The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-05-06

his produce is when people want 70 buy.
When you have made good market,
do not wait for q better one. "A bird III
the hand is worth two in the bush.
WHERE the making of new lawns is
contemplated, oil available manure
should be spread over the surface rs
soon as possible. The winter rains and
SHOWS will carry the soluble parts into
the SOIL and prepare them for immedi-
ate assimilation by the young grass
roots.
The difference between nitrate Of soda
and nitrate OF potash as fertilizers Is this:
Nitrate OF soda Is of valne for the nitro
gen it contains, init as soda Is not SO
much required by plants, it is not OF so
much importance rs potash, while the
nitrate of potash, besides the amount OF
potash it contains, also carries as much
nitrogen as the nitrate of soda.
In attempts at breeding domestic cat
tie no immature stock should be used.
Mature sires and danes, and only those
of the very best kind should be used, If
it is desired to keep up the character OF
the stock. If skill and care are exer-
cised in the selection of parents, then
we may expect improvement III our AMI
mails, whether cows, horses, or sheep.
Many breeders of sheep and swine pay
too little attention to this subject.
Farmers should always bear this in
mind, that "like produces like" only
when all the laws of nature are complied
with.
FooD VALUE OF VEGETABLES DIR.
Nichols, in the Boston Journal Of Chem-
ist,y, gives us some important results of
analyses, recently made of several vege-
tables used for food. Without giving
the details of these analyses, we sum
up the results thus: In bushel of
Early Rose potatoes, fifty pounds, we
have little more than half a
pound of albuminoids, or fesh-forming
material, and seven pounds of starch;
the remaining forty-two pounds being
water, vegetable, fiber, and ash. Bald
win apples contain less hesh-forming ma
terial, and the starch is replaced by
nearly half the weight of grape sugar
and malic acid In 100 pounds of pump
kins there are four and u half pounds of
albuminoids and eight pounds of sugar
and starch. Parsnips and carrots stand
q little higher in the fesh-forming ele-
ments and about the same per cent. of
sugar and starch. Turnips stand low
in the scale, being 90 per cent. WATER
Indiana Farmer.
SHRINKAGE OF WHEAT-It is strange
that We so often hear millers and farmers
talking abont the shrinkage i'll wheat
kept during the winter, and yet not one
of them gives, or can give, reasonable
proof that wheat shrinks after threshing,
or rather after curing in the straw before
threshing. Professor A. Shelton's ex-
pertinent of burying sack of wheat in
the wheat bin, does not show any per-
ceptible change between November -
and May IL. The second weighing
showed slight increase in weight, and
he concludes that wheat drinks none at
all. The shrinkage complained of by
millers and elevator men, is not caused
by atmospheric influences, but by rats
and mice and pilferers. If there be such
shrinkage rs is claimed, it is certainly
an easy question to decide by actual eY-
pertinent. Farmers who fear this shrink
age, and farmers who claim that wheat
does not shrink in storage. are alike in
terested, in proving the question.
One hundred farmers In as many localities
should try Professor Shelton's test, of
accurately weighing sack of grain, and
burying it Ill the wheat bin, and report.
We suggest, however, that instead of one
sack, three sacks be buried-one in the
bottom. one ia the middle and one on
top. Note the difference if my, in the
weights, and the mean would give the
actual rate of shrinkage, or increase of
the entire bin of wheat. The expert
mental sack set In the sun at q tempera-
ture of 80 degrees from IL 80 a. M. to 2
p. m. shrank exactly one-half pound. or
one-half OF one per cent. Now if hot
weather causes wheat to shrink at that
rate, it will not pay to hold wheat
through the summer without an advance
to cover interest, risk and shrinkage. -
Cincinnati Commercial.
MORE LEAN AND LESS FAr.-Unless
we mistake the demands of the times.
there is call for larger per cent. of
lean in pork. Colonel Curtis has spoken
out In the New York Tribune on this
subject. Since his blast others have
followed, until the farmer is little be-
wildered. He does not know Just how
he can make n pig lay on lean instead of
fat. He knows that if he will let his
pigs run on grass and mast with light
feeds of grain until one or two years old,
and then not more than half fatten them,
he can produce pork with more lean and
less fat. But at what a cost! What
riskl We cannot afford to keep swine
by the year on improved farms. In the
brush and thickets and woods, when
land and marsh are abundant and of lit
tie value, swine can be left to themselves
until they have age and muscle, and
then can be hunted up by the hounds
and driven to market. The supply of
pork thus made would not be adequate
to the demands of the public. And rs
the country would advance in population
and cultivation, the lean pork supply
would diminish. Music is developed
Ivy exercise, and the restless, ever-mov-
ing pig can never be profitable
feeding animal. The essential feature
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