The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-07-26
Agricultural Gleanings.

Last month was the coldest June that
Minnesota has experienced in a dozen
years, and one of the rainiest.
\ breeder OF Jerseys in Connecticut has
three COWS that in August of last Veal
gave respectively l}0, $40 and 300 quarts
of milk.
| In iS75 England imported lOI,97l tons
of bones, and those collected at home
/ amounted to about as many more, over
ninety per cent. OF which We're used for
manure.
\ rooster on 4 farm near PuughkeepSie
accidently had one Of its drumsticks cut
| of, but noW stllmps about on a wooden
peg manufactured expressly for it by an
ingenious Young man.
MILK. Various experiments made with
fresh milk have demonstrated the fact
/ that the nearer new milk is kept to the
freezing point in proper vessels, the more
rapid is the collection ot cream, the
quantity is greater, and the butter and
cheese are Of Il richer quality.
10 prepare bones for manure, mix forty
parts crushed bones with forty parts un-
leached wood ashes and six parts quick
lime, adding water (urine is betterl Sut-
Iicient to make the whole moist. Mix the
paStN mass with AN equal amount of
mould, and the whole is ready for dis
tribution.
1t is advisable, in the construction Of
poultry houses, 10 use pine lumbcr-the
more pitch it contains the better Us this
Is very offensive to poultry Velmin. Some
think it pays well to make the roosting
cribs Of pitch pine boughs as Il protec-
ton to their greatest enemy lice.
One cause Of the present low price Of
butter and cheese as compared with
few years since is the enormous produc-
ton in many parts OF the West. Take
the state Of Wisconsin, where in 1870 but
-, p. l7:i,OD0 pounds of butter, and .59l.-
rs pounds Of cheese were produced, the
year 1876 showed total product of 49,,
I3O, ,000 pounds of butter and about H.,
0oO, ,00O Of cheese.
DO not forget that milk is one of the
best articles Of food for Young chickens
sweet milk. Sour milk or buttermill is
drVoured with equal relish hy them, and
either is good. 1t makes them grow,
gives them an appetite for other food, and
assists such breeds as llambWgs, Leg
horns, and Games that tledge rapidly, to
support the drain ON the system that is
required by early Hedging.
\ report made by Consul Winsor ut
Hamburg, Germany, to the State De
partmcnt relative to the lindcrpest, states
that infection is not destroyed even if the
hides of the animals are salted. dried or
frozen, and that it will propagate itself
by attaching to domestic animals, hay,
wool, leather, etc, and is easily propagat-
ed from wooden clothing. showing it to be
an active poison, and to be effective for a
very long time.
Foreign papers believe that Europe can
take 2,00O,OOO head of cattle from the
United States every year, the limit of
rattle-rearing having been reached in
many parts Of Europe. Figure up your
self what that would come to in the way
OF revenue to the United States ut S75 a
head The impression abroad is that
Americans are not acting with reference
to the export OF beet as vigorously us they
might.
The war furore in Europe sent large
quantities ol wheat to England, and the
accumulation has resulted in unsettling
prices there. The Mark Lane Express,
however, says that the demands Of the
country will absorb all the available
wheat in sight, before the next harvest.
Considering that the grain crop this year
will not be excessive, and that the war is
certain to last until harvest time at least,
the outlook is a promising one for the
sale of the surplus Of the United States
this year by the farmers at better prices
than they got in 1861.