Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-06-02
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

How LITTLE LAND WILL KEEP A Cow
On the first day of June last l commenced
cutting clover for one COW confined in yard
enclosed by high tight board fence, with a
stable attached, in which she has been fed.
She had no feed but freshly cut clover from
the first of June to the fifteenth of October,
and all taken from one fourth of an acre of
ground. She has averaged eighteen quarts
Of strained milk per day, from which my
wife has made eight pounds Of butter per
week during the four and half months
The COW is five years old, and cross of the
Ayrshire and Durham. She has given
more milk, more butter, and of better
quality than she has ever done on pasture.
On one-eighth of acre | have raised lou
bushels of sugar beets and carrots, which
with two tons of hay will keep her band
somely the balance of the year. The labor
of cutting clover for the COW is less than
driving her three-fourths of a mile to pas
| ture besides the manure saved is quite an
item In the dairy districts the usual esti-
mate is fonr acres to the COW on the hay
and pasture system, whereas by soiling and
raising roots fvc-eighths of an acre is found
to be sufficient will state further, what
1 believe from nearly thirty years expert
ence, that there is no crop so valuable for
soling as clover, no crop so many pounds Of
which, and of equal value for milk and hut
ter can be produced from an acre Of ground.
Sweet corn is a good crop for late feeding,
where clover will not grow, but not profita-
Bile for winter feeding. -Enchange.
BUTTER MAKING.-Mr. R. L. Pell, in
the transactions of the American Institute
for 1858 says: IL think the chances for
obtaining good butter at all seasons OF the
year are greater when the whole milk is
churned, which is the usual practice in the
mountain districts of Switzerland, where
they find it necessary to raise the tempera-
SoDD1NG Thousands of dollars are ex-
pended every year is sodding spaces in
gardens, etc., where hundreds of dollars
would more than pay and secure much
better sod. Instead of hauling turf some
times for mile Or more, containing gener-
ally old weeds and varieties of coarse grasses,
which injure the appearance of the grass
plat, prepare the ground as for garden
crop and SOW the fine mixed seeds prepared
for lawns and to be purchased at the agricul-
tural and our best grocery stores. In
month the plat will be beautiful fresh
green, and in two or three months it will be
all that The most fastidious could desire, and
incomparably superior to any old turf Such
grass-plat or lawn can be secured with
a 1.-THE of the trouble and experience Of
the old, worn out weedy soil.-Germaan'
toaom Telegraph.
FRENCH MODE OF FRYING PorAToEs.-
Cut them in whatever shape you wish above
bowl of cold water SO that they will drop
into it, Then drain and wipe them dry
This mTt be done quickly, SO as not to al
low tie potatoes to become reddish. Have
coarse towel ready, then turn the potatoes
into colander, and Immediately turn them
into the towel, shake them little and quick
ly drop them into hot fat. When done turn
them into colander, sprinkle salt on them
and serve hot. If you wish them light or
swelled leave the potatoes in the colonder
only about half minute, then put them
back in the very hot fat, stir for about
minute, and put them again in the colan-
der If the fat is very hot, when dropped
into it for the second time, they will swell.
ture with hot water to S. degrees before
churning, which they think does not injure
it, if the water is put in while the dasher is
in motion. The advantages of churning
the entire milk instead of the cream are =
1. A proper temperature can be obtained
summer and winter. 2. Two hundred gal
Ions Of milk will yield six per cent. more
butter than the cream would if taken off
and churned separately. 8. With proper
attention to the food Of the animals, butter
of the same quality can be obtained all the
year round. 4. No particular attention is
necessary at any time to change Of method,
she churning is alike simple at all seasons.
OLD AND New PLACES FOR RAISING
FowLs.-During 1869, I raised about $50
fowls on an old place where fowls had been
raised more or less for years. The conse-
quence was, I lost at least ne-third of all
Matched, by the muoh-dreaded gapes. I
tried nearly all the remedies recommended,
but my only success was in removing the
| worms with a feather trimmed for the pur-
pose. This year, am on new place,
where no fowls were ever kept. set my
first hen on January Goth have now
about 140 chicks out, some one.third grown,
and not single case of gapes Or other sick
ness yet treatment the same in both years.
Poultry Bulletin.
SCRAP BooK.-Every farmer should keep
a scrap book Of some kind, in which a GER
tain portion should be devoted to each parti.
cular object in which he is interested. For
instance, so many pages to wheat, so many
to other grains, so many to horses, SO many
to cattle, sheep, fruit-growing, manures,
dairy management, etc. Then, when read.
ing the farmer column of any agricultural
paper, something strikes the minds as es-
pecially valuable, cut it out and insert it in
its proper department of the book. In
few years valuable encyclopedia of agricul-
ture will have been gathered, to which re-
ference of any topic can readily be made.
A floral riosity may be produced by
taking stick of elder, boring out the pitch,
filling the cavity with good earth, and
sowing in it the seed of several flowers that
bloom at the same time. The seeds will
soon terminate and the plants grow up to-
gether, with the stems, branches, and leaves
so intermingled, that to common observer
they will appear to grow from the same
root.
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