The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-11-05
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ton, we need to remember that Glove
not only husbands the fertility of tn
soil, but gets it into place and condi
ton to specially favor the growth o.
the wheat plant. The field grain hav.
only few weeks to perfect Their
growth, and no time to seek aftel
food not close at hand. They do MOI
have the advantage of growing in the
midsummer and early autumn, when
through soil-fermcntation, the earth
has its largest ready supply of Plant
food. We see good reasons for firm
adherence to the old belief, that clover
seed is the best manure that can be an
piled to a loose soil. Let us grow more
clover. Even if it is not four-leaved. il
will bring '.good luck. ''-Amertca,
Agriculturist.
Paint and Painting.
The basis of the best paints for farm
use, says the American Agriculturist, il
linseed oil and white lead, but there
are almost innumerable substitutes. Ir
fact, almost any compound which may
be applied with brush, and will finally
become dry and firm, forming q
smooth and not a chalky surface, is OF
use in protecting houses, out-buildings,
fences, and implements, from the action
OF the weather. We hardly think how
rapid this action is, unless our attention
is particularly directed to it. See how
quicklya new single roof changes
color, or how, after a few years, tho ex-
posed surfaces of shingles are worn
away. That this is not by the action OF
the rain alone is obvious from the fact,
that the shingles on the south side OF
a roof wear three times as fast as those
on the north side. 1t is the sun, the
air, and the water, altogether, that dc
the work of decay, and the province OF
paint is to defend all articles, especially
wooden ones, against this wear.
Paint Dug hit not to be applied when
the wood is too dry, for then it is need
lessly absorbed, and fails to produce a
good surface. The best time to apply
paint is when the surfaces are dry after
a spell of moist weather. At such times,
dust does not fly, the surfaces are often
washed clean of dust and deposits.
which in day time adhere. We have
often, in autumn, not only more or less
leisure to do this work, but just the
right sort of weather in which to do it.
Painting is an art easily learned. Some
experienced person should guide the
beginner if possible, for experience is
often costly school. Painting may be
learned without master, at least suf-
ticiently to be of great service to any
farmer. In the mixture of paints and
selection of colors, there is room for
the exercise, not only of skill but of
taste, and yet we can hardly be too
thankful that Providence which ''tem-
pers the wind to the shorn lambs, -
tempers the outre and outrageous COM
binations of color, with which tasteless
people often distigure the landscape, so
that after a while they are no longer
glaringly bad. There are comparatively
few colors which will long stand the
beneticient influences of the blessed sun
shine. Old Sol has an adherence OF
bright and staring tints. He paints. so
to speak, a piece of new wood beau
tiful gray in short time, and the reds,
and olives, and blues, greens, and pur-
pies, which some people think are
beautiful upon houses and barns, and
fences, are almost as quickly subdued
to more neutral tints, which, if not pos.
itively beautiful, have in them more OF
harmony with nature, and less of tor
ture to cultivated taste.
Milking Cows.
That COWS should be regularly
MIXED is equally as important as tina,
they should be regularly fed, and every
farmer knows how much more quiet
animals are which become accustomed
to regularity in feeding. They learn to
expect their feed at certain time and
are Oh the lookout for it at that time
and not at any other. and are quiet;
while if fed with IRE gularity they are
continually upon the lookout and IN
easy for the want of feed. So with
milking: if there is regularity the COW
Is expecting the time and is quiet.
There IS no giving down of milk, as
is termed, before the time, that results
in any painful distension of the udder.
In the state of nature it is probable
that the cow is relieved of her milk a
great many times during the day,
because the calf left with its mother
helps itself as frequent as its inclination
prompts. Under such circumstances
the udder of he mother will remain
small, because there is no necessity of
enlargement to contain twelve hours
of milk. But if milking is to be con-
Quoted only twice in "a hours, there
must be an unnatural enlargement
which is liable to produce feverish
symptoms, hence it is better not to
allow the calf to run with the cow, but
to have access to her at certain regular
times, and then the udder becomes
accustomed to the accumulations of
milk and attains natural distension
which will occasion no feverishness
But in this practice when the time for
milking arrives it should be attended
to, because the udder is fully distended,
and if the milk is not removed, the
animal will suffer pam, and again will
arise danger of fever.
If milking is delayed too long nature
will cndeavor to relieve the poor
animal and an absorption of the milk
into the blood will to some extent take
place, and that which remains will
become deteriorated, and if the
practice of neglect in milking at
regular times occurs with much
frequency, the regular secretion of milk
will be diminished and finally perma-
nently checked, and if continued for any
considerable length of time the animal
is liable to become wholly dry, as
has sometimes been the case. Thus
will be seen the necessity of great regu-
larity in this important branch of agri-
culture. Examiner.
The design of ''Cassell's Popular
Gardcning,' edited by D. T. Fish and
published by Casscll 4 Co., is to bring
a knowledge of the best gardening
practice, and of the principles on
which it is based, within easy reach of
the people at large. The fullest and
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