The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-11-06
FARM

Table scraps are better food for poul-
try than pigs.
A good farmer never allows his live
stock to annoy his neighbors.
Manitoba's surplus wheat for this
year is estimated at 1000, 900 bushels.
Three pounds of butter are made
from five gallons of the milk of a Ten
nessee COW.
Good grass is the cheapest food for
stock, and nothing makes better beef
or mutton.
Nearly 5, 1000 is said to be the mum
Der of patents granted in the United
States on churns.
Work horses should not be fed too
much corn. The tendency of this
grain is to make fat rather than mus
Gle.
Sheep manure, on account of its
richness in SILICA, is said to make
wheat grow short and stout, with heavy
heads.
An absorbent material, as tow, lint,
sponge, ETC., suspended in a stable and
kept moist with impure Cheap car
bolic acid is said to keep flies away.
1t is reported that loo, 600 swine, out
of a total of Z, 900, 900, die every year
in England from swine-fever-probably
splenic-fever-one of the forms OF So
called hog-cholera in the United States.
In 1862 the lowest gross price for
hogs was 2.55. In 1865 it was S11.50,
the highest price ever reached. In
1875 the price went as low as 1915.
Since that time SO is the lowest price
reached.
How milking is done in the Island of
Jersey is thus described: Tall buck
cts narrowed near the top, with WIDEN
ed mouths, are used. A linen cloth is
tied over the top; then a smooth sea-
shell is pushed down in the depression
to receive the milk. The shell pre-
vents the wearing of the cloth by the
streams of milk. When the milking is
done the straining is also completed"
The average of 5000 pounds of milk
from five Holstein- Fricsian cows is re-
ported as having been made at tho
Iowa Agricultural College last year,
with a difference rs between the high
est and lowest quantity of any one of
less than 100 pounds. Eleven quarts
per day as the average for 500 days in
a herd of five COWS, presumably not of
the highest possible milking order, will
do.
A Kentucky hen, while being driven
out of a neighbours garden. let fall an
egg, which the mn who drove her
out picked up and utilized. A suit was
brought in court 10 recover the price
rf tho ~ xuhan - urnc Aani1a6 that
1.-The egg being laid on the premises of
the defendant. it was her egg" An
appeal was taken TO a higher court,
when this decision was reversed on &C
count of the word ''laid" having been
used. The hen did not lay the egg,
but dropped it.
When a cheese which has been much
sailed and kept dry, says an exchange,
is washed several times in soft water
and then laid on a cloth moisted with
wine OF vinegar. it gradually loses its
sadness, and, if it be a rich cheese,
from being hard and dry it becomes
soft and mellow. This simple method
Of improving cheese is worth knowing.
1t is generally practiced in Switzerland,
where cheeses are kept stored for many
years, and if they were not very salt
and dry would soon become the prey
of worms and mites.
The Farmers Magazine says the
best method of Kidding the ground of
cut-worms is to pillow late in the fall,
turning the earth up deep. Do not
harrow it, but leave it in the rough
condition. The frost will penetrate
the soil and kill the worms. Should,
however, the blowing be done too
soon, the worms will have time to seek
protection lower down, and the plow-
ing therefore should be done as late
as possible, for fear that some of the
worms may escape. Pillow the field
again in the spring, but as early as
possible, and the work of extermina-
ton will be complete.