The National tribune., 1884-04-03
SoTELETs.

SoTELETs.
Soft soap diluted with water and sprayed
upon the tree with fountain pump has been
found an excellent application for destroying
the Goblin moth.
The new mechanical device for separating
the cream from milk by centrifugal force, re-
quiFes steam power TO operate it. and as few
dairymen have steam engine. the use of the
machine will be limited for some time to come.
Every farmer should have an abundant
supply OF small fruits, all that the family can
eat, from the earliest strawberry TO the last
grape. The cost for start need not be large,
and after that the plants easily be in
creased.
"A successful raiser of cucumbers for pick
les, plows deep furrow, spreads and tFamps
old manure in it, adds q couple of inches of
soil, plants seeds two inches apart and covers
with half an inch of soil. thins the plants TO
one foot apart, and keeps the ground mellow.
The Jersey Red breed OF pigs dc not pos
sess much beauty, yet they have economic and
profitable qualities which commend them.
They grow rapidly and can be put in good con-
dition for killing at any age, though they viii
grow, proftably, TO q larger size when from
twelve to eighteen months old.
-Barnyard manures have much greater
value for growing crops than the chemists cru
chile shows. Their mechanical values are not
taken into consideration, but it may be set
down as constituting per cent of value, per-
hags equal to one-half under favorable eircum-
stanees-and, then, it is lasting.
in the spring, when the fruit blossoms are
out in their fitness of beauty and all nature
seems TO smile with flowers in field and forest,
then will be the proper time TO transfer your
bees from their old box and log hives into
your new frame-hiyes of the latest and best
pattern known.
No where is rotation of crops 50 essentially
= A
ond crop of peach trees or pear trees on the
same ground is not so good as the first, and
even the best efforts at maBuring viii not en-
able the nurseryman to grow them success
fully for many years without q change of the
crop.
The Cochin fowls are big eaters and not as
good layers as the Leghorns. A recent writer
says that while his Cochin hen was laying two
eggs LeghOrn laid four; and that in the pro-
duction of the two Cochin eggs twice rs much
food was consumed as in obtaining the four
He says that three OF the Cochin hens ate as
much in day as a four-mOn ths-old pig would
The chief difficulty in feeding cotton-seed
meal TO stock is from the indigeStible hull OF
husk, which has never been removed. This
trouble has now been overcome, and a machine
is about to be introduced which completely
separates the husk and its adhering lint from
the kernel, and at the same time grinds the
kernel into meal. We presume that this ma
chine viii soon become as plentiful as those
used for cutting hay or straw, as, we believe,
/ they will not be much more costly.
The best place for ltry-yaYd is, proba-
| bly,, an orchard. Then there IS no loss of land
| while the orchard is reasonably sure to be i'm
| proved by it. II the number of fowls is adapted
| to the size of the orchard, they viii keep down
! the growth Of weeds of most kinds, and any
kind of vegetable refuse that may be thrown
around the trees as a mulch viii be well pull
verified by the fowls scratching it over. Crops
of grain, grass, turnips or other vegetables can
be started for the fowls 70 pasture on at proper
seasons, and the fruit trees viii be melsurabIy
saved from insects.
1t costs more to make milk from old cows
than it does from young ones having the same
milk producing capacity. The period of profit
able milking does not terminate at the same
age with all cows alike. Some hold out longer
than others, but, as a rule, the best effects do
not reach beyond the eighth year of the cows
age. The quantity Of milk given generally
keeps up till a cow is abont ten years old, and
sometimes considerably longer; but after a COW
has reached her eighth year her milk costs
more and after that age it costs more to fatten
her, and her flesh depreeiates in quality.
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