Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-06-06
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Aants That WIN be Found Useful to the
Farmer and His Family.

except as hung up in braids on the raft
ers OF warm room, it will need to b
tested before planting.
Stable manure should always hea
somewhere before being drawn on tn
land, to destroy weed-seed and to plac
the elements of plant food in NOR,
available form.
There is no danger of an overproduc
ton of the best quality of goods. It i
the poor goods that do not sell at HON,
or abroad. What is desired is fine beef
fine butter, fine cheese, etc., which ar,
always salable.
The existence of pleuro-pneumonia in
missouri Is causing alarm all over the
State. The Governor has been request
to convene the Legislature for the pur
pose OF adopting measures for prevent
ing its spread.
The milk crop in England is now ESQ.,.
100000, or about $l50,000,000. This is
more than the value of the wheat crop
and the dlsproportion increases yearly
as the tendency is to stock feeding rath.
er than to grain growing.
Certain Wisconsin farmers in a recent
meeting dared to resolve that the land
granted the State by the general govern
ment for the establishment and mainte.
nance of the agricultural college ought
by right to be used for that purpose.
Who has not observed that the
soil is always loose and
moist beneath a stone heap? The
American Cultivator tells of some pear
trees that were mulched with stones, and
which made three times the growth OF
any others, though all did well.
Henry Stewart, who is good authority,
insists that sheep do best upon soils de-
rived from limestone and flint rocks
There are some facts which seem to be
against this theory. 1t is one well wor-
thy of investigation.
Quarantine in Kansas, New Mexico
and Colorado appears to nave effectually
stopped the march of Texas cattle north
ward, and cattle from the Eastern States
must be accompanied by certified bills of
health from the State Veterinarian from
whence the cattle are shipped.
For early cabbages the concentrated
forms of manure are especially valuable
Care must be taken to purchase good
seed. That grown from the stumps of
roots which never headed will produce
fewer good heads under the same con-
ditions than seed taken from cabbages
where the root and head are both plant
ed.
CHICKEN FAT FOR CAKE.-The fat of
chickens is said by cakemaker Of great
experience to be superior to the finest
butter for making the most delicate cake
1.-THE fat of boiled chicken is to be used,
cook them without salt, and there will
not be the slightest flavor of fowl.
Butter should always be churned
several degrees colder in summer than in
winter. The reason is that the caseinous
matter of milk more readily attaches
itself to the butter globules in summer
than in winter, and that this adhesion
can best be prevented by cooler tenn
perature of the cream when churning is
fact.
Excessive acidity in cream before
churning causes partial separation of
the butter fats, and the acid also de-
velops glycerine from one of the oils
composing these fats. Souring cream
does not add to the quality of butter; it
simply creates stronger flavor, in con-
trast to the delicate flavor of unsecured
cream, which is the true flavor of aroma.
Mr.. w. w. Haywood writes to the
Rural World that he has good word to
speak for corn fodder: II saved 376
Shocks 10 by 10 hills" he says, "and
have realized $50 for it, while the stock
relished it. l take shock down, husk
the corn off, and tie the fodder in two
hr1v, urif 70 Ii !
very convenient to handle"
At recent sale of Holstein cattle at
Troy, O., thirteen COWS averaged 1856. 54
twenty 2-year-olds averaged $294.50, fif-
teen 1-year-olds averaged S224.50, four 2
year-old bulls averaged $322.25, five l.
year-old bulls averaged 1888. and thir-
teen spring calves averaged $l67 SO. The
average for the seventy was 1896 a.
Three heifers were sold privately for
$1,000.
The varieties of cane best adapted to
the production of sugar are: Early
Amber, Liberian. Early Orange and
Links Hybrid. Seed should be planted
az early as possible, so as to get a good
start before there is any danger of
drouth, and in order that the plants may
be brought to maturity during the long
days OF summer. 1t is sunshine that
makes the sugar.
ORANGE SALAD.-This is a delicious
salad and easily made. Peel two or
three sweet, juicy oranges and cut up the
quarters in nice mouthfuls, removing all
seeds. Serve with half dozen bits of
orange in nest of three or four leaves
of lettuce, and pour Mayonnaise sauce
ever each nest. A similar sauce of ap-
pies can be made when the apples are
very ripe, juicy and sour.
Natural vegetable acids do not harm
milk but the artificial acid of ferment-
ing food introduces an element into the
consumption that it is not possible for
nature to neutralize, and hence affects
the milk. The amount of ferment may
be small and do little injury, but if car
ried beyond certain point will have q
deleterious effect, which experiment,
time and again, has demonstrated.
A joint meeting of the committee of
the Holstein and Dutch Friesan Associ-
atoms was recently held at Genesee, N.
Y, with view to the union of the two
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