St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25
mxPum,nkin Ratch.

Some of our readers should paste this in
their hat for ready reference when the next
planting season approaches. Mr.. o. Moi
fet, practical farmer, says: Some men
think pumpkins only worth raising when
they will raise themselves. But why will
not the rule that whats worth doing at
all is worth doing welI'' apply here as well
as elsewhere? | had this year three-quar-
tiers of an acre well MANFRED, which [
planted to pumpkins, hills ten feet apart
each way; then [ planted q row Of potatoes
between the pumpkin rows, 40 hills in all.
have Just gathered eighteen wagon-loads
Of good, sound pumpkins from this patch,
and don't consider it very good season for
pumpkins, either. The excessive hot
weather we had visibly checked the growth
OF various crops and this one in particular,
after which no more pumpkins set, and the
ones already set seemed to stop growing.
My pumpkins last year yielded about % per
cent. more, yet this even seems to be doing
toerably well. In addition to this [
got thirty-siX bushels of potatoe
and between the hills of pump
kinS | raised a liberal supply Of cabbage
and beet plants, and the children got about
five bushels of popcorn. Ii it is supposed
that what pumpkins are raised together
with a crop of corn is clear gain, what adj
vantage have you over my plan, since either
my potatoes or my pumpkins pay for all
the work of both, with the popcorn and
other ct ceteras thrown in for the fun of it.?
| need not go far to find large fields of corn,
or in fact other farm crops, that have paid
less profit than my little pumpkin patch.
1t is easy OF demonstration that an acre of
good land can easily be made to produce20
tons of pumpkins, 80 bushels of p0tatoe
and 100, 900 more or less of vegetable plants
This requires good land, high culture and
no little labor; but what advantage is there
in this? Is it not policy to own and oper-
ate this one acre rather than twenty to fifty
acres to effect the same result after the rs
ual manner? | raise the Western Sweet
pumpkin. put i'll plenty of seed, fight the
bugs with SCOT and ashes, hunt cut worms
thin to two or three plants to the hill, and
consider it no hardship to leave the ground
clear of weeds. Use this fruit for cow feed
by choppng them up with corn knife,
and pay no attention 10 the within that the
seeds are injurious to milk cows.
Sheep Pastures and Winter Care.
Some of the disappointments and failures
but mistaken idea that sheep can live and
do well without good food. Turn them
into waste field and let them eat the
brierS and thorns and weeds is the fire.
quent advice of writers who never kept a
sheep. One might as well say that a
countryman might do well in city by liv-
ing off The garbage barrels and heaps in
waste places. 1t is all very we'll fol a
r., IN n faNxr sbn into IN
neglected field and let them trim down the
briers and weeds. if he will there provide
them with sufficient good food. In this
way the folding of sheep upon an old field
may be turned TO good account. But for
regular business. one cannot hope to
raise sheep III this way. y good pasture,
roots for winter feeding. weli-made clover
hay, and good, careful attention and man
agement are essential to success. Sheep
are fond of a variety of fo0d-briers and
weeds and such things. Confined to that
diet, they run down fast. They thrive on
substantial food.
1t should be remembered as cold weather
approaches that sheep. too, need protection.
1t is true. their coat is warm. but not if it
is wet. 1t is not necessary to give sheep a
warm house. but it must have good roof
over it. Nor can they always be dependent
upon to seek shelter for themselves when
they need it. 1t should not be thought too
much trouble to drive them in when the cold
rains begin, which often turn to sleet and
snow. The difference between good care
and none often constitutes all the profit
there is in the business, and without profit
no business is inviting.
Improved Bufter-Makina.
Notwithstanding all that has been written
on this subject farmers and thei: wives will
insist on retaining the dash churn. and thus
giving themselves extra trouble and damag-
ing the quality of butter. Once more, we
say, fire cut every kind and quality OF
churn that has a dasher or paddle or any
thing else inside. Use box or barrel churn
only. Use thermometer, and learn by ex-
perence to use it right. Don't let your
cream get too old. Churn until the butter
begins to come about thirty-tive minutes if
you have everything right. and then put in
cold water to reduce the temperature, then
turn very slowly till the butter gathers
Then run off the butterInilk and wash your
butter in the churn.
Il is stated that new method of
washing butter has been patented in
Germany rs soon as gathered in the
churn in particles of about the tenth of