The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-03-24
AGRICULTURAL.
Butter Produced as Cheaply in Winter
as in Summer.

as In Summer.
lBy Henry Reynolds, M. d.
Butter can be produced as cheaply i'll
winter as inosummer. This is statement
which many farmers will declare to be in
correct. The general belief is that it costs
more to produce butter in winter than 1t
does in summer. Possibly it does under
the management generally practiced but it
need not necessarily. Certain requisite are
essential to successful butter making IN
winter. A suitable place for keeping the
COWS must be provided. The stable must
be warm and at the same time well ventil-
ated. The admission of plenty OF sunshine
to where the cows stand will be beneficial
and promotive of good results. With suit
able surroundings and careful management
the cost of butter production need not be
any greater in winter than in summer.
The produce of one acre of good land Will
afford sufficient hay for one COW, and the
hay produced on another acre would pur-
chase all the grain needed for feeding the
cow, while in summer two or three acres OF
good land are required to afford pasture
for one cow. The more grain there is fed
the less hay is required and it is probable
that the hay from one and half acre, and
possibly from less laud, would afford all the
hay and purchase all The grain needed for
cow during winter. The amount OF manure
made would more than repay the cost OF
cutting the hay, and the cost OF caring for
the COW would not be greater than in sum-
mer, Consequently the cost of keeping
COW in winter need not be greater than the
cost of keeping her in summer, while the
price of butter in winter is from fifty to
seventy-fve per cent higher than in summer.
Hence the advantage of winter dairying.
Cultivating and Fertilizing Orchards.
by Henry Reynolds, M. D.
Cultiyating and fertilizing orchards is
common practice with the most skillful and
most successful orchardists Those men
who make the most money out OF their
orchards and produce the finest fruit are
the men who are most liberal in the use of
fertilizers about their trees. They regard
the trees as they would crop of corn and
expect an increase of production proper
tionate to the fertilizer given. If they ap-
ply no fertilizer year after year but instead
keep taking off crop of grass yearly they
would not expect good yield OF fruit any
more than they would expect good crop OF
corn from the same ground year after year
when no fertilizer had been applied. No good
farmer expects remunerative hoed crops
from the same field year after year unless
fertilizers are applied. Yet some of these
same men will expect their orchards to bear
fair crops of fruit although no fertilizers
have been applied to them for years. 1t is
true that orchards which are thus neglected
will bear some fruit but not nearly as much
nor as good fruit as they would if fertilized.
No other crop on the farm pays as well for
the fertilizer applied as does the fruit crop.
1t requires only small amount OF fertiliz-
ers to produce barrel of apples and the
cost is comparatively trifing. If by apply
ing SIS worth of fertilizers an increase
can be secured in the crop of fruit amount
ing in value to four or six times that sum
1t would seem that no further inducement
need be offered the owners of orchards.