The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-03-19
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
FACTS IN FATTENIS CATTLE.


per diem, will increase in weight about two
pounds daily, According to MIR. Low, an
OK weighing 10 pounds and consuming
1928 pounds of iurnips per week, if be
thrives, Will gain in the same time nearly
a stone, fourteen pounds in weight Al
lowing 100 pounds of hay worth Go pounds
of turnips, the increase is still about two
pounds day.
Mr.. Dubois says the quantity of green
fodder consumed by an OK during the eight
months when he is fat.ening, is equivalent
to $500 pounds of dry hay. The average
ration of green forage per diem, he calcu
lates, therefore, as equivalent to about
twenty seyen pounds of hay.
But this average is evi1entlr too small,
particularly for cold weather, which was
proven in the valley of Auge 10 Normandy.
| Mr.. Stephenson estimates that fifty
seven r cent, of the whole animal will be
butchers meat; eight per cent, talow; six
per cent hide, and twenty nine per cent
entrals. This Of course depends upon the
the condition of tho beef-a fat one viii
yield greater Fer cent. than lean one.
Others give the per cent. Of meat at fifty
three to sixtytwo per cent.
MANURE sPRLADER.
Procure long pole. about ten feet long
and six inches in diameter and secure a
tongue to the middle so as to form large
I. The tongue may be bolted or secured
by mortise and tenon, After the tongue
Is made fast set It up in a perpendicular
position and bore two-inch holes through
the head peiece ole foor apart. Vow fill
the holes with strong spreading brush, let
ting the brust extend behind the cross-head,
from four to six feet. The more brush
one can iasten in the holes the better.
Alter the manure is spread with forks
hitch team to the tongue, place a board
on the brush behind the cross head, and
let the driver stand on the board as the
spreadcr is driven across the field back
ana forth Ike harrow, and the brush Will
| then spread and grind the manure into the
ground and pulverze the Jumps more per
iectly than could be done by haud. A
man and horse team can spread an acre
per hour Of any kind Of manure Such a
spreader will be found useful in preparing
land for seeding after it has been harrow
cd ha Lo
dead harrows and leave the field ike a
garden bed. In lieu of large pole, a
heavy slab or narrow plank may be employ
ed for the spreader. The sprcader should
be driven at right angle to the first
course, whenever all the branches are not
ground fine and spread evenly. Winter is
the true time to make such labor saving
machines, so as to have them ready for
use when one has manure to spread
HOW TO MANAGE BACK AND DEAD FUR
ROWS.
A corresr ondent Of the New York Times
says the dead furrCw is such nuisance
when haying aud harvesting with our ma
chimes that the question is often asked how
we may get rid Of them. l should say the
best way to be rid Of them is not to have
them ct all, and this fine quite practicable
in the follow ng way: lay cut my main
farming land into three lots for three years
course Of crops, each lot 100 by 26 rods,
and plow lot as one land; plant few
trees along the centre of the field fer land
marks, and turn a back furrow to these.
one year blowing the whole field as back
furrow land, and the next time blowing
around the Geld the other way, turning it
back again, thus keeping it level, and never
crossing dead furrow, for by going around
the field in the same way to harvest, when
get to the back furrow or dead furrow
the field is done. With such lots, too,
save great deal of travel to and from my
work, for each lot comes to within o few
rods of the house, and in working the field
either blowing or cultivating, or hoeing, or
harvesting, go around the field, or the
length of it, and back, so | can commence
work and leave of again near the barn.
But if it is necessary to pillow lot into
smaller lands, / avoid making abrupt
back burrows and dead-furrows in this
way: Run the plow very shallow,
say three or four inches deep for the first
bout, back -furrowing to lay out the land
and do not let the burrows lap over each
other, but just come together. Then
gauge the pillow one and one half inches
deeper each bout unnl you obtain the depth
you wish to pillow the field. Then, as you
near the place for the dead furrow, reverse
the order and pillow shallower each bout,
making the last furrow as thin as you did
the first one. This finishes the land much
better, for the last furrow slice being thin
uer aud turning into the deeper furrow of
the previous bout, makes it lay over very
fiat, and leaves only slight depression for
the dead furrow. Or, if it is not turf,
would leave eight or ten inches of the
middle, Which will drag down and half eli
the furrOw. And in this way, too, it will
be nearly level over the back burrows.
FARM wHIPPIErREEs.
Quite frequently, says the Ohio Farm
er, it becomes necessary fer a farmer to
practice the mechanical art little in way
of -epairs upon implements on account of
sHere being no wagon or general repair shop
III the neigbborhood, and it is therefore we'll
for him to study certain mechanical rules
which will very materially aid him in the
effort. As whipple.rees are frequently
broken. We will give few hints concern
ing the manufacture Of these articles. In
laying cut a stick from which Whip letree
is to be made, the size and kind of iron. 70
be used upon it, should be the FIRST consid-
Grafton. If the draw iron is clasp, the
centre Of the stick need not be as large
there as where q staple is put through the
centre. Dress out the stick on two sides
the whole length, and as thick as i, is to be
in the centre-irom an inch and half to
an .uch and three quarters are the common
thicknesses for heavy whippletrSe.-then