The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-01

fruits says the best plan he has
found to insure full crop Of rasp>
berries is to cover the ground an
around and between the canes with
an inch or two in depth of waste
tan>bark. 1t acts as mulch to the
canes, insuring them continued
moisture to fill out the fruit.
An exchange says: Bee-keepers
must provide pasturage il profit Is
expected. Trees for shade and
honey both should be planted, and
when the roads, streets, and lanes
are bordered W tn them the market
value or the property will be in
creased more than double the cost
of bees and lab, T necessary.
In favor of horpIess cattle Mr.
JAS. Royt, in the New England
F0Tnler, says, that after few years.
experience with them he is ready to
endorse all that has been said in
their favor. He thinks that. other
things being equal, the COWS will do
about one-fifth better than these
with The worse than useless excres~
CeHCs Oh Cnelr neaGS.
The vapor of tobacco Juice hiss
been tested with success as an insect
destroyer in hothouses. The tobacco
ts soaked or boiled and placed in an
open dish over q fire or flame of q
lamp In the conservatory. Delicate
plants are not injured as by tobacco
smoke; the atmosphere Is inoffen-
sive; thrips, scales and slugs are
effectually disposed Of One quart
OF tobacco juice, evaporated in 8
hou containing $50 cubic feet, sui.
fees.
Professor Vcelker, the agrieu <
tural chemist to the royal sgr .cultu-
raj society of England, says in re-
lation to poultry msnure: With
regard to the application of poultry
manure, the least expensive and
best way of using it is to mix it
with dry esrth, ashes and such like
into compost. Mixed with about
twice the quantity of cry earth
matters Of this kind, it will soon
be reduced into a fairly dry and
pcwdery state, in which it may be
readily soWn broadcast or with
the drill, and found very
useful in growing every
kind of garden vegetables
NOW THE BEST BUTTER Is MADE.
A Berkshire county, Mass, farmer
writes; "My object has always been
to make the beat butter-not the
moat profitable, necessarily, but the
best. Having this object in view, I
have been compelled to discard oil
meal, and thus reduce the quantity
of my butter and the value of the
manure. I have been obliged to take
the COWS out Of all basement cellars,
and have consequently received less
butter for given amount of food.
have been forced. instead of dropping
the manure into q convenient cellar
below the COWS, to give up this cellar
and wheel the manure into the shed.
I have been obliged to discard deep
setting, and to content myself with
the open, shallow method, which is
moro expensive, and requires more
attention and returns less butter.
have been obliged to reject all feeds
except corn. wheat, hay, beets, and
carrots. 7 have been obliged to give
up using the milk of COWS that have
cslved too recently or too remotely.
I have, for a dozen years, carefully
and faithfully tried 20 make butter az
good as it could be made; this has
been the first consideralion-pro6ts
sbleness has always been secondary.
The result has been, that for many
years, this butter has brought high
or price than any butter in the coan-
~ of Berkshire, where much good
butter is made. and lit has taken the
first prize over the county. It has
been in such constant demand st Is
cents pound, the year through, that
when making 100 pounds a wee K
have had unified orders for 25 to so
pounds more.-Grange Bulletin.
THE HoLsrEIN.
Here are some clippings concerning
the Holstein cattle;
A Holstein calf, at Keyes' Pine
Grove farm in Haverhill, ia reported
to nave weighed 500 pounds at three
and q half months old.
The Holstein cow Echo; belonging
to Mr.. T. @. Stevens, of Attica, New
York, has made a wonderful record.
In March she produced 1, 9312 pounds
OF milk, which made q total for the
307 days she had been in milk, OF
20, $685. pounds. She has still So days
to 60 to complete her years record.
She ia now giving from 30 toI62 pounds
a day, and her owner thinks he can
safely calculation her producing owe,
3 600 pounds before her time is up to
totsl of over %, 900 pounds for::rhs
year. It is needless to say that she
beats the record.
, The agricultural man OF the New
York Times, says; The word HolsteiI
ia pronounced with a long 81" O.
Holstine. There is no breed of oastl
in this country that can be call ed b,
that name with any proprieIy, IS thos,
go called come from North Holland
which 10 totally distinct locality. Tn,
cattle stupidity called Holstein com,
f~ovS, a mart rs Tho Natl -, 81,