New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-04-01
HOUSE, AND FARM NOTES,
Farm .Hotes.

Farm Notes.
Tighten the labor of the farm house
kitchen Give the gudewife few labor
saving implements. They don't cost
very much money, but what an amount
of unnecessary toll they do save, to be
sure!
The Farm Journal says that not
much can be done to change the habit
of milk secretion in older COWS, or even
after the first year. It is therefore i'm
portant to carefully train COW in her
first and second years production
by green fodder and other food which
stimulate milk secretion.
The New England consumption OF
Chicago dressed beef has risen regular
ly and very steadily from 4,74O tons in
1878, to 106,8O4 tons in 1883, while
the consumption of Western beef re-
ceived on the hoof has fallen from 81
o77 tons to 10000, and the former
kind last year amounted to u per
cent. of the whole.
Mr.. F. L. Wright says, in the Fruit
Recorder, that he obtained, last Spring,
200 plants of the Atlantic Strawberry,
and that Of hundreds of different kinds,
no other ever did better. The berries
were the size of those of Charles Down
ing, very late and Of exquisite flavor.
Edward E. Hale remarks, in The
Critic and Good Literature, that virtue
is one of the things that is caught by
contagion. Is this not equally true OF
good farming? And will not the boys
and girls learn to love the farm sooner
and surer by such contagion than in any
other way.
Paris statistics of 1881 mention 9, 300
horses and 400 mules consumed as food
in that city, and The Hygienic Gazette
speaks of the meat as "a valuable
resource" Science has demonstrated
the excellent quality of the flesh, the
animal being essentially herbivorous
and no noxious element elaborated in its
economy; while it's organic resistance is
such that of 5000 cut up wellknown
veterinary surgeon did not find one in
which the viscera showed any trace OF
morbid lesion.
The Governor General of Canada,
Marquis of Landsdowne, "owns" "a ,554
acres in Ireland, and James Redpath,
who travelled over the estates, declares
that the peasantry are worse fed, clad
and housed, and treated with less con-
sideration and regarded in practice as
having fewer human rights than the
negroes of the most penurious slave
holders of our South before the war.
A recent traveller across the con-
tinent describes Nevada as everywhere
nothingness mingled with little scrag-
gy sage and lots of alkali," excepting
the oasis known as Humboldt Station,
where spring coaxed from the noun
tain has started little grass, bit of
garden and few trees. It was here
that the polite proprietor of the hotel
remarked to Ben Wade: ''You see what
irrigation can do. All Nevada needs
is water and good society" "Humph, ("
replied the bluff Senator, that's all the
lower region lacks"
In the finest quality of butter the salt
is so evenly diffused that, as appears I'M
der the microscope, every grain is sur
rounded by a film of clear and trans
parent brine This shows the necessity
of avoiding the overworking of butter
before the salt is added. In the first
working every praticle Of milk ought to
be got rid Of, but enough clear water
should be left to dissolve every grain OF
salt in twelve hours before the next
working: If this is attained there is lit.
tie danger of streaklness in the butter,
but to get the best results the salt
should be very finely ground.