The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-29
RURAL ECONOMY.
Practical Notes.

Practical Notes.
A PAIL of milk standing ten minutes
where it is exposed to the scent of a
strong smelling stable, or any other Of
fensive odor, will imbibe a faint that
will never leave it.
THERE are in good new milk SAC
grains of carbon and 43a grains of nitro
gen in the imperial pint, while in good
skinned milk the quantities are 437 and
49, grains. SKINNED milk has more
value as food than has usually been
accorded TO it.
MANY growers do not consider very
early and vigorous growth to the hop
vine as indication of bountiful Weld,
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 test for purity of milk: A well
polished knitting needle is dipped into a
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withdrawn in an upright position, when,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 even in the smallest proper
tions.
HUNGARIAN grass, cut green and we'll
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 so
cured remains bright and green all win
ter, and because one of the elementary
colors which go 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 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 well soaked and apply
it when needed. Be sure to use soft
water; rain water is best.-Fdrnaer'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 tablespoon
full of soda or pearl-ash, dissolved in
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 ofsprings of tried
animals, they will go 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 ia their new homes; and,
moreover, the tendency of prices for
young stock is upwards, and the proba-
bility is very strong that ere long it will
not pay farmers to 60 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.
WHILE churning keep the room COM
fortably warm and avoid cold drafts
striking the churn from opening outside
doors while the operation of churning is
going on. Cream will churn easier if
properly soured before churning, but it
is much better to expend a little more
and have nice, sweet butter, than run
the risk of standing your cream in a
warm room where it is exposed to the
odors Of the kitchen, which are to in
jure the butter more or less. Drain the
butter-milk off and wash the butter with
moderately cold we'll or spring water,
pressing it firmly with the ladle. Do not
mix and champ it, or the grain will be
injured. Salt with one ounce of fine
Liverpool salt to the pound of butter,
and let it stand for two hours or more in
a clean place where it will not get too
hard to work, then work over by press
ing with the ladle till the buttermilk is
all expelled, and form into rolls or prints.
Never use coarse salt.
OCCASIONALLY boy on the farm has
a desire to occupy his leisurein mending
ldIulIL
harness, etc. We observed this lately on
a farm in Western Massachusetts,. The
harness of one of the team horses was
out of repair, and his boy found pleasure
in mending it, thus saving time and
money. This tact for repairing comes
into constant play on farm. A gate or
door is off its hinges, door hung on
rollers moves hard, the roof leakes,
light of glass is out, with other things,
too numerous to mention, need stitch
in time to save waste and inconvenience
This necessary tact it is difficult to
develop where there is no germ; but
what we wish to say is, that when the
boys on the farm exhibit any genius in
fixing up things, let it have full play;
let them tinker and mend. The practice
given them while young will be worth
everything when they get homes of their
own. Encourage they boys in every
possible way, and when they become men
they will not be likely to leave the farm.
M. BIxIo, president of the Paris ON
nibus company, has just published a
work in which formulas are given for
calculating by algebra the proportions
of different sorts of food to be given to
different sorts of horses. He divides
horses into three classes: First the ami
mails "who do nothing at all, - that is to
say, do not ever leave their stall for any
purpose; secondly, those which ego
out" but do not draw any carriage,
cor carry any burden than their own
weight" and, finally, those who are en-
gagged in work of some kind. He has
found that all food given to horses is of
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