Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-05-19
4arm aas 6eussbelS.
Various Farm Topics. No !

find, which, like Jane Eyres hero, l. a
"cross between SAINT and devil"
The hay consumed by COWS does not vary
greatly from 3 pounds daily, for each 100
pounds live weight Hay, barn and feeding
are the factors which make the hay con
sumed. more or less. Young. growing
cattle require more than ; per cent. Three
per cent daily, is safe beforehand calcu-
lation
/, Is asserted. with a logged sticking 10
it. by importers and breeders, that the
Dutch. or HoIstein cows. elephan;lne IN
size. form an exception to the rule. Swift
witnesses affirm, tia, "a zoo pound AYRSHIRE
COW consumes a. much hay As loco pound
Hollander COW, and Of the hay eaten, the
AYRSHIRE Yields pound Of milk to each :
pounds Of hay the Hoilander pound Of
milk TO each pounds Of hay" Thus, b!
somehowlsh process. a Hollander COW makes
something from nothing. Such statements,
even II they come on "all-fours," SAVIOR Of
all unhealthy swelling Of truth"
Tha, mysterious something in breed, by
which COW eats les and Yields more, or
eats more and Yields less is a soReihiHg
which "hoists itself with its own petard.
A committee chosen to prospect for the
kew TO this mot all allkeness" justification
on visiting q barn IN which we're - COWS,
Holstein and AYRSHIRE, l. Of each, Was told
by the owner. who Kept Dutch cows. Ike
Flinders razors made 70 sell, that the -
Holstein cows whose united weight Wa 49,
0sO pounds. (lOaO pounds per cow eat no
more hay than the - Ayrshres whose
united weigh; was $500 pounds. $50
pounds per COW and tina, the llolstcins
Welded 400 quarts Of milk TO a ton Of haye
while the Ayrshire gave but 223 quars to a.
ton" Unfortunately. Nike, The COW tender
let the secret out SAID he, The b!g brutes
have their meal" When il IS said. that the
ability to Weld more, by eating less, j. a
fixed characteristic of any breed. the asSer-
ton should be taken in homeopathic doses.
The rule Of pounds 10 each 100 pounds
Of live weight. does not hold good with
..orts in the crib" such leaving tell Of re-
fuse or damaged hay. The rule" will not
apply to cows kept. like ShAkespeare's
begger. It'll starved, the orts he'll crave"
In the matter Of quality. the best mixture
Of grass. and in the method of cutting. cur
ing and feeding, lies the whole secret Of the
least hay to the most milk. But ). per
cent. Of hay has food value - per cent.
is waste product, or goes 10 augment the
dung heap. The substances or nutrients
which give food value to the - per cent.
are known by two big words Of science.
AlbumiHoids and Carbohydrates. If the
hay is rightly cut, cured and housed. the
ratio Of the first to the second. will be in the
proportion Of one 10 five. When the price
OF hay is determined BY It's food rliHe, farm
ers viii know what they have but half sus-
pected, that good hay makes good COWS.
THE Right KIND or ALNANAC.-To be
levers in the signs Of the moon We
say, before YOU look TO see when the sign
IS right TO xean YOU babies OF YOUR calves,
be sure TO consult the right kind Of Almanac.
Before Us lie Vegetable PH almanac in
which the planets and pills are so mixed up
that the moons place is one rhoie s,gn be
hind, due, perhaps to the physical effect Of
the pills upon the moon.
GRASS SEED, HOW MUCH TO THE ACRE
No where, in the whole routine OF farming, is
there such diversity in practice as in this
matter of grass-seeding. Most farmers lin
it the mixture to three species, herds grass,
quantities for mixture. In our own prac-
tice We get the best catch" and crop with
this miIture-herds grass, orchard grass,
June grass, blue grass, red top, meadow
fescue. red and Alsike clover and Italian Rye
grass, sown at the rate Of So pound per acre.
As the prevailing practice Is TO SOW herds
grass, red top and clover, what proportion
Of each should be sown? Land well in grass
square foot of turf contains from COO to
1900 spires of grass made up Of. from IL TO
80 different kinds. The best English farm
ers SOW mixture, so To give from 1850
to 1900 seeds to the square foot When the
mixture is composed of three kinds only
We advise the use Of herds grass II pounds,
red top II pounds, and pounds Of red, or
pounds Of Alsike clover. This will give
$40 seeds to the square foot. This is not
liberal seeding considering the ''outs" and
mishaps to which grass seed sis heir.
MASURING.-In the method of applying
manure farm practice has taken new de-
psrture. Now, instead Of being deeply Gov
cred, it is kept near the surface, as the tend
ency Of manure is to go dozen instead of up
No matter how deep the soil is plowed, OIL
what the crop to be grown may be, the bes
crops come when the manure is mixed viii
the surface soil.
How manures act, or how they fertiliz,
the soil, is not fully understood. Stabl'
manure does not get its value from the di
rect plant food which it supplies, since
cord of it does not contain 100 pounds o
available plant food.
A soil becomes impoverished not becaus
its plant food is exhausted, but because III
plant food which it contains is in uncooke'
condition. The chief Office of barn manur
is TO dissolve the potash and other nutrient
which are to be found in every soil, an
then to fertilize the land. The best nipple
ments in use to mix soils and manurnes is
Randall Disk Harrow.
WHEAr.-The famous Lost Nation Wheat
to Weld good crop, must be sown early
The White Russian wheat is all the rage
nov AGRIc0LA.