Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-10
Aancaster fntellige1lrer.
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 10. 1890.
Farmer and Gardner.
Counsel by tho Germantown Telegraph.

Counsel by the Germantown Telegraph.
There can hardly be two opinions as to
the nutrition of hay which has been har-
vested at different stages of its growth or
maturity. Clover ought to be cut when
the blossoms are partially turning, and
cured with as little direct sun as possible.
1t is pretty much the same with timothy.
If it is allowed to stand too long 1t be-
comes dry and hard and loses large por-
ton of its nutriment and fragrance. and
we doubt if it pays better, though it is
generally believed that it does. ANY
Judge of hay can tell whether it is cut
early or late, and will not pay by ten or
fifteen cents per hundred as much as for
early cut.
These fences, We notice are getting more
and more into favor, and SO far as we
know directly they are much approved OF.
The objection made to them by those who
have not tried them, we do not think will
hold good-that they injure the cattle in
being forced by one another against them.
Against those we have examined this OBJ
lection will hardly stand, for while the
spikes are likely to keep off the cattle
after they once find out what they are, tie
spikes are not long enough to do any injury
worth mentioning, or really more than the
wire without the spikes. Besides this, the
fence is an excellent protection against
trespassers-in fact, they may be consider
ed as perfect protection and in this re-
spect will serve the interests of farmers
and others very satisfactorily. 1t will de-
bar even dogs from trespassing. The ex-
pense also, when its durability is consider
ed, is in its favor when once understood,
as there will he no difficulty in attending to
the repairing of it.
Shallow Milk-Pans.
1t is singular to note that certain ques-
tions like certain epide mic diseases have
their own peculiar time of appearing, and
prevail at certain times almost to the ex
clusion of all other topics. Latterly, at
tention is being paid to the question
whether more cream can be obtained from
the same quantity of milk when set in
shallow pans-say two or three inches
deep-than in pans or crooks half foot
or more.
Our grandmothers supposed that they
had settled this question to dead GER
tainty. There was little difference in the
one case over the other, but the fewer YES
sells required and the ease of skimming
decided the case in favor of what we
should now regard as a moderately deep
setting, and it has since continued to be
the faith of ever milkist even to this day.
But since the subject has been re-opened,
our papers TEEN with experiments made
in various quarters, and the result appears
to be that both views are eminently right
In some accounts we read that tue inch
deep trials were far ahead of the deeper
ones others have found that the shallow
pans were simply nowhere in the trial
with the deep ones. AS is usually the
case, however. each party sticks to its
creed. and, believing sincerely in the re-
liability of their own experiments, place
no value whatever on the experience of
those who have found different results.
To us impartial observers the conclusion
seems plain that our grandmothers were
right, and that there is no material gain
in either plan of proceeding; but the va
riations recorded on either side show that
there is something at work which affects
the quantity of cream produced from a
given quantity of milk, though mere
depth does not and it might be wo:tl
while to take up the subject just here and
find out what this something is.