The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-02-26
FARMERS C0LUMN.
FARM NOTES.

hb b'NlN th lbpsb idIu itthIs
~ race horse, when galloping, clears
about twenty four feet nt bound.
Apply sue as nearly boiling hot as pos
siJlc, especially upon large joints.
Keep files as clean as possible. Just as
you keep other tools well sharpened.
To make paint dry rapidly use large
amount Of japan varnieh in mixing.
Powdered chalk added to glue in small
quantities makes 1t hold the stronger.
"A now instrument Of German origin has
been invented for measuring the butter fat
in milk.
Autumn is the season most favorable for
the telling of timber, where the object to be
attained is strength and durability.
Never overload team nor discourage
it by a too heavy pull at first Starting; nor
start from bad place if possible to avoid ii.
-Fowls seldom tire of milk. They may
eat too much grain or meat for health, but
milk in any form is both palatable and
healthy.
Texas is importing large numbers of
Merino sheep. 1t is said that she has i'm
ported more the last year than during any
one Of the last ten years
Almost all show animals which are ex-
libted at our agricultural fairs are overied.
Many are the defects in form which are
covered up by heavy coating Of fat.
"A ianun plant common in the Missouri
valley. seems likely to become substitute
for bark. The Polygonum amphibium
yields about half as much tannin again as
bark, and the leather produced from it is
said to be in every way superior, while tho
process is exactly the same. The Polygonum
is an annual, but can be gathered exactly
like hay.
The introduction Of pure bronze COB
bier among flock of mongrel turkey hens
will add from three to five pounds extra
weight per head to tho turkeys raised the
first eeason.
Ewes in lamb should, as far as lractic-
able, be fed and sheltered separately from
the non breeding animals, as the crowding
and more rapid movements of the latter are
apt to result injuriously.
When cotton waste or shavings are sat
urated with OIL large surface is exposed to
the action of the air, and if the oil has the
property of absorbing oxygen, it may absorb
the gas SO rapidly as to take fire.
--When feeding turnips or any kind of
roots for cows in milk no dminution should
be made in the rations of hay. Since the
roots increase digestion and the flow oflnill
more hay might be iudciously fed in place
OF lessening the quantity.
DR.. McMurtie, of the Agricultural De-
rartment, thinks the best localities for beet
raising in the United States are New Eng
land, New York Michigan, Wisconsin, Min
ncsota, Dakota, Washington Territory. Ore.
.gon, one or two counties in Pennsylvania,
and Lick county, Ohio.
The yearly consumption Of butter in
London has been estimated at ten pounds
pr head of the population, or 40 900 900 per
wear, without including some 5000 tons nee
cessary for vctuallng ships leaying the
port.
1t is said that so 900, 900 pounds Of hides
are sold annually in the Chicago market,
and that on one fourth of them there is a
loss Of two cents on pound by reason Of
boles made in the hides by grubs of the gad-
dy, at loss of $3.50 900 yearin the Chica-
50 market alone from the work of this pest.
Glover is a very strongly taprooted
plant and strikes IT'S feeders deep into the
earth, finding nuriment where the finer
roots of cereals would not 60. The proper
tion which the roots bear to the top is very
large, and on the removal of the crop these
are left to rot and add their elements TO en-
rich the soil.
"A letter from Still Pond Kent county,
Maryland, says that the snow fall this win
ter in that locality has been greatly in ex-
cess of any winter for thirty or thirty FIVE
years, and the temperature unusually low.
There is prospect Of a crop Of peaches in
that district equal to say one third of last
years crop, anl large proportion OF the
fruit Will be evaporated.
There are great many farms and fields
which can never be cultivated at a profit.
These, if planted with forest trees, such as
chestnuts, oaks Of different varieties, pines
and larchcs, would produce growth ortim-
ber which would be source of profit, and
then the energies of the farmers might be
concentrated upon his best land, and his
manure could be applied where it would do
the most good.
Professor Arnold, in an account of his
new system Of manufacturing cheese with
out the aid ofacid, says ait differs from those
in common use only in the fact that from
the first all acid is carefully kept from the
milk. The curd is separated from the whey
as soon as acdity develops, aud the cheese
is frequently put to press while the curd is
perfectly sweet. Taint is not corruption, as
las formerly been supposed, but is an odor
similar TO the odor of garlic, onions or cab
bage. Itcan be covered by sourng the curd
but it cannot be removed in that way Taint
= can be removed, however, by airing the curd
while it is a sweet as may be, and after tn,
whey has been drained oir The tant will
rapidly pass away, and the odor will becom,
especially noticeable as it passes of. d,
not wait for the completion of this process
rs it will continue alter the card is put t,
press
Some Of the advantages OF the eo-opo
rative factory system Of butter making ar
thus enumerated by Henry F. Alvord, o
Easihampton; l. The expense of manufac
turing the butter, including maintenance @
implments and apparatus as well as Labor
Is much less in proportion when eonducte
at one place and for large quantities than fu
small lots at a hundred different places. f.
The advantage in disposing olthe product I
large quantities and by an expert agen
whose special duty is to watch the market
and secure the highest price. 3. The keepin
of the skim milk on the farm where only tn
cream is sold to the factory the great relief
the farmers wife Of having the milk {
cream taken of the farm saving all furths
labor and care. 4. the Tendency Of this syl
tenn isNnquesionably to very greatly ra'i