Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-06-04


me so much good as to get up real early on
Sunday morning, fix up, and go to church,
and hear real smart minister dispense with
the gospel"
TREATMENT OF COws.-We have received
from S. F. Perley, of Naples, Maine, "Rules
for the Treatment and Milking of Dairy
Cows" The "rules" are very good, and
substantially as follows;
Cows should be driven from pasture as
leisurely as the will walk never harrassed
or irritated by man, boy or dog, because fast
driving or harsh treatment of any kind in
lures the quality and lessons the quantity of
milk The milk of COWS in heat is unfit both
for human food and for diary use.
Milking should be at regular intervals, say
at five o'clock in the morning and five o'clock
in the afternoon Those MIXED first in the
morning to be MIXED first at night.
When cows are in the barn treat them
gently in every respect. Let them under
stand that they are to be approached only
with friendly intentions. Loud and harsh
language, or anything that would excite the
animal or cause fear, is decidly injurious
Filth may add value to the dung heap, b,a
it spoiLs the mill. Let the udder and teats be
Horouqhly cleaaed-washed if necessary-and,
beginning slowly, let the milking soon be az
rapid as consists with gentleness. To draw
milk gently, quickly and completely, is the
highest accomplishment in a mixer. The
strippings are from five to fifteen times rich
er than the milk first drawn. No one can
afford to lose this, and besides. leaving any
in the udder tends to diminish secretion.
Poor mixers dry up cows.
No talking should be allowed while milking
is going on. Besides irritating the cow by
80 fbo mil
ponds his labor to listen and reply to CONVEX
sation, and hence the work is imperfectly
performed and the loss is very considerable.
Boston CultiUGtOr
USE OF POULTRY MANURE send you my
way of preparing and using hen manure on
corn.
have been in the habit for several years of
getting together all the clear manure from
the hen roost that | could, and few days
before planting, (say three to sikh mix an
equal quantity of wood ashes and about half
as much plaster thoroughly together, wetting
enough to mosten the whole. When the
ground is ready marked both ways, drop a
| small handful to each hill, or one large hand
| full for two, planting the corn as soon as may
! be, after dividing the compost with slight
motion of the hoe, before dropping the corn
and covering with mellow dirt.
Wetting the compost helps much to pull
verize hen manure, and insure the corn i'm
mediately, which it would not be likely to
to do until after a rain, if planted in dry
i state.
have never tested by actual experiment
the increase of crop, but am well satisfied
that get enough more corn to keep my hens
during the spring, (give them all they will
| eat besides lots of pumpkins in the bargain.
/ Perhaps something else would do better In
/ the place of ashes. | think l shall try
/ some with muck this year, and note the diff
| ference, if any, in the yield.-A Small Farm
en-, in Country Gent
To DESTROY BOXERS IN FRUIT TREEs.-Bore
the tree about one inch in depth with gimb-
4 let or small auger fill the hole thus made
with sulphur, and then secure it with clay OF
shoemaker's- wax. The sulphur will pene
trate the tree, or the sap will carry it into
| the pores of the tree, and the borers will dis
appear, and the tree viii recover from theil
| injurious effects. / saved thrifty apple tree
by this method few years since. The sui
phur does not injure the tree; the hole made
for it will grow up, and the tree will thrive
again. If holes made by the borers are ac
-cessible, fill them with sulphur, and the Dor
ers will not again trouble the tree.
If the trees are large, more sulphur will b.
/
not be too large. Let the sulphur be put in
to the tree in half dozen places 1t vii
not injure the tree, and it is certain RENE
dy against the borer.-e,fss
PLANT PEAS DEEP.-The theory recent.
advocated of planting peas very deeply in tn,
earth, in order to prolong the bearing capaci
/ ty of the vines, has also been well tested AIT
found to be correct. A farmer told me tia
he ploughed a furrow beam deep; then scat
tered the seed peas at the bottom, ate
which he turned deep furrow upon tneI
with his plough, covering them, if possible
to the depth of twelve or fourteen inches
They pushed their way up through the .tlic
mass of earth very soon, and, instead Of turn
ing yellow at the bottom and dying after tn
first gathering, they blossomed and bore unit
he was tired of picking the pods. If such
result will uniformly be realized from tn
i plan, pea culture may be more profitable tina
hitherto.