, 1875-09-18
AGRICULTURAL SELECTIONS.
Questions for Dairymen.


suitable place on his premises where
bis family and those in his employ, as
well as his visitors, will have an OPP
portunity to read frequently. We
give some OF them, bat the list can be
extended.
Do your cows feed in swamps and
On boggy lands?
Have YOU good sweet running water
convenient for stock, and is it abund.
ant and permanent in hot, dry weather!
Have YOU shade trees in your pas
ture. or DO you think that cows make
better milk while lying down to rest
in discomfort 10 the hot broiling sun
Do YOU use dogs and stones 10 hur-
~ ND the cows from pasture at milk
ing time, thus overheating their blood
and bruising their udders
Do you cleanse the udders OF COWS
before milking by washing their teatS
with their own milk, and practice
further economy by allowing the drop
pings to GO into the milk pail
Do you eljoin upon your mixers TO
wash their hands throughly before
sitting down TO milk, or do you think
that uncleanIiness in this respect Is
not important for milk that is to be
treated for butter making
When A COW makes a misstep while
being milked, do you allow your milk
ers to kick her with heavy boots, or
to ponnd her over the back and sides
with heavy stool, accompanied by
sundry profaDe remarks addressed to
the COW to teach her manners
Is the air about your milk barn"
or milk house reeking with the foul
emauations OF the PIC sly, the manure
heap, or other pestiferous odOrs
Good, fresh, clean water, and IN
abundance, is one of the most lmpOr-
tant requisites for milch COWS, and 1t
should be in convenient places, where
stock will not be required to travel
long distances 20 slake their thirst.
If springs and running streams can
not be had i'll pastures, a good well,
with windmill and pump, makes an
efficient substitute, and the waste
water may, if necessary, be coducted
back into the well, so as TO keep up a
constant supply of good, fresh water.
Wizards Butter Book.
Preserving yegetatables and Fruits.
Much effort has been made to de-
wise means to preserve vegetables and
fruits. Much of the labor of the farm
er is wasted in not taking proper care
of bis apples and pears, his potatoes,
cabbages, peaches, plums and even
grapes.
Let the farmer try this method
once, and he will never try any other
gar, for he can ALWAYS have them
nearly as fresh as when first put away
for winter quarters.
Dig q trench Sc or 10 inches wide
and from 5 to g feet deep, and plaster
the bottom with water lime cement,
, inches thick (lhe same IS used Tor
cisteru>). Then make box Of boards
as wide as the ditch, lacking , inches;
place your box in the trench or ditch,
al! but the cover, then fill ali around
the box y inches of cement. making
your spaces or compartments in the
box suitable for your quantity of differ
ent kinds, then pick your apples or
peaches and place them in the box
without bruisIng. Fill the box SO
they Will not come in contact with
the cover of the box. Put on your
cover with the boards crOSSwavS, so
they will be even with the sides of the
box, then put y inches cement on top
Of it and you have air tight and dry
compartments for your fruit and vege-
tables, and they will keep for years
sound as a rock.
In placing grapes, you must, in
9very instance, tie each cluster on
string by itself, while the fruit is yet
green, when the first on the cluster
begins to turn. They must not be
jammed in the least when put away.
Peaches, plums and all other fruits
must be carefully put away when
first beginning to ripeR, and in all
cases put them ont of the reach of
frost. These fruit vaults will last 100
years, and by placing boards cross
ways, You can break the cement, with
a hammer, to each compartment of
fruit, without disturbing all that's in
the box.-Prairie Farmer.
soHtIidOrn Sheep
John Wentworth, of Chicago, Hi .
nois, a large stock breeder and agri- /
eulturlst, in recent circular, saws :
flor trVinu all kinds Of sI.a,, 49,,