The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-02

exhausts the soil very much, units 1t for
further use for o. year at Least, and the only
Recommendation 1T has Is that IL clears the
soil OF foul growth. ~ Tat5sI 80 =
The Hon. Geerge Geddea.--I certainly
would not advise any farmer who lives in
such good country IS Missouri to give at
tention TO bICkwheat. As near rs eau
learn, buckwhcat in only grown by people
who are 90 unfortunate as to occupy poor
lind. They can't get anything better, and
so grow little buckwheat.
j. =. LyInan.--in peach orchards it is the
best crop that can be put in, as it robs the
soil of nothing that the peach wants, and
keeps out daisies and sand-burrs. By the
time buckwheat is put in light ploushing
Will not hurt the orchard. But in May and
June the roots should not be disturbed, as
it will cause the little peaches to fall. "a
Frank Curti-.-.as most who have spoken
have seen fit to give the crop in question q
kick, am willing to be in a mean minori-
ty, and speak word in its praise. My OBJ
serYation has convinced me that in locali-
ties where wheat cannot be easily grown
buckwheat is 4 very profitable crop. Thou
sands Of bushels are grown each season In
northern New York, and the crop has been
growing in favor for the past i've or ten
years. No grain is 80 excellent to prepare
the way for an oat crop, the only trouble
being that occasional kernels sprout the
season after. 1t is excellent feed for fowls
and for farm animals generally, especially
in winter weather, because Of its heat
forming qualities, and man with his belly
full Of sFbuckwheat cakes, brown" can
walk further, jump higher, and chop more
cord.wood, than if he make bis breakfast on
any other food. ~ VA go. ~.
Mr.. Todd.-If wanted to raise the mise
rablest eggs, with yolks as pale as squash
pie, I should feed my hens on buckwheat:
If wanted poor, fabby pork, I should put
the same grain in the pig-troush and II
wanted boy to play truant aud get on the
di1nce-block, should certainly feed him on
buckwh9at cakes.
GRASS SEED Writ BUCKwHEAT.
Platt Herrick, Bradford county, Penn. !: l
see Mr.. Cash, Of ToWanda, wants to KNOW
with buckWheat or alone. Sow 1t with
buckWheat by all means. If land Is o little
worn there is no crop so good as buck
wheat to seed with; it is better than grass
alone. The buckWheat roots keep the
around mellow, and the tops shade the
growing grass from the burning sun. II
Mr.. Cash will sow bis buckwheat and grass,
and after about three weeks SOW bushel
of plaster per acre, he will do the right
thing, -.tx3-.a .s.a e:.. A.n.
MAKING A MnK-RooM.-A. J. Rice, So
dus, New York: My milk-room is in the
northwest corner of my house cellar; soil
gravelly two small north windows; three
six by ten lights one west window, SIX
lights; fresh wall divides it from the Gel
lar on the south the door is made of Stats !;
the windows are kept open. Temperature
now, at 3 p. NJ, is SOC, and the milk, which
is rorty-four hours old, is not thick, but the
cream is partly covered with white Spots:
What causes them, and what Is q remedy
forgot to say that the cellar is paved with
mortar made of common lime three inches
deep, and plastered one-half inch with wa
ter-iime. The cement is not very hard yet,
80 that we have to cover it with boards.
Now. I am satisfied that milk should be
kept Mt temperature Of 600, but how am
to do il in room whose temperature Is now
G6o. and will average for the next three
months over TOO or $50. Ten rods from the
house Is q well whose bottom is ten or tlt-
teen feet above the cellar. Water album
dant; twenty five or fifty pals per day it
would supply; temperature, 4S'. 1t Is
slightly impregnated with sulphur, so that
vOI1 can inst taste and smell it, but we think
fbat by use it would not taste so badly. My
trouble is this: that am afraid that if /
lconduct. tl,at-water by,a syphon to my milk
room that it will make the room So damp
that I cannot use it for butter.
| j. A. Whitney.--He need have no fear OF
da,npness if he keeps his windows open and
| keeps the grass cut away. lie had better
| nut q frame. covered with wire-nett1ng, In
| the window holes to keep out flies and bugs
as well as rats. IF he uses only stone ana
mortar it will be all the better. For con-
Quoting water into the cooling trough be
need have llo fear of lead. Only when WA
ter stands some time on lead and is then
used for the table is there danger. Use the
| cheapest pipe you can get, for you will soon
abandon the nnlk-room under, your house
| in favor of one built expressly for the pur-
pose. You may have to 60 down ten feet
| in order TO get the temperature you need in
July, from 55 to 600, unless you have the
advantage Of a very cool spring.
FooD FOR FIsH.-Wesle Horton, OF Rens-
selaer county, n. Y, having water which
| he is stocking with trout, would be ad-
yisad regarding "the artificial food best
suited to the wants of the speckled beauties
| in the various stages of their development"
| NIr. Crandell. 1t is known that trout are
| far from being vegetarian in their tastes,
and that from the first they refuse all sup.
plies not Of an animal nature or origin:
! Though the yolk of an egg boiled hard and
| grated Is Salu 10 answer fCly SOou pui-
pose, it is the experience OF some OF the
best breeders that there Is nothing equal
to loppered milk or bonny-clabber. Three
or four tablespoonful of this Is believed to
| be sufficient for meal for 100000 in the
early stages. During their first three months
the fish should be fed, say four times day,
and thereafter until year old Enough there
1 will be o natural increase OF appetite, and
the quantity required will be greater) the
supplies need not come so frequently. Raw
meat may be introduced about this time
/ rs plucks" are most used because least eX-
| nensive), and it should be chopped very
| line. So important is a good supply OF
| flesh food for the trout that no person
| should 20 into trout culture without
knowing whether from butchers or other
sources he can get unsaleable meat
at low prices. Agassiz says the mtes-
| tines Of sheep or other animals will be wei
come, and he speaks word OF warning
against oyerteeding, SO as to foul the bot
tom of the stream or pond. 1t is the prac-
tice in certain foreign countries 10 buy up
dead dogs and horses, and make them INTO
MES or pates rs food for the tnny tribe. In
other places abroad the still cheaper and
fouler custom obtains OF feeding maggots,
and "maggot factories" are neither lnire,
IGuent nor improbable. The natural 1000
| of the trout is such insects, or worms, OF
flies, as abound in or near the water, ana
Iany grasshoppers, or caterpillars, or KIN
bred things which light upon the surface OF
are shaken down by the wind from contlgu-
Gus trees or shrubs are eagerly gobDled up
There are enough ofthese abroad, certainty,
Worrying the husbandman and dong ~