The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15
FARM NOTES.

Nothing will decrease the flow o,
milk so much as milking at irregular
hours.
The acreage of sweet corn for feeding
hogs is increasing each year in the
West.
Florida has a law making the water
ing of milk offered for sale a p%enitentiary
offense.
Give fowls all the range possible in
winter; they are open-ar birds and must
have exercise.
Mr.. Badger, of Franklin. Mass, raised
six bushels of Beauty of Hebron potatoes
on a square rod of ground.
The pear is the longest-Iived of the
fruit trees. There is one in Salem, Mass,
that is known to be two hundred years
old.
1t is both cruel and unwise 10 place
horses OF cattle in such narrow stalls. or
to so tie them that they cannot lie down
and rest.
Many old seeds hat will terminate
with heat will perish in cold ground.
This should be borne in mind in testing
seeds in warm rooms,
Michigan, Ohio. Indiana. Illinois,
Kansas, and Missouri are recorded as
usually producing nearly half of the en-
tire wheat crop of the United States.
The general-purpose COW, like the
general-purpose horse, is an animal that
has nothing inherent especially to be
recommended, Practical utility in breed
ing is toward special purpose.
Whatever COWS you may have to win
ter, if in milk, keep them warm and
fully fed on rice food TO the extent of
fair digestion. If store cows, feed so rs
to keep in good condition for spring.
The owner of a Texas goat range left
1900 goats with a hired man. The mar
gambled away the animals and fled.
and the owner is unable to recover his
property, because he cannot identify il.
Is it not a good time now to be build
ing an ice-houseP A rough structure
with double sides one foot apart, to be
filed in with sawdust, and with n roof
that will shed water, is not expensive.
Twelve feet inside each way is ample for
any family:
The Rural NeU Yorker thinks Devon
cattle have been neglected of late in
this country. while in England they are
holding their own with the breeds that
are more popular in America. For both
beef and the dairy they deservedly
hold a high position where best known.
1t seems to be the universal opinion of
dealers that it is the poor quality of
cheese put upon the market that makes
the price of the product SO low. Con-
sumers are willing to pay a fair price for
good full-cream cheese, if they have any
assurance they are getting what they
pay for.
The United States now has the cream
of the valuable breeds of the livestock
of Europe. Hence the less and less ne.
cessity for continued importation, es-
p~ecially the cattle of England, which Il
late report shows to be suffering deaths
in proportion to births, in the proper
ton last year, of one head for every five
born.
The statement of I'M Ohio dairyman,
that with warm, well-lighted, clean
stables, plenty of early-cut and well
cured grass, supplemented with the con-
tents of n good silo and n well-flled
root cellar, the comfort, health, and pro.
fit Of the cows should be no more prob.
lematical in winter than in summer. is
certainly sensible.
At the Wisconsin Experiment Station
they have been testing the feed value tc
hogs of the droppings of corn-fed steers.
A test was made by feeding the hogs 81
certain amount of corn when separated
from the steers and the same amount
when running with them. 1t was found
that about one-half more pork was made
in the latter case. The number OF hog
was. of course, limited.
Sheep on the farm are almost a neces
sity in these times of advancement in
farming. The highest authorities or
agricultural economy claim that there
must be II variety in stock as well as IL
crops to attain the greatest success or
the farm. and sheep are admitted TO b