The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-12
AGRfCUL1 URAL.

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From actual experiment it has been
found that the droppings from four
Brahmas for one night weighed in one
case exactly / pound, and in another
more than three-q quarters of pound, All
average of nearly four ounces each bird.
BY drying, this was reduced to not
quite one and one-half ounce. Other
breeds make less; but, allowing only
one ounce per bird daily of dry dung,
fifty fowls will make, in their roosting
house alone, 10 cwt. per annum of the
best manure in the world. Hence ene-
half an acre of poultry will make more
than enough manure for one acre of
land, seven cwt. of guano being the
usual quantity applied per acre, and
poultry manure being even richer than
guano in ammonia and fertilizing salts.
No other stock will give an equal return
in this way; and these figures demand
careful attention from the large farmer
The manure, before using, should be
mixed with twice its bulk of earth, and
then allowed to stand in heap. covered
with q few inches of earth till dccom-
posed throughout, when it makes the
very best manure which can be had.
A statement is adrift to the effect
that French professor is actually max
ing good palatable butter out of va
riety of animal fats, by a process which
is protected by letters patent. The
specifications and claims are said to be
presented with much detail ami the
reader is carried along through all the
steps by which unsophisticated grease
becomes sophisticated fat, and, ulti-
| ,potnlx- ~ io1n ,vhiob ha
would have us believe would pass un-
challenged through the hands of first
class 81. Albans inspector. This intelli-
gence is certainly important if true"
but, one authority, DR.. Nichols, indi-
Gates that he is not yet ready to break
or burn his churn or send his brindle to
the butcher. He prefers at least to wait
further advices. Butter, he thinks, is
delicate animal compound which cannot
be fabricated or initiated successfully by
any chemical process whatever. Doubt
less it is possible to produce substance
which may serve as fair substitute for
butter among certain classes in Europe ;
but the fastidious tastes of large con-
sumers both in that country and in
this can never be satisfied with butter
J coming from other sources than the
} sweet grasses of hills and meadows, or
from grains transmitted or changed by
the subtle chemistry of the animal organ
ism.
} Clover and timothy seed are very cas-
J lily raised and saved, and one acre of
each will be found amply sufficient for
the needs of farm of a hundred acres.
Each crop should be grown by itself ;
, on good soil timothy would be better to
be cradled and put into sheaves for con-
venience in threshing. Clover for seed
, should be taken from the second crop,
the first crop being cut early in June,
5 and the second crop cut in the fall when
the seed is ripe. 1t may be cut easily
: by fixing to the mower, back of the fin
ser-bar a frame covered with cotton
l cloth or canvas, from which the heads
= may be raked into heaps, as they gather
: in sufficient quantities, by Il boy follow
, ing behind. No damage will occur if
7 the clover becomes wet when dried it
will thresh out easier for it.
If our English cousins are right, then
we must admit that our cattle intended
for the butcher, even those stall fed, get
too much exercise. In England when d
farmer would produce the best beef, hi
!; digs.a pit, say six feet deep and ter
4 square, and into this the bullock is low
a cred and shelter built. 1t is then sup
! piled with all the roots, hay and meal il
can digest; the needful quantity of wa
i, ter is also furnished, as well as III
i 4 abundance of dry straw for litter. Th'
i droppings are trampled under foot a
I the animal moves about in his marrow
: cell, and gradually by their accumula
I ton rise to level with the surface o
: the ground, by which time the anima
Il is usually ready for the knife, and yield
: rich and juicy flesh, and leaves man,
IL tons Of excellent manure.
An English farmer puts in a stron;
plea for turnips, accounting them con
siderably superior for milch cows to car
rots or mangel- wurzels. The milk in
= duced by mangels is large in suppl.
n but of poorer quality and not nearly s.
=, productive of cream as that resultin;
"a from the use of turnips, and the tain
given by the former roots is more objec
: tionable and less easy to obviate or over
4 come to passable degree. In givinI
i carrots to milch cows, the only recon
;, mendation they have is the absence @
!, all unpleasant taste in the butter, as tn
:, milk is neither so abundant nor so ric
! as that obtained in turnip feeding.
e DR.. Holt stated before the Farmer
Convention at Petersburg, Va, that tn
e peanut crop of the Counties of Sure!
!, Sussex. Southampton, Nansemond, an
d Prince Georges has often been equal i
a. value to the entire wheat harvest sol
IT in Richmond in one year.
le By feeding chopped straw, oats an
IS rape seed, thoroughly cooked by steam
and raw Swedish turnips, one of tn
e largest dairies in England increased th
ID yield Of milk from 552 to $50 gallor
lie per each COW per annum.
81 Three good reasons why it is best t
N plant small instead of large trees The
of cost less at the nursery, expense
s. packing and transportation is less, an
D. losing but few roots, they are mo-
ID certain to live.
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