Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-07-05

Lard cheese Is failure as a commercial I
product, and but limited quantities OF 1t !
will be made this season. There seems TO
be no certain method of preventing tho
lard from melting during extreme hot
weather and exposing the fraudulent com
pound. Creameries will probably return
the skim milk TO their patrons this season,
and the latter can make no better use OF
the same than In feeding their pigs and
calves, during the present extreme high
prices for live stock American Catird'
Tor.
SHEEP HUsRANDRY.-The DrorsrS'
journal. which is good authority in mat
tiers of farm stock says: THE man who
makes the business pay is the man who
carefully selects his ewes. annually bulls
out the old and inferior stock TO fatten for
market, and constantly keeps at the head
of the flock thoroughbred male, if he
cannot afford to start with purely bred
ewes. No other kind of stock raising
pays so literally at present rs sheep
growing if properly attended to. To be
a successful flock master you must keep
your flock young, feed well and breed
with judgment.
PROPORTIONS OF MILK TO BUTTER.-A
subscriber to the american Farmer, in
Cecil County, Md who makes fine arti-
Gle of butter for critical consumers in Bal.
timore and Philadelphia, sometime ago
made comparison Of the quantity oil
mills, from cows of different breeds, nee
essary to make pound of butter. Owing
to an extra demand he was necessitated to
buy milk from some Of his neighbors.
His own cows are thoroughbred or high
grade Jerseys, and of their milk Il
pounds ounces made ono pound Of but.
ter; the milk from herd Of grade Short
horns required 81 pounds to yield one of
butter, and that from n herd of native
cattle took Y pounds G ounces.
NJ. Auguste Goffart, of France, made
tho discovery in 1873 that green crops
could be preserved with all their juices,
| by compression in water-tight pit, under
weighted descending cover. lie I'M
mediately called the attention of the agri-
cultural editors and farmers club OF
France to his success. In 1875 the French
Government recognized the merit of the
discovery with the Legion of Honor. II
Secretary Russell Of the state board, and
the learned scientist of the board, DR..
Nichols, had been consulted In this matter,
how easily they could have convinced the
French Government that ensilago was a
snare and delusion, unworthy the atten-
ton Of any farmer, except. perhaps, under
the most favorable conditions, of the milk
man-Ameyiean CulHca!or.
No one knows until she has tried it how
much she may change the aspect Of thingS
about the house by using little varnish
On sunshiny day take the old chairs ant
tables out on the porch or by an open door
and. after thoroughly busting and wipine
of with damp cloth, apply thin coat o
varnish, and 50 cover scratches and marreC
spots of all kinds. 1t will dry in a very
short time. and you will be surprised tc
see how much good you have done. a
flannel cloth with a worry little linseod OF
is good to rub furniture with, but tn,
greatest care must be exercised to proven
t any oil being left on tho wood to attrac
, dust. 1t must DO rubbed until you woult
not know, except by the improved appear
aucc, that oil had been used.
4 WHIrRwAsIl THAT WILL WASH
We find in German paper, says tn
r Scientific american, formula for was
4 which can be applied to lime walls ant
: afterward become waterproof so as to bca
washing. Resenschck of Munich nike
) together the powder from three parts sill
. icious rock Quartz, three parts broker
a marble and sandstone, also two parts o
: burned proclaim clay, with two parts o
freshly Stacked lime, still! warm. In tbi
way wash is made which forms sill
9 cate if often wetted and becomes after
D time almost like stone. The four constit
uents mixed together give the groun
color to which any pigment that can b
used when lime Is added. 1t is apple
d quite thickly to the wall o. other surface
/ let dry ono day.and the next day frequent
U ly covered with water, which makes
= | waterproof.
;, MUTILATIoN AND TRANSMISSION. --Th
= subject of the Transmission of defects
" animals has not been sufficiently discusse
in agricultural aud live stock journal, II
D Jury and losses have been sustained tim
! and again by breeding from mutilate
y sircs. Instances have been cited in the.
u columns showing that there is stron
ground for believing that deformities ar
v ing from mutilation have been Transmitted
n Scientific journals (technicaO have give
much attention TO the subject, and proc
" have multiplied in the citation of Instance
e showing the tendency TO transmission.
Il While the theory ofheredity Is, as We
!. full of mystery, some things have bee
learned which breeders OF live stock, al
a farmers generally, will do well to bear
II mind. In horses n strain Of tendon an
}r an injury to the wind or breathing by vii
,r lent exertion have become hereditary trait
breeding, then, from sound sires al
dams in any and all classes of stock is
IS very great Importance, and just now
er word on the subject is timely and may
,o serviceable to some of our readers.
q We had curious instance of TRANSMIT
IL sion of mutilation in COW which had OF
10 horn hurt when a calf 1t was loosent
s. and grew downward, and her calves ha'
shown the same growth on the same sid
:, some more than others but all except Of
III have shown I.-PYatie Farmer.