Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-11-10
hsr food !, using : nttle grour

feed nors md richer food !, lsfnx litale ground
oil-cake IN the slop.
.s Pens Tor sleeping n and for brood sows
keep. veil yentflated, out q The storm and vet,
,but never IN = dark or tight building. When
the weather 10 favorable { get sows and pigs On
pasture g much o possible. but too much
clover 10 bad for eows whom the pigs are young.
! could not raise hogs probably without pas.
ture. Although i never ring my hogs they sell
dom or never root mp the ground, and 60 head
Of ground on the pasture. The stock with this
treatment IL AL healthy and With very little
grain, grow fGst, bns not let. Ny fastest growth
aud greatest profits are made when my stock
runs on grass. do not think hogs can be rails
ed with profit unless they get some pasture
Close or .sfnbreeding'' IL not good and IL done
should be done with the greatest care. A hog
needs plenty OF clean water to drink, and with
that and plenty Of exercise on pasture il less
liable to disease than any other kind Of stock,
and 10 the most profitable animal on the farm. .
! CURING HANS.
Mr.. T. +. Hamilton, who received the high
est OF four premiums offered by The Maryland
Agricultural rociety for best sugar-cured hams.
uses the following recipe: -5s* +.
ITO every 100 pounds of meat pounds of
best pork salt, 2 ounces saltpetre, pounds
water. Mix and pour over the hams after they
have lain in the tub two days, having been rub
bed with ine salt when put in. Let them re-
main In this pickle for six days, then let dry
several days before smoking"
, SAVE ASHES THIS WINTER.
The best time to apply ashes to grass land 10
the needs Of the soil, ana this can be determin-
ed only by experience, some coils requiring
much less than others according to their compo-
sltl0n; but the usual amount 10 twenty to
fifty bushels per :acre.- Occasionally much
larger applications have been found useful 1t
is best to try different quantities in different
parts of the same field, and measure the result
on the crops.
Four OTIS. green tomatoes, DTS. green pep
pers, discarding the seeds, 2 qts.@ cabbage, l
pint onions. All chopped ane and mixed with
cups salt Let 1t stand all night. Ir morning
drain off the brine, and add teaspoonful each
of ground cinnamon, cloves, allspice and mace,
pint mustard seed. tablespoonfuls sugar.
Scald sufficient vinegar to cover and pour over
the whole. Do not cook it.
BRIEF NOTES.
A piece Of lemon Is excellent for cleaning the
hands.
It is mistake to put spoons in the holder
andes down.
In the crop of chicken killed at Petersbor-
ough, Canada, one day, was found q small cop
per-colored snake.
Cheese that is easiIy crumbled is digestible,
and may be eaten without fear. 1t is the India
rubber article that gives one fit Of the blues.
The annual revenue from the saleof ice harvest
ed on ffty-four acre pond near Truckee, New,
is $4,000. A single crop Of ice averages
$4,000 tons.
"A lady in Sphinx county, the other day, open
ed q small-sized pin-cushion that had been in
use several years, and inside of it she found 375
perfect needles, besides any number of broken
ones.
A household writer says that flies cannot live
more than forty-eight hours without water, and
that if water and all other liquids are kept out
of room that long the flies will leavei it. Most
people will prefer the flies.
To the thousands of ways Of curing sore
throat writer recommends the application of
cloths wrung ont of hot water during several
in sage tea Is said to be better for garging than
salt and water.
The Scientific American states that plush
goods and all articles dyed with aniline colors
faded from exposure to light will look bright as
ever after being sponged with chloroform. The
commercial chloroform will answer the purpose
very wefl and is less expensive than the purified.
The oleomargarine law went into effec, on
the LIST. inst, and the internal revenue bureau
has completed all the arrangements necessary
for its enforcement The demand for stamps
that large amount of the commodity will be
put on the market next week. The production
of oleomargarine for domestic consumption il
estimated by Commissio DER Miller at the rate of
100, GOO, 900 pounds a year, and the amount ex-
ported is also believed to be very large.