Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-18
. FARM AND GARDEN.


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Germantown Telegraph
Ninety-five per cent. of the product OF
American agriculture is consumed at
home.
Experienced agriculturists find profit in
rotation and variety of crops. A little OF
many beats of one.
GO through and pick the small and
kuotty fruit and enough others to keep
the trees from Ovcrbearing. 1t will make
the remainder larger and of better quality
and will measure about as much as though
all were left OH the trees and the health
of the trro requires it. A tree seldom
bears an overburdened crop two years in
succession.
For apple butter, take thirty gallons OF
sweet cider, that just from the press is to
be preferred /; boil it down to One-third of
the quantity, then add altogether about
two bushels Of pared, quartered and cored
sweet apples, about one-third at time,
Judging as to the quantity of apples then
stir the whole mass constantly with long,
handled wooden stirrer, reaching down to
the bottom this stirrer must Oe from four
or five inches broad at the bottom rounded
a little to fit the bottom of the kettle, and
have half dozen or more half-in holes
bored through It. The mass must be kept
boiling and stirred until the whole il re-
duced to say one-half of the original guam
tity of cider, assumes dark color, and is
perfectly smooth and palatable. For this
purpose samples should from time to time
be taken out and tasted. When done it
should be put in jars, wcll-tied over with
paper, and placed in cool place.
Coloring Butter.
A small creamery in Philadelphia, which
readily disposes of all the butter it makes
at profitable prices, never uses coloring
matter Of any kind. Although the pro-
duct is almost white in winter, tho quality
is uniformly good, and better price is
paid for it than for the high.colOred but
ter, of good quality, sold by farm
ers. It is mado Of Montgomery county
cream from the vicinity of Consho
hocken, and no adulterating matter Of
any kind is allowed TO enter. UnfOrtu-
nately, too many housekeepers in the pur-
chase of butter, arc influenced by its color,
and no matter what its quality may be,
unless it has a golden hue they will not
purchase it. On this account the majority
Of farmers who supply our markets with
butter always artificially color it. Mr..
Hawley, at a recent meeting Of tho Onon-
daga County Farmers club, New York,
stated that from personal experience he
finds that Indian meal fed to Jersey COWS
will give butter at all seasons the color
and aroma of tho product emanating from
grass-fed cows but if this result can be
obtained from feeding cornmeal to Jer-
seys, there is no apparent reason why it
could not be fed to ali other breeds with
Ill ,A~ h
ment is easy to make, and is worth max
ing.
norse-StabIe Floors.
Tho long debated question as to the best
material fOr stable floors, is being again
revived. A clay floor was adhered to by
some for years, and such was tho earnest
ness of it's advocates and the many argu-
ments brought to bear upon it, that we
wcrc induced some twenty years ago to
try it. In three or four months VIC had
the planlss back again, being satisfied of
tho disadvantages Of clay for this purpose.
Our present floor of plank is simply in
clined little from front to rear, where
the usual gutter is made to carry of the
liquid vOidingA We do not believe in
sand, coal ashes, saw dust, asphaltum,
flags, cobblestoncs or any of these mod
we have never noticed that this little in
clination was in any way injurious and
we doubt whether the wooden grating that
we frequently sec placed over the planking
that some use would be advisable on the
ground that the animal would be more
comfortable, while this movable grating or
second floor might lead to accidents.
When person can keep horses in good,
sound, healthy condition for five to seven
years, Us we have done on q carefully con-
structed plank flooring, inclining little
to the rear, it is just as welt to he satisfied
with it. Do what ono will, holes will he
dug by the stamping of the feet in tho
clay, and these will bc filled with moisture
which will necessarily result in scratches,
quarter crack, &c. If the clay is leveled
off and beaten down daily, it will make
no difference. Some time ago We inspect
ed a number Of stables where many horses
were kept, and We encountered only one
which was composed of anything but wood.
OF course there will be new things-inven-
tions--springins up, which are to meet
and overcome every objection, and there
will be some to adopt them, but we shall
be satisfied with what we have until there
is something produced about which there
will be no mistake.
The Prico of Products and Land.
In farming as in every other business
there will come round periods when it will
be overdOne, when prices OF products will
be low and that of land will fall rs con-
sequence. Sometimes 4 monetary panic
like in 1873 may cause this in whole or in
part, but We doubt if it is ever wholly so,
as people must live and products will be
consumed, provided there is not an over
yield of crops. In 1878 few largo capi-
talists failed and mainly helped to cause
the great panic that ensued. These CAPT.
talists were unable to meet their engage
ments, owing to embarrassments caused
by being involved in a greater amount of
railroad interests than they could carry.
But tho railroads were hampered by legis-
lation in the West which drove away many
of the foreign capitalists, as it did many of
the Eastern capitalists Of the United
States. Tho farmers who were located
along the lines of railroad increased so
numerously, owing to the easy terms Of
fered by tho railroad companies in selling
land, that they raised more food than the
country, or the world in fact, needed. and
then turned to the railroads rs the authors
of their troubles. On the contrary the
railroads had depended so much upon the
sales of their lands and the business
which the occupants of them would bring
into their business, that they lost sight of
another fact, and one of the greatest i'm
portance, that the farming portion of the
Western population grew out of all pro-
portion to the manufacturing and mechan-
ical portion of the community. 1t then
became next to a necessity that tho crops