The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-24
FARM NOTES.

the pail, bred on arabic land, will give
fair amount Of good milk, and can be
fed easily in stall during winter, into o
salable carcass OF beef.
BLUE grass never becomes tough, ex-
cept the seed stalks, no matter how
long it is permitted to grow. II it Is
cropped short, the ground becomes dry
and baked, and produces little or no
pasture.
APPLES never sweat, but moisture
condenses on them as dew upon grass.
Fruit should be carefully gathered as
soon as ripe, when the weather is dry
and warm; should never be handled
when wet, and must not be bruised or
chafed in the least.-Des Moi,aes Regis
ter.
MUcH comment has been excited by
records of Jersey COWS which have made
fourteen pounds or more Of butter per
week. This has brought the publca-
ton of records OF milk and butter pro-
duction of other breeds which will sur
prise those who have not been carefully
observant in such matters. Thomas
MeCrea, Guelph, for years owned the
pure Galloway COW Neville Lass, which
gave, for three months at time, thirty
quarts of milk per day. Her descend
ants may still be found in some Ameri-
can herds. Andrew Mcclellan owned
in Scotland Galloway cow from the
milk Of which sixteen pounds of butter
per week for four consecutive months
were made, and it is a matter of history
Me- GvohanNn VJi1nnA Amman
Scotland, had for years Galloway herd
in which were COWS which gave thir-
teen, fourteen and fifteen pounds of but
ter per Chicago Tribune.
PoTATo FIBERs-Dr. Sturtevant
made an examination of the depth to
which the roots of the potato run. A
plant was selected which grew on a
high ridge, the seed having been plant
ed six inches deep. A trench was dug
at the side TO expose the soil, and the
roots were washed with stream of
water turned against it, laying the
fibers bare. The root was fonnd reaeh-
ing thirty-four inches below the top OF
the ridge, or twen. Height below the
tubers. The deeper roots appeared
most fibrous. Very few roots were
found above the tubers. The soil did
not allow the tracing of the finest roots
This experiment seems TO indicate the
Importance of deep soil for the pota-
to, an ind cation which repeated exper-
iments fully corroborate, and in very
dry seasons the crop on deeply trenohed
soils has been more than double the
product on ground plowed mt common
depths. and both equally fertile.-Anler-
lean 4gricILtlrjst.
DIR. r. G. REDzIE, of the Michigan
Agricultural College, after stating that
sprouted wheat is very valuable for any
kind of stock if properly fed-whole to
poultry, and for horses and cattle
coarsely ground and mixed with cut
hay or straw-gives this explanation of
the philosophy of the subject, and adds
that limewater should be used for both
yeast and dough in attempting to make
bread from flour of such grain: 1.-THE
sprouting of the wheat, unless excess
i've, does not materially reduch the food
value. The process of sprouting and
then drying the grain so as to check
growth is in fact mailing, in which
diastase is developed in the grain in
sufficient amount to convert the starch
of the grain into grape sugar when a
sufficient amount of water and proper
temperature are present. But this CON-
version of starch into sugar Is the first
step in digestion, and in fact the matted
grain will digest more easily than the
unmalted. "-Prdiy'ie Farmer.
How TO TREAT FowLs.-In relation
10 the treatment of flows the Poultry
Monthly says Fowls like variety OF
food, and if long confined TO any one
kind, no matter how good it may be,
viii, ere long, become sickly and dis
eased, and cease to either improve or
be profitable. Fowls cannot be ex.
pected to do well in too close confine-
ment, even if they are provided with
good food. Exercise is essential to
health, and if debarred from this by not
having ample range they must have
some way provided for them that they
can scratch and dust themselves daily
within the narrow limits of their quar-.
ters When the fowls are deprived oil
outdoor range toward winter, flesh must
then I've substituted for insect food, for
Notwithstanding, caulifower, tur.
nips, carrots, potatoes, ETC., and also q
rotation of grain to keep them healthy
and thrifty. Give only enough to keep
! up eagerness for food when the feeding
time arrives. In cold weather fowls
cannot live outside some sheltered
place, nor, like the grouse aad some
| other birds, subsist on berries. There
| are no insects, no vegetables to feed on
and the possibility OF picking up grain
when the ground Is frozen or covered
with snow is not to I've entertained al
all. The domestic hen is not wild
fowl now, whatever she may have been
primarily, so she requires shelter, care
and proper food under domestication
and as much in accordance with habi,
as possible, summer and winter.
How MANURE Is MADE.-very
numerous feeding and laboratory exper
iments made by Sir J. b. Lawes and
Dr. Gilbert at Rothamstea since 1S47
afforded the deduction that nearly the
whole of the mineral constituents Of
food-namely, phosphorio acid, potash
etc.-consumed by fattening animals
are recovered in the solid and liuuid OK.
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