The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-05-27
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Cheese Business.

The Cheese Business.
To certain extent the state of Wiscon-
SIN Is running to cheese-that is to say
very many enterprising gentlemen are es-
tabhshing cheese factories. Every paper
! that comes to us tells of new ones being
built and speaks of the prospects thereof.
Near Summit large factory is being built
by Milwaukee men, and it will use up the
milk of five hundred COWS in the manufac-
ture of cheese. OF course the factory peo-
pie do not own ell these COWS, but purchase
the milk of farmers about, who are engag-
| ing IN the business extensively, believing
it to be more profitable than raising wheat,
the fluctuations Of the wheat market con-
sidered. AT Summit and at other points
the factory people pay one dollar per hum
dred pounds for the milk delivered at the
works. This is two cents per quart to the
farmer. One farmer talking to us, figures
in this way. He proposes to keep fifty
cows On am average they VIII yield ten
quarts of milk per day for eight months in
the year. Here is twenty cents q day
as the result of the cows efforts or s48 OF
the season. From the fifty cows the far
mer would receive the sum of 2,400
Aside from this he would have say forty
calves whicn he would sell at four dollars,
making his net profits say 81, 900. Still
further, all the time his land devoted to
pasturage, now pretty well worn out, would
be growing richer and richer, and very
soon would be ready to give him a fine
yield of wheat. How much it would cost
farmers to takeicare of fifty cows, to pas
ture them during the summer and hay feed
them in winter We leave for each farmer to
figure out for himself, after which he can
,lokl e..
cheese factories is as profitable as raising
farm produce generally.
ffrE Hungarian Grass,
The trouble about Hungarian grass is,
that it is not generally cut at the proper
time. have raised it several years and
consider it. the very best hay for horses.
they viii grow poor. I SOW one-half BUSH
ell per acre. 1t then makes fine hay, and
on good land should yield from two to
three tons to the acre. Cut it when IN the
blow before any seed is formed; wilt it in
the swath the same as clover, and make in
the cock. The stalk is nearly solid and
the hay very heavy, and if made in this
way will be as green as grass, and horse
will want little grain for ordinary farm
work. only feed grain IN the spring
when doing heavy plowing. Give your
horses all they will eat of it, and they will
fat with decent usage. But if allowed to
turn yellow and form seed it is the same as
any other grain, and will, of course, in
jure horse the same as if he were fed
wheat in the bundle to excess Any over
feed of grain is bad. 1t is better to rake it
by hand, but on a good soil you will tum-
bleup big cock in small space.-Prdi-
RE Farmer. .-.. a.. .-..... a..
To Keep Hams all the Year.
have tried various ways, and there are
several that will keep hams sweet and
sound not only through the year but for
two years. have packed them in clean
casks, first thoroughly sprinkling each ham
with hickory wood ashes. No insect ever
disturbed them. have put them in strong
muslin bags, seyed them up, and hung
them to spikes in the attic, well ventilated,
and they keptwell. Ihhveleft Them in the
smoke-house, dark as Erebus, locked the
door and kept the key, and never knew an
insect to trouble them, and they were al
ways in fine condition. I have also put
them in bags as before, imbedded in sweet
cut hay, and they came out whenever
wanted, in, the very best condition. In all
cases they should be hung up In dry,
cool place. tEs 1H 1rr +1i ss EF
1 have one thing, however, to say in this
connection. No one need expect first
class hams who fails to cure them prop
erly.
~ Constipated Cattle.
Henry Nash, Paulding county, Ohio,
writes that his experience has taught him
that from one-quarter to one-hah pound
each of common salt and EPSON salts will
save hundreds of cattle's lives that annual
ly die from constipation or dried mp s1man-
ifold, if given in time He has given this
dose but once to cows that had passed
bloody urine fseces for several days, and it
operates quickly and thoroughly as phys
ic, and the patient soon RECEIVERS. he
adds:s 'tI believe that many cattle sre sup
posed to have bloody murrain when they
pass bloody urine and discharges, when
the only trouble is the manifold has be-
come SO dry that there is no passage thro'
them; then thorough purging would bring
them all right. Cattle will lick up the salt
and salts very readily when given them. /"
To Rejuvernate old Grape Vines.
The editor of the Practical FARMER says:
''Having on our premises, planted by for
mer owners, probably twenty years ago,
half dozen old grape vines, with large
weather beaten trunks or stems, which
made annually but little wood and yielded
but very Door grapes, two seasons ago We
cut off the branches, covering with about
a foot Of earth. Vigorous and healthy
shoots sprung up in great abundance e-the
weak ones of which were broken of, and
leading ones atproper distances trained to
the arbor. The new growths are very
clean, healthy and strong sufficient entire
" to cover the large arbor the present sea-
son; we look for bushels of fruit from the
new bearing wood. We see old grape vines
everywhere. doing no good, and which
could be made young and thrifty by this
= Manure for Potatoes. 7t
The Hearth and Home gives the follow
ing recipe for making mineral manure
that is especially adapted to potatoes: Take
one cask of lime and slack it with water,
and then stir in it one bushel of fine salt,
and then mix in loan or ashes enough that
it will not become mortar; it will make
about five barrels. Put half a pint in hill
at planting. All manures containing pot
ash are suitable for the potato. Ashes con-
tain more than any other natural fertilizer,
and should be freely used and carefully
saved - 80. .1r.st- IL --s14s.
SwelIed Legs of Horses.
A correspondent of the Western Farmer,
says: '1 saw in your paper that a cores
pondent wanted to know what to do with
a horse whose legs would swell. Tell him
to feed the horse plenty of roots I mean
carrots, potatoes, turnips or anything that
has relaxing tendency. Flaxseed, boiled,
is good. Feed bran, also, and keep him
well groomed for grain. -ae
The Richmond Capitol.
The capitol was built Immediately at the
close of the Revolution. The model chosen
for it was the well known Maison Carree at
Nismes, miniature pattern of which was