The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-02-16
HOUSE AND FARM
Farming BreYlties.

Farming Brevities.
A writer in the Michigan Former as
serts that giving frosted feed to miloh
COWS is the principal Gauss of bitter butter
in the winter. He says, however, the con-
sequence can be avoided by almost scald-
ing the new milk Immediately after strain
ing.
Never mind what the almanacs say,
spring must be at hand. for the florists and
seed man are sending out their catalogues
for 1882. The odor of newly -ploug he'd
ground pervades the atmosphere.
The yield per acre on Australian farms
is as follows: The average of wheat per
acre is IA IL bushels this year, or one
bushel less than the year before; maize,
IS bushels, or one-third of bushel less;
barley, 20 bushels, or 1-2 buehels less;
oats, IL bushels, or bushels less; pota-
toes, 2 3 tons, as against IA tons last
year, and hay, 1-3 ton.
Mr.. A. B. Darling, of the Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York, has just bought for
$4,000 cash the famous COW Jersey Queen.
She has record of TAG pounds of butter
in Ole year, and her record for the current
year, she having come in during 1881, is
expected to pass 800 pounds. Mr.. Darling
also owns "Eurotas," COW with record of
$50 pounds of butter in one year. He has,
therefore. the two best COWS in the world
since the death of the famous COW owned
by Mr.. Charles o. Films. of Scitate.
There is no better CRATER for horseradish
than one made of sheet iron in the form OF
cylinder having holes punched from the
inside with three cornered sharp p tinted
punch. This raises large number Of fine,
sharp teeth, which brings the horseradish
n q 0f r,71r hn 10fo fo1 To %h1
CRATER by means of a hopper at one 81 le,
With front slopiug to The CRATER, by which
the roots are brought into contact with the
teeth and reduced to pulp. The cylinder
is open at one end and has scraper which
removes the pulp and bri gs it into re-
c ptacle at the 'front.' Any one can make
such CRATER for about IS.
Here are two odd methods of starting a
balkv horse, from our London exchange,
the Live Stock Journal:-"1. Tire your
steed out by remaining perfectly quiet I'M
til he starts off himself. I once sat in nv
cart nearly two-and-a-half hours in this
way. 2. Now and then horse is met
with that refuses to draw at all; put him in
cart in shed, and keep him there until
be walks out. In one instance that G ame
to my knowledge the obstinate one was
Thirty six hours in the shafts before he gave
H."
Black-leg is frequent disease in calves
that are in high condition at this season OF
Tue year. The general appearance of the
iisense is first swelling Of the body and
bloating; the shoulders or hind quarters
swell and the skin crackles when rubbed,
making sound as Of paper when crushed;
the animals become stiff and lane and die
il great pain in a few hours. On opening
The care ,se the flesh is found to be black
md soft and the blood thick and black
There is no cure for this disease once these
symptoms have appeared. Calves in good
condition and that have been we'll fed
should be treated as a precaution by y
weekly dose of two ounces of epson salts,
and afterwards by one dram of hyposul-
Dhite of soda given twice week in the
foos.
Western Live Stock Journat: Mich
COWS that we stable should Returned cut
daily-unless the weather is very stormy
It the stable is warm one it is we'll to open
doors and windo VS. On the lee side, that the
stables may become somewhat cooled and
the change from the stable to the outdoor
air be not too sudden. Cattle are just as
much benefited OF liberal use Of the cur
ry-comb as are horses. A little kerosene
and some grease or oil we'll brushed in and
frequently repeated will exterlninate lics
That are apt to prey On the stock.
J. Bellangee writes concerning the ex.
perjmentAl work Of the low, Agricultural
Department that during the past two years
extensive experiments nave been made with
the culture Of cereals, sorghum and root
crops. The professor of agriculture is at
present testing the qualities of so varieties
Of potatoes raised upon the farm the last
year. These varieties, tested under like
conditions, have shown great variableness
in yield, ranging from 8 to 800 bushels per
acre. It cannot be denied that such exper-
iments. if carefully conducted and the re-
suits extensively published, will prove of
incalculable benefit to the producers of the
state; and 1t is also quite evident that snch
experiments should be conducted at the
public expense.