The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-19
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

In a recent trial of feeding cotton
seed meal TO mich cows, dairymar
found by careful tests that the percent
age of cream increased from Is to 81
per cent. 1t is claimed that butter made
from the milk of cows having daily
ration of cotton-seed meal, is of firmel
texture and finer flavor than If oil cake
Is used ae
NEVER put a peach tree in the place
of one that has died or is dying 1t is
useless to do so. The disease is there
and will inoculate the new tree. Never
trim your healthy tree with the hatchet
with which you have cut down sickly
tree or you will inoculate the healthy
tree with the disease.
As a matter of experience, it is found
that the mixture of cut straw and root
pulp, alternate layers of each, should
stand for atleast twenty -four hours before
being fed, after which it becomes heated
of itself, and the cattle eat it with great
relish. There is nothing better for young
and growing stock.
In Great Britain machine has been
invented by which wet grass is rapidly
turned into hay. The machine has
worked very successfully. during the
past wet season, and it is said that this
method of making hay is to be intro
duced on many large estates in England.
The admonition of the old adage, +" to
make hay while the sun Shines" is in
danger of losing its force in that coun-
try.
THIS is the season of the year for
farmers not only TO secure their wood
for the coming year, but also to cut it
up in sufficient supply for spring, sum-
mer and fall use. 1t would be all the
better if the stock, well housed, lasted
through the following winter. A suita-
BILE out-building should be connected
with every farm, in which good stock
of wood could be stored, also room
enough for man to work stormy days
saving and splitting
ASHES" said Marshall p Wilder, a
few years since, 81 are worth so cents
per bushel to apply to orchards and are
the cheapest manure for that purpose. :"
That aches have a very beneficial effect
is shown by the fact that on all virgin
soils recently burned over we get the
fairest fruits and the best vegetables.
The same authority cautions the use of
salt as a manure for orchards, believing
that it has no beneficial effect on land
near the ocean, where the atmosphere is
constantly saturated with salt.
THE old ground, about cooked and
uncooked food for stock, is being
traversed just now in Michigan, and
one writer declares that cooking saves
one-tbird of the feed, and that eight
cars of corn cooked go as far as II cars
uncooked. Perhaps. Bnt it is only
those farmers who keep great deal of
stock that can afford the trouble and
expense of cooking, and those who do
and eau, would hardly find, we imagine,
so great an advantage in favor of cook
ing as is here claimed.
THE premium butter at the New Jer-
sey State Fair was made from herd of
thorough bred cows, on the farm of
Martin r. Dennis in Sussex County.
The ordinary dash-churn was used, and
only the cream churned. The dairy
house is built of stone, and through it
runs stream of spring water, with a
temperature of 4S0. The milk is set in
shallow pans on the floor, which is of
slate slabs The butter is sailed with
Ashton salt, at the rate of 81 of an
ounce to the pound. The feed of the
cows in summer is pasture only; and in
spring and fall, during the milking sea-
son, four quarts of corn meal are added
to all the good meadow hay and corn
stalks they will eat. The average yield
from April 1, 1873, to April 1, 1879, was
PSI pounds per COW, some of them be-
ing two years old, with their first calves.
The cows were MIXED about nine
months, dropping their calves in April.
THE Cow-pea is destined to do for the
worn lands of the South, the Digie Far
mer thinks, what red clover does in
higher ATTITUDES, for it will gather am
monia as readily, fattens stock equally
well, and grows with less attention on
their ground. Then, too, it is cheap as
compared with commercial fertilizers,
saves transporting and distributing
stable and other manure, and is evenly
diffused over the whole surface of the
field, and easy of cultivation. The land
is laid off into three-foot drills, and 10
or II peas are dropped together at every
short step, and covered with two light !
burrows. The only cultivation needed
is the breaking out of the middles in
two or three weeks, and the running Of
a sweep-furrow in the middle when
month or six weeks old. By this time
the ground viii be so shaded as to keep
out other vegetation, and it will be i'm
possible to distinguish where the origi- !
nal rows were. From ordinary uplands /
10 or 10 bushels of peas can be gathered .
from an acre. What hay is not cut for
stock should be plowed under early in
he fall.