Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-12-01
THE FARM.

THE american Cultiudtor says the
farmer that iran rapidly through his
property" wore red shirt and had q
brindled bull behind him.
A SHRBoYGAN, Wisconsin, man was
fined $40 and costs for Swimming his
milk before delivering to the factory and
paid $50 besides rather than stand an
other suit.
FORE quarters of mutton go about as
well stewed, as any way, If the bones
are cut short and the stewing is done
slowly to the point of perfect tenderness,
and with considerable gravy.
HERE was a man who thought there
was waste of labor in allowing choppers
to cord the fuel in the woods in the old
way to dry for the summer, and so he
hauled large parcel of it, green, in the
spring, and stood it compactly in his
she'd, thinking he had done neat thing.
Now he is complaining that his wood is
soggy and is willing to admit that the
ways of the fathers are worth studying.
AN OLD barrel, sunk in the ground
away from surface water, is a good place
to stow the family cabbage. Cut off the
heads, strip away loose leaves and pack
loosely, with board cover, not air
tight, but sufficient to shed rain A line
of barrels i'll deep trench will hold a
larger supply. We may expect that
cabbage so fixed will freeze dry, and
stay so TIL wanted for the pot.
WHEN we inquire about it we shall
find that the most of our ensiIaging
brethren are rather short of natural
productive meadow and pasture, and
like the people of Algiers and many
other parts of the world, they really
needed some device for swelling their
store of winter fodder. Corn stalks
have cured admirably in the field this
year, and farmers who have been in the
habit of raising corn right along, all their
lives, rarely speak of any difficulty in
securing the fodder in good shape at one
time or another.
NEED OF ROTATION OF MANUREs.-In
manuring land with any special fertilizer,
like that of guano, it has been found
that though they may be especially
valuable in the production of few sue
cessive crops, they are seen to decrease
under such system in short time. A
variety and rotation of manures is es-
sential to success. Manures, like crops,
must be alternated. In some cases the
soil needs a manure Astounding in pot
ash in another case, phosphoric ones :;
and yet in others, those that abound in
humus or vegetable mould. The ques.
ton OF the fitness of special manures for
the production of special crops and the
proper rotation of all kinds in order to
insure an increase of crops, as well as
increase in the permanent fertility of the
SOIL is an important one.
STORING AND KEEPING PoTAToEs.
late years the potato has been one of the
most profitable of farm crops in the
East, and this chiefly arises from the
fact that it is somewhat difficult to keen
any very great quantity of them. Thus
only as many OF them are grown as can
be preserved and as the accommoda-
lions are limited there is no glut in the
market as there are with things which
are grown and must be sent to market
at once. OF course there are times
when potatoes rule low. This is apt ia
be the case with early ones, grown
especially for early purposes, and which
follow the same law that rules in tran
slent vegetables. So, also, those who
grow potatoes and have no conveniepces
for storing them. Those who have good
cellars under their barns, or in any place
sale from frost, and yet cool and dry.
can generally make potato growing pay
very well; and these are usually the
ones who do. The infected tubers will
often rot, especially if the mass heats a
little, and the diseased ones Will often
communicate the disease TO the resi-. In
cellar tins can be seen and noted but
III mound outof doors no one knows Of
the trouble till spring, when great loss
Is found. Besides this it is so difficult
to get at them in winter that those who
have nQ way to preserve potatoes except
this, as a general thing prefer not ia
grow at all, rather than to be bothered
with this. Dampness undoubtedly fayors
the spread Of the potato disease. and
therefore where there is any chance at
all of the disease existing in the roots
they ought to be stored as dry as posi-.
BILE. Those which are to be kept in this
general way should be dry and cool: but
this should be especially seen IN the case
of seed potatoes. Since the potato
beetle came among us, it is clear that we
have had the very best results from early
planting and by the use of the earliest
varieties. Now these early varieties are
more easily affected by the warmth. than
the late ones. They sprout easily. and
GOODNESS is therefore the more essential
for them. Some people think it makes
little difference whether seed potatoes
sprout or not before planting. and we
have known people to tear off thesprouts
several inches long and cut up the tubers
in full faith that they will sprout ont
again and he none the worse for it.
They generally grow, but they are con-
stitutionally weaker and much more LA
bic to disease than those which do not
spfout till ready to go into the ground
Farm and FireSide.