New-York tribune., 1870-02-05

tnra Ierature-they are. as well, forecast OF the
improved farming of the good time com'pg, o...,
SOUND H !AIK OF slIEEP.-isaac Bachtei; stark stark
more mutton sheep. That may do around the
large cities but The TRIBUNE circulates very, far;
1t costs me about 80 cents to get dollars worth OF
mutton to the Eastern market, and only abort D
cents to get dollars worth of wool there. III we
turned our attention to raising coarse wooled mn,
ton sheep. the markets would soon be gutted with
both sheep and wool. There is more medium fine
wool needed in tho country than any other but the
experiment Is being tried very extensively here
about Mernoes going to the fetters, and Cotswolds
coming from Canada am trying both.
OUR CoRREsPoNDESTs.-,George Helman Of Lam
caster, Penn is in an unpleasant fix 1le is 40 years
OF age. has six children, worth about $1,000 I'M
dersands bookkeeping. but not so much of farming.
lie would 90 West but his wife won't unless he goes
hrst and proves that it Is wise by q years expert
ence. While he goes, what will support the family
The Club feels itself puzzled by such complica-
ton. Nothing is harder than to start at 40 to act
part which should have been begun at 2j But the
world is full of people who let opportunity slip. and
for 10000 readers who are in situation not unlike
George iielman's we say: Determine first of all not
to vacillate or stand shvering on the brink of
action, but after proper time to decide on some
thing, and then to do IT. You are of the class that
should join colony. One is going to Colorado with
Mr. Meeker another to Florida another to Western
North Carolina. You must decide which; raise some
money by mortgage or sale, go alone and work to
get shelter and few things growing and then
send for your family. OF course there are hardships
and the gall Of poverty But it is better to clench
good society, in which you are good anybody,
than to linger and do little things among rich
people and have your six children grow up with a
fiat rock on top of their heads.
l.. Balderson of Cecil County, Mo-, asks what we
are to understand as TO the cream of different cows
requiring different time to produce butter. To him
Samuel j. Sharpless of Philadelphia replies have
theory to advance in reference to tho subject al
luded to- but am satisfied that when the cream from
score of cows is churned together we do not get as
much butter as if the cream from each was churned
separately. The best results would probably be OBJ
tanned by testing each COW, and determining how
long it would require the butter from her cream TO
come then TO make two churnings, one OF all the
cream that will come III ID minutes less, and the
other OF that that requires longer time to churn.
The story about obtaining second lot of butter by
continued churning did not occur at my place. had
1t from neighbor, who gave the name OF the party
to whom 1t happened.
ence covers span of So years, asks about fertilizers
what TO SOW on his wheat
Ansr@.-Bons meal Detroit, your capital, con-
sumeS meat enough to yield three tuns Of bone per
day. That bone can be bought at a cent a pound,
and perhaps less. When ground go pounds per acre
will supply your wheat fields with the best top,
twelve tuns day If none are thrown away. lie
also asks about Peter Henderson's great crops. and
we answer: Make manure. and buy manure, as Mr;
Henderson does, ana you can take GOOO hard-headed
Cabbages from an acre.
Horatio Bascom, Greenville, Penn. would know
about condensed milk. Ii has at present limited
SALE for it is not equal TO the fresh fluid but it sells
at good figures. factory with tanks, evaporators.
&c, costs about $500 and we believe there is more
permanent thrift in butter
Nash Elder, Huntington, Lorraine Co.. o.. gives his
recipe for putting down beef: For 100 pounds meat
take four quarts rock SALT four pounds brown sugar
four ounces satpeter, pulyerze mix thoroughly.
sprinkle layer halt an inch thick in tho bottom Of
barrel pack layer Of beef close down upon IT, and
pound il close with a wooden peste. cover with the
mixture pack another layer close, and so on. The
moisture of the beef Will make brine that will keep
the beef any length of time.
The same correspondent asks il it is best for horses
to have hay by them all the time; and we answer
no; the careful feeders allow the animal to get
a little hungry, so he will take hold with zest, and
then lay him good generous feed.