The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1872-06-20
Farm. Garden and Household.

The Maine farmer who, tempted by
high prices, disposed of part of his hay
last Fall, and economical to make
up the deficiency, has just sold II hides.
Gone who knows" makes it q point
o select COW with yellow skin. One
whose skin is pale or colorless is not, he
says, half so likely to produce good
butter.
Joseph S. Howe says that one of the
chief hindrances to agricultural progress
is the reluctance farmers feel toward Civ
ing the public the benefit Of their ex-
perience, either by writing or by speech.
A correspondent of Moore's Rural kept
Ia calves in stanchions one Winter, and
found their horns " standing in all di-
rections," Now he either ties them
with rope or lets them go loose in the
pen.
TURN LAMBS INTO Conn FIELDS. -Tell
your subscribers to turn the lambs into
the corn field on taking them from the
ewes. They will do the corn no injury,
and find there plenty of the best of food
L never saw lambs do as well as when
heated in that way.
COTTAGE PUDDINa.-Warm two and
half tablespoonfuls of butter, stir in a
teacup of white sugar and two eggs.
Put two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar in
one pint of flour, add teaspoonful of
soda dissolved in cup of milk flavor
with lemon or vanilla. Bake three
quarters of an hour in moderate oven,
and serve hot with rich hot sauce.
MORNING Biscuits. One quart of
flour, half teaspoonful of salt, two
tablespoonfuls of yeast, and one pint of
sour milk, with half teaspoonful of soda
dissolved in it. Work this into dough :;
then rub into the dough half cup of
butter. Knead well cut off small bits :;
shape them into biscuits lay them in
the bake pan, cover closely with bread
cloth, and let them stand over night, in
warm place in the winter, and a cold
place in the summer. Bake in the
morning for breakfast.
BREAD PUDD1NG.-One pint of fine
bread crumbs, one cup of sugar, two table
spoonfuls of molasses, half pound suet
chopped fine, one coffee-cup raisins
half rind of preserved orange-peel OF
citron cut thin and fine, very little
nutmeg and cinnamon, two teaspoon.
iotio SlCuhl Ittl Ollo Slldll U6dSpOOu
full soda, one teaspoonful of salt Stil
In milk enough to make it thick as pound
cake /; beating all thoroughly together
put it into buttered pudding mould
and boil three hours. Be careful t,
keep the water boiling all the time.
HELPING OUT THE HAY Cror.-Th
present drouth, says the Tribune, wi
have serious effect on the pasture
fields and meadows, and will withor
doubt considerably lessen the yield {
hay. Although sufficient rain may ia
hereafter, it will be too late to material
affect the hay crop. Meadows are no
suffering from the effects of the Oh
weather of last year and the past sever
winter, so that the probability is again
even yield equal to the short crop
last season. Therefore it is absolute
necessary that provision be made for
supply of fodder to carry stock throue
next winter. The first resource for Il
farmer is to plant corn. The crop, wi
good cultivation, will thrive in he
dry season better than any other
easily raised, and it is question readi
solved whether poor meadow, viii,
ut the best may yield half trn of b
per acre next month, had not better
plowed up and prepared for a crop
corn fodder, which will certainly produ
two to four, and possibly five or six tn
OF feed, equal to average hay. A S
turned down before the Goth day of Ju
may be relied upon for this yield, a
may be cleared in time to prepare fol
crop of winter wheat to be sown in 81
TENDER.
RooT FooD FOR DAIRY STocK- In
address to the Little Falls Farmers Clr
Harris Lewis called the attention to sol
recent experiences of his in raising a
feeding beets. S48 per acre covered t
expense of seed, planting, cultivate
and harvesting, and the yield was s
bushels, so that the roots cost about
cents bushel, or not more than u ce,
allowing for value of manure, interest
land, &c. Yellow globes and impe1
beets were grown on part of the sa
field the year previous, at an expense
about $40 per acre, yet the yield was
much greater that the cost of the TO
was about two cents per bushel less th
the cost of the last seasons crop. I
speaker advocated feeding cattle a regu
portion Of roots each day, the whole I'll
they are confined from pasture in c,
weather, as preferable to partial feedi1
as, for example, emitting roots WI
cows ere dry at midwinter. He EXPIRE
ed the belief, as the result of experime
that beets are actually worth from ID
"a cents per bushel for feeding COWS,
compared with hay at $40 a tun-
lowest of these estimates affording
ample profit on the cost of cultivate
but he thought the consequential adv
tage even greater still, in "increa
usefulness during the entire seaso
lessened liability to disease &C., and
the improvement of the butter and che
which the milk produces. In support
this last assertion, Mr.. L. stated that
his request the managers Of the fact
in his Eeighborhood made two tests
the milk of all their patrons this spr
for the express purpose Of determin
the relative quality of milk produced
cows fed with hay and roots and those
with hay and grain, and concluded t
beets are as good, if not better, for
production of rich milk than grain.
conclusion, Mr.. Lewis said that, al
carefully looking at the subject in all
bearings, he had come to the conclus
that beets for cattle food are well wo
bay is worth dollars per ton, and [
the average cost per bushel, when sto
in the cellar, with every item Of expe
included does not exceed eight cents
busbel. Now, as the price of hay
Central New York will probably aver
at least $40 per ton or over, for the +
decade, there cannot be any risk in CT
ing beets for dairy stock. To convi