The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-16
FARM NOTES.

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FARM NOTES.
The common catnip is one of the most
valuable plants for bees.
Try warm drink for the cows and sec
how it affects the milk yield.
The average yield of potatoes in Yer
mont is 200 bushels per acre.
There is no use in cleaning the pOul-
try house unless the old nests are de-
| stroyed
The New York Experiment Station
has succeeded in raising cabbages from
| leaf cuttings.
The New York Agricultural Station
does not find that lime is preventive
of potato rot
Tasteful and cOmmOdOus memories
are becoming feature of the New En-
gland landscapes.
The American Humane Association
has made protest against the practice
of clipping horses.
A sod on the orchard is believed to
be Il protection to the roots of fruit trees
in severe winter weather.
There arc twice rs many pure-blood-
| ed Jersey cows in the United States as
there are on their native island.
Some of the farmers on the seacoast
in Germany put n herring in each hill
of potatoes when planting the seed.
Plants and shrubs are not mulched to
keep them warm, but to guard against
| the i'll effects of sudden freezing and
thawing
The wild horses of our plains are
fourteen hands high, brown, chestnut
or bays, and usually weigh from 800 to
1000 pounds.
The average yield of corn per acre in
| New England is greater than in the
Ohio or Missouri valley. This is ac-
complishcd by more thorough cultiva-
| ton.
| A farmer thinks he has discovered
that the common larkspur is fatal to
the potato bug. He proposes next year
to plant it numerously among potato
vines.
| An Ohio winter wheat grower pas
lures his wheat fields with sheep until
the middle of April, and claims that he
gets an increased yield of grain by so
doing.
An Ohio farmer who dries his seed
corn on the cob and keeps it out of the
reach of the frost reports that 993 per
cent of the seeds terminated when
planted.
| A whcat-grOwcr in Caledonia county,
VT, writes to the NeW England Home
stead that he raised 256 bushels of
wheat last year on five and one-fourth
acres of land.
| 1t is much easier to keep an animal
fat than to fatten it; hence the stock
should always be kept in good condi-
ton, as they can be then more readily
! prepared for market.
A man in Syracuse, N. T., keeps his
potatoes by putting layer of charcoal
on his cellar bottom, then layer of po-
tatOes, and alternates charcoal and po-
| tatoes until his bin is full.
Robert Douglas says the American
white spruce is far preferable to the
| Norway for our western States. as il en-
durcs the hot, dry winds of summer and
never browns in winter.
|
| ing the Florida land frauds. 1t warns
people not to invest n cent there until
they have made personal examine
ton OF what they are buying.
Observe your horse when he is drink
| ing from Il brook. says veterinarian.
If in bringing down his head he remains
| square without bending his legs, all
parts of his body are built symmetri-
cally.
The Southdown sheep are somewhat
small, but have great proportion Of
meat to ollal. They are brown and
grey-faccd, no horns, thick, no close
wool between the ears, with fine form,
and are very hardy.
| The Brccdcrs' Gdzettc truly says that
many man who is widc-awake to the
necessity of II reaper in the harvest field
is fast asleep to the importance OF im-
proved stock in the stable; yet one is
no more important than the other.
The test of the churn will show the
quality of the milk and the valuc Of the
cow. Sometimes dairymen may he mis-.
taken in their opinion of cow by the
quantity of milk she gives: the one that
gives the least may make the most but
ter.
| A Missouri farmer who has been test
ing sced-corn from the butt, the tip and
the middle of the ears for three years
finds that the corn from the tips of the
ears will ripcn first, that from the
middle next and that from the butt
last
The Russian thistle is n new weed in.
troduced by Mennonite immigrants
from Russia with their first importatiOns
of seed wheat Ii is spreading rapidly
on new lands of Dakota and Minnesota,
and threatens to become n troublesome
intruder.
An exchange warns farmers against
two swindlers, one of whom purports 10
be after statistics, and the other has an
alleged remOnstrancc against heavy
taxes. Both ask farmer; 10 sign papers.
which in due time turn up rs promis.
sorry notes.
There is no way to make good cheese
except by using the whole milk. Skim
ming the milk Mt night, and adding the
skim milk to the mornings milk. will
not answer. 1t makes a fair quality OF
cheese, but the difference in price of the
better article will be more than the
value of the cream taken oil.
The Wisconsin Experimental Station
has been conducting series of expert
ments to determine the relative value OF
bran resulting from the roller process OF
flour making. compared with that by
the old process, with rather uncxpcct.
ed result, the advantage being quite de.
cidcdly in favor of that by the roller
process.
Manhattan Island, Professor Fairchild
saws, is gradually sinking, and the sea
| viii yet cover the present site Of New
York.