The Penn's Grove record., 1885-07-04
AGRICULTURE.

AGRICULTURE.
SWINE DISEASES. The amount Of
SWINE cholera reported the past sea-
son IS simply startling. Hogs, young
and old, have died by the hundred.
Some OF this talk may be started 10y
constitutional cr0skers, and It never
loses anything when handled by the
newspaper reporters. Bat where there
is so much smoke there must be some
tire. What ''hog cholera Is does not
seem to be very clearly defined. The
fact is that every time a hog die now
adays the cause is put down for the
cholera. Somebody ought to lind out
what the matter with at least some Of
these hogs Is, or what will cure or pre-
vent the disorder. There seems to be
numerous diseases Of the SWINE that
are unfortunately set down as nog
cholera. IL would probably be a long
step in the direction of abatiug the
diseases Of swine II they were more
nationally treated than they are by the
average farmer. Tue hog has been
supposed to be able to endure almost
any kind Of treatment, and until re-
Gently he has endured a good deal, but
1t would appear az If the limit Of en-
durauce has been passed and the swine
mccumb in large numbers. Try "a
tlonal modes OF management housing,
grazing. feeding and watering and see
what will come OF it
KEEPING Poor Cows "A good many
farmers are losing money every day IN
tie week and every week in the year by
keeping COWS whose product Is not
worth their keeping and the labor ex-
pended on them. The average COW
does not yield over 3, 500 pounds Of
milk per annum and about 1875 pounds
OF butter, while we know that some
dairymen get a yield Of s, 600 and even
10. 900 pounds of milk per year. This
being the case the average COW Is
scarcely profitable, Then what shall
be said Of those that are below the av-
erage? Every such COW il a hole in the
farmers pocket, through which the
profits of the better o W are slipping
away. He would be better of witwOut
them. The main trouble is a great
many farmers do not know or appreci-
ate how worthless maLy of their cows
are. Every COW should be tested sep.
arately and a reckoning kept with her on
the results of such trials. We haYe said
that it does not pay to keep a COW
whose yield Is below 5000 pounds of
milk III a year, and repeat 1t here again,
because il Is the frozen truth. The
average price paid for drove COWS is
ridicaIously high and when to this Ii
added the performance OF the COW when
bought, the first sentence in this article
should be apparent enough even to a
dull mind.
To KEEP BUTTER. To keep butter
ior a year, nice and sweet, dissolve salt
in water sufficiently strong TO bear an
egg; then boil, skim, and strain IN a
stone Jar; let it cRol; prepare some
clean, white bags, as you churn each
day in spring and summer; pat butter
III the bags, drop It IL the brine, put a
weight on it; always be sure the BRINE
covers the butter. Yen e2l SID o 1t
each day. Next March take i ont;
wash through two iakewarn waters.
and then through 4 soda wafer; salt II
and work all the water oui; dress III
pound cakes for sale. You can then
get from twenty to twenty-five cents
per pound, when IN summer here We
eannot get ten cents.
A MoDE OF HuLLINe WHEAT-A
swiss process of removing the bran Of
wheat without the loss Of nntritiye mat
ter consists IN moistening the wheat
before grinding with a solution OF II
tic soda 10 water. The solution is pre-
pared by dissolY1ng six and two-thirds
pounds of caustic soda in one hundred
and thirty. eight pounds Of water. The
sleeping may be from fifteen to twenty
minutes, and may be done in watts SINH
lar to those nsed by brewers. The
caustic solution swells and loosens the
hull proper. so that it may be removed
by the slightest friction, leaving the
gluten with the body of the grain,
Houses EATING SUGAR. An American
paper says: ALI horses can be readily
taught to eat sugar. 1t is good for
them, helping to give them a glossy
coat aud enabling them to shed their
old coat readily. 1t is as good for this
purpose as oil meal, and certainly much
more palatable. There is an advantage
Ia teaching horses to eat sugar, as they
are so fond OF it that feeding makes the
animal more gentle and kind. Arabian
horses are invariably fed sugar by their
masters.
ANY man can raise more corn on one
acre Of land thoroughly MANFRED, care
folly pIowed aud kept from weeds, than
he can on two acres of fairly good land
cultivated in a careless, sloVenly man
ner. No one dare dispute this position.
The crop is NV mostly planted for
better or for worse, be the area big or
little. If the ground has been prepared
as we have advised from time to time,
and the crop properly cultivated, the
result will not be Disappointing with an
ordidary season.
DoN'T let your boys shoot the birds.
Teach them that it Is as wrong to kill a |
bird as to take the life of a pig or lamb.
One reason the apples are so wormy OF
late years is that so many of our beau.
tIful native birds which destroyed worms
and insects nave been killed Oft and
annihllated.
FEED FOR HORSES WITH HEAvEs.-
The cured blades of corn fodder or the
tops, when passed through a cutter,
make the best feed. Hay should be
we'll shaken before USED, II what is
better, it should be thoroughly moist
ened. A horse with the heaves canno
be easily cured, but the difficulty may
be lessened by avoiding the use OF dus-
ty proyender in any form.
FALLEN leaves are a good mulch for
most plants, and do not harbor mice as
hay and straw do. They should be
spread evenly oyer the surface and held
dow with sedge or other coarse materi-
al. Around shrubs leaf mulch is espe-
cially desirable. as the leaves may be
left IN the spring, when they speedily
rot and form capital manure
AN Ohio grower of pork learned by
experimenting that a bushel of raw
corn fed on the cob will produce nine
-on,1a 1f park uyhila an anual oman