Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-06-14
FARM NOTES.

largest seed potatoes win give the earliest
growth of matured tubers, and the less
stalksin the hill the better.
At q sheep shearing at Decatur, Mich, .
ram belonging to e. Sanford, though weigh
ing but 924 pounds, sheared . fleece weigh
ing twenty-five pounds.
Kentucky breeders turn their mares with
early foal out on rye pasture to promote
their fov of milk. This is an excellent
plan, and should be followed elsewhere.
A remedy for the maggot which infests
cabbage is to make whole with q dibble
close TO the stalk, insert ten drops Of bisul-
phide of carbon and quickly close the hole
again.
1t is not generally known that the aver
age value Of an acre of celery in the region
OF Kalamazoo, Mich, is $500, and that the
annual crop reaches 5000 tons. An acre
contains from twenty-five to thirty thousand
plants. The land q originally q sandy
marsh.
Although salt is used in packing butter,
yet it does very little to preserve it. Sal,
however, retards the decomposition Of cas-
eous and albuminous materials left in 1t.
There rave been cases in which butter has
been kept without salt for q long time.
1t is said that the flavor Of beets, turnips
or cabbages in milk can be overcome BY
dissolving half a ~teaspoonful of saltpetre in
a teacup Of water and pouring it into the
churn with the cream at churning time.
Cabbage may be fed at night after milking
without aavoripg milk.
Experiments by L~assaings show that one
hundred pounds Of dry hay fed to q horse
| required a secretion Of four hundred pounds
of SALIVA; one hundred pounds Of oats re-
| auired a secretion of one hundred and fit.
| teen pounds of saliva, while one hundred
pounds of green food required but forty
three pounds of saliva to prepars it for swal-
lowing.
1t is now law that the New York State
Dairy Commissioner shall register each
cheese factory and furnish it a special
brand, bearing a trademark and the words,
New York State full cream cheese" Using
the brand on any other description is pun.
ishable with from S25 to $50 fine RGd fifteen
% thirty days imprisonment, {he skim.
mer's occupation is gone!
A complete food for poultry is room,
mended by a prominent breeder as consist
ing of all the elements required for growth
and eggs. 1t is "a take one quart Of wheat
and grind it in a coffee mill Then add
rue quart OF corn meal, two pounds OF beef
scraps, boiled tender, and two or three raw
onions. Mix thoroughly, bake till vel
done, and crunble up for the fowls.
Professor C. V. Riley, entomologist Of the
Agricultural Department. siates that the
country will soon be visited by two great
broods of locusts Of the seventeen and
thirteen year variety, and that this will bt
the first time for 22l years that they have
appeared in conjunction, but he does moi
think they will be greatly destructive
though doing some damage to fruit trees.
Be careful in planting corn not suitable
to your climate, No variety with remarka
bly, large ears stalks or kernels will mature
quickly; no very early variety has ear
above medium size. Selection, climate
soil, ETC., have so modified some yarietse
that two samples under the same name may
differ greatly. The method Of cultivation
and time of planting must also be consid
cred.
Whenever HoIstein bulls have been in
troduced the grades have displayed sucl
marked superiority as producers of milk
butter and beef, as to create a strong de
mand for them. An Illinois dairymAr
states that he has q grade Holstein cow tina
gave 5000 quarts of milk in a year as a 2
year old, aud now, at G years Of age, gives,
on grass alone, eight gallons Of milk a day
and that many Of his grades never 60 dry
A Wisconsin dairyman reports that he
has a calf (grade Holstein) which was borr
the last day of December, 1854. When Z
months old it weighed 1913 pounds, and ~
to hat age it had been fed only on skinned
milk and hay. II was weighed again wheu
months old, and than reached 4G5 pounds
he last Two months it was fed witt
sLimmed milk, a little oil meal, some oat'
and q due proportion Of hay.