The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-01-08
HOUSEHOLD AND FARM.

HOUSEHOLD AND FARM.
The following fertilizer for hyacinths has
been tried with great success: 10 square
yard of ground apply, when planting the
bulbs, an ounce and IA half Of superphosphate
of lime, half an ounce OF nitrate OF potash
(saltpetre,) and half an ounce of carbonate OF
soda, all well mixed and pulveiized in NOR
tar. Using this fertilizer rs top!drcsslng you
may expect very fine blooms, ana will not need
fresh bulbs.
Here is u fact which may interest the young
girls who live in farm houses. The London
Pal NAL Gazette says England can no
longer furnish her own butter. The cheaper
kinds come from America, for Americans, even
with their rich pastures and improved stock
of cows can not make the best grade. The
hlgh.priced grades come to Southampton from
Normandy and Brittany. And why is good
butter not made in England? Because the
dairy maid with her pail is thing of poetry
and the past Because farmers wives and
daughters now think dairy work degrade
ton"
Prof Charles Dole, of the Norwich univer.
sity, Mortified, VT, has been experimenting
with stalks of the Sanford corn for syrup max
ing, and gives his experience IN letter to the
Green Mountain Freeman. He finds that the
corn is not IN It's best condition for su-
garmaking till the ears are at the right age OF
bottling for table use, and from that onward
till 1t is fully ripe HIS machinery was quite
crude-plaIn wooden rollers and tubes for the
Juice placed under them, and not all the juice
was obtained but enough To warrant the cX
pectation of yield of fifty or more gallons OF
good syrup per acre, after the ears are harvest
ed The Sanford is large white variety OF
field corn. Prof Dole also experimental with
early amber cane and found the syrup OF bet
ter quality, and larger yield per acre. but the
stalks are worth little for feeding compared to
corn stalks, after the JUICE is expressed. The
amber cane has done so well in New England
the past season that many farmers Will pre-
pare for growing it on larger scale next sea-
son.
There was test of the milking qualities of
different breeds of cows at late dairy show IN
London. The agricultural Gazette says that
the trials were for quantity yielded per day of
twenty-fOur houls, with a comparison OF the
quality of the milk, as determined by DIR.
Voecker's analysis. The first prize shorthorn
COW, Daisy, of the West London dairy society,
gave, in two milkings in twenty-tour hours,
49, pounds weight of milk of very high
quality, which latter merit carried the first
prize. Mr.. George TaylOr's shorthorn COW
Beauty yielded greater quantity-namely
5015 pounds of milk, but OF quality somewhat
below that of the other, thus lowering her to
the second place. The first prize Dutch cow
gave 4Ol5 pounds of milk of good quality and
the second prize Dutch COW gave 431 pounds
of lower quality. The first Ayrshire gave
25l1 pounds of milk, and the best Jersey 30 1
pounds of milk. The rich quality of the Jer.
sey and Guernseys was so superior as to require
second analysis before the comparative mer.
Its of the competing COWS could be determined
The Great Eastern steamship has been deli
nitely chartered for ten years to carry dead
meat to the United Kingdom from the Amer
can seaboard or the River Plate 1t is calcu
lated that from Texas or The Argentine Pro
vinces beef of prime quality can be laid down
IN England at 3 pence per pound. The pro
moters of this bold scheme intend to slaughter
the cattle on board the great ship as received
from dav to day. and for this purpose they
have secured the services of trained butchers
from the slaughcr-houses of Chicago. The
dressed meat will be stored in refrigerators
and it is estimated that 10000 to $4,000 carcass
es of beef, all hung-eGual 20 5000 or 4OOC
tons of meat-wll be shipped each voyage
The result of this enterprise, if successful, vii
have far wider bearing than appears at frs
sight 1t will be watched with much interes
by the public, no doubt for, notwithstanding
the large imports OF fresh meat we are receiv
ing retail prices still rule very high But i
will also break down that ring" which, while
reaping immense profits, keeps almost at ia
mine prices one of the first food requisites o
the people.
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