Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-23
FARM AND GARDEN.
improve Your Farms and Farming.

ANU appearance OF MS farm. The idea
OF merely digging a living out of the
ground without any regard to the man
ner IN which it is done, or the state in
which the soil Is left after each success
I've crop, or the real and market value of
the ground, Is beneath an intelligent
being. There is nothing that we do, or
with which we have to do, that is not
susceptible of improvement, and it
should be the ambition of every one,
whatever his business, and not, at least,
OF every one who is engaged in the an
Gent and honorable occupation of farm
ing, to be constantly improving upon
the past III the work of the present and
the future. Good taste, duty to society
and self-interest, all combine in squirting
him on in the march of progress.
The farms of this country very gener-
ally, unlike those of old countries which
have been cultivated for centuries. need
great amount of actual clearing-not
the removal Of timber, which on the con-
trary requires cultivation and renewal
but IN the way of removing brush and
rubbish of various kinds. The adorn-
ment OF farms by the removal of blem-
lshes has been greatly neglected in the
pressing struggle for immediate returns
But it is not at all unworthy of any
farmer to have an eye to the general APP
pearance of his land and buildings and
fences.
If he has not taste to admire these
things him self land any one who has not
should be ashamed of it), he will find it
to mis- account, when he comes to sell, to
have looked after them. No one in buy
ing overlooks the general aspect of the
farm. This strikes the eye at once. and
SO affects the price. Every one, too,
Should have regard to the claims of good
neighborhood, and should feel it his
duty to crafty public taste by such i'm
proyements and adornments as strike the
eyes even of the passers by
But beneath the surface there is
work to be done constantly, in bringing
the soil and every part of the farm up to
higher degree of fertility from year to
year. 1t cannot all be done at once, but
it should all be done, and it may be done
by devoting special attention and labor
and expense, now to this portion and
now to that, and by degrees going
through the whole.
Ih1s month OF January is the very
month III which TO begin the work of
improvements. The first part of the
process Is to have plan which shall
reach through the year and into future
years, and Just at this season every
farmer has more or less leisure which he
can protitably devote to general super
vision of his farm, study of its needs
and capabilities, and to a systematic ar
rangement OF the work that is to be done
when the season for more active work
shall open. Nothing is wanting on farms
III general more than system-a settled
plan covering the farm and covering the
year. Now is the time to arrange it.
and so to begin the work of universal
improvement.
How Often Should Cows be Mixed!
The following from the Irish Farm
erS, Gazette Is worthy of consideration ::
Regularity In the milking of cows is
of as much Importance as regularity in
feeding them. In a state of nature. the
COW Is relieved of its milk great many
times each day. A calf allowed to re-
main with its mother will help itself
seven or eight times day. Under such
circumstances, the udder of the COW will
remain small, and if allowed to retain the
milk secreted during twelve hours.
duced. The practice of milking COWS
more than twice in the twenty-four hours
causes the capacity of the udder to be
increased, and probably helps in main
tanning the lacteal secretion long after
pregnancy has taken place. When, how
ever, by an artificial system, the COW has
been enabled to retain her milk without
inconvenience for twelve hours or so,
she ought to be MIXED regularly every
day at the same hour. When the time
for milking arrives, the udder usually
becomes distended to its utmost capacity,
and If it be not speedily removed the
animal suffers considerable pain. Cases
Of fever, the result of allowing animals
to remain too long unmilked, are, indeed,
by no means OF unfrequent occurrence.
1t Is especially necessary to attend to
this point for some days after the ami
NAL has brought forth its young, for
during that period very little irritation
OF the lacteai organs is likely to bring
on that most fatal of maladies, puerperal
fever. If milking be too long delayed,
nature will try to help the poor animal.
An absortion of milk into the blood will
to some extent take place, and that
which remains in the udder will become
detefloraGed. When neglect to milk a
COW at the regular time is repeated
several times, the secretion of the fluid
is permanently checked, and there are
many cases where by such neglect an
animal has become dry in less than a
month.
Sermon the Horse.
The Buffalo Express states that the
Rev. Frederick rockingham, who occu-
pies the pulpit of the Unitarian Church
at Buffalo, took for his text last Sunday
this verse from Exodus ''Behold the
hand of the Lord is upon the cattle which
is In the field, upon the horses, upon the
asses, upon the eamels, upon the oxen,
and upon the sheep; there shall be a
very grievous murrain." And the preach
er explained that fearful plague has
broken out among the horses, and has
spread with the greatest rapidity from
North to South, and from East to West.
He then proceeded to discuss the ssnoble