New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-06
FARM and HOUSEHOLD
Points for the Farmers

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BE sure that all tools are in perfect
order before any attempt is made to
use them.
Better begin the spring with only
one pair OF trousers than without a
grlnestone, says the Agriculturist.
The dwarf varieties of peas need
no sticking and bear earlier than the
Taller kinds. but are not as prolific.
Ask the opinion of your boys and
girls upon your plans. Perhaps they
DO more thinking than you are aware
The time has long since gone by when
intelligent gardeners would prefer to
work land with a spade instead OF a
plow. 70 say nothing OF the expense
OF spadIng, which is at least ten times
that OF blowing, the land can never
De worked SO well orso thoroughly by
one spadlng as by one blowing The
spade or digging fork is used only in
such corners or small patches as can
not give room to work a horse and
plow
W hen q man is too fat" says
Hoard,s Dairyman, s.the doctors rec
ommend him to eat lemons and par
take OF acids to reduce his flesh. All
these things the farmer knows, but
strangely enough he forgets them all
when he stands in the presence OF his
sour swill barrel. No woman would
mink OF feeding a human baby on sour
mllk, but her husband will drive
ahead and feed the calves and pigs on
sour milk, and even look you full in
the face and tell you. as we have had
them tell us hundreds OF times, that
calves will thrive best on sour
milk :"
1t is hard to say what a farmer
shall DO with a COW that is poor when
she drops her calf. If he sells her,
probably it is the best he can do for
his own pocket, though it must worry
any man who has q conscience to so
impose on customer. A really good
COW will neverat any time be fat; but
neither should she be allowed to Get
downright poor. Her milk will be de-
ficlent in both quality and quantity
all the season if this is the case.
The flesh which indicates fair thrift,
also shows good feeding capacity,
without which no COW is worth much.
A writer in s'The Oakland Tribune''
celebrates the goose as 'just the best
thing made yeti as nocturnal guard
Tor poultry:
professional chicken thieves will
not go near a roost where they know
a goose is kept with the chickens. 1t
IS a game they can't beat. The only
thing that can get away with a goose
is a fox. e'llplay dead and the bird,
which has more curiosity than any
other thing that walks, will come up
to see what's the matter. Then it
looses q life in the pursuit OF knowl-
edge. But the chicken thief amt foxy
enough by a long shot. A goose will
sduawk on him every time"
Mr.. D. L. Roberts of Western New
York states that he has raised tn
Russian sunhower seed in his garden
very successfully. He does not say
how much land was devoted to the
crop, but declares that he can grow
five times as much chicken aud COW
feed with sunhowers as with anything
else. The seed is also good in moder-
ate quantities for horses and hogs.
Many farmers as we'll as villagers
could probably raise sunfioWer seed
profitably.
AS the use OF Paris Green will soon
be in ord er, hints in regard to it's
proper preparation are now season
able. One OF the Advantages OF mix
ing Paris green with gypsum for use
on potato plants is that the work
can be done at odd spells when other
business is not hurrying. 1t IS a good
job for g rainy day in spring, taking
care to keep the poisoned plaster
where nothing can get at it, and where
it will not become damp. One pound
of poison is enough for $50 pounds of
gypsum, which in bulk is about a
bushel and q half. Ii used in water it
can only be mixed as ready for use.
Frederick the Great had sound
ideas on the forestry question, iudg
ing from this proclamation, said to
have been issued in 17Os: eve de-
termined that in all the lands subject
unto us all young married persons, at
the time of their marriage should
plant at least twelve trees at some
convenient spot. six being fruit trees
and six being oak trees. AS we find to
our great displeasure. that this order
has not been obediently observed, we
now further ordaln and decree that
this shall be done before the marriage,
and that until it is done the parish
clergy of our lands shall not join any
person in wedlock.'
In cheese, the United statesleads all
other countries, exporting to the Uni
ted Kingdo m in 1886, s56,1oe cwt.,
but even this is fully loo, 900 cwt. less
than that OF ten years ago. 1t IS not
pleasant to read that aCanada. on The