Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-22
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detrimental department of the Ontario Ag'
ricultural college:
Most animals. eat in proportion to their
weigh. nder vera ge eondtions s0sage
temperature and fatness -,
Give fattening cattle as much as they will
eat and often times day.
Never give rapid changes of food, but
change often.
! A good guide for safe quantity of grain
per day to maturing cattle is one pound to
each hundred of their weight; thus an ami
NAL weighing 1000 pounds may receive ten
pounds of grain.
Stall-feeding in the fall will make the
winters progress more certain by thirty per
cent. "a,
In using rootsit is one'gpideto giyejust
so much in association with other things,
50 that the animal may not take any water.
In buildings, have warmth, with complete
ventilation, without currents, but never un-
der forty degrees nor over seventy degrees
Fahrenheit.
A cool, damp, airy temperature will cause
animals to consume more food without cor
responding result in bone, muscle, flesh or
fat, much being used to keep up warmth;
Stall-feeding is better for fat-making than
box or yard management, irrespective OF
health.
The growing animal, intended for beef,
REQUIRES little exercise daily, to promote
muscle and strength of constitution when
ripe, only so much as to be able to walk to
market.
Keep the temperature of the body about
100 degrees, not under ninety-five degrees,
nor over los degree, Fahrenheit.
WATER -MELoN-How TO MANURE AND
PLANT.-I wish to plant patch OF water
melons for early market. My land has
deep sandy soil !; will make half bale cotton
per acre. Please give instructions
: l. Atwhat time should the seed beplant-
ed?
2. What distance apart should they be
8. What kind of seed is best for market
purposes?
4. If manure should be used, what kind
| is best that can be got on farm-I have no
chance to get chemical fertilizers-and how
to apply in the hill or broadcast ?-E. {.
C2atborn Parish, La., J0n., 4M, 1883.
ANswER.-1. If the seed are to be planted
in the open air, there is nothing gained by
putting them in the ground before = ,0ne
would max ethe earliest paintings OF cottoH.
But by putting some warm manure IN the
hill, and having. little boxes open at the BOT
tom and covered at the top with oiled shirt
ing to place over them at night and in bad
weather, they might be started three to four
weeks earlier. .....
3. Not less than ten feet each way.
3. What is called in Georgia the Augusta
or rattle-snake melon is generally regarded
as best for market purposes.
4. A mixture of stable manure and cotton
seed, equal parts, is excellent. Check land
and open holes eighteen inches wide and
eight inches deep !; in these put half bush
ell of manure month before planting, and
make low hill over it-just enough to keep
get ashes, sprinkle some of it around the
hill and work it in at first ploughing of the
crop.-,Somhern CutiUat0r.
How BUTTER MAY BE SPOILED Good
butter may be spoiled in churning. Over
churning ruins the texture and changes the
proper Waxiness to disagreeable, sickly
greasiness. This is the more easily done
in a ehurn with dashes, which will press
the butter against the sides of the churn
and squeeze and rub it until it is spoiled.
Too long churning spoils the quantity by
the oxidation of the butter and the prema-
tmre formation of strong-iavored acids in
it. the full presence of which we call rancid
ity. 1t may be spoiled at too high a tenn
perature, by which it is made soft and oily,
and of greasy texture and flavor. No sub
seuuent treatment can remedy this error.
1t may be spoiled before the cream reaches
the churn by keeping it too long, or, what
is practically the same, by keeping it in
too warm place; 80 degrees is about the
right temperature if the cream IS kept a
week; if it is kept at 81 degrees three days
is long enough. White specks are pro-
duced in butter by overchurning or by hav-
ing the cream too sour. Either OF these
faults produces curd in the. milk, and the
small flakes of this cannot be washed out OF
the butter. Milk from COW in i'll health
and that is acid when drawn, will produce
specky butter. So will the use of salt con-
tanning specks of lime, which unite with
the butter and form insOluble lime soap.
White specks are covered up to a large ex-
tent by using good coloring, which is made
of oil as the solvent. But this use of color
ing being used to disguise fault, and to
an undeserved virtue, is worthy of denun-
citation.
RAISE YOUR OWN ,CoRN.-Much has
been said of late about the prosperity OF
South Carolina within the last few years
and the facts and figures brought forward
must be very gratifying to every lover OF
the Palmetto State. The question now is
how is it with you, reader? Are you pros:
pering? If not, why not? All material
prosperity must come out of the ground. II
will thus be seen that the farmers ought to
be the most prosperous people. But are
they prosperous? Are, the money-lenders
whether bankers, merchants or others who
lend money or supplies to farmers accumu.
| lating the wealth of the country, or does 1t