The Penn's Grove record., 1882-04-08
Agricultural.

Cut two limbs from the same tree,
Of equal size, one in February, when
the tree is frozen, and the other the
following June, and the one cut in
June will heal more and better during
the season than the one cut in Febru-
airy. The best time to trim apple trees
is from June to August.
IMPROVEMENT OF Wool. 49, When
sheep have been washed in hard
water the fleece becomes harsh and
dry, and have an Objectionable hand
ling to wool-buyers. This is usually
avoided by washing the sheep two or
three weeks before shearing them
during this time the wool becomes
saturated with yolk again and ecovers
its softness and elasticity. The heeces
should be stored in a rather damp
place, and never where it is hot and
dry. as when stored in a dry place
weight is lost and the wool becomes
harsh and wiry.
A correspondent of the Rural NeU
Yorker gives the following as the
practical result of n seasons expert
ence with ensilsge. He says: Late in
the season last year we concluded to
give this method of preserving fodder
a trial, and therefore, between July LIST
and 18th, plowed about twelve acres of
land from which the hay and wheat
had been taken, and sowed it with
corn, in drills % inches apart, using
three pecks per acre. We sowed it
with a wheat drill and cultivated once
that portion sown after wheat. The
other received no cultivation. We
built two silos each 33x14 feet and 10
feet high, costing $500, and having a
capacity of about 300 tons. In Sep
TENDER we cut the corn with a reaper
and got enough to about half fill the
silos. Before the corn, we put in
about twenty tons of freshly-cut rover.
FIR this we feed all our cows and
sheep, averaging say Il of the former
and 175 of the latter, from the tine
they were put in the barn until March
oath, besides 100 lambs which came in
January. We fed the cows four pounds
each OF cotton-seed and coru-meal per
day and cotton-seed to the sheep that
bsd lambs. The COWS were more
thirty than they have ever been when
fed upon hsy snd grain, and the butter
was IS yellow as summer made. The
sheep did well.
The net results in dollars and cents
were about as follows: We estimate
the $50 tons Of ensilage to have cost
$50, and the extra cost Of feeding it
WAS shout $50. The hay erep being
short we would have been obliged to
buy, say, $500 worth Of hay We sold
$500 worth, SO we have $500 clear to
pay for the silos which we expect to fill
this year and 10 iced nothing but en-
silage. having thus put the money in
our pocket, we do not trouble ourselves
about theories-whether there are nor
albuminoids in eBsilage than in the
same corn dried and cured as fodder,
or whether chemical analysis shows
much virtue in the material. So long
"a eminent chemical authorities admit
that their analytical process will show
little, if any, difference between the
nutritive values of grass freshly cut,
and the same as hay well cured, or the
same as hay cured after exposure to the
dews and rains for a week, and while
a COW fed upon the first will make
yellow butter, upon the second white
butter and a less quantity, upon the
third scarcely any butter, we prefer
the practical test and leaving theoriz-
ing to others.