The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-03-21
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cooKlNs Fooe FOR STOCK

! not one farmer in a thousand is ready for
the work. His farming, his stock, and
his system Of feeding are not up To it
There are many other things of far great
err importance for him to attend to. To
| plow under clover ia the mmerand steam
corn stalks In the winter shows great is-
norance Of the fundamental principles
OF good agriculture. 1t will seldom if
ever pay to cook in order to save food
but it will frequently pay to cook to save
digestion. 1t will not ray to cook for
mich COWS that are capable OF turning
more food into milk than they can digest
1t will not pay to cook food for breeding
sows that can eat and digest more food
than they require. 1t will pay well to
| cook for lot of we'll bred young pigs thcs
are capable of converting into flesh more
corn meal than they can digest in raw
state, American 4gricu7t,4ahst.
Ii milk becomes striagy or curdles
there is something the matter with the
COW, and the advice of person exper-
! fenced in the diseases of cattle should be-
had. Bran for cows is much better when
scalded, but they must not eat it hot
Scad pailful at night for the morning
meal they ought to be fed very early in
! the morning and about FIVE in the even
ing they require large supply of water
and should have all they want. Milk
| NO Il, H.
soon as the froth goes down the greater
surface milk has the more cream will
rise. Set milk In a cool, dark cellar, free
| from impurities; milk viii absorb and re-
tain unpleasant aud strong odol..
! WHAT POTATOES SHALL WE PLANT?
The potato crop is, In many sections. q
special one, and with all farmers rather
an important one. The recorded lists of
sorts computed valuable, numbers some
thing over forty, and this may, and must
| be, for all practical purposes, cut down TO
even less than half dozen. The farmer
possessed of light, loamy, alluvial, sandy
soil, within reach of railroad shipment
facilities, WILL. without doubt, find the
{ early rose his most pecuniarily profitable
| early variety, while he who has clay
| ground should be careful ere he use too
much land to early rose, when early peach
| blows and king of earlies can be had
Again, there is an item in profitable po-
tato growing as in fruit growing, az. a., to
| hn i L
| contiguous. In some markets there are
customers of the retailer who to-day will
pay fifteen to twenty cents bushel moro
! for the white neshannock than for any
other fancy sort, and the farmer or pota-
to grower near such a market should re-
member the fact. In our list of late sorts
we have all through Northern Ohio, both
on clay loan and sandy, records and cx-
periences in the peach blow The peer
less has come iu-one among DOZENS
with promise, and, SO far, good results.
| While an advocate of it, we confess that
| If We were planting FIVE acres, looking for
| the sale of the product to recompense us,
We should give four out Of the five acres
to peach blows. The late rose-of half q
dozen advertisements aud puffs more
than ninety nine hundredths are without
foundation Of rarentage, and all unrelia-
bic. Any good farmer can produce all Of
them, aside from the Campbell late
rose" by simply selecting some small
ear y rose tubers, and planting them in
cool, moist soil late in the season. Among
| potato writers and advocates there arc
lots Of humbug. One noted writer, to
this day, calls the we'll known neshan-
nocks, mercer; ard others, have an axe
to grind, can give no reliable history or
record Of reliable practical culture for
what they assert as new and valuabl L.
| We believe IN testing, even to that Of
testing what We know to be hunbug-
and do it yearly-but ad Use no man 20
plant Of sorts, looking for pecuuiar,
ward, other than those we'll known and
tested, and at the same time suited to his
soil and probable market.
GOOD FEED FOR STOCK IN EARLY SPRING.
We wish we could impress upon our
readers, the importance of good care and
feed for all kinds Of stock now. 1t Is
quite common impression that 1t is safe
and best to feed sparingly 10 the fall and
winter SO as to insure a good supply ct
the close Of the season. While cxtrava-
CANT and wasteful feeding is never advisa-
bic, and insufficient feeding is always to
be avoided if possible, we believe if these
two extremes are to be had, it is better
to waste feed in November and December,
rather than March and April; in other
words, good feeding is more important at
the commencement than at the close OF
the season.
; IF stock is allowed to lose flesh, strength
and vigor now, they will derive less benc-
fit from their food afterward, and larger
amount will be required to bring them
out in fair condition in the spring, than
if they are so fed now, as to retain tho
flesh gained on the summer pasturage.
This applies not only to animals de-
signed for the butcher, bat to mich cows
and young stock. 1t is better, decidedly,
to feed bran, meal or grain to the mich
COW now. and to give her only hay in
March, than to keep her on hay or straw
now, and feed heavily ia March-and 90
, of calves, sheep and pigs,
HOW TO MAKE CRANBERRY PIE.
It is not every one that knows how to
make cranberry pies good. There are
, various ways Some make them open
iite cnstard OF squash pie. 4 correspOn-