The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-07-22
AGRICULTURAL.

Asa left, of Stockton, n. T., makes an
average of over 800 pounds of butter per
annum from each of his COWS.
A bullock when slaughtered yields
about fifty pounds of blood which for fer
tilizing purposes is worth 25c.
The milk of each cow at Echo Farm,
Connecticut, is analysed, and when any
test falls below $50. the COW producing it
is removed from the herd.
The butter globules in milk from far
row COWS and COWS nearly dry, are small
er than from COWS In flush of milk, and,
in order to obtain all the butter, the
cream from the former should be churn-
ed together, and the same of new milk
COWS.
The British are ravenous for foreign
meat this season, having taken twice as
much during the past four months as in
similar period of 1S79-nol less than ST.
ga full grown beasts against 35. 451, be-
sides 1886 calves. The poor are better
able to buy.
Hog cholera in strange and most
malignant form has broken out among
the swine of farmers in the vicinity Of
Oconomowoc, Wis. One largo stock
raiser in Summit lost nearly one hundred
fine hogs in less than two weeks by
means of the epidemic.
The advantages of spreading manure
from the wagon as it is drawn out are a
saving of labor, and q more even distri-
button of the doable salts ammonia, pot
ash, phosphates etc. in the soil by rain.
If the manure is heaped on the field, and
gets heavy rain before spreading, the
ground under the heaps receive an undue
share of the best part of the manure,
which not unfrequently render these
spots barren for a season or two.
ADVANTAGES OF LIVE STOCK.
Too many farmers on fair sized farms
do not pay enough attention to live stock.
Too many farmers continue to grow grain
and grass for sale, year after year, with
out returning anything to the soil in the
form of plant food. They simply keep
enough STOCK 20 DC the work. think
this is very iniudicious course in farm
ing, and these who practice it will find,
sooner or later, that they can't make it
pay.
One of the best modes of nlanuring
land is to pasture it. On many farms
there is considerable waste land that can :
not be cultivated frofitably, but can be
used to good advantage for pasture.
1t is easier and less expensive to feed
the grain and hay on the farm and then
ship it off in the form of meat than it is
to ship the bulky grain, and we have the
manure left on the farm. In communi-
ty where stock is raised and fed you will
find higher plane of intelligence among
the people. The farms will be better
improved, and be worth more than in
country where no attention is given to
stock.
With good care any ordinary farmer
car raise stock at o fair profit, all animals
should be well cared for and kept in a
thriving condition till they are ready for
market. There is great loss in getting
animals fat in the fall and then starving
them through the winter, for it will take
them half the summer to gain what they
have lost. I was impressed with the
sound sense of an article the other day
on wintering calves. In closing the
writer says: "Ialways aim to have them
plump and fat when L turn them onto
grass, and then it is just fun to see them
kick up their heels and grow"