New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-08-14
Farm and Garden.

Farm and Garden,
A correspondent Of "Practical Farmer"
gives the following method of relieving
choked cattle. Take of fine cut chewing
tobacco enough to make ball the size
of a hens egg. Dampen with molasses
SO it adheres closely. Elevate the ami
mails head, pull out the tongue and crowd
the ball as far down the throat as pos
sible. In fifteen minutes it will cause
sickness and vomiting, relaxing the
muscles, So that whatever object may be
| in the throat will be thrown I'D.
Prof. Wiley says that zone of the
grandest discoveries of modern science'
Is the agency of the microbes in enabling
plants to absorb from the air the nitro
| gen which is the chief factor of their
growth. The theory was first suggested
| by Pasteur, and it is thought to be fully
confirmed by the researches of indepen-
dent investigators. If it does not de-
ceive expectation it will completely re-
| volutionize agriculture. To increase the
growth of plants it will only be necess-
| ary to feed their roots with water con-
tanning the proper microbes.
Analysis of crimson clover shows that
it has large proportion of potash. Some
of the failures to grow it, especially on
| sandy soil, are probably due to defici
ency of potash. The common red clover
frequently fails from the same cause. A
| dressing of wood ashes, or where this
can not be had, of muriate OF potash,
will secure seeding where without It
| there have been repeated failures of
clover to catch. Heavy soils have usual
ly a considerable amount of potash, but
even on these a potash dressing often
gives beneficial results, for it presents
the mineral plant food in available form.
Blackberries are such strong growing
| plants that they neeu a good deal of
moisture, and, therefore, the field where
| they are set, should be plowed and sub
| soiled to a depth of at least 20 inches
and every clod should be broken very
| fine, so that when the ground settles
| compactly it will hold a good deal OF
| water. The "North American Horticul-
turist' points out that it is a great mis-
! the berry season is over, since the pickers
will tramp the ground hard. SO that the
water will evaporate quickly from the
soil and the plants Will at once ripen up
| their wood. With the fall rains a new
growth will begin, which of course, will
be green and sappy, and unable to en-
dure hard winter. The best practice
is to give frequent and shallow cultlva-
ton from early spring until the middle
| of August or the first of September.
A new system of barn building has
been in use in Central Ohio, for a series
of years, which Waldo F. Brown de-
scribes as giving barn far greater
strength than the old plan of heavy tim
bers morticed and tenoned together, with
saving of about half the frame timber.
| and more than three fourths of the work
| of framing. This barn is called the
s.plank barn. and the entire frame is
made of 2 by 8 planks, except nails,
tins and rafters, which are by 6. There
is, according to the "New England
Farmer" not mortise or tencn in the
building, but it is put together with
spikes and carriage bolts, and two men
will form large barn ready to raise in
four days, such one as it would take
them four weeks to frame on the old
plan. At 50 per day for carpenters, the
saving in wages would be $50 in franz
ing the barn, and, as farmer must board
his carpenter, counting the board of two
men for twenty days, at soc. each per
day, we have saved $50 more, making
the saving in labor and board $1OO, be-
sides the saving of lumber.
Mr.. A. G. Hallman, the Canadian dairy
man, begins feeding the calf at 3 days
old, the ration, or 5 pounds of sweet
skim milk at first three times day, then
My night and morning. At three weeks