Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-01-29
RM AND HOUSEHOLD ID,
= Agricultural Miscellany.

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agricultural Miscellany.
Es y advice to those contempt tings
change Of residence is, be deliberate
about buying. was brought up to
Illaercantile pursuits in New. ork City,
out having O. fancy for the country
fpought % place OF twenty acres in a
del,ghtful Virginia village. While 4
nave never regretted the move, think
probably q better bargain might have
Deem made had / lived there short
5rme prior to purchasing. First hire.
10 Place for q year in order to learn
something OF the country, the rural
HE and the people. Schuyler Duryee.
For the Mammoth Cheese named
"Cty OF Buffalo, lately made at East
Aurora, n. r, 1900 cows contributed
%, 900 pounds OF milk, equivalent TO
16 tons or 1000 gallons. At inter
walls, during the process of filling the
colossal mould, ten S5gold pieces were
tossed in as bonanzas for buyers Of
slices at Thanksgiving time-and the
;sackscrews. The compressed product
IS four inches thicker and 200 pounds
heavier than one turned out in 1871,
which weighed 3,1OO pounds and was
until this latest achievement the
largest mentioned in dairy records.
A Gardener who has worried with
the hateful cutworms for many years
and has tried every popular remedy
against them has the past season
tound.relief by using ~ strong solution
oisaltpetre, viz, half a pound dissolv-
cd in three pints OF water. This he
mixes thoroughly with half bushel
OF wood ashes and spreads them about
the beans; the cutworms avoided the
crop go treated and never disturbed
it. The fertilizing effect OF the appli-
cation also forced strong growth
and produced good crop OF the
beans.
The Tacoma (Wyoming) Evening
News describes some samples OF sew
en- headed wheat raised and submitted
to the editor by q neighboring farmer.
creek bottom clay loan land. The
stalks were the products OF two kern
els and six feet long. The heads re-
sembled a pink cone, thick and chum-
py. There were 161 grams in one
head or 966 in the seven heads, the
grain from which the stalks sprang
produced nearly thousand fold.
The yield per acre was IS bushels OF
good milling wheat. That beats East
Tennessee! One OF our enterprising
seedsmen should purchase the crop.
Winter dairying is more convenient
than summer dairying for several
reasons. The cows are at rest during
the cold weather, and all the annoy
ances from flies and heat are evaded.
The farm work is not interfered with,
and the labor is not made so irksome
as if milking and churning had to be
done. The care OF the milk is less
costly, because it is cheaper to keep
dairy warm in the winter than to cool
one by the use of ice in the summer;
there is also less trouble with the milk
and butter III various ways. The
butter brings a better price and keeps
better in the winter than in the sum
mer.
Remember that the winter mich
cow must have little something ex-
ira to take the place OF the grass of
which she has been deprived. She
must do more than to keep up in fair
flesh order, and must have more to do
with. Our best calves come from the
winter COWS where the COWS are given
a good chance, so there is double in
ducement Tor giving the mother good
show before as we'll as after calving.
A partial diet OF roots and green vege-
tables will go far toward supplying
the loss of grass, and modify the
change from green to dry food.
Squash and melon seeds which have
been grown in contiguity are never
trustworthy. All the gourd tribe are
SO closely related as to interbreed with
great facility, and the seeds-which
are really the fruit--become mixed
and impure. Melons grown from seed
thus adulterated have a course and
disagreeable flavor and are wholly
worthless. AS the mixing is due to
the effect of insects, which
carry thapolen from one plant to an
other, the seed should be gathered
only from the plants which are grown
in the centre OF q field or patch.
c n. Lewis, writing to the Elmira
Farmers Club, mentions the fact that
early sown buckwheat is always in
jured by the hot weather. He states
that the crops sown in June will yield
very poorly while those sown month
later are heavily loaded with grain
This is. a common experience with this
crop. Although q tender plant and
destroyed by light frost, yet it re-
tquires cool weather. A Southern
farmer who grows it largely states
thatsit does best when sown as late as
the first week in September. August
Ssown buckwheat, like that sown in
New York in June, is light in grain,
while the September sown fills heavily,
and has yielded at the rate Of IS
bushels to the acre.
E$ss Hints About Horses.
The following suggestions as to driv-