The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-09-19
FOR THE FARMER


than nine months old.
The man that has the poorest stall
ion generally does the most blowing
about him.-National Stockman.
In driving horses on the road let
them drink at every opportunity;
dozen times a day in summer is not
too often.
Small fruits have produced abun-
dainty 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 soornr in cold water
and the milk keweet longer,
Peter HoffmQf Miner county, {
has raised over 1O6hels OF toma- spI
toes, 1000 heads of care, and a aW
variety OF other vegetables three 10
acres this year.
The wheat crop 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
ly every one with rearing the best
domestic animals and producing the
largest field crops. 1t is 'the land of
corn and swine"
To make the finest-flavored and
longest-keeping butter the cream
must undergo a 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 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
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 Sphinx county, and 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 we'll as
sheep"
Some ingenious chap has invented
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, a stow
away for milking overalls and tool
box. This will never become popu-
lar With a 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 caIcined magnesia with
pure benzine, so that q mass will be
formed sufficiently moist to let a
drop form when pressed. The mix.
ture has to 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 is often found that COWS prefer
to drink stagnant water, even almost
filthy, from pools, rather than tc
take that fresh drawn from the we'll
1t is not the cleanliness of the we'll wa.
ter that the cows object to, but its
GOODNESS. Leave the we'll water in
tubs or troughs exposed to the air q
few hours in summer. The COWS will
drink more freely, give more milk and
do better every way for it. Filthy
water they should not be allowed tc
drink, at least while giving milk.
When cream is colder than the sur
rounding air it takes up moisture
and impurities from the air. WheI
the air is colder than the cream il
takes up moisture and whatever es
capes from the cream. In the former
case the cream purifes the surround
ing air, in the latter case the all
helps to purify the cream. The selec
ton of O creamer should hinge OF
what is most desired, highest quality
or greatest convenience and economy
in time, space and labor.
An Ohio dairyman tells the Dairy
World how he makes his COWS com
Portable in hot weather. He keeps
them in stables, slightly darkene