The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-14
AGRICULTURAL.

tl00, costing neither money nor
laoor, will increase the durability OF
posts put IN the ground by fifty per
cent. This is. by simply taking care
that the wood ls inverted-f. g.. placed
IN tue opposite direction to that which
it grew. Experiments have proved
that oak posts put IN the ground in
the same position as that In which
they grew. top upwards, we're rotten
in twelve years; while their neighbors,
cut from the same tree, and placed
top doWnwaTds III the soil, showed no
signs of decay tor several years after
wards. 1t is supposed that the capil-
larry tubes in the tree are so adjusted
as to oppose the rising OF moisture
when the wood ia inverted What
| ever the cause, the fact is OF
importsnce.-F90ridG Ayricalturist.
Dairying processes in SchLesscig-
Hotstten and Denmark -5chleswig-
Holstein till recently surpassed Den
mark in reputation for butter-msking
the milk is placed in vessels capable
of containing four quartz, 60 DIS to
form q sheet two and Gne-hali inches
deep; it is skinned two or three
times, at intervals Of twelve hours;
next it is strained through g eair
sieve into deep tube, where il remains
for twenty four hours TO acquire con-
sistence and a tart flavor, and then il
is churned. Ice is employed in warm
weather. The butter is never washed
ia water, as 10 Holland; the milk is
pyessed out with the hand; when we'll
worked, the butter is allowed to re-
main from twelve 10 tWenty-lour
hours, covered With g layer OF salt,
alter which il ia again kneadta
and seasoned till it contains about six
per centum of salt. Some judges say
that the kneadIng process destroys
the fneness, the aroma, and the con-
siatence of the butter. The cheese is
prepared from skim milk; it is flaw
ored when the curd il in the mould
with cloves and cummin seeds. In
Denmark the butter is considered as
made the moment the particles ap-
pear in the churn the size of an ordi-
nary pin head. ORly three per
centum of salt is added. All the
butter is srtifcially colored, and COL
oring is added before commencing the
ehurning.-PariS Letter to Neto Eng.
land Farmer.
Raise ASIes.-One branch of live.
slock breeding is neglected by the
cotton states, which is of immense
importance and which is available to
the. average farmer. We refer to
raising mules. 1.-THE cotton crop was
decreased one-half, and good, heavy,
able bodied mares exchanged for the |
present mules or horse teams. and
bred to large or medium sized jack,
the profits of our tanners would be
much greater than now.
It is q burning shame that the |
southern people are 80 utterly ignor-
ant Of our interest, as to continue
purchasing our work teams from
states so inferior to our own section
for the breeding OF euch stock. Will
we never learn that it ia our true
interest to raise everything needed In
the way Of farm stock and provisions,
when it can be done so much cheaper
than our northern neighbors can at
ford to do so for usH.
Now is the time to practice the
most rigid economy, and We should
cease to become the slaves of q people
who agriculturslly possess a country
far interior to our own in point of coil
and climate. We are glad to note
that the importation of fine jacks into
the south is becoming of more frs-
quent occurrence, and cherish the
hope that those who have introduced
them may not lack for want of pat
ronsge. Southern Lire Stock Jour-
nal.
Ayrshire Cot0S.-The Ayrshire Asso'
citation of Scotland gives the following
points as Indicating superior quality
in Ayrshire dairy COWS: Head short,
forehead wide, nose long between he
muzzle and eyeG. muzzle moderately
large. eyes full and lively, horns wide
set on, inclining upward and curving
slightly inward. Neck long and
straight from the head to the top of
the shoulders. tree loose skin on the
under side, fine at it's junction with
the head, and muscles symmetrically
enlarged toward the shoulders.
Shoulders thin at the top, brisket
light, the whole forequarters thin in
front. and gradually increasing in
depth -and width backward. Back
short and straight, spine well defined,
at the shoulder, the short
ribs srched, the body deep at the
TANKS. and the milk veins we'll devel-
oped. Pelvis long, broad and straight,
hook bones (illium) wide apart, and
not much overlaid with fat; thighs
deep and broad. tail long and slender,
and set on level with the back. Milk
vessels capscious and extended well
forward, hinder part broad and
firmly attached to the body, the sole
or under part nearly level, the teats
from two to two and a half inches in
length, equal in thickness, and hang
ing perpendicularls; their distance
apart at the sides should be uqual to
about one-third of the length of the
vessel, and across to about one-half of
the breadth. Legs short, the bone
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