Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-10-20

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county ground Corn, can b bought ii the city
MARKETS, but z g not more wholesome nor more
@palatable th4n can be made BY little trouble in
thecountry grist-m III and farmers kitchen.
COTTON M MEXICO. s..
Mexico seems to be developing in the manu-
facture Of cotton to far greater extent than in
the production Of the crop. Omcial statistics
state that, while the cotton crop increased from
50, 600, 900 pounds in 1879 to only $4,000 600 in
1883, the importation of raw cotton there from
the United States rose from 20, 5OO, 900 in 1883
to IS. O0O, OOO pounds in 1884. There are eighty
eight cotton factories in Mexico and seven wool.
en- mills. There are also fifteen or twenty cotton
printing establishments in Mexico. The prin.
cipal cotton manufactures are brown shirtines
bleached goods being mostly imported from
England
ENGLISH HOP HARVEST.
English advices states that the hop harvest,
which commenced with the beginning of Sep
TENDER. has under the fine and hot weather
been brought rapidly to maturity, 80 far - the
'searliest'' are concerned. In Kent the hops
are frst-rate and heavy, but it is thought they
win require more drying than usual. The hops
are also reported to be exceptionally free from
parasites, except mold, and this is not found to
any considerable extent. In Sussex, another
large hop.growiug district, reports are equally
favorable, the quality being reported to be
ssgenerally superb In one part Of Kent where
picking Nss commenced the growth is excep-
tionally hne, and it is estimated that the yield
viii average from ten to twelve hundred weight
(Euglish) per acre.
THE WELL FED COW.
. 1t is estimated, and safely so. says the Dairy
man, that good well-fed COW puts ten dollars
worth Of manure on about the four acres Of land
it takes to keep her for year on most farms.
Putting that amount Of fertilization ON the soil
of . fairly good farm soon makes it produce so
that one COW cannot eat the product of four
acres: and the result is. more mouths to feed
and more milk, or larger grain crops to sell.
The above facts make the anchor the good farm
er clings to, when beset with the temptation, to
which the weaklings yield, to abandon dairying
and stock raising when milk and meat are cheap.
He knows, or ought to, that increased fertfliza-
ton is money in the safest bank in the world,
il he don't count it in his purse this year, and
that to abandon the means of fertilization on
rags, ignorance and no music, either in the soul
or in the house.
Make your butter every day, and send it to
market as soon after 1t is made as possible.
When fowls are kept in a yard, it is best to
dig up small corner occasionally to let them
hunt for worms.
Some oak timber, which in 1924 had served
1874 years for roof beams in an English
church, lie still doing duty as q seat in farm
er's kitchen.
At the recent meeting of the Iowa Horticul-
fnrQ1 SOciQtV IT recommended tn nlAnf
white pine and black locust trees for profit;
also black cherry for high land, and black wal
nut for low land.
In making butter fix the percentage of salt
to be used and stick to it, establish butter facto
ries in every dairying center, where the products
of the various small diaries may be worked up
into one uniform quality.
O There have been four convictions under the
Ohio oleomargarine law at Cincinnati. In each
case the fine was $50; the judge promised them
a, fine of $500 apiece If brought before him again
for the same ofense.
The average yield of wheat per acre in Great
Britain is slowly increasing, the present yield
being twenty-nine bushels, or about two and
one-Quarter times that OF the United States.
which is estimated at thirteen bushels per
acre.
Poultry need far more care during damp, rainy
weather, than during the dry, warm weather Of
summer, or the clear, cold weather Of winter,
for dampness engenders numerous disorders,
many of which are difficult to cure. Therefore
it lie better to apply the preventive than to ad.
minister proposed cure.
Always gather your own tomato seeds, select
ing the earliest and smoothest specimens from
the variety which you may prefer. 1t
may be advisable to pick these fruits for seed
before they are fully ripe, for it is proclaimed
as fact that earliness is promoted by seed from
immature fruit.
The stock business in Colorado is reported
losses ocasioned by the severe weather Of last
winter. One feature is the almost entire
failure of the calf crop. This, with the low
price of beef cattle, makes bad state of things.
and large numbers of stockmen Of limited
means will be oblige to sell out.
1t is related in California paper that China
men are making money in California going over
stacks of straw abandoned by farmers and
clearing ont mustard-seed in them. One China
man will save 100 pounds or more day and
make better wages from what the white man
throws away than farmers have made from their
grain crops.
In it's September notes Vick's Monthly says:
'Strawberres can be planted through the
month, and If well cared for and protected
through winter will be in good condition for an
early start in spring. The old canes of rasp-
stroyed. At the North, spinach seed should be
sown from the middle to the last of the month.
1t should be given rich, well-drained soil
deeply worked. Sow in drills from fourteen to
eighteen inches apart, and an inch Deep
A cement that will resist sulphuric acid, even
at boiling heat, may be made by melting caout-
chouc at gentle heat and stirring In from six to
eight per cent. Of tallow. Then mix in enough
dry Stacked lime to make the whole of the con-
sistency of soft paste, after which add about
twenty-five per cent. of red lead, which
canses the mass to set hard and dry. A mixture
of caoutchouc in twice it's weight of linseed oil
aud the addition of an equal amount Of pipe
clay will form paste that will resist the action
of most acids.