Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-15
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the State of Vermont, yielding an income
of IS, 533, 300
A WRITER in the horticultural buys
bones of the butcher at 81 per 100
pounds, and considers them the cheap
est fertilizer he can obtain. He trans
forms them into meal by the usual pro-
cess of packing in moist ashes, alternate
layers of each, allowing them to remain
there one year, when they will be thor
oughly decomposed.
AN intelligent farmer in Ireland gives
the following as the respective quanti-
ties of roots consumed by the different
classes of stock on his premises Stall
fed, 7! to tons per head store cattle,
4 to 6 tons per head fattening sheep,
Is to II cwt per head; other sheep, 10
to 10 cwt per head OF course this is
meant as seasons feeding.
MILTON CRANMER, of Bath, Mich.
performed days work on the 18th ult.,
which, it is claimed, excels anything on
record. After cooking breakfast, din
ner and supper for six men, and grind
ing down two axes, he cut down the
timber, tined, scored and hewed seven
ty-five ties. One hundred ties is claimed
good days work for three men.
w. A. JAMES, of the Mortified
Mimi Cheese Factory, sends the fol-
lowing report to the Western Farmer:
In four and one-third months this year,
from $50 cows 2S5,777 pounds of milk
were received, from which 20, 500 pounds
of cheese We're made, which was sold in
st. Paul, Minneapolis, and Chicago, at
an average of eleven cents per pound,
net. The patrons kept the Sundays
milk at home
A CORRESPONDENT of the Scientific
1mcrican states that butter, as we
know it, was not in use before the com
mencement of the Christian era. 1t was
then used as cosmetic for hair-dress-
ing by women. For some centuries it
was used as burning oil for lamps, and
churches were lighted with it in France
at so late a period as the year 1900.
Since then it may be considered as an
article of food solely.
SOME gardeners and agricultural
writer's lay much stress on the value of
forest leaves as fertilizer. DIR.
Nichols, of the Boston journal Of
Chemistry, says that, reckoning good
stable manure at IS per cord, cord of
dried leaves (about 100 bushels to make
iD is worth about fifty cents. They are
of some value as an absorbent in sta
bles, but less so than straw, and they
"1ack its reedy character and decom-
pose far more slowly" This will doubt
less surprise some readers, but it is
probably correct
The new stock law of Iowa is as fol-
lows: "From and after the LIST day of
October, 1872, every owner of swine or
sheep shall restrain the same from run
ming at large, and in the event of a
failure to do so shall be liable for any
damage done by said swine or sheep,
to be recovered by action by the party
injured against any person owning said
stock, and all damages and costs recov-
cred under the provisions of this act
shall be lien on all stock committing
such damage"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Maine
Farmer declares that he "has proved
by actual experiment that one hundred
weight of good hay is equal to bushcl
of corn, and consequently, that man
makes a mistake who sells ton of hay
for less than the value of twenty bushels
of corn in the same market" Very
much would depend upon the quality of
the hay as to its value for food compared
with corn. There is IL good deal of hay
sold about New York city at more than
the price of twenty bushels of corn,
which is not worth half as much.
DURING recent discussion in England
it was stated that the most successful
lines of short-horns were those in which
one animal was the sire of the dam also,
thus making the parents half brother
and sister by the same sire, out of differ
ent dams. This system of breeding had
produced some of the finest cattle in the
country. 1t was also said that where
cattle were closely inbred and preserved
their constitutions they had a tendency
to lose color, save, perhaps, in the ears,
and to become white.
Household Notes.
To PREVENT HEAp1NG.-Take black
pepper in the kernel, and pulverize well:
then soak the pepper with spirits of tur-
pentlne, and apply to the felon as a poul-
tlce. If this remedy is used when the
felon first makes its appearance, it is
certain cure in few applications.
APPLE CoBBLER. core. and
slice twelve large, tart apples; add the
JUICE OF two lemons and the grated peel
OF one of them. Sweeten to taste. Stew
very slowly for two hours, and turn into
mold. When they are cold, dish ND
and serve with cream.