The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-30
OUR FARM BUDGET.
Winter Wheat-A Report on the Pros
poets Prom st. Louis.
The Usage Orange as a Timber Tree-Lard
Cheese-soft Corn-Cream-
Orchards-Notes.



Various persons who have had long ex-
perience in Iowa, says the State Register,
are predicting that sound corn would be 81
per bzshel one year hence. They claim that
always after a long and cold winter there
have been partial failures of the corn crop
unripe, soft and frost bitten. This is not a
necessary consequence. We have noticed
in sixty years observation that when from
any cause corn was planted late the results
have been soft corn. When wheat and oats
can be sown in March, then there is time to
prepare corn-ground in April ready for plant
ing in early May. But when winter fingers
late into the spring so that the work
on the farm can not be commenced until the
middle of April or later, then it is impossi-
BILE with our large farms and limited heip
to plant the corn in time to insure SOUND
crop. In our experience in this climate, we
have never known the cold to continue IN
the spring too late, if corn was planted as
soon as the soil would permit topreyent the
maturing of a good crop. Our work is by
nature of our crops too much crowded.
Having little or no winter wheat we have
everything TO do in the spring-wheat oats
flax, potatoes and corn, all crowded into
our short springs. This is the cause OF sofl
corn following long winter And the
coming spring that farmer who plants good
seed, in the usual season, will need nc
Insurance Company to guarantee good
sound crop.
Our farms by some process must be ar
ranged differently. More preparation foI
the spring planting must be done in the fall
So many crops which need planting at the
same time must be partially abandoned
Not only the crowd at seeding time greatly
! reduces the profit of the farm, but different
arrangements for harvest must be made. A.
present our corn has TO be abandoned toe
soon to cut the hay. And before the hay i:
kdone the wheat claims attention, and Its de
Z mands must be needed. Before IL is safely
in shock the heavy crop of oats is crippled
down and half destroyed. With the ordi
nary force on the farm these crowdinl
kaims can not be attended TO. Half OF tn,
lay is left until il drops its seed, when il il
not so good as bright straw. The oats will
AVE to be harvested at double cost and hal
bst 1t is better, therefore, that the farm
r do not arrange to have these three crop!
calling on him at the same time. Better
abandon some one of the crops which car
mot be harvested. And il needs wisdom 10
rightly decide what is best to do. But it is
evidently wrong to toll to raise a crop anC
shen let il unavoidably go to waste.
Productions of Cream.
Inc mllC0 LelIuuB TclAtcS ~ IcCcnb tAptIl
ment by Fjord: A quantity OF fresh milk
was divided into three portions, one Of
which was set in ice water at once; the Other
two were allowed to cool an hour by stand
ing at ordinary temperatures, and one Of
them was then set in ice water; the third
,portion was carried in a wagon for three
hours before being set in ice water. All the
SAMPLES were allowed to stand ten hours
Calling the quantity of butter yielded by
the first portion OF milk 100, the other tive
gave 1913 and 70 parts respectively; or, In
other words, there was loss of 297 and q
per cent. of butter in the two cases men
toned as compared with what should have
been obtained il these two portions o
milk had, like the first, been put in ice
water at once The loss was not in all case,
. so great as this; but the fact that IL may
y occur, and may under certain conditions be
so serious, is we'll worthy the attention o
the managers of creameries; and no les
worthy of their consideration is the simpl,
method discovered by Fjord OF almost EN-
tirely avoiding this loss, which consists II
heating the milk, as soon rs received at IL
destination, up to about 10i degrees. In
the warm season the milk may be cooled a
soon as drawn, so as TO be delivered in
fresher condition at the creamery, where II
may then be warmed as above. These ex
periments also yielded the important result
that with good centrifugal creamer M
= notable loss OF butter was caused by thi
partial cooling Of the milk before delivery
so that relocating the milk is unnecessar.
when this method of separating the cream !
followed.
The Osage Orange ms Timber Tree.
Prairie Farmer.l