The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-17
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Points for the Farmer.

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In using seed corn that which shows
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 its 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 q
space set al art for the cultivation of
small truits and, vegetables. The farm
produces the substantial or chief ar
ticles Of food, but thegarden is depend
ed upon largely for our common luz
uries.
A terrible outbreak of contagious
pleuro- pneumoria has just broken 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 & 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 a million of dollars for the
suppression Of contagious pleuro-
pneumonia so-called-boodleism ar
rant knavery. consummate scoundrel-
ism.-Dovers' journal.
The theory which favors the "easy-
kept" COW because the feed.bills are
less is thus treated by 1.-The Jersey
Bulletin" "A dairy COW that is not
q 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 a 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 hopper over night. and the
alarm clock is set for a morning feed.
The continuance works to a 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
a 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
uses. One of these is to
line wooden boxes, making them wat.
er-tisht. If manager and feed boxes
are Overland with cement horses will
be much less liable to contract the
vice of cribbing In stopping holes in
cement is better than
merely covering up the hole with tin,
as is usually done. Rats and mice
make short work with a tin covering,
but cement effectually turns them if
we'll made and we'll laid.
In setting out young plants in re-
eions infested with cut worms, wrap
paper about the plants roots before
they 20 into the ground and the
worms will not destroy them. A lit
tie earth can be wrapped IN the paper.
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
the milk of every COW in a
dairy should be weighed separately,
and tested separately to ascertain
the PERCENTAGE Of cream, for a sutf-
cient 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
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 wonderful success,
no one has yet, so far as we know,
ever seen carp fish offered for sale in
any market in this country?-Farm.
ers' Review.
The National Stockman advises
that every bull should have a 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 treadmiIl or
some other form of labor, besides
yielding some return by their labor
fer 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 a mere pretext, as hog rails
ers in the rural districts of France are
powerful to overflow any
who should, granting the re-
quest Of American and French cities,
admit the American hog as compe.
titor to those raised in France.
Mass. Plowman.
There are many breeders and sheep
raisers in Delaware County, N. Y,
and in years past they have had to
cope with a variety OF diseases among
their flocks. At the present time sheep
are suffering from the 1avages of bugs,
and there seems to be no potent RENE.
dy at hand to kill them. The pests
measure from one-half to three quar-
tiers OF an inch in length, and look
more like the ordinary swapping bug
than anything else. The pests burrow
their way into the heads and brains
OF the sheep, and the loss in the agsre-
gate incurred thereby is quite large.
A speaker at q recent Shorthorn
meeting expressed his belief that a
general purpose COW can produce,
and in his opinion the Snorthorn was
that c0w holjoviuo hcr IN o1o,h ;ro ~, n