Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-02-27
NO. l5
Farm, Garden and Orchard.

A farm, like most everything else,
cannot remain stationary for many
years. If a course of improvement is
not adopted, it will most certainly de-
teriorate. The owner will be growing
poorer or richer, according to the di-
rection in which the farm is moving.
The Holstein cow Echo, owned
by Frederick G. Stevens, tine proprie-
tor of Maplewood stock farm at Attica,
n. y. has just complete her years
milk record, says the United States
Dairyman, which foots up l8,0l25
pounds, which is lis pounds than the
famous cow Aggie, which has hereto
fore led all the bovines of the world.
Echo is ten years old and weighs 1,6l0
pounds consequently has given over
ten times her weight in milk during
the year. The largest yield in one
day was eighty-fve pounds; in one
month. 4.l96 pounds.
When successive crops of wheat
are grown on the same land they are
apt to be injured by the Hessian fly.
After harvest the fallen grain sprouts,
and the fly lays its eggs on the young
plant, and is thus ready to begin work
! on the sown wheat when it appears.
If the Hessian fly finds a proper place
to leave its eggs it will not quit the
field Thus sometimes a field after
wheat will be nearly destroyed, while
wheat sown after spring grain or hoed
crops less than forty rods distant will
entirely escape iniury.-Americdn
| CultiUdtOr
The New York Times says one Of
the most serious obstacles to success
full dairying is wet pastures. Land
that ia saturated with water produces
unwholesome herbage, the grass is
rank and sour, and sometimes the herb
age consists wholly of sedges and
other course plants that are not easily
digestible. Such food cannot produce
good milk, and milk made from such
food will not make good cheese or but
ter. But very often the course, rank
food produces disease in the cows.
This is more especially the case with
vearlings and young cattle whose di-
gestive powers are not fully matured.
Probably more than half of all the
weeds are first brought to our farms
in the grass seed. Suppose we were
given bushel of clover or timothy
seed containing only. twenty seeds OF
ripple or wild carret or daisy; how
much better to burn it than to sow
and 20 over the field time after time to
pull out the weeds? 1t wonld cost
more than ten times the price of the
seed to get the last of these plants out.
1t is far better to refuse entirely those
seeds with "only few weed Seeds"
and to pay round price for those en-
tirely free from them; and then on
seeding down land we should SOW
plenty of seed, 80 as to have the sur
face fully occupied with the desired
crop.-Nea0 York Tribune.
Our pig stock, in matter of i'm
provement. affords advantages not
available in the larger classes Of stock,
in that they go but short time with
young; they mature rapidly and early,
hence we have no valid excuse for fail
ing to build up in directions where
building up is required, or for failing
to trim off undesirable features, no
matter what they may be. The hog
is so pliable, and the possibilities are
80 great with him that the breeder
who is at all expert can remodel herd
quite thoroughly in two or three years
time. 1t has only been within the
past few years that it has been possi-
BILE to do this, but now the requisite
material abounds on every hand
COuutru Gentleman.