The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-10-25
FARM NOTES.

cut lHlfty-tnTcc IONS Oh clOVer from u
seven acre field.
VERMONT sheep breeders are rcaping
their reward for their attention tu tho
breeding Of the Spanish Merino. John
Hay. the Australian, who owns $1,000
sheep in that country, paid the Ver-
monters $50, 900 for 173 sheep.
THE american cnltird,Or snvs:
Whoever places much dependence on
the strainer for securing clean milk will
never make gilt-edge butter. Allowing
dirt to get into milk and then depend
ing on the strainer to get it ont, is n
good apology for cleanliness. More or
.ess Of the dirt, especially everything
of n soluble nature, and some that is
not, will find its way through the
meshes Of the strainer.
The following old rule abon. sill
soiling has not leen improved upon, s,
far as We are advised: II the subsoil
is to be brought to the top. the depth
Of the plowing should lie gradually in
creased, year by year about one inch
il year. Ii the subsoiler is to be run To
the bottom of the furrow without throw
ing ont its cut, the greatest depth may
be given mt once. Chicago journal.
DR. NoELcKER found that solution
Of twenty-four grains Of salt to a pint
of water gave frcshcr appearance to
cahbages and radishes. 4 less amount
of salt showed no effect. A very strong
solution harms many plants. The plants
nest benefited by salt are cabbages,
celery, asparagus, onions, raaishes AM
tomatoes. Grasses are affected more
readily by salt than other crops, and it
is of especial advantage to Dubious
plants and plants with succulent leaves.
Salt is taken into the body of the plant
without decomposition to limited de-
gree.
A PERSON who claims to he success
full in keeping eggs "the year round
gives the following directions: To one
pint of salt and one pint Of fresh lime
add four gallons Of boiling water.
When cold put it in stone jars. Then
with dish let down your fresh eggs
into it, tipping the dish, after it fills
with the liquid, SO they will roll out
without cracking the shell, for ii the
shell is cracked the egg will spoil. Put
the eggs in whenever you have them
fresh. Keep them covered III cool
place, and they will keep fresh for a
year.
FREQUENT cultivation is a good sub
stitute for manure, but pays much bet
ter with manure than without. This
We have tried on garden crops, especial
" potatoes, cabbage, beans, onions and
other root crops. An old saving has
come down to us from the fathers that
he who would have early cabbage
sprouts must hoe them every morning
before breakfast. We have tried this
in springtime for mornings enough to
prove that it is not one Of the old wives
fables. In the early morning the dew
is on, and this is charged with an avail
able amount of ammonia, which, OF
course, feeds the roots below. Ii the
surface is neglected crust forms and
the air does not circulate in the soil.
Duchess Farmer.
4 FRrIT-RAIslNG entomologist, writ
| ing to the New York Tribune, SAYS he
has found lime and soft-soap excellent
for apple-tree bores: but soft-soap is
just as efficient without the lime. and
the natural gray Of the tree is to be pre-
| ferred to the whitened trunks. Car
bolic acid mixed with the soaps makes
the application serviceable for longer
period. Soft-soap early in June and
again the lst of July. is usually suffi-
cient, though not always. Two appli-
cations will always suffice il the carbol-
4 Ia nl.1al H. Anl tu-n <,
Of soft-soap; adds one gallon Of water,
heats till it boils, removes from the fire,
and at once stirs in pint of crude car
bolic acid.
BUTTER that has been washed in pure,
cold water until the bnttermilk il al
extracted will not require the excessive
working so often necessary to take on,
the buttermilk when not washed. But.
ter thus washed will be less liable t.
have the oily look which il gets often
by too much working, especially If don,
with the hand. twill require less sail
to keep it, and have the fine, waxcn ap
pearance that forms so great part oi
the attractiveness of the "gilt-edge'
butter. Great care should be taken I,
have the water pure, and Of temper
ature not exceeding fifty degrees
about the temperature Of cold we'll
water, and it will he still better il lit
tie ice is used. and the temperatnr,
lowered to forty degrees.
/ SAVING LABOR ON THE FARM.-Say.
writer in the Boston Journal.
used to know an old gentleman who
when demonstrated with for doing I'M
nece> sarv labor on the Sabbath. re
piled that he never did il he knew it
and he thought man ought to he sen
to county Jail who would do unnecessa
ry work at any time. | sympathiz,
with him, and If farmers would onl,
plan their buildings and lay out thei
fields SO that unnecessary steps Moul,
be avoided. and when going about thei
work would stop moment TO thinl
what they would need, and how man,
different trips they would have to max,
ii they did not take all they could a
one time, they would find farmin;
much less labarions and more protita
bic. Some Of them work like plumb,
ers. who are said to make one trip t,
look at the work, then go back afte
tools, then go home to dinner. and nj
ter dinner take another look Mt il and e
after more tools. and be absent till tim
to quit work for the day. 1t is no
only in planning buildings, driveway
and paths properly, and in CAREFUL
calculating how the work may he dor
Mt the least possible expenditure o
time and labor, but they could say
, many times by careful looking owe
Of tools and machinery and aseertainin'
whether they could not dispense wit
weight in this one ta save the strengt
of tie team: whether the other eoul,
no. he adapted to perform little NOR
lahor without extra outlay Of strength
Five hundred extra pounds weight i
the wagon reduces the amount YOU
team can draw hs just that much.
other things are equal. An eAtfa inc
in the furrow slice enables you ta plo'
eight acres about rs easily as yon plow,,
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