The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-30
FARM NOTES.

Be sure your seeds are fertile before
planting.
If you work yourself those about you
will work.
The Sussex breed of cattle is coming
into the market rs favortc beef breed
Improve tho farm that is under you
and you will have something to stand
on.
The average yield of wheat in Grea
Britain and Ireland last year was thirty
one bushels per acre.
Dry earth or muck in the stable vii
save manure, prevent diooas" and Eoor
the milk from being tain:s!.
The German Government pays mum
Der OF experts to go from place to place
and teach the art of Bookkeeping.
Mrs. Harrison, the bee writer, says
the Florida climate Is SO damp thai
comb honey can not be produced there.
The continued large consumption o.
oleomargarine and butterinc is still the
cause of the neglect of low-grade natural
butter.
Attention to triiles constitutes pcrfcc.
ton in any business. Constant vigilance,
to paraphrase Fremont, is the price OF
success in dairying.
Labor, concentration, and adoption
to an art or profession are what give
success. II is no less true in agriculture
than in other professions.
Make and save manure whenever you
can. Pick up and throw IN your wood.
fire all bones found around your prem
Uses, and save all the ashes for the
garden or orchard.
The Rardl Ncs0 Yorker believes q
waterway from Lake Michigan to the
Mississippi would lower Western freights
one-half, and therefore favOrs the pro-
posed Hennepin canal.
The young shoots of barley are par
ticularly rich and succulcnt They are
greedily eaten by cows, and it is good
plan to sow n patch near the barn to be
cut for soiling purposes.
They have goose farm in Massa-
chuSetts of sixty acres. where geese ana
ducks are fattened for market Some
10000 goslings are Matched each year
and grown into geese to be eaten.
b. +. johnson. of Champaign, ILL.,,
thinks creameries, by furnishing the
public with first-class article of butter,
have done as much as bogus butter
makers to lower the price of poor dairy
product.
The best grass for an orchard is I'M
| doubtedly orchard grass with red clover,
or red clover alone. Plenty of seed
| chnrlI hn mead tptx .,hn,, l., L.
their appearance, afterwards pasture
with hogs or sheep.
In herd the sire may be the father
of one-half of thirty or forty calves. The
female is only the mother of one-half of
one calf, therefore it is all the more inn
portant that the former should be of tho
best blood attainable.
Cattle have four stomachs; the barn
yard fowl two, the crop and gizzard.
Gravel acts in the place of teeth in
fowls. This serves to help grind down
the. food in the gizzard. Keep them
supplied. The sharper the gravel the
better.
w. c. Steel advises farmers to make a
greater use of copper wire. 1t can be
used to easily mend tools. A spool of it
carried in the wagon will be of great
assistance in case of an accident to n
trace or other parts of the wagon or
harness.
The wages of farm hands in Switzer-
land, exclusive of board and lodging,
average for males about $56.25 year;
for females, $20.50. In the United
States the wages of the farm hands, in
Guiding board and lodging, average
from $500 to $3.50 year.
Professor Morrow, of the Champaign
University, thinks the efforts of the
friends of genuine butter should be
directed to the enactment of laws to
compel the sale of bogus butter for what
it is. He believes il will be impossible
to prevent its manufacture.
Dry earth is cheap and an excellent
absorbent Use it freely in the COW
stables and scatter it over the floors after
cleaning. In this way you can have
pure air, milk free from bad tlavors,
and, in the spring, manure which has
not lost its essence by evaporation.
Benjamin Hathaway. the poet-horti-
culturist of Michigan. says: "What we
need to learn is that we need high-top
trees and those grown with a single up
right leader, so as to obviate any danger
of splitting down. A forked tree, though
it may have three or more forks, will be
sure to split some day."
A correspondent of the Stock Gros0ey
says: If dose of one-half pint of lin
seed oil and two ounces of ammonia is
Immediately administered to the horse
and it is kept in the stable and fed on
grain and hay for q week or ten days.