The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-01-24

FARM HINTS.

dryers.
There is no animal that will better
repav the cost of good extra keep than
dairy cow in full milk.
stock dealer in western Iowa recently
bought 40, 900 bushels of corn at Lemars
at eight cents per bushel.
The agricultural papers generally are
entering into pretty free discussion on
the good quality of sorghum.
Standard apple trees should be plant
ed sixty feet apart each way, though
in poor soils twenty-five feet may be
enough.
Clean up all rubbish about the yard
and buildings, and remove manure heaps
having al. possible materials for COM
post gathered and utilized
The London Omnibus Company,
which ten years ago fed their horses
principally with oats and beans with hay,
now feed almost exclusively on Indian
corn and hay.
The best favored meat, and at the same
time of the richest quality, is attained
when the cows feed on old and rich per-
manent pastures in summer, the favor
being particularly sweet.
Some of our best butter-makers claim
that from the time the milk leaves the
COW till the butter graces the table, milk,
cream and butter should be near the
temperature of 600 Fahrenheit.
Work not rod of land more than you
can work well. 1t is easier and far more
profitsble to resp sixty bushels from one
acre than fifty from two. Manure and
proper cultivation will ensble you to do
it.
General Littledsle, who has farm
opposite Liverpool, England, keeps
eighty-five cows and fifteen working
horses on the produce of eighty acres of
land. This shows what thorough culti-
walton will do.
Do not work butter too much nor too
fast. Work slowly, and until all the
salt is thoroughly and evenly AFFORDED,
otherwise the butter will not be of uni.
form color. Working it too fast will
destroy the grain.
II chickens have cholera give them wet
food for few days, well stirred into one
feed teaspoonful of sulphur, and into
the next about a teaspoon'ul Of powdered
charcoal, and so alternate the food for
as0ut three days.
Laugh at scientific or book farming
just as much as you please, yet the man
who takes advantage of air, soil and fer
tilizers, studies how to manufacture
grain and roots, meat and fruits, out of
these raw materials, is the one to sue.
coed.
All the harvesting implements and
machines should be cleaned and oiled
both woodwork and iron-snd stored
in dry covered place, To remove rust
use crude petroleum; then brush over
with linseed oil. Petroleum is good
p-eserver OF wood.
On heavy loans of clay, clover roots
penetrate the subsoil and open it to the
fertilizing influences of air and light. 1t
is rich, too, in nitrogen, and in the decay
of its leaves and roots it gives the soil
Just what is wanted to grow a maximum
crop of any kind of grain.
Pure air and good water are of even
greater Importance than exercise in the
care of young animals They are often
huddled together in houses altogether
insufficient in size, and in which the at
mosphere is almost constantly impure
from the product of respiration.
Boussincault prescribes the proper
temperature for churning to be 500 for
sweet cream, GO for sour and 64o for
milk. About one>iourth of the total
amount of butter globules which exist
in the cream escapes collection, which
accounts for the rich taste of buttermilk.
To make cheap pork barrel, buy a
coal oil barrel, knock one head in; take
bunch of old hay, set fire to it, and
throw it in the barrel /; let it burn until
the slaves begin to burn; put it out by
turning the barrel upsjde down scrape
the Goals off, and you have a good, sweet
barrel.
There is no better time than the pres
ent tor draining wei ground. Swamps
are now dry; work is not pressing; every
foot OF land a farmer owns should be
made profitable, and If the season is per-
mitted to pass and this work is neglected.
ayear must elapse before the opportunity
returns.
On stiff clays, barley may yield
greater produce, but it is of a coarse
quality. On light chalky soils, it is thin
Skinned, rich in color, and, through light
10 weight, well adapted for mailing. On
loamy lands and sandy marls, it assumes
greater plumpness, yet still retain its
mailing quality.
Farmer, read agricultural books and
papers, attend meetings devoted to your
calling, compare your crops with those
of your neighbors. If you doubt the
preprietY OF certain culture for certain
crops, and desire information relative to
the field of your labor, write to tae
commissioner of agriculture.
Before cutting up corn the seed corn
theuld be selected, taking ears from
talks that have borne two or more good
ones. The tops of the selected stalks
may be broken down, to mark them, and
when the crop is Gu t, left standing until
the ears are perfectly ripe, then they
should be gathered and stored in a dry
cool place. Such selection of seed viii |
tell well in the next crop,