The Penn's Grove record., 1886-06-05
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LlH utlIliEnllG wv - NO
COW like the buffalo, gives only milk
enough to sustain her young, aud that
only for a few months. No extraordi-
nary productions Of milk ever occur in
wild animals, though they are as well
fed and as healthful and vigorous as in
a domestic state. The cattle which
have been turned out on the plains of
Texas. where they have an abundance
of food the year round, have their milk
inc uualitles run down to a low stand
ard in a few generations, showing that
handwriting is as necessary to sustain
ing an abnormal secretion of milk as it
is IN developing it in the first place.
Cows derive their milk from the food
they consume, and large quantities of
milk can only result from high feeding;
but such feeding must be done under
standingly and at the proper time, or it
NAV have an effect quite the reverse OF
that il Is aimed at and desired. To
feed a COW high when she is not in milk
that is, to give her more food than
would be necessary to maintain a
healthy and vigorous condition-aquan-
tity which would produce fattenfng or
an extraordinary development of flesh,
tends to check rather than to develop
milk secretion.
HEALTHY Hoes. Pure air helps to
make pure blood, which, in the course
OF nature, builds up healthful bodies.
Out.ot-door pigs would not show so we'll
at the fairs, and would probably be pas
sed wei by judges and people who have
been taught to admire only fat and
helpless things, which get the prizes.
Such pigs are well adapted to fill lard
kegs, whereas the standard of perfec-
ton should be a pig which will make
the most ham with the least waste of
fat, the longest and deepest sides, with
the most lean meat. 1t should have
done enough to stand up and help it.
self to food, and carry with it the evil
dence of health and natural develop
ment in all its parts. Pigs which run
in a range of pasture have good appe-
tites-the fresh air and exercise gives
them this-hence they will eat a great
variety of food, and much coarser than
when confined In pens. Nothing need
go to waste on a farm for need OF a
market. They will consume all the re-
fuse fruit, root, pumpkins, and all kinds
Of vegetables, which will make them
grow. BY extending the root patch,
and planting the fodder corr thinner. so
that nubbins will form on it by putting
in a sweet variety, the number of pigs
may be increased III proportion. The
pig pasture will be ready the next year
for any crop, and ten times the adyan-
tage accrue to the farmer than If the
pigs are confined to close pens, for, as
pigs are usually managed on a farm,
but little manure is ever made from
them.
EXPERIMENTS recently made in Eu-
rope with a view to ascertalning the
best method of preserving manure show
that MI allowed to accumulate
under cattle three months or more in
specially constructed deep stalls, was
found in every case, as compared with
that of ordinary manure heaps, in a
more workable condition to keep the
ammoniacal salts better preserved and
the useful ingredients in greater pro-
portions.
THERE are said to be fifty injurious
insects In our vegetable gardens; in our
vineyards, while seventy-ive attack
our apples trees and more than fifty our
grain fields. Seventy.ive million dol
Iars is estimated as the damaged done
TO the wheat in Illinois in one season,
and nearly ten years ago the annual
.oSs in the United States from insect
Expectations alone vas estimated at
nearly $500, DOC, 900.
CORN which is hilled will blow down
more readily than that which has level
culture. This can be accounted for by
he fact that cnrn~rGutsF Fiji very near
he surface, and when hills r made
hey are confined to the small space
covered by the hill, while in level Gull
.ure the roots run fIom n row to the
,ther, thus enabling the corn 10 stand
as nature intended, and in no
way liable to be blown down except by
winds of unusual violence.
ANY cause that lnterferes with the
condition of the GOV after calving may
produce milk fever. Exposure, too
much exercise or nervous excitement
ire sufficient to bring on an attack, and
recovery is rare. 1t is the ''ounce of
prevention" in this case, as In so many
that is worth the pound of cure.
Keep the animal quiet for a week be-
ore and after calvlng and nurse her
veil.
IT is common during the summer for
wells in the country to become impure.
One who has thus suffered attributes it
o earth worms, which,in dry weather
eek moist places. and thus get to the
iides of the well. An ~eficacious reme-
ly is said to be found in a trench three
'eet dug around the well alongside of
,he stone wall and filled with gravel, no
Toll being allowed on top.
LAST year Illinois led the columns of
wheat-bearing states with a yield of
2,302, 900 bushels, Indiana second,
Ohio third, and Minnesota fourth. In
1881 Ohis led the list with a yield or
IS, $50, 900 bushels. Ohio stands first
a five years. average. with A 1892
$50 bushels; Indiana second, with Az
fG0, 492; Minnesota third, with $780,
jl5 bushels; California standing fourth
hlh o1lShiSdu Hull III lhlo
seems to be an uncertain honor.
A GREAT many fields, especially
those long and narrow, are always plow-
the same way. Simply changing the
direction of working will often make a
great increase in productiveness. The
cut across the old lines of fur
is not stopped by the same stones,
while new soil is opened to the growth
plant roots.
As o as the early crop of potatoes
has been harvested you may plant sun
Put the seeds In twelve inches
apart each way, and when they are a
foot high earth them up and they will
need no further care. If you keep bees
the blossoms will be valuable, while the
seeds are excellent for poultry and are
In demand for making toilet soap.
If a farmer Who had but one animal
that was useful to him should allow a
dozen others that were Of no use to
HIM, and that would only be a greater