The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-12-05
THE FARM.
WHAT THEFARMJoURNALs SAY.
DESIRED TO KNOW.

loan and muck. Frank Curtis REPLIES
Lime should be spread on the surfac
aiter the ground is plowed for the crop. !
would be better to mix the muck with tb
iime TINS winter, and spread the compos
.. on the surface just before planting in tn
spring. The loan could be mixed wit,
stable manure with advantage to absor
the juices and escaping ammonia. This il
the best way TO use the loan. Muck will
answer for the same purpose, but is bette,
mixed with lime to sweeten and decou
pose the vegetable matter, which is eener
ally sour and unified for immediat,
benefit.
POTATOES
ID. A. Buckley, Of willamstown, Mas.
'achusetts, discourses thus about potatoes
] want the potatoes fully ripe, so the
skin will not rdb of, and dug with potato
hooks or forks, and care taken not to cut OF
brulse thcm.ivl have them picked up i'm
rnediatelY, the pickers following the die.
| gers, 50 that they shall not be in the LENT
and air longer than necessary. Never nj.
low them 10 be thrown hard into the bs,-
ket or wagon. They should be- handled !,
carefully Ms winter apples. | never have
| any more ligh. or ar circulating in the
| cellar than is necessary while putting
| them in, and close up rs soon a. am done
and keep them so iii they 90 out to plant
or TO market. Those who use but a small
quantity should get them from some one
who they know gathers them with care,
and then put them in tight barrels. cover
them over the top with dry dirt, or, wha,
IS cleaner, sawdust, and then dig them out
as they want TO use them. Never let them
come 10 the light or air, for they will spoil
as quick a lime. / usually put mine on
the cellar bottom. ~ | have from 1000 TO
5000 bushels in one place and keep them
covered, and that is the reason that nv
potatoes are always good the year round,
retaining their crIspy brit,leness. Every
farmer can have them the same if he se-
lects good ripe potatoes that have been
carefully handled, and then take. care of
them as / have described.
HOW DEEP SHOULD MILK BE sET2
For years this has been mooted cues
ton with buttermakers. But the general
practice ha. been TO put about two inches
and half OF milk in each vessel in sum
mer and about three in winter. Expert
ments made with great care the summer
past have proved the error of this usage.
and i, is now generally conceded that more
cream. and butter can be secured BY al
lowing the milk TO stand in deep pals. A
correspondent Of the Rural Neio Yorker
sends the results Of two experiments rs fol-
lows:
The first series of experiments was
made at Humerson & Wyllys dairy in Lit
tie Valley, in cans ls! inches in diameter
and 30 inches deep, with l57 lbs Of milk
tsk'n from their dairy Of lO2 cows; the
rest Of the milk was sent to the factory.
The experiment was conducted by Mr.. II.
himself each time producing SIX lbs Of
butter Of superior quality. The cream
was taken from the milk a. soon as the
change began 10 show itself, or before
souring. This was made in July when
the thermometer stood in the room at 9O-
and upward, in the afternoon of each day.
The milk was brought by the cooler as
low rs So in one hour and ten minutes
after 1t was put in the can, and kept at
that temperature until the change Cthe
time varying from 30 TO 80 hours and the
cream was churned at once yielding six
lbs for each experiment, or nearly one
pound of butter from 20 lbs of milk. Mr.. !
IL. says that the surroundings did not give
a fair test.
The next experiment wa. tried in Cold
Spring, in the dairy OF VIM. X. Miller. !
They have forty cows and have been using
for the last two yeas the Pope and futile
pans in their dairy in Cold Spring, also in
their dairy in Machiees. They are using
all the known facilities for making good !
butter, having running water in their milk |
room, and ice whenever it is needed to |
keep the desired temperature. This trial |
was made the first ten days Of August, and |
designed 10 be a thorough test of the man
nsr Of setting milk. The mornings milk
was used each time, the milk being divided |
into nearly equal parts first experiment,
1876 3-3 lbs. in the deep can Il l-2 inches, |
and l4l l.? lbs. in the pan "a inches |
deep. The water was taken from the same |
.ank TO keep the temperature of the milk |
standing at a bout 5s degrees, il souring in
he pan in 40 hours and not changing in
he can till AZ hours. The cream was
as soon as taken from the milk,
he can producing 6 lbs. of butter before
'altng, and the pan lbs. 10 or, or ID.
IF butter from % lbs. OF. of milk and
The can ID. Of butter from ~ lbs. 10 or.
THE WHEN, WHY AND WHEREFORE OF
CORN FODDER.
DR.. Nichols, who edits the Journal Of
is the best authority in Massa-
,husetts on the nutrltiye power of animal
foods. The past season he has made trial
Of sowed corn for green soiling as fodder,
and the following are his conclusions;
The corn plant, like all other struct-
lures, has but one object or aim in its
growth, and that is to produce seed. 1t is |
engaged during its whole life in storing up |
large quantities of starch, which is to be |
used when the pressing occasion arrives, |
or the seed vessels mature, TO form by |
some subtle mysterious changes the rich |
nutrient principles which are found in
seed. As soon as this struggle is over, the
corn plant, like all animals, dies a natural
death. 1t is not necessary for the frost to !
strike it; it dies from simple exhaustion.
The proper time to cut and and feed corn.
stalks is during the four or five weeks
which succeed inforcscehce, or in other
words, they should not be cut until the
flower is fairly developed, and the ear COM
msnces to form; and any corn that is SO
planted that the ear cannot form and ma
ture is practically worthless as fodder.
Farmers may learn from these facts that
corn designed to be cut for fodder should
be planted at two or three periods during
the season; some fields quite early, Others
somewhat later, and still others as late as
Is safe. In this way, when the hot dry
months of July and August are reached,
and the pastures falter, a supply of fodder
IS secured, at q proper stage of growth to