Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-31


loosens up the soil, the life giving at
mosphere enters in, heat and moisture,
in contradistinction to cold and Wet,
peryades the earth, nature asserts her
seeds find themselves in
cOngenial element, the growing crop
feels the treble impetus, natures, and
comes to harvest abundantly.
Ali these manures are dependent
upon one another. 1t is first necessary
to cover the earth with the natural,
then the mental comprehends the ne
cessities of the case and applies itself to
the good work, and calling in the aid OF
her Oldest son, the mechanical, SO ma
nipulates our mother earth, that smiles
spread over her whole face, finally
bursting i'm laugh of golden joy which
rings through all the happy harvest.
And thus-may we three meet again.
When e'er We SOW our fields to grain."
-TCor. Colman's Rural World.
MILK AND BEEF.-Food is the support
of the COW, that is her system, and the
calf she carries, or the milk afterwards
a substitute. She can digest and use
only a certain amount, 10 more. Now
if there is much milk, the food eaten
and digested will mostly go to form
this-and it requires good feeding to
produce and keep up this large flow OF
milk, as with the Ayreshire, the Jersey
and i'm many instances the native cow.
This is evidence against the idea enter
tanned by some that both milk and flesh
dncluding fat can be secured at their
maximum in the same animal. To di-
=. th.. haf il oil
as to give the milk one half, and the
flesh and fat, ETC., the other, could not
possibly, it seems to me afford a maxi
mum quantity of milk, and, at the same
time, full development of beef.
1t is true that some animals, like
some of the short horns, afford good
carcase, and in addition, large flow of
milk, as they are good digesters. At
the same time these animals never get
fat whilst producing largely of milk.
1t is as a rule-is it not universally the
case, that the milk must be stopped
when the animal is to be fattened-
stops itself, indeed, at the time of fat
tening. Besides, there is an aptitude
for milk or fat, which is in bred. We
breed the one in the Ayreshire, the
other in the short horn. This aptitude
must consist i'm applying the food for
the purpose intended, either for pro
ducing fat or milk.
The stomach is the means Of carrying
out either the one or the other of these
purposes, to convert all the food it can
and the quantity cannot be made suffi-
cient to carry cut both purposes to their
highest extent unless the digestive ca
pacity is increased sufficiently. This,
il strikes me, is the point. Increase
the digesting and the two may be car
ried, aided by breeding for the two. Or
either may be correspondingly extended
the milk increased in the milking
strain. or the flesh and fat in the other.
WHY 1REEs DIE.-A practical tree
planter says: l once called at the store
of a merchant who had a couple of days
previous, obtained some trees from the
nursery. There stood the trees with
bare roots exposed to dry wind. Wien
asked why his trees were not in the
ground, he replied that it had not YET
been convenient to plant them, so he
had put them in nice cool place where
the fresh wind could have a good
chance at them, and ended with the
complacent inquiry as to whether il
was not the best that he could have
done with them. He had no idea how
the wind was evaporating the moisture
from the exposed roots, and how soon
they would become utterly worthless.
Just i'm this same thOughtless manner
many a customer from the nursery ex-
poses his trees to dry wind or to the
sun, and then if they fail to grow he
blames his nurserymen for it. Let the
purchasers of trees remember that the
roots belong in the ground and must be
kept fresh until they are planted.
ROLLING CLOVER LAND.-In treating
of ''clover-sick soil," Mr.. Bruce, an
Aberdeenshire farmer states that in
some districts of Scotland, the clover
plant dies out after taking root. Hav-
ing noticed i'm several fields where this
occurred that there was good growth
of plants near the gate, and head and
end ridges, which was much trodden
upon, Mr.. Bruce procured a heavy
roller and rolled the field twice before
putting in the grass seeds. The exper-
iment was perfectly successful, a full
plant of clover being the result although
the field had for years before shown
signs Of sickness. The farmer got a
roller which weighed fifteen cwt., and
rolled his fields, leaving in one field a
ridge which was not rolled, in order to
prove the efficacy of the operation. The
result was that, while there is abund-
ance of clover where the soil was rolled
on the ridge that was left unrolled
scarcely a plant is to be seen.
IT requires ten or twelve acres of
land to support one person on meat
alone; for one acre employed in feed
ing cattle only produces eight or ten
ounces per day, and it requires from
five to ten pounds of flesh day to sup
port one man if he live on flesh alone.
The quantity of land required to keep
one OK will produce an abundant sup
ply Of vegetable food for at least four
persons. One acre of wheat, barley,
oats, or corn, will support two or three
persons; one of potatoes or yams,
enough nourishment for nine persons
and Humboldt estimates that an acre
planted with bananas is sufficient to
support fifty men.
Coal AsHES.-Bliss, the seedman re-
commends the use Of coal ashes for po-
tato patches, and says that persons who
are in the habit of throwing ashes away
as useless are making great mistake
that they are found BY experience to be
Of great benefit in the culture of pota-
toes. Many ashes are dumped i'm the
streets and alleys, when they could be
used to improve the soil of gardens.
Save your ashes and use them for the
purpose of manure. Wood ashes are
counted among the first fertilizers, and
they command good price from those
who know their value.
EARLY Irish potatoes nipped by tn,
spring frost, If the vine is Immediately
cut of. before the sun begins to scorcl
the tops, will escape injury; but bet
ter and more economical plan is to q
to the patch with a good turning plow
and throw the dirt up so as to entirely
cover the frostbitten vines. This plar
will save thousands of dollars every
year, if followed.
The farmer has no need of popular
favor-the success of his crops depend
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