Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-09
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FARM, GARDEN AND H0UsEH0 LID

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FARM, GARDEN AND H0USEH0 LID
ITEMS OF AGRICULTURAL ExPEIIENoE.-1. 1.
All soils. are benefited by being under.
drained, but the benefit is more apparent
and lasting IN those of clayey nature, or
having subsoil retentive of moisture.
2. After drainage, subsoiiing and good
! cultivation are necessary to ensure good
crops on heavy soils. 4 g~f- s:.u -,
D.. Lime is the .best manure 10 supply
strong clay soils. 1t renders them more
pervious- to light aud heat, and also corrects
their acidity, by combining with some of
tile chemical salts In the soil making plant
food of poison.
4. Summer fallowing is the most efficient
! and profitable means of preparing strong
soils for wheel, and of beginning a rotation,
alter srss las been grown for a length Of
g. Greenaeops plowed under, whef, in
the most succnlent state, are powerful aux
iliaries in rendering O light soil fertile, but
If this Is done too often successively. the
soil becomes overcharged with carbonace-
Ous matter T,.t.. ft.f
9. Leached ashes applied in large quan-
titles to sandy soils, or those containing
too much vegetable humus, viii greatly
ameliorate their condition, and render them
more compact. ~ 81 - nsTi l.,n
2. There is no soil so poor or sterile bat
some mode mav be found of ameliorating
and enriching it. ,..,..i sii...
s. Blowing sands may be gradually made
productive by spreading six inches thick of
sttaw over them, to remain till rotted.-
Then seed thickiy with clover on the sur
face, without plowing. and when the clover
has taken hold and becomes established,
pasture sheep upon the land for two or
three years .preparatoty so manuring and
c,utiyating it.
, .. Two successive grain crops on the
same land leaves it very foul.
!. 10, Summer following ameliorates a soil,
and If properly done gets rid of most of the
weeds and noxious plants infesting it
Canada Fdrmer.
THE BEST TINE TO SKIM MI1K.-On this
mooted question Y. A. Willard writes as
follows:
When milk is allowed to sour before it is
SKINNED, the layer of cream appears more
bulky and of greater consistency, but it
does not produce so much nor so good a
quantity of butter rs cream properly raised
and skinned from milk before it sonrs On
TINS point we possess some interesting ex-
periments by Sannet, WHO put aside two
equal quantities of milk, of which the first,
SKINNED after 80 hours, yielded thirty
pounds Of butter. and the second, skim
med after a lapse of sixty hours, only
pounds of butter
In another experiment, two equal quanti-
nf nh n 4
after thirty hours, thirty one pounds of but
ter; aad the other, after sixty hours, twen-
ty-nine pounds or butter. In both expert
ments in which the milk was skinned af-
ter thirty hours standing, the SKINNED
milk was still sweet, and the cream not so
thick and less in bulk than that which was
thrown up after sixty hours standing.
: The cream which rises first is ALWAYS
richer in butter than that which is thrown
up later, and it also possesses more of that
peculiar aroma which gives to butter that
rich, nutty flavor and smell which impart
SO high a degree of pleasure in eating it.
When proper regard has been had to keep
ing the milk at the right temperature while
the cream is rising and the proper appli-
ances are had in the dairy, all the cream
that will rise at all will have como to the
surface in about twenty-four hours. Some
claim that they can get it all ufD in less
time. OF one thing we may be assured
the quicker cream can be made to rise the
better the quality; for cream, like all per-
ishable su distances; does not preserve its
original properties for any great length of
time. ~ ~--sf-14-i aTE9TneL
The best as well as the highest priced
butter that now goes into the London mar
ket comes from the continent of Europe,
where the greatest attention is paid to but
ter making. In Hol5tein, one of the points
considered the most essential in butter
making is to skim the milk Just Mt the pro-
per moment; and this must always take
place before the milk can become sour
Choice, keepable butter can only result
when the milk has been kept sweet, as the
souring develops curds. The Orange county
butter-makers observe this principles; and
the experience of the best butter-makers,
both IN this country and Europe, appears
to have settled down upon this principle as
the correct one to practise. But while the
cream should be taken from the milk be-
fore it is sour, the cream, ON the contrary,
is allowed to have pleasant acid taste be-
fore churning.
Itappears TO be the general opinion of
butter makers, both of this country and in
allowing the cream TO acquire slightly
acid taste than to churn it sweet; but this
acid condition of the cream must not be
confOunded, however, with sourness, which
is altogether different, and arises from diff
ferent causes, such as standing too long,
or from close atmosphere, or from badly
cleansed utensils. or from a general want
of care and cleanliness
T How To KILL CANADA TnIsrIFs.-A cor
respondent of the Rural World in speaking
OF this pest, and the way to dispose of it,
says
Many methods are employed; summer
fallowing the soil infected, is successful
remedy; when thus treated, two ploughings
are necessary, with n thorough harf owing
thereafter, great caro-, being taken that
every leaf is turned under-for they are
considered the lungs of the plant, and
without their aid the plant soon perishes.
Heavy seeding and early moving arc other
agents. the right performance of which
thick'y with grass. A good, strong growth
of grass, besides reducing the amount of
and thereby retards their maturity
until later period than that
az "hiSh tiiO biooo 40 iiPc SuouSu lOI hay
ing. II, then, the crop is cut in season,
the slender stumps of the thistles are ex-
posed to the damaging effects of the wealth
er, and no fear need be apprehended of
their spreading by root or seed. Should,
however, the cutting be unav vcidably delay
ed, little danger need be entertained from
seeding, as 1t is rare occurrence to find
seed having vitality among grass; in the
later case, thick and heavy seeding should
be practiced. If possible, take two crops
of seed from the land thefirst season, or
pasture close after the first moving. Keep
them from seeding; time and patient deter
mination are necessary to final lsucosssr Z
RED sOAK AconNs Fon Hoes.-Look out
for the red oak acorns. If You have red
oak trees in your hog lots, be sure and Put
your hogs in pens SO that they cannot get
the acrons when they fall. After they have
lain on the ground q few weeks they are
not so injurious, but when they first begin