Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-21

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keeping, they are becoming great favor |
ties on the rice and cotton plantations
of the South and West. So far back as |
in Kentucky alone.
81 AMERICAN CHEESE IN ENGLAND.
In q communication which the secre-
tary of the American dairymen's associ-
alton has lately received from Messrs.
Corderoy & Co., London cheese mon
gers--are contained the following sug-
gestions which may be of interest to
dairymen:
The defects in cheese do not always
arise from error in the manufacture, but
| from atmospheric changes or the heat of
| the voyage. As a rule we think Amer
lean cheese should be shipped little
under ripe, as flavor is a great desidera-
tum here, and there is but little cheese
of any sort that can be held long over
without becoming somewhat strong
| We also hke-cheese to be of rich silky
grain, and of nice straw color; a deep
shade of color is an objection.
| Quality is now the test of apprecia-
ton on the part of consumers, and the
cheese made in your country has more
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make this season than in any former
one, and we may quite hope with the
enterprise exhibited on your side, and
the determination to produce very fine
article that your Factory" diaries will
take high rank in this market.
THE COW IN THE FAMILY.
II you have means, and wish to live
pleasantly, get you an Attorney COW.
She will make the richest and sweetest
cream and butter, and of course milk,
of any. They are worth having, these
little docile, quiet animals, seeming
more like members of the family than
anything else, though apt to be mis-
shapen, brindled or spotted, and pale
at that--thin necks, like deer, and
heads the same, but yet very gentle
different from all other cows.
Next to the Alderney for milk, and
giving more, but not so rich, is the
Ayrshire, a most noble bre ed for the
dairy, and most excellent in the family.
There is more pride to to be gratifed
in such COW. She is sleek and round,
and most excellently formed, having
all the points perfect. The Devons are.
rivals to the Ayrshires, and will be an
honor to any family.
Either of these will do, or even a
"native," though these are the ugliest
of all cows-pitched rum, cramped and
dIsfigured, and sometimes vicious,
sometimes very docile, varying much in
all the points of good and bad COW.
You must run your risk with the native
breed. But when you get good COW,
of whatever breed, then abide byit. Get
a gentle one, and she will not be wor-
RED by dogs; she Will not trouble You
or the neigbbors either. You will
sleep content for all Brindle will do
for she is intelligent and knows what
you want, and does it to please you and
mother that takes good care of her-of
this other mother, as the COW is. You
get an affection for such a COW, and
that is a great benefit. You will then
treat her well, and she will treat back
III return. Such a COW, of course you
will not part with, for you could not
! dispense with even her company, to say
nothingof the immense amount of milk,
the real stuff and sinew of the family,
/ that she gives you. We have expert.
enced these things, and we know how
I to appreciate such a cow.-COr. Rural
/ World.
CLOVER AS A MANURE.
The following in a letter from the
Hon. George Geddes, of Paramount,
Onondaga county, N. Y, to the n. Y.
| Tribune:
81 have been long trying by, 'precept
and example too, to get the farmers of
the country to believe that the clover
plant, stimulated by gypsum, whenever
it is proved that gypsum does aid its
| growth, is the most valuable manure
when we take into account its cost, that
can be had. In my reports on the cOun-
ty of Onondaga, 1 said, The agriculture
of Onondaga county is based on the
clover plant, and L now repeat that
ass ertion. Yesterday, farmer living
within two miles of Syracuse, called on
me, and while passing over the farm,
remarked that he would not draw man.
ure from the city to his farm if it was
given him, prefering to manure with
clover and plaster. This was the opin-
ion of a man who bad spent fifty
years of his life in earning handsome
fortune as working farmer, and whose
knowledge of scientific matters is quite
limited-in short, man who is govern
ed entirely by practical results. He
knows just the value of barn manure,
for he has made and used large quans-
ties every year, on the farm where he
now lives and has lived for thirty years.
Nothing was said by me to draw out his
opinion. 1t was given unprompted, and
having long since learned to value the
opinions of such men, was very much
gratified at hearing his views. Within
the last four weeks have seen heavy
crop of clover plowed under, and the
harrow and drill to SOW wheat at once
put into operation. The farmer expects
to get good crop with this single plow-
ing, and to enrich his land for future
crops. How could he do so much for
his land in any other way at the same
cost? He has cut one crop of hay, and
from the middle of July TO the middle
of September the grass had so grown
that 1T was hardly practicable to get it
into the furrOw. The crop of hay has
paid the interest ON the value of the
land, fully 10 per cent. and the crop
of wheat will probably pay still better
Now what has this manuring cost? Do
your own figuring. Do any of your
eastern farmers manure as heavily as
this? They pay more money, but do
they manure as highly? Let us look at
the future of this land. The wheat will
come off next year, and one-fourth of a
bushel of clover seed sown next spring
having put timothy grass seed on
when the wheat was drilled in-the butts
of the bundles of wheat will, at harvest,
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