The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-21
FARM AND GARDEN.

FARM AND GARDEN.
BY growing a greater variety of crop.
We diminish risk from unfavorable seas
ons, since tits not often that a season is un.
favorable to all crops alike.
A FARMER in Holden, Me-, who had
placed large umbrella in his cornfield tc
brighten away the crows, says that on a
wet day he found large flock safely shel,
tered under it from the rain!
A BREEDER OF poultry says: every
spring l procure q quantity Of ceda,
bOughs and scatter them plentIiully in and
around the hen house. This is ali that d
necessary as the odor OF cedar keeps away
lice"
The largest strawberry farm in the
world Is probably that OF John R. Young,
j.. about two miles from Norfolk, Va, II
comprises about $50 acres. The Weld last
year was 2, 900 quarts to the acre, and II ID
expected that the product will be much
larger this season.
TIE practice OF dairying, as well as the
theory, is taught at the Iowa Agricultural
College, where sixty.cow power cream,
cry, with all modern improvements, has
been completed Of late, and Is successful.
~ carried on, supplying the dining room
with butter OF excellent quality, the work
from, the milking onward, being all done
by the students themselves.
THE richest food Is not always the
cheapest for mich cows, though too little
food however, is even worse than too
rich food, a fair mean being the best, A
butter COW cannot be made cheese COW
BY change Of food, though food to GER
tain extent influences the milk produc.
ton. For quality Of milk select proper
breeds; for quantity, good mixers, and
feed well, but not with too much highly
concentrated food
PROF. CAMEPON, OF Edinboro', says that
while the milk OF individual cows varies
very much in composition, the mixed milk
Of herd Of COWS keeps quite constant in
composition. The solid matters in such
milk rarely sink lower than l9 per cent.
The milk Of fifteen cows was daily exam.
ined during whole year at the sugges.
tion Of the Royal society OF Sweden, from
which II was found that the solids never
sink to ll.5 per cent, and only OH four oc.
casions were they lower than 12 per cent.
The average was 1873 per cent. The pro.
portions OF the various elements OF milk
tluctuate, that Of the fats most, that of the
ash least.
FROM experiments made by Boussin.
gault, extending over period OF more
than twenty years, in which all the manure
applied to the growing plants was careful.
ly weighed, as well as the harvest OF each
year, while the quantities of chemical con.
stituents were accurately determined by
analysis, 1t was ascertained that on an
average the annual harvest gained from
the soil twice as much nitrogen, three
time as much carbon and hydrogen, and
Jour times as much oxygen as had been
given to it in manures; presupposing that
the whole OF these contained in the manure
was assimilated by the plants, which was
in reality not the case.
A CORRESPONDENT OF the Bee Keepcr's Mao.
asine, who has been on a tour through
Holland and Denmark, gives poor re.
port OF the Bookkeeping industry in those
countries. In Holland he found "but two
persons who kept bees" and they used
the old straw hives, and obtained theil
honey for family use by means Of the
birthstone pit" He found no honey for
sale in all Holland In Denmark be
found only few stock OF bees kept, and
those In the old straw hives. It was with
difficulty that he found honey for sale al
the stores, and when found 1t proved Il
be American strained honey; "but it hat
retained its flavor and was first quality.
Why cannot the honey market in some
OF those countries be opened up and de
yeloped through the agency OF American
capital and energy?
An Ohio correspondent OF the CountrJ
Gentleman has succeeded in draining hi
land with tile at a much less cost thar
we remember to have seen reported; bu
1t must be admitted that he had mani
things in his favor, especially his nearnes
to tile factory, and the consequent Low
price for freight. He drained twelve acre
three miles Of tile-2l feet deep and twC
rods apart, the mains 10 4inches, an,
the laterals 2 inches, at total cost pc
acre Of SCI; or il It was so the fill coul
, be made with the team, $50 per acre, in
Guiding tile, labor and board, all TOLD
The pinch tile cost $3.50 per thousan
feet; the S.inch so, and the finch $S(
on the car q mile from his farm, ireigt
prepaid. As to his success In drain
Ing he says; "The effects Of tn
draining on the crops haye been in som
cases almost magical. One field Of te
acres before mentioned in these co
4 umns) had lost two Grops-one OF pot
toes and one Of Hungarian grass-by to
! much wet. Wheatwas sown immediatel
v after draining with q very moderat
o manuring. The yield was 48l bushels o
I the ten acres : a few rods short and Ii
!, clover Is now immense for this year. Al
II other field Of % acres on a neIGhbor
a farm was In pasture, absolutely not yiel
. ling g per acre each year. 1t was draine
) had a short rotation and a very hgl
manuring, and then was seeded TO tim
I, thy with sprinkle Of clover, and no
y. y yields over SIC net per acre in hay. II
= yield is simply immense.