Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-10-06
CHOICE NOTES.

| CHOICE NOTES.
The New Jersey cranberry crop is abundant,
while that of Wisconsin is almost q failure.
Keep the roadsides free from stones aud rub
bish and neatly mown. Don't let them be a
nursery of weed seeds.
In Europe farmers prefer to keep sheep for
wool on soils containing lime, as they say en-
such soils the quality of wool is better
The regular expectation of dressed beef from
Texas to England will begin this month. The
first vessel is to be loaded at Galveston.
The United States has g, 900, 900 miles of fence,
which cost the farmers and stockmen about
81, 900, 600, 600, and have to be renewed every
fifteen years.
One of the greatest difficulties in raising is the
j%udicioDs selection of the male. Hence it is
good policy to purchase one that has been we'll
tried. .
BE sure that the ground floor Of the poultry
house IL enough higher than the surrounding
ground to keep it perfectly dry. Damp floors
are very productive of disease.
Cotton batting is coming into use in the
California canneries. The batting is used for
the covering of the jar, which should be filed
to the neck before the batting is used.
Two.or three cats kept in the barn summer
and winter may keep it free from rats,
but they will not trouble the rodents much If
pampered and petted about the kitchen stove.
Every farmer should prevent the killing of
birds on his place. Boys with cheap shotguns
pepper away at everything with wings; and when
the birds are dead the insects eat up the farmers
produce.
Feeding poultry must be conducted on prop
er principles to secure the greatest profit.
While there are many who feed too lavishly
there are far more who do not feed enough, or
feed irregularly.
The eleven greatest dairy States. New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin,, Iowa, Minnesota. Missouri, and Kan
sas, had, as shown by the last census, 7,524,6 43
COWS used in dairying.
Whose overstocketh the range, writes a far
Western man, the same shall come to want and
prowl for a job, for it is go that the trampling
Of many hoofs destroyeth the range and rem
dereth it unsafe for the winter.
The Scientific American claims the horse . p
ulation Of New York City is between go, 1000 aud
rs, 900 and that of London 200, 1000, of which
3O,O0O are used in public carriages, an eqnal
number in omnibuses, and 10000 in street-cars.
The New York Tribune says the amount Of
moi sture absorbed by grain raised in the very
dry air Of the plains or of California. when it
reaches the humid air Of the seacoast, makes
often so great an addition to the weight as to
pay the cost of ocean transportation.
Texas cattle, says the Butchers National
Journal, are demoralizing the leading markets
badly. They are thinner and fabbier than ever,
causing dissatisfaction to every one who hand
les them unless possibly the Gamers, who have
no care as to quality.
Among the pretty novelties in baby wear seen
this fall are dainty silk headgear that are in
shape a partial revival of the Normandy caps so
popular several years ago. These little
bonnets are generally either embroidered or
lace-trimmed, and can easily be made by any
at all skilled in needlework. Half a yard OF
surah is enough for one. SO that they possess
the merit Of chea2ness. The embroidery is on
the front. as q rule, the high, pulled crown be-
ing left plain.
At the exhibition Of the Royal Horticultural
Society Of Liverpool, among the charming COL
~lections of skeletonized leaves and flowers
there shown, the Nepenthes were very con-
| spicuous, several CINE pitchers having been
successfully subjected to this process. The
| pitchers show q very close network OF fiber
and retain their natural shapes. They are re-
msrkably curious and very effective, and rank
among the most desirable of all forms of vege-
tatlop for ske'etonizing.