Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-09

without good supply of corn fodder
many 4 lrmer would find his milk run
ming very low. Corn should be sowed
on ground in good heart, In drills three
feet apart, MANFRED in the drill with
compost if need be. About three or
four bushels Is the usual seeding for an
acre. The ground should be cultivated
between the rows with a horseshoe, or
cultivator, once or twice.
CLOVER SEED.-Don't forget that red
clover on good land, cut early, will pro-
duce a crop of seed as good, or better
than you can buy. Cut before it would
otherwise be best to do so,-early in
June, leave the stubble as even as
possible. LII you can put on a light
dressing of fine muck and ashes COM
post, you will see the advantage in it,
TOBACCO. Set plants about the End
and Sd week IN June IN this latitude,
and northward. The soil must be rich,
in good filth, the rows 3 feet apart, and
the plants IL feet in the rows
Shelter from the sun by dropping a lit
tie freshly mowu grass upon the plants,
keep close watch for grubs and cut
worms, and reset as fast as plants fail,
up to the second week in July.
BUTTER. The secret of making good
butter is cleanliness and thoroughness,
and the time for the most profitable ex-
ercise of the art of butter making is
June. The grass is abundant, the cows
in full milk, the weather favorable. The
milk should not be kept too cool, though
this is rarely a fault in dairies. 1t is
enough if it be kept as cool as coo
Ea bran holt khoroh EEO &c not fo0 noO1
Cream will rise at about this tempera-
ture better than at any other, and the
same is best at which to churn. Milk
should stand where the air is sweet and
fresh, odors from the kitchen or from
the stable, or odors of any kind, indeed
except that of fresh air, should be care
fully excluded. Stone floors are desir-
able, for these can be kept constantly
moist and so cooler than others, and the
air ought to circulate freely over and
under the pans. Shallow pans are bet
ter than deep ones. Work out the but
termilk without touching the hands to
| the butter, using as little water as pos
sible, or none at all. If the buttermilk
is all out, and with it all the milk, sugar
and cheesy portions of the milk, butter
will keep with very little salt. The
more imperfect the working, the more
salt is required. In keeping cream
| several days, put it where the tempera-
ture will be uniform and cool, and stir
well if more is added.-Am. Agriculu-
TiSt
HOP LOUISE AND ITS REMEDY.
This insect makes its appearance IN
the month of July, and unless its raya-
ees are arrested in a short time, it ac-
quires so firm hold upon the yard as
make its destruction sure. II Is thought
by many that the louse may not return
next season, owing to their sudden dis
| appearance from places where they were
most numerous last summer before the
time when the eggs to propagate the
species for the ensuing year were laid.
The sudden disappearance was attribut-
ed to highly charged electric condition
of the atmosphere. In Kent and other
hop growing districts in England, they
have a remedy which has been found
effectual when used upon the first APP
pearance of the insect, and thoroughly
applied. The mixture will be found to
be healthful to the vines, and harmless
to the person applying it. 1t is thrown
over the vines, often twenty feet high
through a hose with muzzle perforat-
ed with small holes, by means of force
pump. When the vines are trained
horizontally npOn twines, between
stakes seven feet high, the expense of
the apparatus and the labor of using it,
as well as the waste of much of the
liquid, is avoided, as common large
syringe answers the purpose equally
well, and man can go over yard at
an expense of one or two dollars per
acre. BY taking care that the wash is
strong enough to kill the louise, and vet
not injure the vine when applied in sea-
son, and If necessary a second applica-
ton made, the following will be found
an effectual remedy against the hop
louise: A soap suds Is made about as
strong as is lett from an ordinary wash
ing. Into this is put salt and saltpetre
to make it weak brine, not strong
enough, however, for curing meats, as
that would injure the plants. Dissolve
copperas in warm water and add to the
brine in the proportion of one pound of
copperas to ten gallons of the liquor.
FEEDING SHEEP.
l have often been asked the question,
''HOw much hay and grain will sheep
eat?'' / have found by actual trial (hav- |
ing weighed the hay and grain for saw
eral days in succession fed to lots. of |
sheep of different weights that sheep |
will eat three per cent. of their weight /
of English hay or it's equivalent. But |