The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-01
Agricultural.
Does Truek-EarmIng pay 2

Does Truck-Farmlng Pay7
Let not farmers be disturbed by the
fears of some that truck-farming will |
not pay. Those who expect to make |
sudden fortunes by 1t may be disap- |
pointed, and as considerable number
of men at all trades become impatient
and disgusted if fortunefails to respond
promptly to their loose half-hand sum-
mons, it is very likely hiatt some of
them in like manner will retire from
the truck farms. Nobody has advised
the farmers to drop everything else and
go to truck-farmlng, but to diversity
with truck, and thus increase the prob
ability of profit. Truck-farming COM
pels the adoption of the "intensive"
system of farming, and it thus pays by
enriching the soil for other crops that
may be planted after the truck is gath
cred. 1t gives the family an abundance
of early vegetables, and thus pays by
saving more costly articles of food, and
as such early productions may enter
great markets in the countries where
they cannot be produced at that season,
is is wholly unreasonable, nay, nonsen-
sical, to argue that it will not pay to
send them there. Let farmers go on
learning how to prepare the soil, how
to cultivate, how to pack and ship,
what varieties to plant, how to market,
in word how to produce at the lowest
practical cost, and results will take care
of the profits. ..ti tDlar 49, ..f
Feeding for Quality and Yield.
A writer of the Country Geatleniae
has the following to say regarding tim
feeding Of dairy COWS for quality and
yield; ''To produce first-class gilt.
edge butter from herd of Jersey cows,
the food must be pure and wholesome
at all times. Weeds in pastures or hay
destroy tie fine flavor of the butter.
Rag weed and others are as injurious
in manner as wild onions The next
great point is cleanliness, commencing
at the yards and stables, and ending
with the finishing of the butter, TC
wet a cows teats while milking is q
filthy practice, and should never bt
tolerated. If these rules are strictly
adhered to and the modern dairy fix
lures employed, the result will be salts
factory. If it is not, then the dairy
maid has neglected something, or she
does not understand the business.
have noticed in your valuable paper the
state ment of correspondent that ifi
cow yields large amount of butter 4
will be of an inferior quality on accoun
Of the large quantity of food reqdireC
to produce it. l assert that to be /;
deluSion. Take, for instance, Mr.
Darling's young COW Bomba, now admit
ted TO be the queen of her family, an,
full sister to F. M. Carryl's young bul
Trailer, who, from all present indica
tions, is destined to be the coming bul
and king of the Rioter- Violet -Alphe
family. BOmba was not overfed dur
ing her official test. TO make a COY
pay give her variety of good food of
bulky nature, as much as you can ge
her to eat up clean, with plenty of pur
water to drink, and not allow her to b
beaten, worried or excited and you ma
be assured that the food will not injur
the quality Of her butter. ANY pract
cal man knows, when testing COW
that if lie overfeeds her she will surel
; go off her feet inside of three days, an
4; probably be sick from indigestion
, That ends the test until she recover
! her health. 1t is sheer folly to try t
t force sixteen or eighteen pound CO
! to yield twenty-one pounds of butter
seven days. There is no food known {
= dair. men that will do it.'
Farm Notes.
, One of the best crosses between fow
+ is the mating of IIoudan cock and
1 Brdlma hen, which produces not on
a an unusually large fowl but also an e,
Z cellent class of laying hens. The GRO
also combines hardness, early maturit
Z and quick feathering.
e Samuel Miller, of Missouri, to Il
: end Of increasing the crops of potate
il when seed is new and high-price,
y plants the tubeys in boxes early by
/ stove and starts the sprouts, and whe
three inches in height they are remove
IS and set out, and the operation continue
a several times. ....
If Experiments at the Canadian Mod
is Farm show that COW previous to cal
It ing should be confined to a straw az
e hay diet and completely dried off tn
b the milking periods should be only ON
e day for awhile, then once in two day
y and prolonging the intervals as long
a ii is safe to to so.
e At a recent meeting of the Sout
u Haven and Casco Pomological Societ
Mr.. Joseph Lannin related the folloN
II ing curious incident; Early in the eve
. ing, fearing frost might injure h
81 Niagara grapes, they gathered ever
e thing available to cover them the I
suit was that every vine covered wi
white cloth had all the buds kille
while those that were covered wi
dark cloth and those not covered at 8
r were not injured in the least.
IL Hawks have a partiality for a I;
III pole, from whence they can survey N