New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-11-04
FARM md HO USEHOLD.



AgrlculEur 1liscellany.
There IS said to be carried off from
the soil 8 pounds Of lime in 25 bushels
Of oats, and Is pounds to So bushels
OF barley There are IS pounds oflime
IN two tons of clover, l4O pounds in
#25 tons Of turnips, and go pounds
IN 8 tons ofDotatoes. Some soils con-
tain an abundance of lime for thou
sand years, while other soils require
an occasional application OF lime as a
fertilizer.
A ploWman Says there are several
easy ways to prevent rusting Of plows
and cultivators and to keep the teeth
bright. One is to give them coat of
thick limewash as soon as they are
brought in from the field. Another is
to dissolve an ounce of resin in four
ounces of linseed oil, and while hot mix
this with quart of kerosene, and stir
well. This is laid on to the smooth
iron with paint brush. Another way
is to dissolve am ounce of camphor in
some turpentine and add to this four
ounces Of lard and one ounce of pulver.
lied black lead or stovepo and mix
well. This may be rubbed on with a
rag. To remove rust from plows or
tools nothing is better than mixture
of half a pint Of oil OF vitriol poured
slowly into a quart of water, and APP
ply this to the rusted metal. Wash off
with water.
The place which the pumpkin can
be made to fill on the farm is an i'm
portant one. AS a food for cattle, it
is excellent, and after removing the
seed may be fed with profit to mich
COWS. Horses arefond of them. Hogs
revelin their rich and appetizing juices.
Sheep eat them with avidity. Chick
ems, ducks and geese feed on them at
every opportunity. AS a winter food
for all kinds ofstock.they are excellent.
Pumpkins are so easily raised, are so
valuable, and are so easily kept till
winter, that the farmer who fails to
plant them neglects an important item
in his farm economy. Plant and save
pumpkins, and the result will be as
tOnlShlng.
The parsnip is older than the pota-
to. 1t is prime cattle food, good for
beef and milk, and greedily eaten by
swine. The parsnip is the exception
rather than the rule, even on the
farmers table. 1t is wholesome and
appetizing vegetable, and could be
used to advantage for half the year.
We begin to use them fresh dug from
the bed in October; and before the
ground freezes them in, layin a store
of several bushels for Winter use. In
the Spring we dig the reserve land have
parsnlps until June. They are q
dainty dish, stewed, and still better
partially boiled and then fried brown
in long slices.-Am. Agriculturist.
A farmer on seventy acres of land
kept Tor partly kept) three COWS, for
he often had to buy feed. The mead
ows produced 500 pounds of hay per
acre and the forty acres of pasture
land produced no feed after August.
He began seven years ago to plough
up the unp1 oduct1ve land and raise
soiling crops. The COWS gradually in
creased in number until twenty-five
were kept and the poor grass-lands
turned out an average of $50 worth
of sweet corn ears to the acre besides
yielding sweet green fodder for the
cows. Besides this, the crop of ma
nure made to go back on the land was
in proportion. No greater contrast
is possible than poor, barren, dry
pasture and a field bearing a rich soil
ing crop.-A Pennsylvania Farmer.
The constant use OF the blacksmith
right arm makes it the larger and
stronger, and by the same physical
principle the heifer may be made to
develop a larger udder and to produce
more milk Rubbing and stretching the
udder will increase it's size, and fire.
quent milking will have the tendency
to increase the flow of milk. Heifers
have been brought to their milk by the
sucking OF their udders by others, and
a COW milked three times day will
always give more milk than when
MIXED but twice. When trials for
a large yield are made, this fact is
taken advantage of and the COWS are
MIXED three or four times within "a
hours.-Mirror and Farmer.
For the Cook.
CHOCOLATE CAKE cupful of sugar,
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