The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-03
FARM Z

DANIEL MURPHY, of Halleck Station,
California, is the largest private land.
owner in the country. He owns 4,0OO,.
600 acres in Mexico, go, 900 in Nevada,
and %, 900 in California.
AN AMERICAN cheese bore away the
prize of a silver medal at the great cat
tie and dairy show at Birmingham, Eng
land. The prize cheese was one of the
largest ever made, weighing three-fourths
OF a ton. It came from Iowa.
Hoes that are to be slaughtered should
be kept growing. Feed is worth more
for fattening in the Autumn months than
IN the severe weather of winter, when q
considerable amount of food is neces-
sary to keep up animal heat. 1t is much
the most economical practice to keep
hogs steadily growing until they are
killed.
PROF. ATwArER says with regard to q
controversial point among men of science.
"TEe~ prevailing opinion among agricul-
tural chemists for some time, and one
which I have shared, have been that
plants get nearly all their nitrogen from
the soil and extremely little from the
air. But there are7many facts. which
1O Wy w OARltAh Oh bbAo OhOOAJs
and I am, with many others, coming tC
suspect very strongly that plants do,
somehow or other, get considerable nitro
gen from the all"
PRoF. BREWER, of New Haven, ques-
tions if all the money won at agrieul-
tural fairs pays more than half the actual
expenses of the winners in entering the
objects exhibited, caring for them at the
grounds, and getting them home again.
1t is not the cup won at a boat rae that
incites young men to perform SO much
labor, spend SO much time and money,
and to practice SO much ~self-denial while
training, but the possession of the prize
is the sign of victory, and so of the
prizes won.at our agricultural fairs.
COMMERCIAL bones. contain about 3.6
per cent. of nitrogen and % per cent. of
phosphoric acid, existing as phosphate
of calcium, Bones that have been
boiled to extract the gelatine contain
much less nitrogen. but a larger proper
ton of phesphates. Bones decompose
but slowly in thezsol, ,e-specially7on
heavy land, hence their effect is spread
over several years. The finer the bones
have been ground the,more immediate is
their effect, English farmers usually
employ bones for pasture and for tur.
nips. &
Four enormous silos, with atotal ca
pacity of about 1000 tons, have been
erected at Mahwah, n. ]. They occupy
n wing Of long COW stable, and cover
an area of about 40x70 feet, with a depth
of 80 feet. They aremade of concrete,
Is inches thick, very pure and smooth.
Wooden curbs for shrinkage room rise
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proprietor of the farm where these silos
are built is o practical chemist and o
wealthy man, able and willing to make
the most careful and exhaustive iexperi-
ments as to the feasibility of the eusiE
age system as well as the feeding value
of the preserved fodder.-AmericaR
C~ult5vator.M
Mr.. GLADSTONE, in q recent speech,
made a good point for the English tc
consider, He told his audience that
yearly from abroad, and he instanced q
fruit grower on the Hudson River, In
America, who has an apple orchard OF
200 acres, the produce of which was an
nuaily shipped to England. This Amer
lean fruit grower could do this because
the land was his own and not rented
1IOu1 d RldoR1uR 1dl01OIu. W0Aty-nN0
or twenty-six millions of dollars sent
away for rn2t for the reason that if a
tenant plants fruit1trees the product
and SO it is with other things that re-
quire time to m~ature-under present land
laws in England.
As to sowing wheat Vhich has been
swelled and sprouted before, we have
Dr0f NV IT ao1on-4aok1poO ~ ~ e-,I
stance as follows : He found that while
the plumule lived the young roots al
ways died by drying, and new roots
must be pushed out to cause growth.
In one experiment n~inety-six per cent.
of wheat which had slightly sprouted,
and become dry, grew. In another
e~ighty-two per cent. grew where the
plumule had grown half an inch, and
sprouted and dried about half grew.
There is no doubt that these seeds were
placed under more favorable circam-
stances for growing than they would be
likely to receive in common field eul-
ture.
A COMMISSION was lately appointed in
Belgium to test the Comparative merits
of skimming milk after standing, both
by following the ordinary method in
porcelain pans and also IL specially con-
structed pans, immersed in a receptacle
containing rnnning water or susceptible
of receiving ice. Phe same quantity of
milk-thirty quarts-was used in each
set of experiments. This quantity was
placed in the porcelain pans and allowed
to throw up the cream during twenty
four hours ; the pans were then SKINNED
and the cream churned. There was, in
variably, eleven per cent. more butter,
and of superior quality, obtained from
the milk, artificially5cooled, than from
that treated In the ordinary way.
A SUCCESSFUL fruit grover gives his
experience IN training raspberry bushes
as follows al have q splendid piece Of
black raspberries, themammonth cluster.
I nipped the canes off during the sum.
mel of 1880 when only two feet high,
and kept nipping all the branches and
tops until they had the forms of little
trees. They went through the hard
winter finely, and were not killed, ano
green and full of blossoms. Some o.
my neighbors' raspberry canes were all
killed to the ground. They were left tt
grow up all without pinching, and the
cold weather finished them. It is best
to prune or pinch in summer. l believe
in pinching, and plenty of it. It saves
stalking and tying, and makes lots o
fruit. I do not stake my raspberriel
and they stand-up as straight as oaks.
In RAISING young colts, it is very es
sential always to maintain a very kee1
relish for food and sharp appetite in the
young animal. This can only be done
by strictly guarding against overlooking
with grain. For a fve-months-old foa
of about medium size, If the weather b,
moderate, about one and q half pints o
oats at a meal viii be enough. Later
and with the advent of cold weather
one quart at each meal may be fed witt
as much corn as could be shelled from
single:ear. When the colt gets a littl,
older give it the corn upon the ear, the
shellinp of which will afford him amuse