Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-07-16
Ole stauntua 1imoitator.
FARM AND FlREslDF .

| ANN AND flhEStUfs F
MORE CLOvER.-Very few men are
aware of the amount of soil washed away
very year in this section OF the county.
If we keep on with this kind. of farming
many farmers will now do us they do in
Eastern States. and put guanO, ashes,
plaster, snperphospllates or lime in every
hill of corn. Farmers! you should stop
some of this waste; don t think of leaving
nothing but the yellow clay for future
generations But there is a remedy for
i'll the waste; SOW more clover Keep the
ground filled with roots or vegetable mat
Ell then it can't get away SO easy. Plow
up Il clover sod for corn or wheat and be
sure to have the clover in the rotation OF
the crops. Sow in February OF. March and
bear in mind next summer you can NOW a
big crol, of hay from that piece of ground,
and remember that it is getting richer.
Make calculations to seed another part OF
the farm next year, and in Il short time
you can have Il two-year old clover sod to
plant corn on then look out for fine corn,
big ears and big yield, grown with half
The labor that you now grow on those
woru.out fields that have been in constant
use for corn and wheat for twenty-five or
thirty years. Ohio is the best country for
clover ever saw. The farmers east OF
this state don't pretend to get along with
out sowing clover, and to make the clover
grow they use plaster and lime. HerRs
MOI ,f of 11ycc Ql1f.
addition to the rich yield of fine clova OF
hay, the clover seed is profitable to take
care of.
HANDLING WET SOlL.-On this subject
the California "Agrieulturist" says: Bet
ter not do it, because it is an injury to it
an injury that years of careful culture
cannot remedy. Heavy soil ONCE puddled
and packed when wet, remains SO for
long time: Every step the horses take on
wet soil p,laflles il. The plow turns it
over without pulyerizing it, and lea$.s a
stiff glaze on the burrows. Better be idle
few days, or even sow the ground with
out blowing, and scratch in when the SUI
face dries off, than ruin or seriously inluEe
the soil by puddle-plowing. This way that
many farmers have of rushing Enough
when they get started rain OF aiia:e, mud
or mellow, is not according to the dictates
of common sense, and it is not profitable
either Better pay your hired man to let
it alone, than to pillow the soil when too
wet
DAIRY MAx1Ms.-Prof L. b. Arnold
has published the following valuable sllg-
geStiOns:
Milk will sour quicker if the cows are
fed sour milk. This is not Objectionable
for butter making, but it is Objectionable
for cheese making.
Cream from farfoW cows milk will
not all come if churned with cream from
new mich COWS. The mixed cream will
make more butter than the cream from
new mich COWS alone, but not assmuch as
if the cream is chufned separately.
The effect of sudden change in milk
or cream is to injure the keeping quality
of butter.
If milk is kept att low temperature,
the cream rises SLOWLY
FEEDING COAL TO HOGS.-A writer in
the Chicago Tribune says: The carbon
contained in the vegetable organism of
which the coal is composed, and the btu
minous matter also, together with the sui
phur, lime, and other mineral matter COM
posing the coal, furnish substances which
swine seem to need. We for several years
kept 500 hogs ON the refuse of city hotels.
and had no cholera Or other serious dis
ease among them. They were allowed all
the soft coal and rotten wood they would
consume. Sometimes they would eat large
ly Of it, and then again it would be left
untouched for days at d time. We should
not hesitate to allow hogs all the soft coal
they wanted. a5.t.4
The GAIN OF CATTLE.-In order to
ascertain the gain in weight of growing
cattle, an experiment was tried as follows:
A short-horn bull calf was weighed on the
10Th of April, 1874, when he was fourteen
months old, and his weight was found to
be five hundred and three pounds. May
10Th he weighed five hundred and ninety
three pounds; June 10Th, seven hundred
and three pounds; July 18th, eight hum
bred and one pounds; August 18th, eight
hundred and eighty.six pounds, and Sep
TENDER 18th, nine hundred and sixty-six
pounds; a total gain in five months of four
hundred and sixty-three pounds, or ninety,
two and one-half pounds per month.
UNPoTTING FLowERs.-In taking the
plants out of the pots do not cut around
the rim of the pot with an old case knife
to loosen the roots, for nothing can be
more injurious, as the fine fibrous roots are
thickest around the outside, and by this
cutting they are sure to be mutilated or
killed. The right method is to invert the
pot and plant, and fy rapping the bottom
of the pot sharply, the ball of earth and
roots will drop into the hand, and so
be transplanted without disturbing the
growth of the plant in the least.