The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-13

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/. ]. G.. Reed, of Woodside, Del,
= writes that the peach ctop of Kent
county is all right. Strawberries
promise well, and SO do cherries and
pears.
Canada has become more emphati-
cally a dairy country than the United
States. With a population of 5000, 900
they manufacture annually 60, 000, 900
pounds of cheese, equal to twelve
pounds per capita, while we, with
so. 900, 900 make 800, DOC, 200, or six
pounds per capita. With a popula-
ton not exceeding one-tenth of ours
their exports of butter are about one
half as great as ours.
A good crop of red clover, when cut
for hay, removes a large quantity of
nitrogen from the land, but it never
theless leaves the surface soil actually
richer in nitrogen than it was before,
from the residue of roots and stubble.
From whence is this large quantity of
hioAoSch obbNlHSu9 IL uIuSb Uo pIO.
cured either from the subsoil or the
atmosphere. DIR. J. B. Lawes thinks
the former seems the most probable,
as extended experiments have hitherto
failed to prove that leguminous plants
like clover hive any special power of
obtaining nitrogen from the air.
The eye of a steer, when prominent,
bright and clear, with a mild and
gentle expression, is an indication of
health, with a quiet disposition and
good feeding quality. II the eye is
dull and sunken the capillary circula-
ton will be defective and the functions
of nutrition imperfectly performed,
and there will not only be a deficiency
in the ability to fatten but a lack of
strength and constitutional vigor. A
restless and wild expression of the eye
indicates a predominance of
action and a. unquit t disposition that
is not compatible with good feeding
quality.
In the use of extra foods for milch
cows discrimination should be used in
the apportlonment of varying quanti-
ties to individual animals, according
to their special requirements, their
milking capacity and their condition
as to age. Some cows will pay well
for a liberal allowance in increased
supplies of milk ard require more
liberal diet to make up for the large
drain upon their system, while other
cows do not require and will not pay
for forced keep. Heifers two and three
years old, when milking freely, re-
quire ONE extra food to enable them
to grow in size, as well as to milk
abundantly. For want of this many
animal which milk freely with their
irst calves are checked in their growth
and never attain their proper size.
Prussia spends two or three million
dollars annually upon the State for
ests and farms. The farms of the
State are rented to practical farmers,
who are bound by their leases to take
pupils in agriculture, and to keep
blooded stock Tor improving the breeds
of the surrounding community, and
to introduce such machinery on trial
as is recommended by the agricultural
minister of the crown. No seeds are
distributed free, except in time OF
scarcity, but railroads have to carry
fraa ort;olau for avhihticp OF oorio,,ltu |
raj fairs. The highways are lined
with fruit or other trees, and the
Government supervision of forests is
strict.
In Cheddar cheese-making in Eng
land acidity is systematically devel-
oped in the curd wnen tue whey has
been removed from it by keeping the
curd warm and piled up in heaps. In
other systems it has been more or less
unconsciously employed as in the
Cheshire, by warming the cuId in an
oven in the Derby, by leaving the
n~ewly-iormed cheese unsalted for q
day or so, or in some cases by leaving
a lutte curd of one day to mix with
that of the next; and in the Stilton by
leaving the curd to drain slowly, with.
out pressure, for a time. By a judi
cious employ ment of acidlty, English
cheese makers claim to ecure a quick
er.ripening cheese, and one whose
flavor is more highly developed.
There is much to be LEANED con
cernIng the handling and preserving
of apples. A correspondent of the
| Lewiston Journal, under date of March
18TH. states that Samuel TimbeIlake,
| of Turner, Me-, took from his cellar a
few days ago lis barrels of Baldwins,
leaving aDort two bushels of rotten
and speckled apples. His cellar is very
damp, and contains many barrels OF
cider, which, we think, assists in
keeping the fruit. Mr.. Undertakes
wife carefully looked after the gather
ing Of tue fruit in The fall. ID. P. True,
Of Leeds, also had a very nice lot OF
Baldwips, which were kept in a SINH.
lar cellar. We think if the farmers
would get more water into their eel.
lars and keep them damp their apples
would keep much better"
The fac herd of Holsteins owned
by William A Russell, of North And
over, Mass, are good mixers. Half a
dozen Of his COWS have averaged for
months a daily milk yield of nearly
forty pounds each. These cows are fed
high; but great yields cannot be ex-
pected without a liberal supply of the
material of which milk is made. But
few cows have the capacity and
strength of constitution of the Hol-
stems to bear heavy feeding. Their
winter feed has been eight quarts
cob meal, one.third bushel roots
and such hay, corn fodder and ensi-
lage as they would eat, being fed at
about seven o'clock in the morning
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