Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-05-31
THE FARM.

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Farm well. Have good orchard, good
garden. good stock and M intelligent
family. Be intelligent yourself. and
thus secure the respect of all who know
you.
As soon rs the upper portion of the
straw of the cereals become yellow, no
further increase takes place in the
weight of the seed. If the grain he not
cut down soon after the appearance of
this sign, its quality deteriorstes, ard
its weight diminishes.
The Farmers idtovutt gives this as the
best whitewash for poultry houses; In
to the whltewash pail drop teacupful
of soft boiled rice and mix thoroughly
Then pour into a quart pot of cold wa
ter, say ten or twelve drops Of crude
carbolic acid Mix this into the rest
and swah the interior Of Your hen-house
with it. For outside, use rock snlt dis
solved, instead Of boiled rice, and dis
pensc with carbolic acid. No other
preparation Of whitewash ever eQuallcd
this for poultry buildings.
Bees require special attention Ut the
present time, see that they have plenty
of food, do not depend on the first bios
SONS that appear. If the weather is
cold and wet, very little honey can be
found, sometimes none. Continue
feeding the bees until You are quite
sure they can get honey. At this sea
son you should be particular to kill all
bugs and worms, that you may find
about your hives.
GOOD FIELps-As IN instance Of
high farming i'll Maine, we find i'll the
Maine Farmer, records Of crops Of corn
i'll 1877 ranging from - to l67 bushels
per acre, and raised at cost in one i'll
stance Of Il cents per bushel. It is not
stated, however, whether the yield was
bushels of ears, sometimes computed
east, or bushels OF shelled corn. In
either case, however, the yield is credit
able. In wheat culture, 207 bushels
are credited from 5 acres; go bushels
from acre; 81 bushels from another;
25 bushrls from l23 rods of ground, and
other quantities down To % bushels
per acre.
That famous $4,000 COW which was
so much talked about in this country II
few years ago, has II rival i'll point of
pecuniary worth in Il 5000 chicken. The
English agricultural Gazette says that Il
game cock was recently sold for the
above excessive price, and suggests that
~ the future the raising Of sucii chick
ems would prove il very lucrative source
Of income. The same journal says that
over $13 100000 worth Of eggs were i'm
ported into England in 1876, and yet the
supply was short of the demand Here
is an opening for ponltrymen and u
wider field for the inventor of ogg-pre-
serving processes and egg-carying de
vices.
The Journal Of Me Chemical Society
(England) says pure butter contains
from 90 to 9S per cent. of pure butter
fat and n small quantity of water. Its
color should be from vellowish white to
reddish yellow, but this depends on the
kind Of fodder given to the cows. and
may he produced by means Of beet root
or other plants possessed Of coloring
properties. The coloring matter may
he detected by treating the butter with
stror Z alcohol. The melting point Of
pure butter is from thirty to thirty-sev-
en- degrees, while artificial butter melts
at from twenty-seven to thirty-one de-
gress. Substances used to increase the
bulk and weight Of butter are chalk,
gypsum, oxide of zinc, starch, and so
forth. These neither improve its flavor
nor its wholcsomeness. The agreeable
smell of pure butter, with slight sug-
gestion OF milk, is not easy TO initiate
by artificial means.
AGRICULTURAL PRoPosl1IoNs.-Is itnot
better to cut two tons of hay from one
acre Of land than to cut two tons from
two acres
If one acre o. land can be made to
produce 200 bushels Of potatoes, is it
not better than POO bushels from two
acres2
IL the same quantity Of manure, and
the same amount Of labor in ploughing
and cultivating, will produce az much
corn from one acre Of land as could be
produced from two acres with only the
same amount of labor and manure
spread out upon two acres, is it not
much better To do so2
Is it not much better husbandry to
make two spears of grass grow where
one grows now, than TO double the
acres2
II ten cows, turned out to pasture as
soon as the grass turns green and kept
out until snow flies, without any saving
OF manure, except what is made in the
winter, and that thrown out into the
weather, can keep up Il certain farm
how many COWS would il take to keep
UP the same farm under the soiling
system, all the manure being saved and
well housed?
If hundred bushels of apples can
be gathered from twenty trees, left TO
fhemselvns mifhn11t any, anecinl cnrn