Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-06-13
FARM NOTES.

w. :. j. in COGtti.y Gentlemen says:
| believe that it is eminently proper
~ trust to the animals Instructive
appetite for salt. W. certainly have
no means of knowing ;he amount ri
salt that the animal would require, but
we know that the quantity they get in
their natural state is very small, being
only that which is held chemically in
grasses, and what they obtain at their
Clicks When we mix it with the
food, they are compelled to eat the
salt whether they rcquir" it or not.
When they do not require it, there
will be more or less danger done to the
digestive functions, | have observed
much, and have had II great deal ofeX-
perience in sailing animals, but | he
yer have seen the slightest injury from
allowing them free access once every
twenty-iour hours, provided they have
not been deprived of it previously, as
i'll that ease they may take too much.
Farmers wives, read this. During
the first six mouths OF 1852 there were
nearly sepCR million dozen eggs, aen
eggs, Ii 1t ostrich or other fancy egg,
but hen eggs, imported into the Unit
ed States. Now, as Il matter of fact,
the wives OF eur farmers. mechanics
AMI country ministers ought 10 go into
the egg business So thoroughly and So
successfully that they can have all the
fresh eggs they want in their own fam
lilies, and have enough to supply all
the bankers, merchants and other fam
lilies in the land, and expors tie suri,lU,
product to the ''down troItlen" ma
tives of Europe. The idea of Il people
with all our open country going to
France or Belgium for eggs to go with
our morning toast and coffee. We
shall buy coop of hens and start the
reform ut once. No eggs with social
ism or Irish agriarianism in them for
our breakfast. Tariff or no tariff, AM
erica must raise her own eggs
Farmers Review.
[ think if greater profit is antici-
pated from keeping such eXtraordina-
ry butter-producing COWS, it will be
found Illusory. Even five cast aside
the greater risk of death from milk
fever and some other diseases, and the
extra labor and care TO assiduously
look after such animals, | am of the
opinion that "A herd of cows yielding
over ten to thirteen pounds of butter
per week during the best of the season,
or $50 to $50 pounds per annum, would
be found more profitable, in the long
run, than Il herd yielding much more
than this and esl ecially if it
doubled, as some breeders of Jerseys
are now str9ining their utmost to ac-
complish.
For one, instead of favoring, | wish
to lift up my Voice against producing
twenty pounds OF butter or more per.
week and it would be still better, in
my opinion, to limit the quantity to
fourteen pounds per week as the ut
most tilata COW should make. TO OBJ
tain Il larger product than this, as Il
general rule, | will say, she has to be
highly stimulated with extra food,
which throws the poor animal into Il
feverish state, and renders her milk
and the butter made from it more or
less unhealthy. Furthermore, it is no.
torious that the larger the butter pro-
duct the more liable the cow is to be
attacked by the very dangerous disease
of milk fever.
Many complain that Onions do not
keep. The trouble is in keeping them
too warm. The onion is bulb-a
plant at rest-and the least warmth
starts it into activity. 1t is much
better that onions should remain
frozen through the winter, provided
they can thaw gradually, than to he
put into cellar or other warm place
where their vegetative powers will be
aroused. If put in large heaps onions
will be sure to spoil !: but spread in
thin layers and covered with hay or
straw, so that if frozen the thawing
will be gradual, they will keep we'll
through the winter. 1t is the custom
with onion growers to get their crop
to market as soon as possible. If they
were to provide proper storage they
would realize much more from them
when sent to market later in the
season.-Purdy's Fruit Recorder.