Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-31
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and an unusual score to the credit OF the Oak
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THE SWINE PLAGUE
DR. Salmon, Chief Of Animal Bureau of the nj
ted States. says that for disinfecting, corrosive
sublimate. one to =, 600 parts will kill the bac-
tesia swine-plsgue, and il = hog should drink
two gallons of this solution it will do HARM The
solution not used for drinking should be freely
eprinkled over the lot, yard, or pens in which
the swine are kept. Sulphuric acid, one to 81 90
parts is Alec recommended.
CURRENT NOTES.
The sweet and best. Favored pork in the world
is produced on the Island Of Madeira. The
hogs there euhsist mainly on fruits, nuts, grass
and roots.
Do not allow stock, especially work horses
and mich cows, to drink ice.cold water. To
take the chill from water costs so little that it
is hardly to be considered in the expense &C.
count. Some Of the more advanced stock
keepers now will not allow any Of thu ir stock to
drink tce-cold water.
Six thousand Percheron horses have been i'm
ported into this country, first and last. OF
there more than loo were brought over last
year.
Young stock, once allowed tc run down, never
ferior feed and lice the first generally brings
the second. Poor feeding is scandalous; vermin
added to it is brutal.
The annual wool clip of Washington Territory
Is over 8 ,O00, 900 pounds.
The Farmers Advocate, Ontario, Gays: 1.-The
rapid increase of wheat imports into Great Brit
ain from Australasia and India must ultimately,
II not in the near future, shut Canada, excepting
Manitoba and our Northwest, from the British
vhoot EofS Ind - "a
we can export any more wheat 1T profit, ex-
cept In case Of q disastrous war in Europe or q
failure Of the wheat<-fop in majority Of these
countries.
A tract Of land on the shore Of Cayuga Lake,
| near Canoga, N. T., has been leased to Roches-
| ter parties for the raising Of frogs for the New
York market.
Horses kept in stables will be all the better
| for run In the barnyard an hour every day,
| where they will not exercise, but roll in the
straw and clean themselves. Sta5le-kept horses
need some extra grooming, but their improved
condition under this management will repay it.
| correspondent writes that he has demon
| etrated the value of under-drains on his firm.
He was too poor to buy tile. but substituted
stone, placing the smaller ones each side Of the
ditch covering with larger ones, then placing on
| sod and filing in with dirt In the spring he
! finds he can SOW oats or plant corn two weeks
earlier than heretofore.
1t is stated IS among the things that the
| coming Legislature OF Minnesota will be asked
! to consider are certain amendments to the Grain
and Warehouse law: reduction Of grain rates
! on certain railway lines: the establishment Of a
Soldiers home; some further enactments con-
| corning agricultural fairs; and appropriations
for the holding of farmers institutes in the diff
| ferent counties Of the State.
Over 191, 900 tons of rock were quarred from
| the phosphates beds near Charleston, S. c., last
year, all put II 600 tons of which were shipped
To foreign points. The State receives royalty
Of 81 ton.
| HINTS And HELPS
In cleaning silver kerosene may be used with
advantage.
Carpet may be frightened by busting with a
! damp Camel mop.
Egg stains can be removed by rubbing with com
| mon table salt.
brill ant black varnish for iron stoves and
dreplaces is made by stirring ivory-black into
ordinary shellac varnieh.
Prairie fires have devasted 3,5OO.OOO acres
| in Texas this year.
Rub oiled furniture witha wooden cloth satura.
| ted slightly with oil.
| Stains on wood can be removed with strong
! vinegar or salts Of lemon.
Leather chair seats may be reAived by rubbing
| them with we'll. beaten white of egg.
Sandpaper will whiten ivory knife handles tina,
may have become yellow with use or age.
White paint that has become discolored may
| be nicely cleaned buy using q little whiting in
! the water for washing.
| A good cement for china is ordinary carriage
varnish; II put together neatly the fracture will
be hardly perceptible, and it is not affected by
! water.
| Galvanized iron pals are not desirable recep.
| taclee for drinking-water. The zinc coating i.
| quickly affected by the water, forming poison
! Gus oxide of zinc.
Fer cleaning braeses belonging to mahogany
furniture Use either pow dered whiting or scrap
| ed rottenstone mixed with sweet oil and rub or
| with q chamois skin.
| Vinegar is better than ice for keeping fish.
! By putting little vinegar on the fish it will
keep perfectly we'll even in very hot weather
Fish is often improved in flavor under this treat
| ment.
! To prevent polished steel from rusting, after
| cleaning, and vixen not In use, take cloth with
| very little sweet oil on it, and wipe the arti
cles over to slightly but evenly oil the
| the eurface.
Steel knives which are not III general uae may
be kept from rusting il they are dipped in {
| strong solution Of eoda-one part water to four
Of soda; then wipe dry, roll in flannel and keep
in a dry place.