The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
FARM NOTES.

Wheat Is IN excellent food Tor grow.
ing chicks.
About 1900 acres is said TO constitute
Il fair Texas ranch.
London has 100000 dogs and New
York 100000. In London dogs are muz-
zled.
In Australia many wOol-growcrs shear
their sheep by machinery driven by
steam.
Two thousand -bloodcd bulls were
taken upon the cattle ranges of Arizona
last year.
''ln Thibet the women do the farm
ing while the men loaf" The same is
true of the American Indians.
Ensilage is making rapid Roadway in
England. There We're 246 entries ut the
recent ensilage show nj Smithfield.
The sick are said to be tyrants. So
are hungry animals. DO not let them
get hungry. 1t makes the pocket empty.
Feed plenty of carrots and plenty of
grain. keep the cows warm, and you
may have fairly yellow butter in winter.
A farmers paper recommends poison.
ing the carcass of a sheep found killed
by dogs. The same dogs will return.
The Texas Stockmap thinks steer year.
lings will open at not less than So,
and will 90 to 80 before the season is
over.
Italy exports about 5O,OOO,OO0 eggs to
England annually, for which they get
an average price of nine cents per
dozen.
The total amount of wheat raised last
season in all the wheat-producing coun-
tries of the world is estimated from
$4,000, 900 to 1868, 200, 900 bushels.
1t is curious that barbed wire should
have advanced sixty cents per hundred
pounds, with still further advance pre-
dicted. There is no special boom in the
iron market.
A Clark county, Kentucky, flock Of
| sheep became soaked in the rain and
frozen together in the recent blizzard,
and had TO be separated with a case
| knife, saws the Lire-StOck Record Ken
lucky sheep should wear blankets.
Diarhea in calves is successfully
treated by giving the whites of eggs
beaten up with water into an emulsion,
eight eggs being used TO a pint of water,
half tablespoonful being taken at q
dose and repeated every two hours.
One of the merits peculiar to blue
grass us Il pasture feed is said to be that
the longer il is pasturcd the more it will
Weld, provided. however, it is not
grazed too closely, and stock is kept
from it in the spring until the soil is so
dry us to be firm.
Remember the young animals are
better You feed the sooner you mature
them. and to better profit than if al
lowed to get poor in winter and require
half the summer to again bring them
INTO decent condition.
L. ID. Curtis reminds dairymen that
salt may be highly charged with OBJ
jcctionablc odors, which il will COM
municatc to the butter 1t should be
pure and sweet. Otherwise, there may
be ..lishy" flavors and unknown but I'M
deniablc taints which detcriOrate its
quality.
A contemporary thinks there should
be prohibitory law against feeding
brewers grains to dairy stock. But
brewers grains are not inimical if fed
perfectly fresh The trouble is they are
often allowed to heat, even To get putrid.
In this case they are nearly as vile a
food us disiillcry slop.
a Mcpherson (Kas.) farmer has 25,-
600 forest trees, mostly planted 1879 80,
on raw prairie. The different varieties
range in diameter of stem from one to
six inches, and in hight from ten TO
thirty feet. There are also apple and
Eprach orchards. 500 grapevines. and
various small! fruits.
According To an English writer, the
prehistoric horse Of the age of the cave
man. as shown by carvings on horn,
antclcrs, etc, was even smaller than the
Shetland pony, had head and neck
very large in proportion TO the body, q
coarse and heavy name. and was alto
gether clumsy sort of animal.
Winter is the best time to do grub
bling, clearing of land, and cleaning out
IF fcnce-rows which are grown up with
bushes, etc, if done when the ground is
not frozen! This work can be done
more easily in winter, because the
ground is thrown up by the successive
frosts and is softer, when not frozen,
than in any other season.
The Texas StOckman truly says that
''wool must be sold, each clip on its
merits. If man has fine clip, he
livery naturally objects to have it aid in