The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-26
FACTS For FARMaRs.

The cranberry crop IN 1880 was WI
600 bushels, the largest crop ever known.
Michigan produced only about percent
OF this amount.
Stumps are great nuisance on land
that Ia cultivated, Now, while the ground
ia soft, 10 O good time to twist them out by
HORSEPOWER, claiming long pole to the
stump.
Gypsum is known as plaster Of Paris,
or as land plaster. In 100 pounds there
are 10 pounds OF sulphuriu acid, IS pounds
Of lime, and u pounds water OF cFystali'
zation.
A correspondent OF the Gardeners
Monthly says he cut 1900 pears from q
Seokel tree in his garden TO tighten the
crop, but found 1850 upon 1t when he
came to gather the fruit in August.
IL, @. Burleigh, before the New Eng
land Farmers Club, advised beginners
who enter into meat production not to
expect too much from blood; neither ex-
peGt to succeed without 1t, Both are in
dispensable to insure success"
Never be tempted TO put coarse manure
close around young trees in the supposl'
ton that such material might be useful W
mulch and for winter protection. Mice
will congregate there and certainly glrdle
the trees,-MichigGR Farmer.
The COW, when yielding milk, needs
warmer stable than the OK. II we draw
from hF twenty pounds oil milk daily that
Is at the temperature Of 100, we muslin
some way furnish her with the means ef
restoring the caloric to the system.
Fifteen million horses are now owned
in America, and more than 100000
year must be bred 10 keep up the supply,
fhs largest portion Of these are used for
agricultural and heavy draft purposes, and
such hoIaes bring from $40 to $40 each,
In those European countries from which
We get our best dairy cows but little grain
is fed. Grass and roots, bulky tood, that
has a tendency to enlarge the intesLines
and strengthen the digestive organs, are
much better Tor helters than rich, CON
centrated food
The curing Of clover in the barn de-
Ponds upon how II IL stored. Some barns
are tight and have solid floors at tho bot.
tom OF the NOW, while others have cracks
IN the Wallg and q lot Of loose rails for the
hay to rest on. While the tight barn may
sometimes keep green clover, like siIO,
the other will not,
In nothing do We need to exercise
greater care and judgment than in feed.
ing. While one COW will only fully utilize
from four to Six pounds, a careful test will
40 doubt prove the COW that consumes ten
pounds will bring 10 her owner a larger
net profit than the one that C0nsumes but
dve pounds,
The Department Of. Agriculture est.
mates the increased value in the cattle Of
Louisiana and the adjoining cotton States
due 10 the use OF improved breeds and
crossing them on the native COWS duriug
the last few years, at thirty.hve percent
During tho last year the increase In tue
value Of every OK and COW in the cotton
states was from ten to twenty percent.
When hens have been laying for quite a
while the eggs at the end Of the prolific
period will not produce as strong chickens
As those which werO laid at the beginning
Of that period, II appears as though the
strength Of the layer begins to diminish
by this continued effort, and that the
eggs are not sufficiently endowed with
vitality near tho last Of the litter.
In churning should the temperature be
too high the butter will either refuse to
come or bs soft and white, rs 1t Is more
difficult to free it from the buttermilk.
II too high tho cream will sometimes
foam and increase III bulk. The accepted
temperature is about 5B' in summer and
G2' In winter, as the outside temperature
will increase or lower that Of the cream in
the churn.
Quite discussion Is taking place among
the agricultural journals regarding tho
lehoIning CT cattle by artificial processes,
but as we have breed Of polled cattle II
has been suggested that the result can
easily be arrived at by breeding The
Scotch breed, divided into Angus and
Galloway, is now being used extensively as
the best produceIs, and possess the char.
aCteristic Of being without horns.