The Red Cloud chief., 1877-09-20
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Money In Sweet Corn.

Money in Sweet Corn.
An Ohio farmer grows over 500 acres
of this crop annually. The drying
house employs vel 80 persons. The
fresh ears are steamed five minutes to
"set the milk" the grain is then cut off
rapidly with cutters having concave
faces then splead on perforated zinc
tables, and heat applied for tour or five
hours in long furn ces, stirring con-
stantly; then packed in barrels of three
bushels each for shipment. Great care,
is taken to have the corn of the right
age, and to have it dried enough to
keep well. Four bushels of corn on the
cob make one bushel dried the Who'll
sale price of which is $50 to 1872 per
barrel. At 50 bushels of corn per acre,
600 acres would yield $4,000 bushels
and give over 1900 barrels of dried
corn, which, at $50 per barrel, would be
$4,000.
F%attening Poultry.
A letter On this subject, by Henry
Eliot, Washington county, Ohio, fur
nishes some very interesting items in
relation to the examining process prac-
ticed by French and English feeders in
this country, who 60 on the principle of
giving fowls not only all the food they
would naturally eat, but forcing an ex-
ira amount, which makes them dull
and sleepy, and thus increases the tend.
ency to fatten. The feeders especially
esteem buckwheat for this purpose;
also employ Oat and corn meal, and
mixing it rather stiff and rolling it into
what are termed "crams"-i. e., masses
two inches long, of the thickness of a
mans little finger. The Grams, dipped
into milk or water, are pushed into the
mouth and throat of the fowl until the
crop is full, the operation being repeat
ed two or three times a day. In raising
poultry for the table, the farmer, said
Mr.. Eliot, should not forget that the
chickens must be kept growing from
the time they are Matched, or their
framework will become Stunted and
fixed, and prevents their afterwards
obtaining large size. The best food
after chickens are put up in fattening
cOOps is oats or corn meal, mixed with
scalded milk or water; the writer adds
a low grade of flour, baked and wet a
little. AS soon as his fowls are suffi-
GENTLY fat they are killed at once, before
the flesh becomes hard and coarse:
they are not fed the last day, as food in
the crop and intestines ferments and
detracts from the flavor of the meat.
Go to the Fairs-Why?
Fair" is not just the word for our
autumn STANDARDIZATION" would be
better-but the word has come by use
to mean exhibition, when it don't mean
a 'hOrse-race" exclusively. We say 60
to the fairs. Just as reading others
thoughts .nlarges and stimulates ones
own thinking, SO contact with other
men, seeing what they do, what they
show, asking how they produced this
or that good thing. cannot fail to afford
some new hints and do one good. A
day at the fair lifts one out of the daily
drudgery; the sight of so many people
engaged in the same calling, helps one
out of that low view which the great
mass of farmers set upon their own
pursuit. However much farmers may
talk of the dignity of their calling
there is in their hearts too low an es
innate of it If a son goes into a store
or a daughter marries a merchant, OF
professional man, they will speak of il
as something to be proud of. This i:
wrong. Agriculture, from Adam down
has been and is the noblest pursuit
Going to the fair will help in this ant
many other ways. Go early in the day
and have a quiet look at things, before
the hOrse-races disturb the general ani
good order of the day.-Americ0n Ag
riculturist.
Selecting Seed Corn.
1t has been frequently advised tina
before corn is cut up. n should g
through the field and pick out thos
stalks which have borne two ears, an,
select these ears for future seed. Thi
is very well if the two ears ar
perfect ones, but we have found it yer,
rarely happens when one stalk bear
two ears, that both ears are large, wei
filed out, and sufficiently good to b
kept for seed. 1t is not wise, We think
to choose in this case the one good cal
and reject the poorer one, simply be
cause the good a is a twin. For Their
is a relationship between the two ear.
and it is the whole plant, and not a pal
of its product only, that gives a chal
aicer to that product. We would niue
rather take a long, sound, early ripenet
heavy, plump, and well filled ear, a
though it be a single one, than on
equally good, that has a poor Hubbin o
the same stalk. 10 not know in th
latter case whether or not the prOdue
of the twin ear may revert to tn
poorer sort to which it is so closely n
lated; while on the contrary. the sing
good ear would almost certainly pr
duce good plants with equally goo
produce. We are content with on
good ear to q stalk. If we could onl
secure that, we could safely expect owe
q bushels of shelled corn per acre, fo