The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-01-21
FARM NOTES.

ing of milk offered for sale penitentiary
otfense.
Give fowls all the range possible in
winter; they are open-ar birds and must
have exercise.
Mr. Badger, of Franklin, Mass, raised
six bushels of Beauty of Hebron potatoes
on square rod of ground.
The pear is the longest-lived of the
fruit trees. There is one in Salem, Mass.
that is known to be two hundred years
!. old.
1t is both cruel and unwise to place
horses or cattle in such narrow stalls, or
TO so tie them that they cannot lie down
and rest
Many old seeds that will germinate
with heat will perish in cold ground.
This should be borne in mind in testing
seeds in warm rooms.
Michigan. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois.
Kansas, and Missouri are recorded as
usually producing nearly half of the en-
tire wheat crop of the United States.
The general-purpose COW, like the
general purpose horse, is an animal that
has nothing inherent especially to be
recommended, Practical utility in breed
ing is toward special purpose.
Whatever cows you may have to win
fer, if in milk, keep them warm and
fully fed on rice food to the extent OF
fair digestion If store cows, feed SO as
TO keep in good condition for spring.
The owner of a Texas goat range left
1900 goats with hired man. The man
gambled away the animals and fled,
and the owner is unable to recover his
property, because he cannot identify it.
Is it not good time now to be build
ing an ice-house? A rough structure
with double sides one foot apart, to be
filled in with sawdust, and with a roof
that will shed water, is not expensive.
Twelve feet inside each way is ample for
any family.
The Rural Nea0 Yorker thinks Devon
cattle have been neglected OF late In
this country, while in England they are
holding their own with the breeds that
are more popular in America. For both
beef and the dairy they deservedly.
hold high position where best known.
1t seems to be the universal opinion of
dealers that it is the poor quality OF
cheese put upon the market that makes
the price of the product SO low. Con-
sumers are willing to pay fair price for
good full-cream cheese, if they have any
assurance they are getting what they
pay for.
The United States now has the cream
of the valuable breeds of the livestock
OF Europe Hence the less and less ne
cessity for continued importation, es-
seciaily the cattle of England, which a
3ate report shows to be suffering deaths
i'm proportion TO births, in the proper
ton last year, of one head for every five
born.
At the Wisconsin Experiment Station
Ethev have been testing the feed value tC
hogs of the droppings of corn-fed steers.
A fest was made by feeding the hogs q
certain amount of corn when separated
from the steers and the same amount
when running with them. 1t was found
that about one-half more pork was made
in the latter case. The number of hogs
was. of course, limited.
Sheep on the farm are almost neces.
Sitv in these times of advancement in
farming The highest authorities or
agricultural economy claim that there
must be variety III stock as we'll as ir
crops to attain the greatest success OF
the farm, and sheep are admitted to be
the best adapted to foul lands. Their
size makes them very convenient to
furnish meat for the farmers family.
Their products are marketable when
fhere is little else on the farm to bring
in ready cash They fit well to the
barge gap between hogs and cattle.
Professor Cook, in his paper on econ
prnic entomology, read before the Amer
scan Pathological Society, says the rea-
son why imported insect pests are for
time more destructive that native species
rs in the fact that they have fever para
sites or predaoeGus enemies to contend
with. In the course of few years these
enemies increase in such numbers as to
hold them in check. He said that new
insect pests are learning TO feed upon
plants heretofore not disturbed by them,
so that the entomologist has constant
work before him. Another thought was
that as insects increase in variety and
number insecticides are multiplied in
equal, if not greater, proportions.
keep the cows warm, and they will,
says Theodore Neff in the National
Stoeknaam and Farmer, ''eat no more in
the winter than any other time, and
they will require less extra food for
winter just in proportion as they are
made warm and comfortable; and by
GUST so much they will turn out milk at
reduced expense. There is profit in
keeping cows warm in winter 1t costs
much less to tone down the cold of our
severe climate by providing warm. COM
Portable buildings for the COWS. Ii the
owner has not secured them already,
the sooner he gets them the better, and
not be furnishing extra food year after
year to restore the heat needlessly lost
by the exposure of his COWS to the cold
air.
Hon. Cassius NJ Clay, Kentucky,
writes to the Farmers Home Journal:
ga day or so ago Twas repairinga fence
and was astonished at the great number
of grasshoppers in the grass pastures.
have been feeding green corn for many
days to advance few fat cattle before
cold weather, and wondered that the
COWS had not come to help eat up the
scattered corn. To-day / saw more than
a thousand crows on the same pasture
ground, and thought would kill one
and hang him by the leg and scare the
Others off to the other fields. While
meditating this matter | observed that
they avoided all the places where the
corn,was spread and were busy in eat
ing the grasshoppers. So, conscience
stricken, write this paper in their be-
half. Spare the crows
The Farmer and Ddirymaa is inform
ed that a company has been formed
in New York City for securing pure
milk by a new process. Fresh, pure
milk, made in localities where feed is
cheap, is canned, bottled and corked
when first drawn from the cow and I'M
mediately heated in water or steam,
both under the pressure of the atmos-
-phere. 1t is then cooled, after which it
anay be kept a year without undergoing
amy change Heating destroys all germs,
and bottling prevents all connection
with the outside ain Should the new
fnethod prove equal to the expectations
pf the projectors it will work a revolu-
Zion in the milk business OF the country
give the people OF the large cities cheap
sand pure milk and its consumption