Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-06
1AGRTCULTURAL.

MAZE EVERY EDGE CUT.--We suppose
that there are fully three-quarters OF mill
lion of pounds of Northern and Western
butsef consumed in Florida every year.
But put it at halfsa million pounds, or any
other quantity you please-tnough we De,
Iievetfat the. merchants of the principal
cities. If questioned, would say that our
suppositioTIof three-quaEters of a million
is nearly correct. w hateVer the quantity
NAV he several hundred thousand dollars
are REQUIRED to pay for it, every dollar OF
which goes outof the State, which might De
the part Of farmers and stock raisers. The
time has come for our farmers to snake
evervietlpe cut,S Diaries were profitable,
when attended to years ago, but they can
be made more profitable now. We know of
one planter whose sales OF milk alone nave
averaged from $l75 to $200per month. 1t
isotriie9 he lived near market and could
easiiv send milk to town every morning.
bat farmers at o distance who will only
learn the secret Of putting up sweet butter
for s4nafket-whichis is nothing. more than
working the milk out of it and neVerswash-
ing it in water or allowing water to come
inse0i1taet with twill never encounter
difficnlty in finding sale for all the butter
they make If the supply should be great
er In spring and summer than thedemand,
mt IL mn for winter. We have known
housewives in this section whose butter
kept, sweet for two years. If milk is poor
from bad past sturage, work out all the milk
and use the yolk of eggs, aud NOBODY can
tell your butter from the best Goshen, $50
called .,ss.st q. -.
Planters should reduce the number of
their,4mileh cOws---always provided that
they will bestow little attention on those
they keep for dairy purposes. A half-doz-
en- COWS well taken, care of are more prof
itahle than three times that number neg
srN1rf lQnd nIantl6
long range carrots will pay better than
arTthing else for cattle. Carrots planted
in nRflrilIs. we'll manured and tfinned to
stand three or fourfinches apart, will pro-
duce from one thousand to fifteen hun
dred bushels per acre. No food is more
nutritious for stock. When fed to COWS,
their milk is increased in quantity and
richness. all u .z31f@ 41s>S rseI'iti @,t+lid
GRowING PoTAToEs UNDER STRAW
HavingfFeauently seen reports of extraor-
dinary sucet IS In raising potatoes by cover
ing them with straw, was induced to try
it upon small scale. gsf - 80 -
"A plat in my garden, about fifty feet
square, of well manured clayey loan, was
nicely spaded upand made fine and smooth.
Itwas then marked out in shallow drills,
two feet and a half apart, and potatoes (Of
the pink-eye Variety planted whole, two
feet, apart in drills, and barely. covered
with earth fs Them whole patch was then
u y
lightly and evenly with a pitchfork, to the
depthsof about two feet Several showers
occurred soon after the potatoes were
pIarited, which settled the straw very con-
siderably, and lin due time the vines came
up through the straw,g and soon covered
the. entire surface with the rankest vege-
tation. l..e go. 81. -. .sI.s...-
Nothing more was done to the patch till
the vines were killed by frost in autumn
Not a weed appeared among them. At the
usual time of digging potatoes the dead
vines were all pulled, and removed then
with potato fork, the layer OF straw
which was pretty well rooted, and moi
mere than four or five inches in thickness
vas carefully removed. To my grea
aurnrisP. there lay the potatoes on the sur.
faot. Hterdzlg corefinQ The ground, and aImos
as clean as ifthey had been washed. They
were picked up and measured. but thl
quantity, i do not remember. This much
bovEeVEr. / well recollect, that j neve
raised SO good a crop by any other mode o
cnituTe;B5T They were OF very uniform siz
and Of GOOD quality - ohio Y alley Former.
W1NE MAKfNG.-Wine making in tn
TInifed States is destined to an 1mportan
Savelonment, This is assured from tn
nTooress already made and the proof afford
Cd Of the admirable adaptation OF the Gil
mate and soil in large sections OF copn
try. The last United states census ls,. Z. .Tepo,r q,
s,,I;;scfs su,ts Some of the earliest attempts a
Gro 70 culture were with Imported Harle
At:asfss I,ioI, failed. Though partial sueces6e
.r sle thof manSIfacture Of native wines wer
nahrained ah as. long ago as the year 1900, t.
N;chaIas Iongwortb,e ESQ recently ae
ceased. belongs the credit OF making SUP u
stantial progress. Jonn y, Oulat1, ~ q y We :
vay. Indiana, also maue q %
in the culture, Of the vine slnesate cui