The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-09-14
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Farm Notes.

About this time o. the year the man
who has spent hundred dollars on his
| garden begins to estimate his onions at two
dollars each, in order to make his books
| balance.
-Unpurifed petroleum at the rate of
two ounces per quart of water, DESTROYS all
kinds of insects even rats and mice can.
not resist when the solution is sprinkled
in their vicinity. Domestic animals, if
washed with it, and soaped few DAYS
later, will be freed from vermin.
Three and half pounds of milk are
equal to one pound of meat; and only esti-
mate a cow to give 1000 pounds of milk
in year, this would make the cows pro-
duct in milk equal in food value to 1000
pounds of meat, and this 1000 pounds of
meat would require steer, under ordinary
feeding, four years to produce, 30 that the
cow produces as much return from food in
one year as steer in four.
The State of New York contains near
ly 1000 cheese factories, which use the
milk of more then $4,000 COWS, making
therefrom 80,000,000 pounds of cheese,
which is 1000 pounds for every three COWS.
The cheese production of the whole United
States is over 250,000,000 pounds, of which
100000 900 are exported. England scarce
ly exports 25,000,000. Holland, which
used to be the principal cheese producing
country in the world, now exports annually
only 65,500,00O pounds.
Hunt Bros, of the North Bloomfield
custom wooden mill, New York, once gave
the following recipe for cleansing wool -
To two pailsfull of water add quart of
soft soap and pint of common salt. Heat
from $50 to $50 degrees-or little warmer
than the hand can bear Put in all the
wool that will stir conveniently, and let it
remain fifteen minutes, moving it in the
kettle occasionally. Then take it out let
drain; return the drained liquor to the
kettle and add all the water needed. Re-
peat the process and occasionally add a
little soap and water, and you will have it
white and soft. Never let wool boil in the
liquid, as that will fix the gum, render the
fibre stiff and gray, and unfit it to make
soft flexible yarn. Fine wool needs more
time in the kettle than coarse. Tagpipgs
may be ceansed in the same manner, by
clipping off all the hard matter that can
not readily be compressed between the
thumb and finger.
"A correspondent of the Buffalo Liye
otOc6 journal, who has small farm of ten
acres, is trying the experiment of having
all his farming done with cows, thus saw.
ing expense of keeping horses. He broke
a pair of two-ycar-od heifers, with view
OF using them when they get old enough
and OF sufficient strength. He finds them
gentle and tcachable, and from what he
has used them the past fall, just in the way
OF making them handy, he finds they yield
as much milk as his heilers usually have
done. He argues that on so small a farm
it would require large proportion of it to
keep n span of horses, whereas if Il cow
can be made to perform the necessary team
work, and at the same time yield good
supply of milk, the saving, on account of
not keeping horses, will be at least 1920 an
nually. He proposes to adopt the system
of soiling and to keep eight cows on the
ten acres, and cconomize in this manner.