The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-10-27

gland, raised lamb of this breed that
weighed l7S pounds at months old.
POTATOES should be exposed to the
action of the sun ~ short time as pos
sible after they are dug. The sunlight
affects them unfavorably, and il they
are exposed to it for long time their
value for table purposes is compile, ely
DESTROYED.
As TIMOTHY grass seed, if sown at the
same time rs winter wheat, is apt TO
crowd the grain too much, the better
way ID to wait three or four weeks until
the wheat is we'll up before sowing the
timothy. Sow Just before rain and
no narrowing or brushing will be
needed.
RooTs, and especially sugar-beets and
yellow mange's, are excellent fodder for
making milk. Their healthful effect
'lpon the cows, and their aid in the di-
gestion and assimi alton of other food,
tend to largely increase the yield OF
milk, and the abundant nutriment con-
tanned in them gives a. ality md flavor
to it,
CALIFoRNL. armers are learning that
cultivation without Civilization is fast
depreciating the productive power of
! their natural,i-r ich soils. They must
soon turn TO the sterner methods of the
older States, and keep stock or pur-
chase comm ercial fertilizers. Says
recent California paper: Farmers make
a mistake in burning their straw.
Nearly every farmer turns his stock in
! to the stubble fields or rents said fie DIS
to others, and, instead of burning so
much feed, why would it not be we'll to
scatter il broadcast over the ranch, so
that the stock could pick up what they
wanted and tread the balance into the
ground, where it would do some good
! toward strengthening another crop.
! Our wheat lands are being exhausted
for want of some kind of manure to re-
turn what the annual crops are takinG
away from them. The straw burned
returns nothing. If fed to stock on
land it would furnish one of the ingre-
dents necessary TO keep mp its fertility.
With these facts before them, it seems
incredible that any farmer should con-
tinue to burn his grain straw, and yet
the practice is quite general.
! LARGE CROPS OF CoRN.-This is
what the boys of Maine did in the way
of raising corn in 1881: A gentleman
of York county, Me-, offered several
| prizes, the highest 800, TO be given to
the boy under II years Of age who
should produce the most corn on one
tenth of an acre. The President of the
agricultural society was selected to
manage the affair and award the prizes.
! One hundred and thirty eight boys con-
tested for the prizes. The first prize
was awarded to Moses Milliken, of Bid
deford, for 100 bushels per acre; second
prize to David S. Morrill,, of Cornish,
1913 bushels. The next five prizes went
to A. o. Bennett, of WATERFORD, l45
bushels; Cyrus III. Smith of DAYTON,
144 bushels: Willie b. Moore, of Linn
erick 142 bushels; Charlie g. Austin.
of Lebanon, III bushels, and Arthur
M. Deering, of WATERFORD, 140 bushels.
Six boys raised 13l to 1877 bushels per
acre, twelve raised 120 to 1877 bushels,
twenty-three raised 40 to 119 bushels,
Jwenty-four raised 100 to 100 bushels,
making seventy-two boys who grew 100
bushels and upward Twenty-Five 9TH
ers produced from ninety to ninety-nine
bushels per acre. Twenty-one obtained
seventy-five TO eighty bushels and only
fifteen fell below seventy-five bushels of
shelled corn per acre.
Roof PRuNING.-The experiments
were made on the apple and pear. A
vigorous apple tree, 8 or 10 years old,
which had scarcely made any fruit buds,
has done best when about half the roots
were cut in one season and half three
years later; by going half way round on
opposit, sides III one year and finishing
at the next pruning, working two feet
underneath to sever downward roots.
1t has already answered well to cut also
from such trees all the larger and longer
roots'about two and half feet from the
stem, leaving the small and weaker ones
longer, and going half way around, as
already stated. The operation was re-
peated three or four years later by ex-
tending the cut circle foot or two fur
ther away from the tree. By this
operation unproductive fruit trees be-
came thickly studded with fruit spurs,
and afterward bore profusely This
shortening of the roots has beer con-
Illlueu III tlleSe experiments lOT twenty
years with much success, the circle of
roots remaining greatly circumscribed.
The best time for the work has been
found to be in the latter part of August
and beginning of September, when
growth has nearly ceased, and while the
leaves are yet on the trees, causin g
greater increase of bloom buds the fol-
lowing year than when performed after
the leaves had fallen.--LoHuOn Gar
den.
OVERLOOKING Cows SToMAcus. -
When COWS are changed from scanty to
flush feed il often happens that the ben
eft of the more liberal supply is neut-
tralized for some time by allowing
them TO gorge themselves to the extent
of uncomfortable fullness. An excess
i've diStention of the stomach produces
! inf mmltory action and impedes di-
gestion, and tends to diminish the flow
of milk and to impair its quality.
Overlooking cows stomach invariably
gives stro and disagreeable odor TO
her milk that Injuries it for butter on
for cheesemaking, and also its health-
fulncss for food. Such an over oading
is always indicative of double loss-a
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