Morris tribune., 1882-02-16
HOUSE AND FARM.
Farming Brevities,

A writer in the Michigan Farmer as
Sorts that giving frosted feed to miloh
COWS Is the principal cause 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 ploughed
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,
30 bushels, or one-third of bushel less;
barley, ~ bushels, or Ia buehels less;
oats, ~ 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
~ 900 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," a COW with record Of
75O 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 MIR. 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 ointed
punch. This raises q large number of fine,
sharp teeth, which brings the horseradish
to sort of pulp. The roots re fed to the
crater by means Of hopper at one side,
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 briggs it into q re-
ceptacle at the front. Any one can mako
such CRATER for about SIS.
Here are two odd methods Of starting o
balky horse, from our London exchange,
the Liye Stock Journal:-"1. Tire your
steed out by remaining perfectly quiet un-
til he starts off himself. I once sat in my
cart nearly two-and-a-half hours in this
way. 2. Now and then q horse is met
with that refuses to draw at all; put him in
cart in shed, and keep him there until
he walks out. In one instance that anne
to my knowledge the obstinate one was
thirty six hours in the shafts before he gave
IN"
Black-leg is a frequent disease in calves
that are in high condition at this season of
The year. The general appearance of the
disense 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 ard lame and die
in great pain in few hours. On opening
the carcase the flesh is found to be black
and 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 precaution by D
weekly dose of two ounces Of epson salts,
and afterwards by one dram of hyposu.-
phite of soda given twice week in tho
foos.
Western Live Stock Journal: Mich
COWS that VS. stable should Returned cut
daily-unless the weather is very stormy.
It the stable is a warm one it is well to open
doors and windows 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
ry-comb as are horses. A little kerosene
frequently repeated will exterminate lice,
that are apt to prey on the stock.
J. Bellangee writes concerning the ex.
perimental work of the Iowa Agricultural
Department that during the past two years
extensive experiments have been made with
the culture Of cereals, sorghum and roo,
crops. The professor of agriculture is at
present testing the qualities of so varieties
of potatoes raised upon the farm the las,
year. These varieties, tested under. like
conditions, have shown great variableness
in yield, ranging from to 800 bushels pei
acre. 1t cannot be denied that such exper-
iments. if carefully conducted and the re-
suits extensively published, will prove of
incalculsble benefit to the producers of the
state; and 1t is also quite evident that snch
experiments should be conducted at the
public expense.