The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-14
AGRfCUL7 URAL.
Farm ana Garden Notes.

THERE are over hundred cows in
the State of Vermont, yielding an income
Of 81, Sc, 800.
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, u to 8 tons per head store cattle,
to tons per head fattening sheep,
Is to IL cwt per head; other sheep, 10
to ID cwt per head. OF course this is
meant as a seasons feeding.
MILroS CRAKxER, 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
a good days work for three men.
w. A. JAMES, of the Mortified
(Minn. Cheese Factory, sends the fol-
lowing report to the Western Farmer:
In four and one-third months this year,
from 150 cows 2S5, III pounds of milk
were received, from which 20, 692 pounds
of cheese were 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
american states that butter, as we
know it, was not in use before the CON-
mencement of the Christian era. It was
then used as a cosmetic for hair-dress-
ing by women. For some centuries it
was used as a 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
writers 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, a cord of
dried leaves (about 100 bushels to make
it) is worth about fifty cents. They are
of some value as an absorbent in sta
bles, but less 50 than straw, and they
% lack 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 OF
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 bushel
Of corn, and consequently, that man
makes mistake who sells ton of hay
Tor 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 good deal of hay
sold about New York city at more than
he price of twenty bushels of corn,
which is not worth half as much.
DURING a recent discussion in England
{ was stated that the most successful
ines of short-horns were those in which
me animal was the sire of the dam also,
hus making the parents half brother
md sister by the same sire, out of differ
mt dams. This system of breeding had
PRODUCED some of the finest cattle in the
country. 1t was also said that where
'attle we're closely inbred and preserved
heir constitutions they had tendency
o lose color, save, perhaps, in the ears,
nd tn become white