Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-08
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Sailing BUTTER.-It is becoming very
prevalent complaint among butter dealers
that farmers are not careful enough as to
the kind and quantity of salt they use in
preparing butter for-market. Some put in
too much, others hardly enough. while too
many are careless as TO the quality used.
Ordinary barrel salt is reported to contain
so much lime as to cause a soapy texture to
the butter, while lacking the preservative
power essential to good flavor and pro-
tracted keeping. The Ashton salt, i'm
ported in sacks of four bushels, combines
all the essentials necessary to the preser-
walton of butter-the salt costing about
one-fourth more than that commonly in
use. 'a-i a
FEED FOR Cows.-Well-saved clover hay
Is thought to be the best forage for milch
cows, and badly saved, dried up, dusty
clover hay the worst. A Maine dairy-man
says that his cows never gave so much milk
from any kind of feed as with mixture OF
oats and potatoes. Potatoes alone increase
the quantity of milk at the expense of the
quality, but the addition of oats improves
the quality.
How TO RENT A FARM.-The correct
way to arrive at fair price for both par
ties is the following: Add the value of the
cultivated lands and buildings to the value
of the stock and tools. If renter has no
benefit of woodland, the growth of timber
and increasing value of the land will be an
equivalent for the interest on it. Now. if
renter agrees to pay to the proprietor,
annually, six, seven, eight or more per
cent. on the aggregate value of stock, I'M
plements and farm, and keep the soil in a
good state of fertility, and make certain
improvements every year. the proprietor
will receive a better compensation than the
renter. A renter could not make decent
profit on many farms were he to hire them
at six per cent, while on nothers he could
afford to pay twelve per cent. The pro-
ductiveness of the soil must be taken into
account; then the percentage must be less
ened, in proportion as renter makes i'm
provements that will increase the value of
the farm. If he rents farm for term of
years, and certain improvements will ben
eft him as well as the proprietor, each one
should share in the expense.
A written contract between the parties
should require the renter to adopt a rota-
tion of crops adapted to the soil; to allow
nothing to be carried off the farm that
would make manure; to allow no manure
to be wasted by remaining in heaps from
year to year; to keep the stock good to
keep all tools, implements and buildings
In good repair, making allowance for their
ornamental trees in any way. The prices
at which everything is valued in different
10 .alities render it quite inconsistent to dc
any thing further than simply make sug-
gestions on important points, by which
a fair contract for both parties may be
framed.
When a farm is worked on shares, the
proprietor should so frame the contract
that hay, straw, cornstalks and other coarse
material shall not be carried off the soil
and he who works it should make and ap.
ply given amount of manure annually
If foreign fertilizers are applied, the pro-
prietor ought to sustain small portion O.
the expense, if he receives a share of thu
grain. The contract should not allow
man to plow up the entire farm at one time
SO that there will be no grass the next sea
son, either for pasture or meadow.-WorE
ing Farmer.
UNDERTAKING. LANDs-ITs EFFECT
Experiments in undertaking land wert
made in Scotland last year for the purpos,
of determining the effect on the tempera
ture OF the soil, compared with that in tht
same vicinity which was not drained. TIL,
result was that the draining raised tn,
temperature 1.5 degrees, equal to a remova
of the land from one hundred to one hun
dred and fifty miles south. This is an i'm
portant consideration connected with tin
compact, heavy soils, whose retentivenes
OF water renders them cold and compare
lively inert with respect to vegetation.-
Draining land involves considerable eX
pense, but its increased productiveness soOl
repays this, besides assuring increased
profits for the tuture.-Erchdnge.
The RAvAGEs OF THE GRAssHoPPERs I,
KANsAs.-The Leduenacorth Bulletin report
fearful ravages by grasshoppers in Ceda
Creek Valley. One gentleman, Mr.. Welsh
whose farm lies alongside the Government