The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-04-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Agriculture is the artof arts; with
out it man would be q savage, and the
world wilderness.
"A love for flowers does not make
us rich, in the common idea of riches,
but there has never been, nor ever will
be, any money made that will buy the
pleasure that q lore and knowledge of
flowers brings Garrison.
Perhaps few of our farmers are
aware that the same planting of rye
can be used as pasture for number
of years. One sowing has been used
in Massachusetts for seven years in
succession by grazing sheep upon it
and never letting it 60 up to seed.
Four years grazing has also been
known, the rye producing crop of
grain the fifth year.-ErchGnge.
If dairymen wish to feed so as to
produce better butter they learn from
scientists, experiments of their own,
education, life, Nature, that they must
feed substances containing fatty and
oily matters, such as corn, oil-meal,
etc. But if, ON the other hand, they
are feeding for cheese, they learn from
the same sources that it will be neces-
sary to feed those grains which contain
q large amount of gluten and vegeta-
BILE casein.-I0scG Register.
There is no reason to doubt that
the Colorado beetle will be ready to
begin his work on the first potato vine
that shows itself above ground. The
following experiment has been made
by two New York farmers, who last
spring planted beans between their
hills of potatoes. Their only object in
doing this was if the potatoes were
ruined by the bugs they would still
have some crop from the land. As
summer came and the potato bug COM
menced his ravages, these two farmers
found, to their surprise, that their
potatoes were not troubled in the least,
while the bugs were making sad havoc
with the crops of their neighbors.
The bugs did not at any time affect the
field of potatoes and beans. and these
farmers harvested good crops of pota-
toes.-N. Y. Herald.
"A writer in the Southern Farmer
says that his COW gives all the milk
that is wanted in family of eight, and
that from it, after taking all that is re-
quired for other purposes, 26O pounds
of butter were made last year. This
is, in part, his treatment of the cow:
If you desire to get large yield of
rich milk, give your COW every day
water slightly warm and slightly
sailed, in which bran has been stirred
at the rate of one quart to two gallons
of water. You will find. if you have
not tried this daily practice, that your
cow will give rs per cent. more milk
under the effects of it, and she will be-
come so attached to the diet as to re-
fuse to drink clear water unless very
thirsty. But this mess she will drink
almost any time and ask for more.
The amount of this drink necessary is
an ordinary waterpailful ut time,
morning, noon and night.
The Mui,ae Farmer says: some
of our substantial subscribers, in re-
cent conversation, gave his experience
in treating stock affected with the
habit of eating wool, chewing bones,
etc. His cattle one spring were affect
ed in this way; they became thin in
flesh, refused to eat hay, and presented
q sickly appearance. He put about
four bushels of leached ashes in his
barnyard, and threw out to them about
a shovelful every day. They all ate it
with evident relish. After turning
them out to pasture he put a peck Of
ashes per week on the ground in the
pasture. They ate it all up and gnawed
off the grass where it had been lying.
The cattle began to improve, gaining
flesh aud looking better than they had
for several years. He now gives one
quart OF ashes, mixed with same guam
tity of salt, to twelve head of cattle,
ABOUT once a week, and finds it to
agree with them wonderfully.