The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-01
AGRICULTURE,

ADULTERATIoN OF CHEEsE.-A writer
makes the following statement of the
manner in which adulterated cheese is
manufactured: "The milk is allowed
to stand from twenty-four to tnirty.six
hours. The cream Is then all taken off,
and in order to initiate full cream
cheese a material called .anti-huff is
added, which cuts the ourd and gives
the cheese the appearance of full cream
cheese. 'Antl-huf is composed largely
OF potash, and il applied to the tongue
woule take the skin off quite as quick as
a coal of fire. You can draw your own
conclusion of its etfects upon the coats
Of the stomach.
"An article was published in your pa
per recently, saying that some twenty
persons were made sick from eating
cheese, and 1t was attributed from their
eating too much. should rather in
cline to the opinion that it was the quail
ity rather than the quantity. have
made cheese forty years, and never yet
heard OF spiiug, summer or fall cheese
making any one eiok. The fact is, it is
made of pure milk, ana will give not
only pleasure to the palate, but strength
to the body.
"Now, in order that tho public be not
imposed on, / suggest that all dairymen
who are making pure artiule b ave their
cheese branded and advertise where they
arc kept for So. le.'
A DOLLAR Profit ON EACH HIM.
Somebody wants to know If one dollar
per year profit from each hen is q 9bod
average, Where hens are kept as the
majority OF turner's keep them, one dol
lar per head is quite as much as the
owner ought to expect, and I don't be-
lleve that the average farmers can mako
one hundred dollars easier than by keep
ing and caring for flock of ono hun
dred hens. II be will do little extra
work in the way Of housing, caro- and
feed, the hens will dl at leust fifty cts.
to tho average dollar. Why. we have
pullets that. at December 11th, have
LAID three dozen eggs apiece since they
commenced laying tho first week in Oc-
tober, but they didn't roost in trees and
live on sawdust and gravel; they had
good, warm hous", and plenty Of food
| and cnre. If theso pullets don't earn
considerable moro than their "avorago
dollar per head, before next spring. I'll
cut thor heads off. every last one of
| HON. And L may rs well tell you that
when fail to mako ut least thieo dol
lars profit for each hon, duck md tur~
key kopt for breeding stock, I don't
Drag much about my SUCCESS in poultry
raising.
The complete shading Of tho soil rap
idly enrichcs it, even without the appli-
ontiol OF manure. 1t 1nay be that sha.
ding causes IL deposit of nitrogen from
| tho air; bnt be that as it may, every
| fnrmer knows that wherever stack Of
hny or straw has stood for several
months tho ground underneath il not
only enriched but grows much darker
III co'or. Any one may try an expert
ment, as follows: Select tho poorest
aput of ground OH tho farm, and lay
over sttip OF any length, but about a
yard wide, n fow inches of straw, and
cover with 1t board or, If prefe rred, lay
uhly board on the ground. If the
place IL then seeded to something the
off ,rtnco in growth between that Dor.
ton shaded and that not shaded will DO
very marked.
IN planting asparagus the following
directions will secure n satisfactory re.
s"t Snnk tho seed for twcnty-four
hours in trpid water aid SOW early in
the spring III rows IL foot apart and kept
clean hy frequent y wedding and hoe
ing At one or two years oil transplant
to pos rn,nt beds. The ground should
br 1rrnohed or dug over, two feet deop,
hurNlng plenty OF manure, dccayed
leaves, leut mol rock weed or kclp,
when 1T can he had, and mixing thor
onghIy with the so,l. Lay out the beds
four and Il hall icet wide, and draw 3
drills fourteen inches apart and six
inches deep lenSthwi>o OF cnch bed ;pIaco
the roots Ill them, loot apart, Ill their
natural position, and cover iour inches
deep. ~ rich sandy loan is most suit
able,
ALL tic best agrlcIiturlsts of tho pre-
sent day.ns we'll IN those who have gone
before, givo the following ns absolute
requisites Tor snEo hoo wntcring: l. An
oven temperature, ranging from AZ to As
degrees. z. Complete expulsion or ab-
sorptlon OF moisture from tho hivo. 3.
Perfect freedom from outward dlstur-
bnnccs. Protection of stores from
contact otfrost. 5. frotraoted isolation
from atmospheric changes in spriug. 6.
Exclusion OF light. 7. Su1llclent stores
ava N''i'SA ~ 10 SohOrully
admitted that, with these soven coutin-
genoles provided for, there Will be no
hazard in wiulering, and it is fnrther
admitted that no plan 30 far practiced
combines all these essentials.
WET lands should not be plowed deep
until they have been thoroughly drain
ed. AIiuvial soils and deep clay loans,
where the surface and subsoils do not
materially differ, can scarcely be titled
too deeply. Thin soils, however, should
not be powed below the available plant
food. 1t takes twice rs much manure
to fertllize land when 1t is plowed to o
depth OF ton inches, M when it is plow-
ed five inches; OH the other hand, by
plowlug only tivo inches deep tho soil
will DO exhausted muoh quicker than
whom the plowlng is only ten inches.
DIR. STURTEvANT, at tho New York
Experimental Station, has found thar,
while corn meal made milk riuh III but
tor, 1T was not SO easy to separate tho
butter from the milk us when tho COWS
were fed on cnsilngo. Ho also found as
yet uneXpiainablo differences in the
milk OF the snmo COWS on tho samo feed
on diff rent days, Housewives have
long known that cream was often much
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