The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-03-25
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

To get all the butter from it, cream
should ripen at least six hours before it
is churned. Ripening does not neces-
sarlly mean souring, for cream can be
kept sweet an indefinite length of time,
if kept cold enough.
PROF. ROBERTS is strong believer
in the good effect of proper atmos-
phere in the stable. The air should
be neither too hot nor too cold, but
above all should be dry. Dampness he
considers highly detrimental to all
kinds of stock.
1T is strange that more dairymen do
not favor polled cattle, in view of the
damage horns do in herd. The jersey
and Short-horn could readily be bred
polled, and among our natives there is
fair per cent. Of polled cattle, while
several strains of thorough-bloods are
without horns.
THE annual apple crop of the United
States is estimated to be worth S51 ,OOO,-
600. Ohio supplies S7,OO0,O0O worth.
The peach crop is estimated at $50, ,OOO,-
OOO, the pear crop at $l5, 100000, and
the strawberry crop at $4,000, 600. The
annual exports of canned fruits are es-
eIludLeu dG Sl,UUU,UUU.
FARMRRs who spread on a thin coat
OF twelve or fifteen loads of manure to
the acre, and expect to raise good
crop, would be astonished to see the
quantities of the best kinds of manure
which market gardeners often apply to
an acre of land near the cities. What
would they say to the application of
SIX hundred dollars worth of horse
manure to a sing lie acre? Two or three
hundred dollars worth of manure per
acre is common thing among market
gardeners, and they find their account
In so doing, too.
DR.. j. Provost has found that rain
removes much more matter from an
uncropped than a cropped soil. He
placed three inches of soil in two glazed
earthenware pans seventeen inches in
diameter. Four grammes of white
clover seed were sown in one of the
pans, and the other was left without any
stimulus to vegetation. Both pans were
exposed from July 21 to October 4, and
then the drainage water was collected
and analyzed with results which war
ranted the above conclusion.
To Test the Richness of Milk: Pro-
cure any long glass vessel-a cologne
bottle or phial. Take narrow strip Of
paper, just the length from the neck to
the bottom; then mark it off with 100
lines at equal distances. or into fifty
lines and count each as two, and paste
it upon the phial so as to divide into
hundred equal parts. Fill it to the
highest mark with milk fresh from the
COW and allow it to stand in perpen-
dicular position for twenty-four hours.
The number of spaces occupied by the
cream will give you its exact percentage
without any guesswork.
DR.. LEHMAN, the microscopic of
the Pennsylvania Board of Agriculture,
who has been examining into the causes
of "ropy' milk, thinks the primary
trouble is in the animal furnishing the
milk. The oil globules are changed;
the albuminous covering becomes ad-
hesive, perhaps by partial decomposi-
ton. Prof. James Law has similar
belief. But Mr.. X. A. Willard thinks it
is due to weeds, bad water, and bad
treatment of the cows; and Prof Engle-
hart once said he knew it was a weed.
DIR. Lehman has known it to stop when
cows were changed from good to bad
water; and as for weeds the disease
appears at all times.
The best soil for wheat is where clay
predominates. A mixture of sand and
clay is the best soil for a succession of
crops, and sand for a bright, stiff straw,
but too sandy a soil is too porous for
wheat, although good spring wheat is
frequently grown on sandy soils. Muck
is not well adapted for the growth of
wheat, but where the land is rich wheat
will succeed on variety of soils. There
is no better preparation for a wheat
crop than clover turned under. Nitro
gen is needed for the growth of wheat,
and if the urine of the horse or COW is
applied to the growing crop early in the
spring you may look for good yield of