The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-28
AaRIOULTURR.

AGRlCULIURE. e
The Paris correspondent OF the NesU
Hampshire Mirror and Farmer says
attention should be drawn to the error
farmers make in not cultivating sainfoin.
1t can ,adyantageously replace clover,
and does not exact an essentially caloa-
reous soil. 1t gives favorable returns
on argillaceous and sandy soil, and on
soil we'll prepared can be grown with
rye, or any spring cereal, and covered
with light harrow. The plant lasts
from ten to fifteen years. and about SO
pounds OF seed are required for an acre.
For milch COWS it should b6 cut when
when the seed begins to form. AS hay
it has no equal for sheep.
DIR. HExAkIER says that some years
ago, when he had more apples than he
could store, he hired cellar of q neigh.
Dor and put in 1T several hundred bar
rels. When he came to take them out
he found water in the cellar three or
four feet deep, and concluded they were
dead loss till he examined them. Some
weeks afterward he found them in ex-
cellent condltion-better than those
whlch the water had not reached. The
result was asoribed to the low tempera-
ture and eqclusion of air. to which we
would add a uniform degree of cold and
freedom from the fluctuations caused
by air currents. We suppose the water
was at or near the freezing point.
OVER 30O,0OO,OO pounds of oleomar-
garine was thrust upon the people the
past twelve months, and yet butter did
not fall one cent in price, although this
vast quantity directly supplied the place
Of so much butter in the market. Ou-
riously, too. our supply of butter was
rs large as usual, and promises, owing
to the rapid multiplication of creameries
to be larger. while the supply of oleo-
margarine will be doubled the coming
year. It is problem how butter kept
its price in the face of this monster. .und
Threatened to drive it from the markets
entirely; but we may naturally conclude
that it is nn imposslbil1ty to overstock
the markets with anything.
HAD n horse whose feet we're bad.
and after many experiments hit upon
the exact remedy, and have long kept
up its use, with most excellent results.
1t is about two inches Of dry, fibrous
horse manure, with dry earth sifted
over it, and layer Of straw on that, till
it becomes trodden down smooth and
hard. Every day, and generally twice
day, the portion of it wet by the horse
is removed and replaced, but most of
the floor has not peen uncovered for
years, The hole is filled up and patted
down with Hexamer prong hoe, and q
little dirt put on, and the litter at night
IS put over lt-that's all.
IHN results of some Of the expert
ments made at the Now York State Ex-
pertinent Station show conclusively that
the period required for the termination
OF peas varies with temperature of soil,
III other words. with the earliness of
planting. Those planted on April 4
and required for vegetation from TWEEN.
ty-three to twenty-five days, while 9TH
ers, planted on May 6, required only
from twelve to fourteen days, The
eailler paintings were fit for use in sew
enty.seven days, the latter in fifty four
days. The period of rlpening the seeds
varied from seventy-four to one hun
drcd and nine days.
AN exchange gives the following as
the implements needed for a creamery
from cream Of 200 COWS: Two 15O-gai-
Ion cream tempermg watts. one 3UO.gal-
lon revolving box churn; one factory
size hand butter worker; two butter la
dies; one 340-1b Union counter scales
with platform aud tin scoop; two H.
quart Iron clad tin pals; one 1-gallon
upper.
The Winter time can be made more
profitable than it frequently is by ,nau-
gurating and carrying forward a thor.
ough System of repairs, to Frightening
up farming utensils, repairing fences
aud wagons, oiling and cleaning har-
ness, and in various kindred necessary
improvements.
WITH our land thoroughly drained we
can carry Oh the operation of farming
with as great success and as little effect
from bad weather as any business which
depends on such q variety of circum-
stances. We shall have substituted
certainty for chance, as far rs it is IN
our power to do so, and made farming
an art rather than venture.
BEREToFoRE American horse breeders
have aimed principally at speed tr style
and great results have been accomplish
ed IN both directions. But now it be-
gins to be seen that the country needs
heavier draft horses than it has ever had,
lT is better economy to pay man So
p day who knows how to care for
stock, and who will stay with them,
watch over them, aud see that each one
gets his share, thah to have hand work
for nothing, who has no correct concep-
tion of how to feed or care for cattle.
The overflow of the Mississippi, which
caused 80 much devastation last summer
in Louisiana, apparently was not an un-
mixed exil. The sugar aud cotton crops,
planted immediately after the waters
roceded, now promise greater yield
than has been known for years.