Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-14
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FARM NOTES.
Agricultural Items of Interest Tsrssiy

Agricultural items of Interest Tersely
Put.
Certain Wisconsin farmers in recent
meeting dared to resolve that the land grant
ed the State By the General Government for
the establishment and maintenance of the
agricultural college ought BY right to be
used for that purpose.
Who has not observed that the soil is al
WAYS loose and moist beneath stone heapY
The American Cultivator tells Of some pear
trees that were mulched with stones, and
which made three times the growth OF any
others, though al did well.
Henry Stewart, who is good authority, In
sists in the Tribune that sheep do best upon
soils derived from limestone rocks, and worst
upon those derived from sandstone and flint
rocks. There are some facts which seem to
be against this theory. 1t is one well worthy
Of investigation.
Quarantine in Kansas, New Mexico and
Colorado appears to have effectually stop
ped the march of Texas cattle Northward,
and cattle from the Eastern States must be
accompanied by certified bills of health from
the State YeteriI A-ian of the State from
the State from whence the cattle are ship
ped.
/ For early csbbsges 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 conditions than seed taken from
| cabbages where the root and head are both
planted.
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 but
| ter globules in summer than in winter, and
| that this adhesion can best be prevented by
q cooler temperature OF the cream when
churning Is afact.
Excessive acidity il, cream before churn-
| ing causes partial separation ofthe butter
| fats. and the acid also develops glycerine
from one Of the oils composing these fats.
Souring cream does not add to the quality
| of butter; it simply creates Stronger tis-
! yor, in contrast to the delicate flavor of IN
soured cream, which is the true hay2r Of
aroma.
Mr.. W. ". Haywood writes to the Rural
World that he has good word to speak for
corn fodder: IL have saved 376 shocks 10
By 10 hills" he says, and have realized
more than $50 by it, while the stock reished
it. | take a shock down, husk the corn oil,
and tie the fodder in two bundles with tarr-
ed rope, making it very convenient to
handle"
At q recent sale of Holstein cattle at
Troy, o., thirteen COWS averaged $356.54
twenty yearolds averaged S2945O, fifteen
l-yesr dds averaged $224.50, four 2-year-
old bulls averaged 1925. %, FIVE l.year.old
bulls averaged 1898, and thirteen spring
calves averaged $l7769. The average for
| the seventy was 1866 so. Three heifers
were sold privately for 81 900.
The varieties of cane best adapted to the
production of sugar are: Early Amber, Ii
beIisn, Early Orange, and Links Hybrid.
Seed should be planted as early as possible,
so as to get a good start before there is any
danger of drought and in order that the
plants may be brought to maturity during
the long days of summer. l. IS sunshine
that makes the sugar.
Natural vegetable acids do not harm
milk but the artificial acid OF termenting
food introduces an element into the con.
sumption 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 carried beyond q
certain point will have deleterious effect,
which experiment, time and again, has
demonstrated.
The Christian Union publishes the case
of gentleman who recently bought and
removed to a farm in Roxbury, q little
hamlet three mics north of Stamford,
| Conn. A few days ago he and his two
children were buried On investigation,
after the funeral, it was found that the well
water was poisoned, by percolstion through
the soil of drainage from bsrnyard and out
buildings.
4 Joint meeting OF the committees of the
Holstein and Dutch Friesan Associations
was recently held at Genesee, n. T., with
view to the union of the two associations
and their incorporation as the Holstein-
Friessn Association Of America. A series
Of resolutions were adopted appointing
committees and fixing the basis on which
the union is to be made, and the meeting
adjourned until May &c.