The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-11-29
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER %, 1888.
FOR THE FARMER.

| pest sugar.
An acre of ground in lawn and gar
den viii maintain a cow.
1t is thought that farmers have seen
the worst of the potato bug.
The hog is sensitive to cold, and
should be well sheltered in cold weather.
Pumpkins are good for mich cows,
but are of little value as fat-producers.
Butter for winter use is better packed
in stone jars.
! Many pastures and fields can be cas-
lily and advantageously irrigated.
Pumpkin seeds are said to decrease
the flow of milk if given to cows.
Ex-Governor Furness, of Nebraska,
recommends the Russian mulberry for
hedges.
The Orange County On. " Farmer
says the eyes of potatoes next to the
stem are of little value
Oil ana place under cover, after thor
oughly cleaning, all farm implements
and machinery with which you are
through for the season.
Ounces require rich, mellow soil,
good culture and annual manuring.
They should not be less than twelve feet
apart.
OF the 1000, 900 farms in the United
States, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Mis-
souri, and Pennsylvania have more than
| 100000 each.
| The flavor and color of pears is said
to be better if they are picked before
they are quite ripe, and allowed to rip
en- in dry and warm chamber.
1t is said that new rope for halters
can be made permanently soft and pill
able by boiling in water for two hours
and then drying in the sun or in warm
room.
The creamery has done great good to
the farmer who converts his own cream
into butter, by forcing him to be heater,
to use the latest dairy appliances and to
improve his dairy stock.
A Pennsylvania farmer has a high
priced Jersey bull, from which he
claims he gets more work than from an
ordinary horse. His owner thinks him
a better and surer breeder for the work.
Grain that is threshed very early
needs to be looked after frequently, lest
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doubt about its being dry enough, it is
better to wait until cold weather, when
no injury from heating is probable.
The Boston Herald thinks that ''great
farmers on small farms" is the true
method for American agriculture, and
remarks that the old Saxon earth
hunger is a normal craving of the
races that seek home in our Repub-
lie.
1t is an interesting and well-establish-
ed fact that bees never visit two or more
classes of flowers on the same trip, but
always procure full load of honey, of
whatever kind they commence on first,
and return TO the hive to unload before
making a change.
A prominent Californian, who has fif-
ty acres in the raisin grape, says when
ever grapes become Improbable for
raisinS he can make money by feeding
them to hogs. He contends that grapes
viii fatten hogs faster than any other
known food-from two to three pounds
per day.
A COW in England gave an average OF
l ESQ gallons OF milk a year for fifteen
| ytilc. LII utItS 9hlCI gave OH dfcIdS Z
OF 800 gallons for seven years, and 9
granddaughter averaged $50 gallons
during five years; another COW gave an
average of l,040 gallons for five years.
These were all Short-horn stock.
Mr.. Ahlborn, German dairyman,
has made what he calls sparkling
milk" which is simply skim milk i'm,
pregnated with carbonic acid gas and
then bottled precisely as is the pop
or mineral waters of the day. 1t is
! found that milk thus treated will KEEP
an indefinite period, and is very pleas
ant beverage, being as refreshing al
| soda water, with the additional advan
tage of being both healthful and nutri
! tious.
D. D. T. Moore says that clover has
never sold at price near its worth for
feeding on the farm, and though it
probably draws from the subsoil much
of the mineral matter it contains, yet
it is necessary that it be returned, or di-
minished fertility and the failure of 9TH
er crops will surely be the result. For
tunately, on all, except light sands,
clover seed literally sown will make a
good catch, even where the soil is too
poor for good hoed crops, and on the
sandy soils the use of potash, which is
3 comparatively cheap fertilizer, will
generally secure the success of the clov-
er seeding.
The poultry breeders of Hammonton,
n. j., have endeavored to settle the
vexed question as to which breed OF
poultry is the best for general purposes.
The Brahmas. Plymouth Rocks, Wyan-
dottes, Leghorns, Langshans and Hou-
dams were experimental with, not only
for egg production but for market pur-
poses. The Houdans and Wyandottes
were too late in the trial, but the YER
dict of the majority of the breeders is in
favor of the Langshans, which grow to
a large size, lay very easily and until
late in the season, rarely sit, and stand
the climate well. The chicks of that
breed grow very fast, are compact and
realize the highest market value.
The Dairy says that sulphurous acid
is most effective antiseptic and anti
ferment, and may be produced by burn
ing sulphur upon live Goals upon a
shovel or a bed of Goals carried into q
stable with perfect safety. 1t will also
be found an excellent method for free
ing dairy rooms and cellars from the
| spores of mildew, which have very in
furious effect upon the milk and upon
butter and cheese made from milk that
has been exposed to them. In fact.
from constant prevalence of these
spores it might be useful to make a
practice of fumigating diaries occasion
ally, especially after bad. damp spell
of weather during the summer season.
Hop raising is, by the Germantown
Telegraph, commended to the special
attention of American farmers between
the Delaware and the Mississippi rivers,
in view of the extraordinary efforts that
have been made by the leading powers
OF Western Europe to close their mark
cts against our horned cattle, hogs,
beef, pork, lard and provisions, ''for
if we could develop on great scale the
American culture of hops and thereby
make that crop staple export to Eu-