The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-01-22
INDUSTRIAL sRlEFLErs.
Winter Dairying and Other Items OF
(senarn0 YntArnaH

Winter Dairying and Other Items Of
General Interest.
Luther Witt, of Plymouth, Wis, re-
ported to the Horticultural society of
that state that he had formerly suffered
the loss of good many hundred bush
els of apples by the apple curculio. But
he had found an efficient remedy. Tho
swine were turned in about the last of
May. and they carefully hunted for cv-
crything that fell from the trees. They
had the run of the orchard till transfer
red to winter quarters. Mr.. w. said
that since he had adopted this practice,
for the past three years, he had not seen
mark of these insects, nor wormy
apple. This is the treatment which has
been successfully adopted in plum Or
chards at the east, for the plum curcu-
lilo, for the past sixty years. Sheep
have been found better than swine, re-
quiring no ringing of the noses, and
both rendering necessary some protec-
ton of the stems of young trees with
thorns or barb-wires, or board boxes,
oAe houO AoI luI Sc trees.
1t is stated that ''the Jersey COW,
since tho very earliest period of which
VIC have any knowledge of her, has
been subjected to the most intimate and
intense course of breeding known to
the record of mating animals. The
narrow confines of territory of her
island home, together with the prohib-
tory measures instituted to preserve the
blood pure, made this close breeding
necessity. No evil consequences of
note seem to have developed so far as
we have any account. The cattle, in
their native home. arc rugged and
healthy, increasing rapidly in numbers;
each succeeding generation being IN
improvement on the preceding one, so
far as symmetry of form and beauty of
outline is concerned. The carcass has
obtained about nominal proportions,
very little lesscning in size having oc-
cured"
Dairy Commissioner Rice says that
dairying in Minnesota was never assum-
ing such prominence as this season.
One reason for it is, the farmers see
that the wheat crop is not always heavy,
and they are taking to other branches
of farming. The investigation for
facilities for dairying in different states,
made in New York year or more ago,
and the high rank that Minnesota took,
together with the results at the New
Orleans exposition, also leads farmers
to turn their attention in this direction.
The famous Lorillard farm in New
Jersey contains 1000 acres. The barn
has stalls for Sc horses; 40 hands and
Is teams are employed in the farm work.
In one building are 200 stalls for cattle.
The pigpcn is 40S feet long and holds
800 hogs. The corn-crib holds 10000
bushels of shelled corn. The stable in
which the ycarlings are housed contains
GO box stalls, and the center of the three
sections of the building is covered with
glass, and affords dry place where the
colts can exercise in wet weather.
A large number of farmers met last
week at Goshen, NY, to discuss means
whereby to secure living prices for their
milk. A resolution was passed to cstab-
lish, on or before Jan. 1, 1856, an ex-
change in New York city to sell milk
at wholesale, at a price to be governed
by the laws of demand and supply.
just now, owing to the milk war, there
is a great scarcity of milk in the above
named city, the total receipts having
fallen off nearly one thousand cans
a week.
An Ohio dairyman, who plainly shows
the possession of clear head as we'll as
prophetic fire, says that winter dairying
will never be overdonc. With warm,
well lighted, clean stables, he continues,
plenty of early cut and we'll cured grass,
supplemented with the contents of
good silo and wcll-tillcd root cellar,
the comfort. health and profit of the
COWS should be no more problematical in
winter than in summer.
A report from Sandwich, Mass, on
the 9Th of December, states that the
cranberry crop is nearly double that of
previous years. The number of barrels
to Dec. 1, shipped over the Cape Cod
branch of the Old Colony railroad, was
1881; number of boxes, 1O,81S, equal
to 3,60G barrels; total thus far, 81, 457.
Estimated amount ON hand not yet
shipped, 1850, which makes the total
harvest not far from 66,50O barrels.
The pecan tree, in the United States,
grows chiefly in Louisiana, Texas, and
Indian territory. The nuts grown in
Louisiana rank the first in quality. These
nuts are shipped to all parts of the
United States, and into Canada. There
is no European market for them. The
trees grow from sixty to seventy feet in
height, sometimes higher. They yield
heavy and durable wood.
According to Kalamazoo, Mich,
paper there are 1900 acres about that
city devoted to celery growing, consist
ing of drained marshes, now highly Gull
tivatcd, giving employment to $500
persons. From July to January an
average of five cars loaded with celery
are daily shipped to all parts of the
United States, making about $50 car
loads yearly. .
Everyone who has fowls should pro-
vide Il dustpan. Fine road-dust. coal
ashes, sand, pulverizcd loan, or even
clay, are all very good, and with
sprinkling of powdered sulphur consti-
tute as good bath as can be desired.
This should be placedin a sunny expo
sure of the room, and kept dry and
clean SO that the fowls may enjoy its
benefits when they choose.
Prof. Wagner publishes analyses in
support of his conclusion that steamed
potatoes are far more nutritious than
boiled ones. In the process of boiling,
the vegetables give up considerable por-
tons of nutritious salts, while they also
take IN more water than when steamed