Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-05-19
Current Notes.

If you plant evergreens do so before
the buds have fairly broken into new
growth.
Be irregular in sailing, and the milk
will show it in quality.
Remember your horses cannot tell
you of their ills and pains. 1t is your
duty to watch for them.
An egg broken in the feed once or
twice day will tone up a horse sys-
TEN and make his hair more glossy.
But special foods are to be used only
for emergencies.
Consular returns now show that
actual purchases of wool this season
for America from Melbourne, Sydney,
and Adelaide aggregate 25,419 bales.
Artificial eyes are now furnished for
horses that have lost an optic by
accident, A glass eye helps the looks
of horse, even if can't look through
it.-Honae and Farm.
Too long pulls on q muddy road
often hurt the wind of a horse. When
they begin to breathe heavily it is
time to give them "blow.''
1t is an easier matter to keep the
stables clean and orderly than it is
supposed by those who have not tried
it. If you are ono of this number be-
gin at once and see if it is not true.
AS rule the greater degree to wich
farm products seeking a market can be
concentrated in bulk aud weight, the
greater profit to the producer. Raise
grass and feed all the coarse grains of
the farm to stock.
The average importation of horses
from Canada into the United States
for some years past has been about
1000 head. A few years ago the aver.
age value per head of horses so import
ed was $95, whereas last year it was
$40.
A farmer who has for three years
practiced sowing the largest and
plumpest kernels of wheat says he
knows of a certainty that his crop i'm
proves.
A Nebraska farmer, who has been
experimenting with the blue grass
concludes that all Northern Nebraska
will prove to be one of the finest tame
grass countries in the world.
DIR. Sturtevant, at the New York Ex-
perimental Station, fouEd that mulch
ing the soil lightly between the rows
of peas with straw retarded the attack
of mildew very preceptioly. 1t is the
late sown crop that suffers.
The exports of genuine butter have
fallen from 4O,00O,OOO in 1880 to 21,-
638, 1873 pounds in 1885, or nearly one
half, while tho exports of butter substi-
tutes have increased from 10000, 900
pounds in 1880 to SO, 900, 900 in 1885.
The suffering and loss of cattle in
the Southwest this winter will tend to
revolutionize the cattle business, says
a Kansas rancher, and further that
public sentiment is against large herds,
and, as the country is rapidly settling
up, the herds must be smaller and re-
ceive better care.
The cattle of the Indian Territory
and Texas are said to be ready for the
trail, and it is estimated that the spring
drive will reach 100000 head. The
drive will not be as it has been hereto
fore. through Western Kansas, but
will be along the National Trail, just
over the State line in Colorado.
The quality of the food eaten by
cow always influences the milk. Ger
tain foods eaten by animals will change
the quality of the flesh and even the
bone. 1t pays, especially in the N ak
ing of high-class butter and cheese.
that attention be given to the food
eaten as well as to the manipulation of
the milk.
All kinds of stock eat aud seem to
relish their feed better when
it is slightly sailed, and it is
a good plan to season the
food for the stock just the same as for
human use. This method has several
advantages to recommend it, among
which may be reckoned the regularity
of the sailing thus secured. There is
no danger Of any animal overgerging
itself with salt, and stock will relish
its feed better and eat it up cleaner,
aud as . consequence do better
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