River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-21

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cut the young shoots off just above {
| Iud ON the outside of shoot; and j
You want to train upward, leave a buc
on the upper side of the limb where you
cut it off.
EXPERIENCE and observation viii con.
vinee any one that better results viii
follow the application Of manure at the
| surface, or at least within three inches
of il, than if plowed under to three
times that depth. For immediate re.
suits all well rotted manure should be
Immediately mixed with the surface soil
| by repeated civilizations or borrowings.
IT is stated. on what is regarded as
good authority, that an acre of grazing
land in Lincolnshire, Englaad-a coun-
try famous for its grass-will carry an
OK and sheep from May to Oct. /, and
during that period the OK viii gain $50
pounds and the sheep forty pounds in
net weight of meat when slaughtered
The acre will thus yield 800 pounds OF
meat in 153 davs' grazing.
JOHN TALoorT, Of Rome, N. Y, be-
ewes the best roots for stock are long
orange carrot, the white, sweet German
turuip, and potatoes. The carrots he
would feed with meal or shorts and early
cut hay to dairy cows. There is some
thing in roots ihus fed with meal, lie
adds, that seems to give an animal a
better appetite, and consequently a
greater gain, than where dry food alone
IL used. The animal thus fed is not as
likely to cloy in its appetite as when
only dry food is used.
THE experiments of famous Swedish
chemist, prolonged over two years, max
| ing it definitely certain that separating
cream by the centrifugal secures 10 per
cent. more OF it than any other process,
while If the cream is az once churned
what chemists and other experiments pro-
nounce the best-lasting and best-keeping
butter is obtained; the refdse-the
skinned milk and buttermilk--
are sweet--that is, in their most
| valuable condition-ard the milk
has been in the course Of q few
hours turned into money. This appears
to be the ultimate perfection of scientific
butter making.
A CERTAIN degree of moisture is nee
| essarY Tor the Matching of eggs. The
biddy which hides her nest away III some
secluded spot on the ground usually
| comes out with fine brood of chickens,
while the one which had her nest made
high mp from the ground in some cry
place very likely failed to hatch the
| most of her eggs. Generally the hen
win hatch the most of her eggs when
her rest is placed upon the ground. IT
| it is not practicable to build the nest
upon the ground, it is advisable, in
| order to maintain certain degree Of
| moisture, to place few shovelfuls of
| earth in a box and place the nest rpon
that When nests are made OF straw
and placed upon the floor the air circu.
lates throughout the nest SO readily that
the eggs become too dry to hatch well.
OvERsTocKNG PAsTUREs.-The over
| stocking of land is one Of the surest and
quickest ways of running pastures. 1t
is an everyday thing with many far
mers, who cannot be made to believe
that they are getting the full benefit Of
pasture unless the grass is eaten off a
little faster than it has time to grow ;
consequently all who put this method in
practice always have bare pastures and
poor cattle. The advantages to be de-
rived from allowing the grass to gain on
the cattle during the growing season are
many, among which are the following /:
Cattle which are kept growing all the
time come to maturity at a proper age.
animals kept constantly on bare pas
lures never mature properly those kept
on good pastures do not have to work
day and night to satisfy their appetites.
or use up all their food in building up a
system worn down by partial starvation.
A good covering Of grass is protection
to pasture. II is natures protection
against the effects of bad and dry wealth
r and the cold rains of winter. so that
new grass viii be growing under COW
ering of tho old crop. 1t is true that
cattle viii thrive better ON mixture of
Odd and new grass, while the seeding of
the mature grasses viii keep up the full
variety of those kinds native to the soil.
Consequently pastures thus treated pro-
duce more food for stock during the
year than those kept continually eaten
down to the bare earth. The practice
Of keeping pastures in good condition is
easily done upon large farms, where re-
serve fields can be provided, but even
the small farmer can succeed in hav-
ing renewed and fertile pastures. if he
but study the laws of nature, and prac-
lice according to the knowledge thus
acquired. Chicago Tribune.
4 CHEAP APPLE ORcHARD.-In many
,laces IN the Vest crab-apple trees
hound They often grow along the
iles Of streams and rayines, and are
lmetines found on the slleS OF forests,