The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-19
FARM NOTES.
Teach the farm animals good habits.

The United States raised G29, 400. 900
bushels of oats last year.
Grapevines may he trimmed at any
time during the winter.
Linsecd meal fed to stock OCCASION
ally is beneficial. and will keep the hair
bright.
Selling milk mt 3 cents per quart is
equivalent 10 getting % cents per pound
for butter.
small one and one giving milk more
than one that is dry.
In area lS.OOO,OOO acres of cotton
were grown i'm 1885. The indicated
crop is > 667, 600 bales.
The Iaiusiyiaiist of Kansas says q
bushel OF corn i'm that State is worth
less than dozen eggs. Raise hens.
1t requires the breeding of over .OOO..
600 yearly to supply the demands of
wear and tear of draft and driving
horses.
Let the law. survival of the tittest,
have full sway on the stock farm-that
is. slaughter and dispose of the poorest
and save the best for breeders.
Over 100000 cows are required to
supply the milk yearly consumed i'm
New York city and Brooklyn. amount
ing TO about 00,0O0,O0O quarts.
A California cattleman has Il sign up
to scare of the shccpmcn. I, rcads,
1--WE use fish salt here" Salt used on
fish will kill sheep as fast as knife.
1t is stated that borers can be kept
from young trees for some time by the
simple expedient of wrapping some
cheap muslin around the trees nj the
collar.
1t is said that if chloride of lime
mixed with water is sprinkled about dens
and harbors of rats and mice it will
effectually rid the premises of these
pests.
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.
The States producing over 25,000,0O0
bushels of wheat last year were, in the
order of production, Minnesota, Michi-
gan, Iowa. Dakota. Indiana. and Cali
fOrnia.
The United States produced of butter
in 1860. 459,68l 1872 pounds; in 1880,
900. 900. 900 pounds. OF cheese in 1860,
1870, 100000 pounds: in 1890, 100000
600 pounds.
Australian wool does not compare
with fine American heeces for fineness.
evenness. and strength of fibre, and
there is more waste on this account in
manufacture.
Henry Bergh. the friend of the ami
mails is endeavoring to secure the pas
sage of Il law in New York forbidding a
blacksmith from putting hot shoe on
u horses foot.
The man whose COW ate up his wallet
containing 5000 remarked that there
was no money in cattle. There, seems,
however, to have been good deal OF
money in that old cow.
Both corn and oats in the last crop
show greater acreage than ever before
i'm the history of the country. The
average yield was also larger than in
the last six years before.
Prof W. }. Bral says that washing
tilt DIstlIl III Scttt W Icul III DlttC
to prevent rust is no more eflectual than
smoking cigars to cure corns on the
feet. Rust and smut. however. are very
different things.
Muller, German chemist, has fed
animals ten weeks with dry and with
stepped m"round Indian corn. The
former showed an average increase in
weight OF nearly seven pounds more
than the latter.
In wheat there was a decline of 80
per cent in the last crop as compared
with the previous one. but the value
increased from 6j.7 cents to III cents
per blishel. The total crop of 1885 was
3j7, l2,O0O bushels.
Has your grindstOne became followed
from the grinding of small tools? Grind
up the spades and shovcls by holding
them square across the stors" at proper
level. Spades. like hoes. should be
ground all on one side.
A Missouri farmer who Las been test
ing seed-corn from the butt. the tip and
| the middle of the ears fol three years
finds that the corn from the tips Nili
| ripen first. that from the middle next.
| and that from the but, last
Poverty of the surface ,oil, says the
Ga,r'eacr's .Hos'h'y. is nf,aner - ca,se
OF fruit failure than grass. 'rhange
of climate" or many imaginable ills
brought mp to cover povclt! of pocket
or of industrial incliuaiioils.
Oats and rye are very similar to each
other in composition. To make Il good
feed for horses corn should be mixed
with them. A b,lShcl of rye. two bush
| els of oats, and five of cora. ground to-
| gether. will make excellent food.
The escaping ammonia from the ma.
nure, unless stables are kept clean and
pure. causes sore eyes anc throat troll
bles i'm the animals sheltered in them.
| If it is announcement to man on entering
stable, be sure il is so tc animals.
If you have an old grapevine tina,
| yields poorly and has seen its best days
cut it entirely of close to the ground
manure heavily and let it throw up two
new leaders, and the following year you
] will see that it is as good as q young
vine.