The Lake County star., 1876-06-22
FIELD AND HOME.

L
renzo Stratton, writing to the Chicago
Inter Ocean from Grassy Cove, Tenn, I
says: 1t is only small portion of any of |
the Southern States where dairying can
be made a success. Some of the small
valleys and coves high up in the Cum
berland Mountains of Fast Tennessee
are the exceptions. Here the tame
grasses flourish in great luxuriance, and
afford striking contrast with the gen.
eral appearance and characteristics OF
the Southern States. Some OF these
coyes contain several thousand acres,
and where few Northerners have set.
tied here they are making just as good
butter and cheese as they formerly made
in the best dairying districts of New
York, and, as land is very much cheaper
and winters short and mild, il would
seem that the cost of production should
be far less than in any of the Northern
States, while the market price OF a good
article in Knoxville or Chattanooga or
at the iron works at lockwood ranges
considerably higher than in the city of
New York, end during the summer
months, when it is risky shipping dairy |
products South, cheese finds ready |
sale here at least thirty per cent. higher |
than New York prices. Cheese making,
or any thing like marketable article, is
scarcely known among the regular South
erners, and in butter making there is no
regard paid to its keeping qualities,
and that found upon most Southern Ia
bles has only about the same keeping
qualities as the buttermilk.
In large part of this Southern coun-
| try it would likely be difficult to make
an article up to the requirements of the
market, but in these little valleys and
coves, high up in the mountains of East
Tennessee, it is different; they have a
remarkably pure atmosphere; milk
does not sour here as quickly as in most
of the Northern States. The thermOm-
eter seldom rises above 900, and the
Northern people here have no difficulty
in keeping their summer butter for the
winter market. Should few ex-
perienced Northern dairymen unite their
interests in cheese factory in some of
these localities (there are numerous
springs of soft water), they would not
only be able to produce cheaper but
would also have nuch better market,
and would escape the severe winters Of
the North.
LARGE FARMS IN ENGLAND.-Refer-
ence TO the big farms in Illinois-4O, 600
acres, eighteen in corn, five in oats and
fax, and the rest in grass-has recalled
a notice of the London Spectator, from
the Domesday Book of Scotland, which
has list of those landlords who each own
more than twenty thousand acres of land
in that country. The result is that one
man alone, in his own and wife's right
holds more than a fifteenth of the entire
: area of the Kingdom, and twelve men
own nearly a third; a proportion proba'
| bly, exceeding anything in Western
Europe. No less than one hundred and
. six hold more than fifty thousand each
,, The eleven who own the largest amounts
of land are: The Duke of Sutherland
1,176,3 ,341 acres; Duchess of Sutherland
> l4O,879 acres; Sir j. Mathesen, 406, ,O7t
, acres; Duke of Buccleugh, 432, 1873 acres
!, Earl of Seafeld, BOG, 900 acres; Mr.. Evar
I Baillie, 100000 acres; Earl of Stair
4 27O, 1000 acres; Duke of Athole, 134 ,00(
acres; Sir X. Mackenzie of GairlOck
l64, 600 acres; Macleod of Macleod, l4l
e 700 acres. The old idea that the Duke o
;, Sutherland owns an entire county is no
y true, but the Duke, with his wife, tn
Counties of Croinartie, owns more thai
J the entire surface of any county in En-
!. gland, except Yorkshire and Lincoln
shire.
r. DELAINE Wool. - Delaine is tn
7. generic French word for wool, though
], has become used to designate a fabri
q composed of cotton and worsted, whic
IS is known in market by the formation {
!. colored patterns similar to calico on tw
or more fabrics composed of cottor
y worsted or silk. The fabric originate
e. mainly in the effort of the French t
3 rival the English in the production {
:, combing wool from the Rambouilet
,e flock, which originated from the Spanis
a. merino. The Rambouiletts produced
wool which worked we'll under the com1
le and was too fine for the ordinary hOsier
le and stuff goods, for which the Englis
y wools were 80 admirably suited. III
y. French struck out a new industry frol
ia their own wool which the English cOul
. not initiate because they did not have
it. supply of combing wool of merino bloO
Is, A good delaine wool must cOntai
IT. merino blood, and length and strength
- staple. In New Zealand the Englis
M manufacturers are stimulating the wo
er growers to develop new industry, ar
al they are now producing a very desirab
delaine wool by crossing the COtswold
IL Leicester ram on the merinO eve. III
ne result is heavy carcass, heavier fieec
-. a longer staple, and altogether mo
=" ~ profitable sheep. A good deal of tn
OF kind of wool has been imported into Ne
York from New Zealand during the pa
he year, and has commanded prices superi
to the best Australian woods.
The USES OF CHARCOAL.-By keepil
-; charcoal in hog pen there will be b
~ ~ little odor or disagreeable smell, such
m. is usual. The hogs appear to thri'
ws better and faster than in strong sme
Sc, ing sty. They will consume quite
he quantity, which undoubtedly does the
OF good. Some should be powdered al
r., some left in chunks; the powdered a
~ serbs the wet, and the hogs will eat Il
an Jumps as they desire it. The refu
ce, makes a most excellent manure
Ter onions or any vegetables. BY putting
nd small quantity in the horse stable eve
'n- day under the horse it will absorb t
,as ,as wet and keep the stable perfectly swe
,ht and wholesome. As it is removed fro
: a the stable keep it under shelter, dry
ng and sow it on the meadows; the incres
ny in the crop will pay for the troub
er, Cow stables will receive the same be
ms ms eft and produce the same results. 1t
~ also invaluable in the poultry house
his keeping it wholesome for the fowls, a
RS. making most valuable manure. T
pre- fowls will consume part of it, and
ing not 30 liable to disease. 1t is also We
49, desirable in the sheep pens or yards.
"a putting bushel or so of the powder
ans charcoal down the water closet it will
nd move the disagreeable smell which &c
wn orally attends such places, and will
He move the great objection there is
lad cleaning them out. When charcoal
sas 20. powdered and little dropped into a !
Ihs h~s tato hill when planted it will double
inc crop. An objection to it is that it
in black and will blacken any person W
on handles IL. II can be pOWdered