The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-08-06
FARM NOTES.


Society in Arkansas.
White-shelled eggs have to be sold at
discount in the Eastern markets.
Remember your horses cannot tell you
of their ills and pains. 1t is your duty
to watch for them.
There is q mule in California over 40
years of age. 1t was taken across the
plains by General Kearney in l849.
When adulteration is applied to food
the fraud is diabolical-for it not only
affects the purse but destroys the health
of the purchaser.
A farmer who has for three years
practiced sowing the largest and plump
est kernels Of wheat says he knows of a
certainty that his crop improves.
The utility of wind-mills on the farm
is now very generally recognized, and
they are seen dotting hundreds of farms
where few years ago none were to be
found
An egg broken in the feed once or
twice day will tone up horses sys-
tenn and make his hair more glossy.
But special foods are to be used only for
emergencies.
A Nebraska farmer, who has been ex-
perimenting with blue grass concludes
that all Northern Nebraska will prove
to be one of the finest tame-grass coun-
tries in the world.
Artificial eyes are now furnished for
horses that have lost the optic by acct
ent. A glass eye helps the looks of a
horse, even if he can't look through it.
Home and Farm.
Professor Stewart says green sorghum
is better green food for cows in August
than green corn, because it has more
soluble sugar and is quite as rich in
heterogeneous elements
1t is an easier matter to keep the
stables clean and orderly than it is sup
posed by those who have not tried it. If
you are one of this number begin at
once and see if it is not true.
If you want eggs from your Brahmas
don't feed them too strongly. They
take on fat readily, and when fat they
do not lay. Plymouth Rocks and
Wyandottes need liberal feeding when
they are laying.
As rule, the greater degree to which
farm products seeking a market can be
concentrated in bulk and weight. the
greater profit to the producers. Raise
grass and feed all the coarse grains of
the farm to stock.
Ground that has been enriched by
the application of plenty of barn-yard
manure will be greatly benefited by the
use of lime. twenty-five bushels ap-
piled once in four or five years work
wonders on some soils.
Dr. Sturteyalt, at the New York Ex-
1rasntal Station, found that mulching
NOR tightly between the rows of peas
[pha so;, "tarded the attack of mil
with as straw r., >tibly, It is the late
lew very percep, o No.
'own crop that suffers. "3"Sg os, a
,le,nau thInkS hoCus s"I bu,,or ''ure
Vanced the price of the first-grade :.
article by alarming the public, until
hose who are able will pay almost any
price for the best butter.
A correspondent of the New York
recommends as Il specific
against gnarly, scabbed fruit, the scat
ering OF liberal allowance of good,
WI DlCulN Va NOOu ASHES |
IN the surface under the tree.
A noted horticulturist remarks that
he orch rdist who neglccts to care for
lis trees and feeds the soil has no more
light to expect permanent, good results
han the stock-grower has who only oc-
asionally feeds his live stock.
The exports of genuine butter have
allen FROM 40,0D0,0O0 pounds in 1880 to
i ,63S, l3S pOun,is in 1885, or nearly one
alf, while the exports on butter SUBJ
titutes have increased from 100000 .
ounds in 1881 20 39,009, 900 in 1885. |
The average importation of horses
rom Canada into the United States for
ONE years past has been about 22,OOO
cad. A few years ago the average
alue per h:al of horses so imported g
'as 800, whereas last year it was $14O.
Not one farmer in hundred has ,
nough large and small fruit on his {
'lace-not even enough 10 supply the |
wants of his own family. But It is safe {
o say that they who have an abundance ,
pprcciate its worth, and are both {
calthier and happier by its use. II
English farmers claim that turnips i'm '
art very agreeable and superior flavor
mutton, quite superseding the "wooly p
,ste," of which so many complain. o
hey say the flesh of the sheep partakes o
lore closely to the flavor of its food than "
any other known meat-producng C
nimal. ii
The oak and other trees are gradually q
and covering unoccupied
rounds in the West Thousands of a
cres are now covered with young trees ly
here they did not grow forty years ago y
here are probably more acres of
atural timber in Illinois to-day than il
hen the State was first settled.
Since the organization of the American g
Society, nearly thirty eight q
ears ago, more than 600 named varieties =
fruits have, by common consent, been
scarded, and their places in the cata- q
que filled by better sorts. The NeU D
ngtand Farmer thinks a good many L
ore ought to go the way of the 600. =
The quality of the food eaten by Y
w always influences the milk. Ger
in foods eaten by animals will change
e quality of the flesh and even the n
me. 1t pays, especially in the making tC
high-class butter and cheese, that at b
ntion be given to the food eaten as W
ell as to the manipulation of the milk. al
1t will do hen no harm to have her
ngs clipped if she is tramp, and it e.
III prevent her from going over the .,
nee. The proper mode is to cut only =.
lie wing. The two longest, or flight. o. o.
athcrs may be left cutting all the Of
orter ones. When her wing is folded Ca
r shortened feathers will not be seen. us
A cheap and good Gisinfectant to use st
out poultry houses and yards when az
ntagious fowl diseases are present or IN
lred, says Our Country Home, is made 1t
dissolving three pounds of copperas W
five gallons of water and adding one II;
Mt of crude carbolic acid. Sprinkle A
out the house and yards with COM A
IN watering pot 10
Vast quantities of marsh lands are be- an
3 reclaimed by ditching in Indiana. gl
10 work is most probably done by
edging, work begun at the head of as
, ditch, where sufficient water will To-
IN accumulate to float boat carry Oh
: the machinery. The work done by ",
S machine is at the rate of $50 lineal w
t per day, on five-foot cut twenty H Ho
3 10 thirty-feet wide. ~;
# there is one thing needed by the Jy
mers in the Northwest more than any A,
Ter it is barns, and good barns at that.
IS very well to stack hay and grain
OF doors, but there are lots of pro-
cts on the farm that should, after
Iturity, be stored in barns. Next to te,
arge crop of corn there is nothing so Bi
lvenient on the farm as large barn. BIO
Farm. Stock, and Home. ca
correspondent of the Canadian Hor- Gu
ttturist says he had tried several we'll M
own remedies for mildew of goose ", Wv