The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-18
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT SUNDAY, JANUARY 49, 1880

| have reason to believe that IL answers we'll,
but have never resoTted to 1t, because put
the joints In bags.
TESTING MILK.
A new method has been discovered OF test
Ing milk without the use OF Instruments It
10 done In this way About one ounce of good
puiverized gypsum is mixed with certain
quantity Of milk that In to be tested. to the
consistency Of paste BY attentively watch
Ing the time that thls paste requires to con-
Real or become set. the quality Of the milk
can be determined IT the milk has specific
gravity Of 1000 or GO Fahrenheit, the mass
will CONCEAL Ill 10 hours. with 25 per cont OF
water, In 2 hours; with 30 per cent OF water,
In ! - hours, and with rs per cent Of water.
In about 10 minutes.
PREPARING MANURE FOR H0T-BEDs.
Fresh stable manure, In which there Is
plenty of litter, is most suited for this pur-
pose. There should be at least oDet nird lit
ter IN the heap. II this is not IN the mass In
sufficient quantity. add leaves or tanbark:
shake " up and mix 1t well together, adding
water II at all dry and musty. and throw 1T
into compact hemp to fermant. Let 1t re-
main q week, and then work It over thorough
ly. rs before, and add water, If necessary.
Where the ground Is quite dry very good
method fs TO dig u space about eighteen inches
deep, and put In the manure tramping Ii
nrmly and evenly. and place thereon tho
frame or sash, and put In the rich earth AMI.
In about -four days, SOW the seed having pro-
vioualy stirred the eaith freely to destroy the
seeds OF weeds therein.
now TO SAVE CARRIAGES.
Our mode In saving cabbages during the
winter Ii to stand them In rows upright as
they grew, buried UP to the lower leaves
After IN obong bed or them liz prepared.
cover with leaves or straw aud place over 1t
an mprovisfd roof. formed Of bean-poles, and
across rough frame, covered with col n
water. We have often kept our cabbage to
the first of May In this way. Some people
cut tho heads down and bury up the stalk;
but We don't think they keep us we'll and 1t
entails moro labor.
FARM NOTES.
Manure should not bo applied TO land until
It has rottpn during one summer Mt loaat
Strong brine II applied carly In the season,
Will destroy quack grass and the Canada
thistle
About twelve hundred varieties Of grasses
arc found growing within tho limits of the
United States.
Onions to be kept successfully must be kept
dry ~ near tho freezing point as possible
without being frozen.
Guavas ara abundant in Florida. and the
manufactures of guHvh Jelly Is m important
industry In that State.
The more quiet, as we'll MS the more com
Portable. you keep m animal. the less feed it
requires and tho better 1t Will thrive.
Keep your horse stable dark In summer and
you viii save many hushel OF oats and n
great percentage of your blacksmth's bill
Whale oil soap applied to the body OF tho
tree threA or four times during tho season
will destroy tho pest OF the orchard. the
borer.
harness should never be kept ID stables,
where manure IL constantly generating large
quantities of ammonia. Ammonia rOts the
leather.
1nrnips planted late will bottom In cool
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to miIch cows without any bad results either
to milk or butter.
Sulphur is a good dlslnFectant In hon
houses and pig pens. Sprinklei ON bushes
and vines i does much toward preventing
blight and mlldew.
Use chemical manures In preference to any
others for the potato crop. Ordinary ma
nures may, especially II brought from dis
lance, contain the mtldew seeds.
AlcDnl, puIverHad and mixed with water.
is highly recommended for relieving cattle
suffering from any arrangement OF tho
stomach such as hlOat or hoycn. etc.
III you have TO shut your hens up to keep
them out of the newly made garden, do not
forget to throw them m occasional sod SO
that they may scratch and peck ut 1t.
Prevent worms from attacking celery by
applying mixture Of SCOT. salt aud fine lime
to the soil some weeks before 1t Ia To be used,
during which time 1t should be turned now
and then.
FOR horse collie spread teacupfuI or moro
OF fine salt on the back of the animal over the
kidneys and Inina, and keep It saturated with
warm water for twenty or thirty minutes, or
longer II necessary.
The true secret Of pork making Is to push
tho pig from the date OF birth until 1t IL large
enough for the market, and the rler tho age
ut which this point can be reached the great
er Ia the return for tho food consumed.
A Connecticut farmer prevents cows from
kicking while being MIXED In this way: He
takes single link Of mn OK chain and fastens
hame strap through the end, rs they are
made fast In the hHmes Of harness. The
straps are then huckled around each hind leg
above the declaws, which ot1eCtually prevents
the cow from kicking.
Liehig says: Rain water filtered through
field or garden s0llI does not dissolve out
trace of potash, silicic acid, ammonia or pho5-
phoric acid The soil does not give up to the
water one pnrticleO Of the food Of plants which
1t contains. The most continuous rain cnnnot
remove from the field, except mechanically,
any of the essential constituents OF It's fer
tilty."
IN regard to home made fertilizers, thu
American lgricMHWfat says: A mixture or
rock phosphtte, 1000 pounds muriate OF pot
ash and iish-scrap. 800 pounds each. and
plaster, 300 pounds will make n very useful
fertilizer, applied at the rate of 400 pounds to
the acre The South Carolina rock phosphate
ID as effective as bone phosphate and is
cheaper. Muriate Is the cheapest form OF
potash.
The benefits of three mtkings day are
summed up by French dairy paper IA fol-
lows: An experiment with three milklngs
day for eleven days, q COW gave ITO quarts OF
milk; with two milkings the same cow gave
only t6 quarts In the same number OF days.
Moreover, analysis showed that the milk in
the first case was richer In butter globules
than that In the second case In the proportion
OF Al to So.
Avery Costly Load of sand.