Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-31
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cola" says:
"Although water, added to milk, may be OBJ
noxieus. proprietors of mich cows cannot expect
that the adders will be extended with the deli
cious liquid unless the animals can have access
to generous supply of clear water. During
the sultry days of summer, pure water for cows
is as important as grass. When COW is thirs-
ty, she must be supplied with water, or the pro-
cess of eoncocting wilk will be more or less ar
rested. Hence the quantity of milk will continue
TO diminish. Soon after a COW has filed herself
with feed of any sort, there will be a demand for
water. But if the animal cannot obtain a sup
ply, the partially mastieated feed in the rumen
will soon begin to heat and ferment, causing de-
rangement of the entire system.
at is bad policy to require mileh COWS to
drink at ponds of standing water, which is a
prevailing practice in many sections of country.
When animals are allowed to go into the water,
and to stand in it, unless there is a running
stream, the water will soon be fouled and unfit
to drink. In such instances it will only cost
trifle to dig a shallow well, provide large
trough, and draw a generous supply every day,
either with cheap pump or bucket. pail of
water is as refreshing to a thirsty COW or horse
as a goblet of ice water to n thirsty laborer.';
TRAVELLING IN FARMISG.-Did any of your
readers ever think of the amount of travel it
takes to raise a crop of corn2 l never saw an
Illustration in print, and / thought would give
you one. l have a twenty acre field, forty by
eighty rods. To break this up would take one
hundred and sixty-fve miles narrowing it,
about forty miles; furrowing out, ninety miles;
planting, forty-fve miles, if with planter; and
if dropped and then covered, ninety miles and
| for each piowing of two burrows in q row, ninety
miles, or five pIowings, four hundred and fifty
miles. THUS, you will see, it takes about eight
or nine hundred miles of travel to raise twenty
acres of corn, not counting going to and return
| ing from the field. Besides there is replanting,
thinning, rolling, Sc.
CELERY.-This delicious and valuable plant
can be planted, and ought to be, from now until
the first Of August. But May is good time for
the early crop and July for the late crop. 1t can
be raised with not much trouble, unless the sea-
son be very dry and much watering is required
Dig trenches four feet apart, and one foot deep
and spade wide dig up the bottom of the trench
and cover an inch or two with well rotted stable
manure or barn-yard manure sprinkle with
salt and chop it and intermix well with the soil
in the bottom of the trench, and let it remain
week before setting the plant. After rain
draw your plants, trim the roots and broken and
decayed leaves, cut the tops off nearly half the
length of the stem and plants, water freely, cover
the trenches with bushes for few days from
the sun water every evening until they start to
grow. Keep the earth loose about the roots and
shave in the sides of the trenches as the plants
grow, taking not to fill in as high as the top
of the crown of the plants. Never let it suffer
for moisture. Somestnes use liquid manure in
the trenches, not on the plants, the same also
with water made brackish with salt. 1t is a
; plant native to the sea coast. An acre in good
celery is worth usually $1,000.
This plant should be grown by everybody more
extensively, because everybody likes it, it sells
high and is very valuable for its medical curative
qualities. Those who habitually use it, fully
appreciate its virtues. One who is reliable, thus
speaks of its great value as Il recuperator of
health:
, 81 have known many men, and women too,
who from various causes had become so much
affected by nervousness that when they stretched
out their hands they shook like aspen leaves on
n windy Gays, by the moderate use of the blanched
\ footstalk of celery salad became as strong
n and steady in limb as other people.
n BREAKING 4 CoLT.-An Ohio editor recently
- saw Mr.. Bob Strader, of Kentucky break q two
. year old colt to harness in half an hour, and
thus tells the story of the way in which it wa:
done: The colt had never been bridled. He wa:
u attached to curricse called ''break-dray, aHt
:. put through astonishingly quick. The break
N dray is nothing more than strong broad-treat
dray, with long shafts, the tail omitted, ard
m spring seat bet Seen the wheels. The harness
m was strong, and so arranged over the hips as t.
prevent the possibility of high kicking, and tn
R, colt was hitched so far from the dray that hi
heels could not possibly reach the driver. Ia
process Of hitching was, of course, very delicate
a colt is excessively tck!ish and is apt to lie
his heels fly awkwardly.
All being ready, one man held the colt, an
another took the seat and reins. The colt wa
then let go to plunge as he pleased. The break
dray, which was so broad that upsetting SCENE
out of the question, was pushed upon the colt
and the colt pushed sidewise until he started.
few plunges settled him. He went as he please
up hill and down hill, and so and was tho
., roughly broke. The confused and on until h
rs finally struck 4 steady, sober trot, 5ewildere
nd nd look of that colt was pitifully amusing MI
Bob Strader was giving directions, and upon on
of the breakers raising his hand to slap the col
et to urge him, Mr.. Strader said ''Don't do that
p Never strike a colt when you are breaking him
ou ou Push him sidewise or anyway. Let him just g
y, where he will and how he will. Let him fa
ng down if he will, but don't strike him'' Whe
lot the colt was taken out of the shafts he was a
NV wet as if he had been in water and a child coul
have handled him. He had not been struck
blow.
100 WEIGHT OF DRIED APPLES AND PEAcHEs.-I
0S the letter from Charles Alden, which was rea
100 before the late horticultural meeting at Roche
loo ter, New York, he states that bushel of apple
SO weighs fifty pounds that the cost of euttin
100 and preparing bushel for drying is about fit
,OO cents, and that bushel will yield nine drie
100 pounds, two pounds of which are cores an
MA skins, which when dried find a ready mark
a.. at six cents per pound. for making jelly withor
es sugar or boiling-a new product. One bush
III gives seven pounds of good dried apples, whic
N will sell regularly at twenty cents per poun,
"' making after drying s1.25 per bushel of apple
with cores aad parings. Tomatos, being ver
watery, yield only three pounds dried per bushe
ed but two dried ounces are found to be equal
ne substance TO a one quart can, and will make
M much By adding one quart Of water, and stewin
res e properly. The evapOrated tomatoes sell Il
me seyenty-flve cents per pounds. Peaches yiel
red seven pounds from bushel, one pound of whiC
mt is SKIN.
ISL
to CUCUMBER PICKLEs.-The old style of layir
cucumbers down in brine, then when wanted f,
or use soaking them out in brass kettle to NAL
them green, is tedious, and think rather dal
10 gerous. Now, have good, nice, solid pick
R.; that were put down last summer, and the fo
90 lowing is my method of preparing them pic
q, from the vines, wash carefully, and when d