keep an
animal in condition, without gaining or
losing, is one pound per day for each
fifty pounds of live weight. Thus a
large cow, say of 1900 pounds, will re-
quire twenty-four pounds of hay per
day;a small one of 800poands will need
but sixteen pounds per day In year
the difference amounts to 1920 pounds,
worth, at 80 per ton, Sl4.6o, which
goes for merely supporting 400 pounds
-of flesh not needed Tor producing miih
This $14.60 would pay the interest on
S208.50, which would in turn pay for o
well-bred jersey of good butter capac-
ity.
A contributor to the Southern Lire.
Stock Journdttells of a scrub cow owned
by him which gave for her former
owner eight gallons of milk in one day
with ease; also that the former owner
is positive that she made fourteen
pounds Of butter per week, and that
the family used some which was not
weighed. Her present owner reports
that she gave thirteen quarts one even
ing, and from that milking one pound
and five ounces of butter was made. II
this was all true the scrub was certain
ly a remarkably-good one; but the trou-
bic with such statements is that they
are usually based upon evidence not
carefully enough verified to be of value.