New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-01-28
Farm Items.
Warm stables save fodder.

Warm stables save fodder.
In England the Dorking is considered
tho best table fowl.
Joseph Harris says one blowing when
the land is dry is worth two when it is
wet.
Two and one-haf tons of hay contain
an average of about 400 pounds of 4uin-
eral matter.
In Australia single county has aid
this year bounty on over $4,000 dozen
sparrow's eggs.
Good carriage horses are scarce, and
prices are likely to rule higher for some
time to come than in the past few years.
The borrowing farmer, remarks the
Farm Journal, is a nu sance, and ought
to be suppressed. Stop the annoyance
by refusing to loan.
Professor Arnold and F. d. Curtis,
both good authority, agree that the
best grain food for cows is four parts
bran, two parts corn-meal, one partlin
seed-meal.
Mr.. Allan claims, in tho Canadian
Hortculturist, that apples grown in the
central or northern part of Ontario are
superior in point of quality to any in
the world.
The Lake Voorhees, cattle ranch in
Wyoming Territory comprises ], 100000
acres. and one pasture of 10000 acres
is inclosed by single wire fence. 1t
will accommodate $4,000 cattle.
A man po'ed some lima beans with
g. 1ok1 LII e.
into the ground, and when the vines
had climbed the three-foot poles they
were pinched back. Result, more and
earlier beans than ever before.
It is estimated that the raisin crop at
Riverside. CAL, will this season amount
to $4,000 boxes, aud the packers have
been paying from 81 to 5 cents per
pound in the sweat boxes. This crop
is being made from about 1000 acres.
An Illinois farmer gives his hogs red
pepper tea on their showing symptoms
Of cholera, and Claims that this has al
ways proved an effectual cure, and that
he has never lost q porker so treated,
while his neighbors have suffered seri-
ously.
Both the black and the red-eyed or
speckled beans are better for winter use
than are Lima beans. TIE former can
be made into soup in the same manner
as with split peas. The speckled bean,
when prepared as the white bean is
usually cooked, IS considered much
richer than the latter.
English manufacturers have an inn
provement in milk-cans in the form of
wrought-iron stays, which rad ate from
the center and are fastened into the
metal which projects below the can.
The necks of the cans, being made of
wrought-steel, are provided with close
interchangeable lids, which serve to
keep out dust
Mrs. L. Harrison. in the Prairie
Farmer, says: Extracted honey is kept
nicely in jars with cloth tied securely
over the top, so that if it is not ripened
sufficiently the air will evaporate it.
These jars can be piled one upon an
other, by putting pieces of wood be-
tween them. A proper place in which
to store honey is desideratum.
Within a few years the manufacture
OF cheese has increased in this country
from 70, 600, 900 pounds to 100000, 900.
But cheese Is as high-priced as ever,
compared with other things, and the
market seems no nearer being g utted
than it was years ago. More than that,
it is still, at current quotations, food
SO valuable that it should be much more
generally used than it has ever been.
The London Mark Lane Express adj
yises Americans to avoid the landlord
and tenant system, It says: keep it
out of your land system at all costs.
Make occupancy more than ever in
separable from ownership. The man,
says . foreigner, who brings his thou
sands OF pounds to invest in land to-day
may appear to be a bene.actor; but the
next gene alton will see in h m mere
paras te. feeding upon TIE industry of
the Natioa.''
Mathew BRADY. who has just been
fined fl0O for illicit distillution in Dub
lin, has solved q great historic doubt
by giving into the hands of the police
the following recipe for the manufac-
ture of Irish poteen. Materials for ten
gallons: Ten ounces of prnnes or
French plums, one and a quarter
ounces of green tea, two ounces Of or
ris root, one-quaIter ounce OF angelica
root, one-half ounce Of sulphuric acid,