Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1881-04-09
FARM AND HOME.
Farm R0ktHgs.

UNI hlIitu Out tilc Si"FS SAO"S pcttSi'
QrIycrs.-The ounce is considered
adapted to moist muck and clay land,
vet We have seen excellent crops on
light, sandy soil. Would transplant III
spring and at present plant only the
Orange variety. A few more years ex-
perience may prove that some OF
the newer varieties-Reas Mammoth,
Champion, or some Other-are more pro-
ductive and consequently more profit
abe.-American Rural Home.
CARE OF SHKEP.-It is necessary,
where sheep take much dry food in win
ter, that they should have water to keep
them healthy, and there are farmers
who believe that the sheep are not the
best judges for themselves when they do
not take kindly to water, and that the
mere dry food breeds disease. Farmers
who wish to compel their sheep to drink
are used in many cases tOgiving them salt
and then offering them water.
FEED AND GROwTH.-In our various
experiments on fattening oxen, says an
English farmer, We estimated that about
twelve or thirteen pounds Of dry food
was consumed to produce one pound Of
increase. In the experiments carried on
many years ago mt Woburn, the follow
ing quantities of food were consumed
TO produce 500 pounds increase in o fat
tening OK: One and three-fourths tons
Of clover hay, sixteen hundred weight of
corn or cake, and five tons of swedes-
the sum of these would he about equal
in weight to three and half tons Of hay
-NcW York Herald
RASPBERRY CULTURE MADE EASY
1t is a source Of constant regret with
farmers that small fruits require SO
much care and attention, and that, too,
in the season when they are hardest at
work at something else. Field work
must be done at all events, and SO the
cherry patch struggles on single
handed with weeds and grass till it sub
mits to the inevitsi,< sward. Some
years ago, coming into possession of
patch of black-cap raspberries that had
received the usual shiftless culture, 1
treated them in the following way: Az
ter carefully blowing and hoeing them,
l covered the ground with heavy layer
of strawy manure, and the work was
done, not only for that year, but for the
two years following, only renewing the
mulch each spring. Only a few stray
Cling Canada thistles will ever grow
through such a mulch the soil is al
ways rich and moist, and the berries
can ask no better treatment. Since
that time 1 have tried the same plan
without removing the sod, and find that
the result is quite as satisfactory. Late
ns il is in the season now, any raspberry
plot can be reclaimed by liberal ap-
plication from the horse-manure pile.
Farmers, try it, and you will not need
to complain that berries cost more than
they nre worth.-J O., in Ne,r York
Tribune.
Corn MEAL AND BRAN.-Mr. j. s.
Sanborn. Superintendent of the College
Farm, Hanover, N. H., reports expert
ments in feeding COWS. giving full de-
tails Of weights of each kind Of feed, Of
milk and butter yield, and the weights
of the animals at the beginning and end
of each period. In summing mp he
says: Meal will make more milk than
bran, no longer hesitate to say. The
change in the butter product is remark
able 4; in changing from meal to bran
there was lose of 17.7 per cent. in the
butter producing capacity of milk: IN
changing from bran to meal there was
gain in the butter-producing capacity OF
milk of 21.8 per cent. There is sub
stantial agreement in the two changes,
for it is a matter of experimental oh
servation that a good COW will make a
greater change in change of food than a
poor cow" Mr.. Sanborn found the tests
with the cream gauge under change OF
food at variance with the actual product
of butter. "The results in weighing
the COW form an exception to previous
experiments, bran and middlings keep
ing weight better than meal in this ex-
pertinent. Is it chance result, or is il
due to wel-defned causes? 1 will moi
discuss it, but observe that it was
not at the season Of the year when COW
needs carbonaceous food to maintain an.
imal heat also, the grass Of our pasture
was Drowned, and in different condition
from June grass or properly cut hay"
Domestic Economy.
CooKns.-Two cups and half o.
sugar, two cups Of butter. four eggs' hall
a teaspoonful of saleratus, caraway seed
if You please, -four to roll thin. GU
round.
Cold BucKwHEAT CAKEs.-H any
cakes are left from breakfast, soak then
in warm water or milk, rub them flint