Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-06-26
RURAL ECONOMY.


Practical Notes.
A PAIL of milk standing ten minutes
where it is exposed to the scent of q
strong smelling stable, or any other Of
fensive odor, will imbibe . faint that
will never leave 1t.
THERE are in good new milk 546
grains of carbon and 49, grains Of nitro
gen in the imperial pint, while in good
skinned milk the quantities are 4S7 and
49, grains. Skinned milk has more
value az food than has usually been
accorded to it.
MANY growers do not consider q very
early and vigorous growth TO the hop
vine as indication of . bountiful yield,
as the vine often becomes hollow and
sends out unhealthy arms. Some pro-
ducers are in the habit of removing the
earliest shoots to give place TO later and
more solid vines.
A GERMAN paper gives the following
as a test for purity of milk: A well
polished knitting needle is dipped into q
deep vessel Of milk, and Immediately
withdrawn in an upright position, when,
if the sample be pure, some of the fluid
will be found to adhere to it, while such
is not the case if water has been added
to the milk aver in the smallest proper
lions.
HUNGARIAN grass, cut green and well
cured, is used by some good Vermont
dairymen as food for butter cows, and
they claim that it has the effect to give
the butter the true summer yellow. 1t
is suggested that since Hungarian 80
cured remains bright and green all win
ter, and because n of the elementary
colors which 90 to make green is yellow,
that it is the greenness of the fodder
which imparts the yellow color.
HEN manure should be mixed with
earth. Seeds are lost by planting them
where too much hen manure has been
dropped. Plaster is good to mix with
it; but a better way to use hen manure,
especially for the garden, is to put it in
barrels, half filling them, and then pour
in soft water until full. Take the liquid
after the manure is we'll soaked and apply
it when needed. Be sure to use soft
water; rain water is est.-Fdrmer's
Friend.
AT certain times, from some peculiar
cause, much difficulty is encountered in
churning the cream into butter. There
are instances of persons having churned
the whole day to no purpose, which is
certainly very trying to the good house.
wife. Asa last resort, try a tablespoon
full of soda or pearl-ash, dissolved in a
pint of warm water; pour it into the
churn while it is in motion, and if butter
don't form after this application, the
application may be abandoned as hope
less.
THE experience of many thriving
farmers all over the country proves that
a better run of animals is obtained by
breeding them on the farm than by pur.
chasing them. More care is bestowed in
selecting the likely offsprings of tried
animals, they will 60 on fattening more
rapidly and uniformly than strangers
picked up here and there, for it takes
some time before these get acquainted
and become content enough to lay on
flesh kindly in their new homes; and,
moreover, the tendency of prices fol
young stock is upwards, and the proba.
bility is very strong that ere long it will
not pay farmers to go into the market
for young animals. In any case it is, as
a rule, more profitable to breed the stock
one handles than to purchase it.
NJ. BIxro, president of the Paris ON
nibus company, has just published
work in which formulas are given fol
calculating by algebra the proportions
of different sorts of food to be given tc
different sorts of horses. He divides
horses into three classes: First the ami
mails "who do nothing at ALL" that is tt
say, do not ever leave their stall for any
purpose; secondly, those which "gt
out" but do not draw any carriage
cor carry any burden than their owl
weight" and, finally, those who are en-
gagged in work of some kind. He ha'
found that all food given to horses is o
two kinds, the azotic foods, proper TO
mere alimentary purposes, and the car
bonic, to be used when work has to b.
done. In proportion, therefore, as NOR
or less work is demanded of the horse
50 ought the proportion of the latter t.
predominant over the former. But tn
real test is not 10 much carbon OF azoti
elements as the substance called proteine
NJ. Bixio appends to his work a table b.
which the presence of p%roteinOus ele
ments can be estimated to a nicely, ant
with the table before them, the traine
and farmer will henceforth be able t.
diet their horses by applying to thes
calculations a set of principles OF alge
braical science.
WHILE churning keep the room com
fortably warm and avoid cold draft
striking the churn from opening outsid
doors while the operation of churning
going on. Cream will churn easier
properly soured before churning, but
il much better to expend a little NOR
and have nice, sweet butter, than ru
the risk of standing your can in
warm room where it is exposed to tn
odors of the kitchen, which are to il
lure the butter more or less. Drain tn
butter-milk off and wash the butter wit
moderately cold we'll or spring watel
pressing it firmly with the ladle. Do nc
mix andschamp IL, or the grain will b
injured. Salt with one ounce of fin
Liverpool salt to the pound of butte
and let it stand for two hours or more
a clean place where it will not get to
hard to work, then work over by pres
ing with the ladle- till the buttermilk
all expelled, and form into rolls or print
Never . coarse salt.
OccAsIoNALLY a boy on the farm hi
a desire to occupy his leisure in mendin
farming TOOLS implements, machine
harness, etc. We observed this lately 0
a farm in Western Massachusetts,. TIL
harness of one of the team horses WI
out of repair, and his boy found rleasul
in mending it, thus saving time an
money. This tact for repairing come
into constant play OF . farm. A gatee
door is off its hinges, a door hung o
rollers moves hard, the roof leakes,
light of glass is out, with other thing
too numerous to mention, need q site
in time y save waste and inconvenieBct
This necessary tact it is difficult I
develop where there is no germ; bu
what we wish to say is, that when tn
boys on the farm exhibit any genius i
fixing up things, let it have full play
let them tinker and mend. The practic
given them while young will be wort
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