New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-09-18
FOR THE FARMER.
Notes for the Farmers.

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of loss on thrifty, well fed pig less
than nine months old.
The man that has the poorest stall
ion generally does the most blowing
about him. IN National Stockman.
In driving horses on the road let
them drink at every opportunity; a
dozen times a day in summer is not
too often.
Small fruits have produced album
dantly throughout the Black Hills
this year, and the quality has been
very fine.
Don't burn the straw if you have
any stock to eat it. or tramp it into
condition for top-dressing the wheat
or grass lands.
Cream makes better butter to rise
in cold air than to rise in cold water,
but it will rise sooner in cold water
and the milk keep sweet longer.
Peter Hoffman, of Miner county,
has raised over 100 bushels of toma-
toes, 1000 heads Of cabbage, and a
variety OF other vegetables on three
acres this year.
The wheatcrop in the lower counties
of South Dakota was one of the
heaviest ever harvested, while corn,
millet, fax and potatoes are in ex.
cellent condition.
It you have not already protected
your grain, hay and buildings by eff
fective fire breaks, do not sleep until
you have done so. Do not wait for
frosts-do it to-day.
It is useless to try to save pure
seed of many varieties OF plants and
vegetables, if grown near other
plants with which the flowers may
mix.
NJ. W. Cook says that Iowa is al.
ways associated in the mind of near
~ every one with rearing the best
domestic animals and producing the
largest field crops. It is "the land Of
corn and swine"
To make the fnest-favored and
longest-keeping butter the cream
must undergo d ripening process by
exposure to the oxygen of the air
while it is rising. The ripening is
very tardy when the temperature is
low.
The depth of setting should vary
with the temerature; the lower it is
the deeper milk may be set, the high.
er, the shallower it should be. Milk
should never be set shallow in a low
temperature, or deep in a high one.
Setting deep in cold water econom.
ICES time, labor and space.
Onions keep best in barn
lofts where they freeze. Freez-
ing and thawing Injuries
them. Joseph Harris once threw
a load under his evergreens.
protected only with snowbanks. They
were sold at high price the next
spring Green's Fruit Grower.
There is perhaps no county in the
,, Dakotas where SO many farmers own
! sheep as in Spink county, and a flock.
master writes: "There is no demand
for good sheep here Those who have
sheep want to increase their focks,
and no one cares to sell, tor no crop,
or kind OF stock pays so well as
sheep"
Some ingenious chap has invented
a new-fangled milking stool. 1t is a
! four-legged concern two or three feet
long, is provided with a seat for the
mixer, a shelf for the bucket, stow.
away for milking overalls and tool
box. This will never become popu-
lar. With clumsy thing of this
kind, how would the farmer be able
to punish the cow when she kicks and
runs away? One leg is a enough for
any milking stool.-Iowa State Reg.
lister.
A good cleaning powder for win
dows and mirrors is prepared by
moistening calcined magnesia with
pure benzine, SO that a mass will be
formed sufficiently moist to let a
drop form when pressed. The mix.
ture haste be preserved in glass bot.
ties with ground shoppers, in order
to retain the easily volatile benzine.
A little of the mixture is placed on a
Wad of cotton and applied to the
glass plate. Do not use near a fire
or light, as the benzine vapor is very
infammable and explosive.
It's often found that COWS prefer
to drink stagnant water, even almost
filthy, from pools, rather than to
take that fresh drawn from the we'll.