Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-08-08
Farm Notes.

dairy COW III England
Wheat can be grown in northern
India for sc cents per bushel.
Keep a record of what you buy
when you bought it, and the price.
One of the best subjects for the
farmers clubs is the making and
repairing of country roads.
A thin solution of gum brushed
over eggs, and then laid in bran,
preserves them.
Colorado has to buy S2,OOO,OOO
worth of grain every year for cattle
feed.
More than 100000 acres of
sorghum have been planted in
Kansas this year.
1t is the impression that the
acreage of potatoes is not more
than two-thirds of last year.
Very few live hogs are sent
abroad only about $4,000 having
been exported in the seven months
ending May 31st.
WisconSin's dairy products, the
largest of any State in the Union,
amounted last year to $40, 100000.
There are in the State one hundred
creameries and cheese factories and
Cows 100000.
Make your farm so valuable by
constant Improvement, skillful
culture, good fruit, ornamental
shrubbery and pleasant surround
ings that no money will tempt you
to leave it. We think it should be
the settled purpose of every man to
put down bis stakes for life, to
make a permanent home which he
will never wish to part with till he
is called to the better land.
A correspondent of the New
England Farmer says that farmer
observed that some of his apple
trees, that had been dressed with
unleached wood ashes, bore ap-
pies which kept all winter without
rotting, while the rest of the fruit
rotted badly. His trees were in
tested with apple tree blight. He
finally applied wood ashes, at the
rate of two hundred bushels to the
acre, to his orchard, and washed
the bodies Of the trees with I've.
The orchard recovered from the
blight, and the apples would keep |
we'll in an ordinary cellar all win
ter.
Tar mixed with fish oil is recon-
mended as a splendid remedy for
hard or brittle feet in animals.
1t is claimed that eggs stored
with the large end downward will
keep much longer than if in any
other position.
Don't try to spread over too
many acres. but rather to make
what you do 60 over deeper and
richer there is where the money is.
Few people understand how the
small white onions, picked, and
sold in glass jars by grOcerymen,
are grown. The same seed is used
for large onions, but it is sown
thickly-say forty or more pounds
to the acre, while to produce the |
large ones but five or six pounds is
SOwn.
A very nice way to cook macke-
rel for breakfast is, after freshen-
ing it, to boil it for ten minutes,
take it out Of the water, drain it,
remove the backbone, then pour
over the fish a gravy made of milk
thickened with flour, and with a
lump of butter added. The gravy
is lust like that which you make
for milk toast. J
1t won't do to 'hasten slowly in I
milking, for milking should be
done rapidly and thOrOug hly, Slow
milking of COWS never secures the
full product. The COW becomes
tired of relaxing the udder mus
cles, and after a time resumes the
more natural position of contract
ing them. This makes much strip !
ping necessary, and slow mixer
will never have patience to strip
long time. Partial milking soon
dries the COW and greatly reduces
her value.