The Red Cloud chief., 1880-02-05
AND GARDEN.

Way. at a recent meeting Of the West
ern New York Farmers Club; bud the
| time will come when such questions Will
force themselves upon the attention OF
| farmers everywhere. In the meeting
referred to, Mr.. Way said that he had
learned by experience that il was neces-
sary to Keep stock for the benefit OF
grain lands, and he thought it paid to
| keep the best quality Of stock. He be-
| Iieved that was the secret OF
success. When they were selling all
their grain, and keeping but little STOCK,
their crops were yielding less and less;
but since they had adopted the practice
of feeding stock, the yield Of crops was
increasing until some got So bushels of
wheat, 40 bushels Of barley, and $50
bushels of corn per acre.-Lire Stock
Journal.
KEEPING QUALITIES OF FRUIT.-The
natural process Of ripeniDg fruit on the
tree is intended to benefit the seed
merely; hence the quality Of some va
| rieties of fruit is more or less injured by
allowing the completion Of this process.
When certain fruits are taken off and
laid away, just as they come To maturity
and before the mellOwing process be-
gins, sugar and juice are elaborated
instead Of woody fiber. The pear and
winter apple furnish good examples OF
this. Probably the superior quality of
the winter apples of the North, both for.
keeping and for fisvor, over the~same
varieties when grown at the South, Is
due to the greater length of the south
ern season, which carries the ripeniDg
process too far. The question arises
whether by picking the fruit earlier its
quality might not be improved. The
objection to this is the trouble and ex-
pense of keeping the fruit at a low tenn
perature artificially, which the climate
would make necessary. The better
plan would be for our enterprising hOr-
ticulturists to produce later ripening APP
pies, suited to a longer season; this is
not beyond their skill and intelligence.
j. NJ. MQiigan, in N. Y. Tribune. 81
BRAN AND MEAL FEED.--The cream
from the milk when the cows were fed
on a peck of buckwheat bran each was
light colored and thin. Now, when
they are fed four quarts of corn-meal,
the cream is thicker and more yellow.
This means more butter. Bran OF all
sorts is better for young animals, Is it
makes muscle; but meal is best for cows,
AS it makes fat, and milk Is fat; that is,
milk which will make good butter con-
tains a large per cent. of fat. The bran
will make the best manure, because
there is more of it which goes into the
manure-pile, and this furnishes the sup
ply Of nitrogen. The farmer, then, who
feeds plenty of bran will have a rich
manure heap, and so it is cheaper 10
buy bran and feed it literally than to
stint ones animals and buy commercial
fertilizers. Commercial nj do
not furnish much nitrogen. This must
come largely from grain, and the bran
is the heterogeneous part, and without
nitrogen there will not be perfect plant
growth. The lesson we would teach is
To save all of the bran for the growing
animals, and the meal for the fattening
ones and the cows. To make them all
healthy and to utilize and assimilate
both bran and meal perfectly roots
should always be fed. This Is an i'm
portant part of the system, and helps to
make perfect digestion.
GRUBs IN CATTLE.-The grubs or
worms found under the hides of cattle
are the young or Larvae form of the
Estrus BOWS, or gadfy of the OK,
which chase and seriously harm cattle,
while laying their eggs in summer an
autumn. Where the flies abound they
greatly retard growth and fattening,
and in extreme cases cause much fever
and arrangement of the system, As well
as deterioration of the hide by the lar
vac under the skin. But as the fly does
not survive the winter, IA in this larval
form in the skin, it is easily killed out
i'm any district by n uniform destruction
of the grubs to be found under the in.
teguments. The parasites are found
mainly in the back, and should be
squeezed out of their cysts by strong
compression of the adjacent skin, and
crushed under foot to destroy vitality
and prevent them from burrowing in
: the soil and undergoing their natural
Transformation into the fly. If the hole
be too small it may be slightly enlarged
with a penknife so as to allow the easy
escape of the grub. The destruction OF
these parasites by introducing caustiC
liquids or red hot irons into the sacs il
8 not to be commended, as it leaves q
mass of dead matter in the sore to IN
dergo putrefactiOn, and develops ar
amount of surrounding Inflammation
that is altogether unnecessary.
A POUND OF BUTTER.-While ter
pounds of milk will suffice, with little
/ variation, for a pound of cheese, the
quantity necessary for a pound Of butter
is exceedingly uncertain-it may be II
pounds, SO, even 40 in extreme cases
1t is a rule adopted by many intelligent
, in dairy figures to count two and a hal
pounds of cheese equivalent to one ol
butter: this would be about % pounds
If we call it three gallons of milk, OF
25.S pounds, to one of butter, it will
: probably be nearer a true average fol
, all the milk of q State OF group OF
States. 1t is possible that an average
, for the whole country, including cows
of the South not selected or bred fol
, butter-making to any appreciable ex.
tent, would be slightly above three gal.
Ions, say three and snarter. What
causes the wide difference? First,
breeding; the Jerseyyields a larger pro-
portion of cream than the Ayrshire,
Selection, whichis a prominent point IN
breeding, will rapidly : imprOve the
cream production OF any herd OF grades.
Then, feeding results in wide differ.
ences; Professor Arnold found the
milk of a herd 81 per cent. better when
fed upon sowed corn and pasture than
when fed on pasturage alone. These
experiments have shown wide variations
between different samples of the same
milk set in different wsys.-N.sI. Trib-
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Adventure Of Two Americans In Mexice.
The Portland (Me.) Press says: Our
readers will remember q brief Associated
Press dispatch which appeared in the
Press the other. morning telling how