Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-11-24
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NOBILITY.


FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
NOBILlTY.
True worth is IN being, NOT seeming. -
IN doing each day that goes BY
S0nc little good--not in the dreaming
OF great things to do by and by
For whatever men say in bl..ndness, z==sz
And spite Of the fancies OF youth, z@#.
There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing 60 royal as truth.
We get back 0ur mete as we measure
We cannot do wrong and feel right.
Nor can We give pain and feel pleasure,
For justice ayeDges each slight. T. TX
The air for the wing of the sparrow,
The bush for the robin and wren, 3.
But always the path that is narrow - - -
And straight for the childrenlof men.
It's not in the pages afstory IL
The heart OF its Il 8 to beguiie, 80
Though he who makes courtship to glory
Gives all that he hath for her smile,
For when from her heights he has won her,
Alas it is only to prove -...-..,
That notning's SO sacred as honor,
And nothing 60 royal as love! &c.
We cannot make bargains for blieses,
Nor catch them, like fishes, in nets:
And sometimes the thing our life misses
Helps more than the thing which it gets,
For good lieth not In pursuing,
Nor gaining Of great nor of small,
But just in the doing, and doing
As we would be done by us all.
Through. envy, through malice, through hating,
Against the world, early and late,
No jot of our courage abating-
Our part is to work and to wait.
And slight is the sting of his trouble
Whose winnings are less than his worth:
For he who is thonest is noble.
Whatever his fortunes or birth.
81 ~ 4.-* Alice Cary.
JAPANESE WHEAT FRAUD.
A variety of wheat, claiming to be ''Japan
esq.," has been advertised in the Far West as
being very early and enormously pro We.
Mr.. CIV. Derry, of Lake Co., Colorado re
| investing in this wheat took the precaution to
ascertain its reputation at home in Japan. Ac
cordingly he sent samples and inquiries to our
Minister to Japan. Minister Hubbard referred
tie matter to Edwin Dun, Esq. long connected
| with the Agricultural Department of the EN-
pire, iwho writes: II do not recognize the
| cereal. The wheat of Japan has nothing to
| recommend it; it does not mature early, nor ia
| it productive. 1t is far inferior to auy Of the
better varieties of American wheat, and grown
Japan, would hardly mature at all in the dry
| and elevated region.of Colorado" The infer
ence is, If the Japanese wheat is really from
Japan, our Western farmers have no use for it;
| if, as is more probable, some one has under
taken a swindle, hoping to sell some common
wheat under false name, at a high price, his
| tr OK is already exposed. Our farmers want
! neither true Japanese wheat nor wheat falsely
! so-caled. We thank Mr.. Derry, on behalf of
the farmers, for his enterprise in this matter,
! and also thank him for making the American
| Agriculturist the medium through which to tx
pose the swindle of Japanese wheat" ''by,''
as Mr.. Derry says. ''informng the brother-farm-
ers.' We expose this with pleasure that we
| have not felt since gave free notice to
''Hulitt's Ivory Wheat" and the "Bessarabian
| corn
FATTENING FOWLS.
For fattening fowls, the following arrange
ment will be found effective. A long, low bog
| "a shoe box, laiu upon its side, answers very
welD lie lathed up land down in the front, leav-
ing an opening all along the front, bar being
fitted across the box, three inches above the
bottom. This bottom opening is to clean out
the box with scraper, once every day: after
which dry earth is thrown in. This box will
hold six fowls, and feeding-trough and a
water-can should be fitted in front. A number
| of boxes may be TERED one over the other and
when the fowls have fed the front should be
covered and darkened by hanging bagging
overit. This will keep the fowls quiet. Two
| weeks of this treatment will tatten them. The
| finest feeh ia made by feeding corn-meal and
boiled potatoes, mixed with skim milk, quite
| thick, and four feeds day should be given.
Fowls are best slaughtered and dressed as
| follows: barrel is provided with number
| of nails driven in around the open edge. A
| number of loops of Irvine. about six inches
! long, are also provided. The bird is fastened
! by noosing the loop around the legs, and is
hung in the barrel. head downwards. The
head is then taken in the left hand, and sharp
pointed knife is pushed in the throat ose to the
| vertebra. and drawn forward 30 as to cut the
throat clear through, by which sensation is
! at once arrested, the fowl bleeds to death
| rapidly and panessly Being confined in the
barrel, the splashing from the futtering is
avoided, and everything is done in cleanly
and easy manner. Dry picking is preferred by
the marketmen, but the extra price will hardly
pay for the trouble over the scaldjng Of tie
fowl, take pail three-quarter fall of boiling
water, and plunge the bird into it, drawing it
up and down few times. Keep the water up
to the scalding heat by adding quart Of boil
ing water occasionally -"P1'oft in Poultry"
w1NrER1NG VEGETABLES.
Only few vegetables can be wintered out
doors in the North without protection. Par
ships ar among the exceptional vegetables
which the winter does not destroy, and except
for use while the ground is frozen, may be left
in the soil. Satisfy, or vegetable oysters, is
of similar nature, but beets, turnips and carrots
will not stand excessive cold: to retain the fresh
crisp flavor, they should be taken up as late az
possible. and placed in cool cellar or in pits
with earth and straw enough over them to pre-
vent freezing. The latter is the method most
! IN vogue with market gardeners, who usually
know how best to present their vegetables In
the finest condition. Artificial heat in any form
spoils the flavor Of vegetables generally. The
sweet potato is IN exception, and will rot In a
temperature below fifty degrees, while dryness
roots and all, turned upside down tho heads
packed together in beds six feet in width, and
| the ground between the rows thrown over the
heads. In extremely frosty weather they cannot
| be reached, and enough must be left in cold root
cellar for winter use. Onions require dry barn
or stable loft, and should not be packed more
than eight 10 ten inches deep, with foot of
straw over them to keep out frost. In the ex-
| treme North some fire protection may be neces'
sary. For family use string can be kept hung
up in any part Of the cellar. Onions will stand
| twenty degrees of frost with out injury il dry.
Celery is best when taken from the open ground,
but should be taken up and placed close together
in beds with earth and litter over all to keep
from freezing. Winter equashes require dry
place free from rrost.-!Seetltinae and Harvest.
SAVING AT THE sPIGGOT.
We did not pick up any potatoes but such as
were salable. Little ones and poor ones were
left on the ground to rot in hope that they will
make larger ones next time. Some think we
are very wasteful. Well, don't know. once
had shrewd boss carpenter doing a job for me.
One Of his men stopped down to pick upa nail
he had dropped, when the boss told him never
| to do that again es long az he worked for him.
For said he, .'the nail is not worth half the
time you waste picking it up" We have all
we can do. If the little potatoes arc to be
picked up and something kept to feed them to
more help must be hired. My idea is that they
are worth about as much to rot on the ground
for manure as We could get out Of them if We
! picked them mp, aud that should lose most OF
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