The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-25
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

As poultry are generally kept on the
farm. we think most farmers will agree
with IFS, that they are an expensive lux
ury.
GREAsINa buggies and wagons is
more Importance than some suppose.
Many wheel is spoiled by oiling too
plentifully.
IT is asserted that the chinch bug, as
a rule, attacks only such corn as is
grown on poor, thin, and scantily ma
nured ground.
IT was long since discovered that cows
do not always yield milk in proportion
to their size and weight, or to the amount
of food which they consume, nor does
the same quantity of milk from different
cows yield the same amount OF butter
and cheese.
THE soil which is brought from the air
by the snow is not as invisible as one
may suppose. Every one knows that a
body Of snow, however pure, becomes
black when melted. But this does not
arise from mud or dust on the ground,
but comes from the atmosphere.
A WESTERN pater familias who has
raised two families, has discovered that
children grow more between January and
July than during the other half of the
year. His theory is that the growth OF
humanity is governed by the same laws
which prevail over the vegetable king
dom.
THERE is always more or less grain OF
second quality, screenings, etc., about
every farm, to keep good many fowls,
and then they are great scavengers and
insect eaters, and should be allowed to
indulge their propensities in that diree'
ton as far as consistent with the safety
of crops.
THE Maine Farmer learns that the ex
pertinent in drilling grain, as conducted
at the State College farm this year, has
proved very satisfactory and successful
The drilled grain, although put in Later
than that sown broadcast, has ripeneC
earlier and given heavier yield--twt
!, strong points in favor of drilling in seeo
grain.
A NEW mode of making butter ant
cheese-the richest and best cream bein!
, made into butter, and oil or butyrou
matter added to the skim-milk to i'm
prove it, and then made into cheese
practised. The financial difference il
results on one thousand pounds of mil
3 treated in the two different ways wa
; $4.52.
n DR.. PoNCHEUR, French chemist, ha
: observed that the purest snow Away
a left a black residuum. He examine
o this, and found that it contained part
d Giles which have been held in suspensio
/. in the air, and the first fall of snow COZ
d tains the. greatest number of thes
e which, collecting around the plant
form an almost invisible, but yer
l. fruitful manure.
II A CURIOUS specimen of Nature
II handiwork is exhibiting about the coul
p try in the shape of Il calf, born in Nj
q ravia, Cayuga county, New York, al
+, now more than three months old, whic
e has a perfect body, but two distinct
"a though exactly similar--hcads. 1t breath
"a through all four of its nostrils, and tax
e; its food with both of its mouths, hol
"a ing its heads squarely to the front, al
a giving no preference to either one
IL them.
49, THERE are but two seasons of the We
,o when manure can be hauled to the fiel
n. with any degree of propriety, and the
N are after harvest-when the ground
10 dry and hard-and in winter, when it
%. frozen. Many farmers are in the pra
n tice of getting out their manure in t
III spring, but we are fully convinced,
W. bitter experience, that the injury do
n. to the ground by hauling heavy loa
nc over it When i'm wet condition, is an
W. W. jury too great to be tolerated when
th can be easily avoided.