New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-16
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Points for the Farmer,

the slightest degree of injury should be
avoided. Smut can easily be carried
from one year to the other by the
seed.
To enrich land that is poor we must
have manure or it's equivalent in veg
etable matter, or apply plant food in
some shape to induce growth of vege-
tation.
Eevery person who ownes a piece of
land, large or small, should have a.
space set apart for the cultivation of
small fruits and vegetables. The farm
produces the substantial or chief ar
tlcles OF food, but the gardenis depend
ed upon largely for our common lux
urles.
A terrible outbreak OF contagious
pleuro-pneumonia has justbroken out
almost within sight of the Federal
Capital where Congress is sitting, and
a large force OF dead-beat cow-doctors
has been set at work by Colman, Sal
mon d Co.. to quarantine, tag Or
slaughter, or do anything that will
make the most racket, and with the
game being played at Chicago, help to
work Congress up to the right temper
for voting million of dollars for the
suppression OF contagious pIeuro-
pneumonia so-called- boodleism ar
rant knavery, consummate scoundrel-
ism.-Dovers' journal.
The theory which fayors the "easy-
kept COW because the feed. bills are
less is thus treated by 1.-The Jersey
Bulletin" "a dairy COW that is not
a hearty eater won't pay for what
she does eat. In this the COW may be
compared with the steam engine. To
produced the required pressure Of
steam a certain amount Of fuel is
necessary, and without this the whole
is wasted. The COW is q machine for
converting food into milk, and the
profits from her work are in p-opor.
ton to her digestive and assimilating
powers.
A prominent market gardener and
milkman OF South Hadley, Mass, feeds
his peddling horses by clock power.
The cracked corn and oats are put
into a hopper over night, and the
alarm clock is set for a morning feed.
The contrlvance works to charm,
the horses thrive by it, it saves labor
in the busiest part OF the day and the
machine costs about $6.-Boston
Budget.
A farmer handy with tools will find
trowel a, most useful implement.
Cement costs little, and, aside from
repairing walls and stopping leaks in
cisterns, it can be put to many other
important uses. One of these is to
line wooden boxes, making them wat.
er-tlght. Ii manager and feed boxes
are overland with cement horses will
be much less liable to contract the
vice Of cribbing. In stopping holes in
granaries, cement is better than
merely covering up the hole with tin,
as is usually done. Rats and mice
make short work with tin covering,
but cement effectually turns them if
well made and we'll laid.
In setting out young plants in re-
gions infested with cut worms, wrap
paper about the plants roots before
they go into the ground and the
worms will not destroy them. A lit
tie earth can be wrapped IN thepaper.
Press the soil firm about the roots.
The cow which gives the largest
quantity of milk is not ALWAYS the
most profitable. The quality OF the
milk is quite as important. For this
reason the milk of every COW in
dairy should be weighed separately,
and tested separately to ascertain
the PERCENTAGE Of cream, for a. suffi-
Gent number OF days to fix her value
as a milk and butter producer.
Is it not little singular that while
carp fish have been doomed in this
country for the last dozen years, dur
ing which time the Government,
through it's fish commissioner, has
distributed millions OF young fry,
which have been used to stock thou
sands Of ponds which have been con.
structed and though carp culture has
been pronounced a wonderful success,
no one has yet, SO far as we know,
ever seen a carp fish offered for sale in
any market in this country?-Farm
ers' Review.
The National Stockman advises
that every bull should have ring
placed in his nose as he approaches
the age OF one year, and always be led
with a staff. 1t also suggests that
bulls may be better breeders, and gen
tier and more safe to handle, if they
had regular exercise at treadnGill or
some other form OF labor, besides
yielding some return by their labor
for their feed the year round.
The state department. at Washington
regards the statement OF France that
the hog is excluded for health rea-
sons, as mere pretext, as hog rails.
ers in the rural districts of France are
sufficiently powerful to overflow any
ministry who should, granting the re
quest OF American and French cities,
admit the American hog as compe-
tjtOr tO those raiSn6 in ENranoo =