Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-27
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the trees are still sound and healthy, it
is certain that labor and manure applied
inrestoring it to productiveness will pay
better than anywhere else on the farm.
1t has been ascertained by carefully
repeated experiments that the first
drawn milk contains five, the second
eight and the fifth seventeen per cent.
of cream. Thus a COW three-quarters
MIXED is not half MIXED, if butter is
the object.
The statistical account of the produc-
ton of wool throughout the civilized
world shows that in the year 1880 it
was 320,0O0,O0O pounds, in 1871 it was
nearly 2,000,000,000, while in 1883 in
the United States alone the production
in the whole world in 1880.
The egg plant seed, says Mr.. Wick,
may be soWn with tomato seeds; but
more care is necessary at transplanting,
to prevent the plants being chilled BY
the change. Those who have no hot
beds can SOW a few seeds in boxes in
the house. Hand-glasses are useful for
covering at time OF transplanting.
A grower of small fruit has found
that salt hay, spread over the whole
surface OF the ground 10 the depth of
three inches, will prevent mildew on
gooseberries. This grower, who resides
near the sea-coast, obtains his salt hay
from the marshes which the tide over
flows. Common, coarse hay or bog
grass, soaked in brine, would probably
answer just as well.
The Germantown Telegraph AYERS
that ounces can be raised as readily
as apples or pears. But the ground
where they are growing needs to except
from grass and weeds; and it is an ex-
cellent practice to spread ashes of
any sort and lime around the trees,
and dig such fertilizing material into
the soil. Ounces sell as high as $40 a
barrel, and they have always been high.
DR.. Nichols, Of the Boston journal
Of Chemistry, found by repeated and
| careful experiments, that the cooling
OF cows legs by standing in a pool Of
cool water in hot summer days, sensi-
bly, diminished the milk secretion, so
| sensitive are COWS to the influence of
cold. Yet many farmers subject their
mich COWS to frequent and severe chins
during the winter, both indoors and
out.
England imports nearly $25,00O,OO
worth OF cheese year. The average
price paid for the imported article is a
little less than eleven cents per pound.
Canada sends a higher priced article
than the United States, and the largest
amount OF any one country in compare
son with previous years. The increase
from the United States has been slight,
and the product Of Holland cannot com
pete with American cheese.
A Pomfret Conn farmer, whose
Icows are accustomed to run beside
barbed wire fences, wishing to open a
part of the moving to them for fall feed,
drew two lines of old cord and other
pieces Of Irvine across the field, making
them fast here and there to some bean
poles. The whole thing was the work
OF only a few minutes, but not one OF
his eight cows ever crossed or molested
that fence. They fed up to it and then
turned aside. Such is the force Of habit.
The latest improvement in raising
lima beans is to use brush about eight
feet high, stuck like pea-brush, instead
ofpoles, as commonly practised. Plant
in hills about three feet apart in the
direction of the rows, two or three
plants to the hill, and the rows six OF
eight feet from each other. Cut off the
tops of the plants when they get above
the brush, and stop all the side shoots
when they are two feet long. The
vines are much better exposed to the