Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-02-26
Farm and Househo1.
Scraps Of Agricultural Information.

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Scraps Of Agricultural 1nformattou.
Certain trustful farmers in the neigh.
borhood of Pennington, N. j., are
said to be about $4,000 out ofpocket
as the result OF signing neatly printed
documents presented by two plausible
young men as "Reminiscences
Against Heavy Taxation" which, of
course, came back, by way of the
banks, as promissory notes.
To color sheep skin, stretch theskin
side upon a fat board, drawing it
tightly az possible and tack down
firmly. Is can then be turned upside
down, and by proper appliances low
cred just far enough into the bath SO
that the skin will not touch by an inch
or so. Or two persons can stand op-
posite each other and each hold two
corners, allowing each part to dip in
to the dye bath, moving gently until
all parts are colored alike.
Turnips and other roots may be
fed once a. day to COWS very usefully.
The best way of feeding them is to
slice them in suitable shallow
box with sharp-edged spade, and
then sprinkle them with corn meal or
middlings, adding a little salt. A
heaping shovelful is a good feed for a
cow. This feed may be given to milk
ing COWS twice day, either immedi-
ately before or after milking, so as to
avoid havoring the milk disagreeably.
AS a rule mangels are better for cows
than turnips, on account OF the great
er ease of growing them and the ab-
sence of the strong flavor Of the tur-
nips.
An article in the Pacific Rural Press,
written by one apparently acquaint-
ed with the facts about typhoid fever.
says if people will "stop drinking con-
taminated water they will prevent
"by far the greater proportion OF cas-
es OF this fatal disease. TO 90 this it will
be necessary to keep all human ex.
creta and perhaps that OF some ami
mails, and may be decornposing vege-
table matter, out of wells and springs.
"Most persons think they do this now,
or probably we would not have a
thousand deaths a year in one State
from that cause" but the author con-
cludes that their confidence in the
| purity Of their water supply is sadly
misplaced.
| In the feeding experiments at the
Kansas Agricultural College there oc.
CURED unintentionally q condition
| that furnished fair test of the effect
OF temperature on fattening pigs
Ten pigs were fed; nine were protect
ed, while one CHANGED to be in a pro-
lection Of the pen, leaving it wholly
exposed. In january there Was a Sc
we're cold spell, and the exposed pig
lost exactly six pounds in weight, while
each of the other nine that were pro-
tected gained in amounts varying from
! five to ten pounds each. This little
circumstance is sufficient to show the
Importance of keeping fattening pigs
warm, or, perhaps what is equally as
we'll and which is followed by many
fatten before any severe winter ar
rives.
Thomas D. Baird says in Seed Time
and Harvest: Last Fall ridged &
portion Of my garden; rain stopped
the pillow before the entire garden was
plowed. The soil was not in order any
more. In the Spring it suited me tc
run my rows the other way OF the
garden across the ridges. When the
blowing commenced, the soil not
ridged in the Fall was entirely toe
heavy, while the part that was ridged
worked mellow. This was planted tc
beets, peas and radishes, and the
plants we're up before the unridgeG
portion was dry enough to work, anC
then the soil was not as lively anc
mellow as where ridged In this way
have had the market to myself fol
two. weeks, using the earliest and best
varieties.
There is much wheat land still I'm
cultivated. 1t is estimat ed that there
are 100, 100000 acres OF land on the
Pacific coast that are especially adapt.
ed to wheat culture. OF this Califor
MIA has 20, 900, 900, or one-fourth o.
the whole; Oregon has 100000
acres; Washington Territory has 49,,
100000 acres; Colorado and Idaho
100000 each; Montana, Utah anc
| Wyoming, 100000 each, and the
greater part OF all this land yet lies
! untouched.