The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-05-05
THE FARM

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I NAV have cost him only $40 A small fami-
| ly will get along very well on three or four
pounds of butter per week and two quarts
of milk per day to use besides the necessary
cream for tea and coffee. A forty-dolar
COW may supply this, and the owner think
himself fortunate. But is doing the best
he can ON the capital invested in the COW
and lier.iood. 1t costs nearly as much to
keep such COW as to keep one worth $50,
and the latter should make at least eight
pounds of butter per week, besides supply
ing milk and cream in abundance ~
Suppose, then, there were four pounds
out of the eighty-dollar COW to sell, at an
average OF thirty cents pei, pound, this will
give in six months $685. cents tor butter
sold. For thr months more she will yield
surplus Of two pounds per week for safe
swelling the cash to $685. For one month
more she will supply the family. On the
other hand, the forty y-dollar COW will supply
| the family with butter during about eight
months, and for two month more will only
afford milk and cream. During these two
months four pounds of butter per week
must be purchased at an average of forty
| cents per pound costing in the aggregate
| $12,S0. This added to the surplus for the
eighty dollar COW, gives deficiency on the
inferior animal of $4S, ,88--in round number
we will call il $50. as the difference will be
considerably more than made up by the
surplus of milk for the pig.
/ Now, as it is expensive keeping COW
when the owner has all his feed to purchase
can he afford to keep an inferior one.
| Would not superior animal pay her own
| cost in surplus for sale2 Lr-z sa.r 3
| Take another estimate. It is said that
the average yield of COWS kept for family
use is not more than 1900 quarts of milk
per annum. At five cents per quart this
amount of milk is worth 800. A good Ayr
shire or rShorthorn may be purchased that
will give at least 4, 900 quarts per annum,
| which at five cents per quart, is worth $780,
| II the inferior cow would supply the family
| the superior one would yield 2,200 quarts
for sale, which will bring in any little town
! five cents per quart making a total of $40
j clear gain The extra cost of keeping a
| superior animal might cut down this profit
! to 500.
I WHAT CULTURE THE PEACH REQUIRES
The peach is known by the best cultiva-
. tors as requiring great care in cultivation.
Few things that grow out of earth will pay
! so well for the care bestowed. And with
out care, the peach is failure This. we
may say accounts to great extent for the
discouragement which attend the culture of
this most delicious of fruits. 1t is tender,
and therefore requires care; it must have it,
or it will fail. Not only the amount of crop,
but equally the quality will fail without
care. Let no one attempt peach culture,
unless he intends to bestow the necessary
time upon it. The grass must not only be
kept out. but the ground must be mellow,
and mellow throughout, but especially at
the top. Fruit growers in the east grow
corn or other crops which require the STIR
ring of the ground until the orchard bears.
Then the trees are cultivated rs one would
corn. The ground is we'll stirred no grass
or weeds are permitted. This, aside from
the effect of the climate, is the principal
thing. % ls l.i' =
CATERPILLARs.-A correspondent of the
Western Rural says now is the time to keep
the start of the caterpillars. What cocoons
cannot he destroyed before they hatch,
should be attended to very soon after. His
plan is to take strip of coarse linen cloth
in his hand, as soon as the leaves .,cgin to
show, and look over the trees carefully; the
little nest may be seen in the forks of the
branches; place the strip of cloth over the
nest, one hand at each end, bring it down
hard on the nest; then draw it back and
forth few times, take it off, and 10 /! where
are they2 gone, annihilated Rods may be
used on large trees, fastening one end to
one rod, the other end having ring fastened
to it and hook on the other rod After
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fork, hook the ring and operate as before.
The Dutch do not wash with q machine.
They would scorn the idea They use sim
ply refined borax Dutch women are we'll
known as models of cleanliness, at least in
their own country. They get up linen
whittier and nicer than any Others, and they
! do it by using refined borax as washing
| powder instead of soda, in the proportion OF
large handful to about ten gallons of boil
ing water. They thus save one half in soap.
Cambrics and laces require an extra quanti-
ty of the powder. while for stiffening crino-
line and undershirts strong solution is
necessary. Try it, as / have, and see for
| yOurself-C0r. Germantown Telegraph.
MULcHING NEwLY-PLANTED TREEs.-We
have found mulching to be of decided bene-
fit to recently planted trees Of all kinds, and
especially to deciduous trees. 1t should be
applied before the sun becomes hot and the
ground dry and begins to bake-say early in
May. Various applications are used-some
| apply fine shavings. saw dust, spent tan,
grass, and even charcoal We have used
almost exclusively grass, and think it answers
| as well as any other But it should be re-
newed two or three times during the season,
and the soil stirred. Itkeeps the soil around
the trees moist and cool, and prevents the
growth of weeds Germantown Telegraph.
DESTROYING VERnuN ON CATTLE Per
NIT me to inform your querist that have
tried many things to destroy vermin on cat
tie, and that have found nothing so good
as mixture of train oil and spirits of tur-
| pentine, in the proportion of five or six
glasses of oil to one of turpentine. The lat
ter is destruction to insect life, but by itself
is too strong and gives pain; it is q blister
for horse.-Cor. Irish Farmers Gazette.
If onions are sliced and kept in sick
room they will absorb all the atmospheric
J poison. In the room of small pox patient
!. they blister and decompose very rapidly, but
j will prevent the spread of the disease. Their
1 application has also proved effectual in the
( case of snake bites.
Two tea spoons full of compound spirits OF
, ammonia, added to basin of water will
! form a wash that will effcctually remove the
unpleasant odor arising from perspiration,
| and leave the skin neat, clean and fresh.
The gathering and drying of sumac leaves
is good business for the landlcss in the
country. A boy or woman can make So a
day at it. s. AFT h