The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-08-18

his bees. He finds it a very valuable
aid i'm removing old queens or intro
ducing new ones. These operations
are very perplexing to a novice, but
a few whiffs of c%hloroform blown in
to the hive enables them to be per-
formed without difficulty.
NEWLY THREsHED GRAIN.
The earliest threshed grain will
need careful attention to prevent
injury from heating. While the
weather is hot the danger is greatly
intensified. An outside temperature
among the nineties gives a strong
impetus towards heating of grain,
and if it begins the process of heat
ing makes the grain absorb moisture
from the air.
L MILL
The great advantage of the cream
cry system is that it cools the milk
quickly by means of ice, and thus
gets the greatest amount OF cream.
1t is very important that the milk
be put in the creamery while yet
warm from the cow. In a large dairy
every cows milk should be carried
away as fast as drawn by a boy or
man employed for this purpose.
RYE FOR WINTER FEEDING.
IF at a loss what to do with ground
from which some early crop has
been taken, we advise to SOW it with
rye. This grain can be sown early
i'm August and fed down until cold
weather, besides furnishing an early
run for sheep next Spring. In places
where drought has shortened the
hay crop, rye is now the most avail
able resource. 1t is not injured by
early frosts, and may be cut late and
saved for Winter use in the siIo.
WATER FOR MICH COWS.
Lack of water is one eason why
cows shrink in their yield of milk at
this season of the year. Partially
dried heritage is more like hay than
grass, and even plenty of water to
drink will not obliterate the differ
ence. If the yield Of milk is once
allowed to fall off no amount of good
feeding will ever quite restore it to
what it should have been. Worst of
all, the COW poorly watered loses
flesh and will not be SO good another
season.
DILUTING PHOSPHATE.
Owing to the high price of phos-
phate most farmers who use it mix
it with something cheaper to make
a small quantity 60 farther and dis
tribute evenly in the drill. Wood
ashes are among the best substances
for this purpose. They n%eutralize
the excess of acid which makes phos-
phate moist and sticky. They scour
and make bright the bottom of the
fertilizer box, provided they are used
dry. But wherever ashes are used
the drill must be cleansed thorough
ly every night, as they draw mois-
ture and cause the iron to rust.
SAVING CABBAGE FROM WORMS.
Most kinds of insects find their
favorite food by smell. Any power
full odor is therefore a preventive
of their attacks, not perhaps because
it repels them, but merely because
it throws them off the scent. Acting
on this hint, a farmer who had a lot
of cabbage plants mixed some land
plaster with a small quantity of spir-
it's of turpentine. He left it several
weeks, turning it over and over un-
til every particle was scented. Then
a little was sprinkled once or twice
a week on the cabbage plants, and
the white butterfly that lays the
eggs missed them entirely, while
other plants in the neighborhood
not SO treated were overrun.
cow DROPPINGs IN H BARNARD.
Where cows r yarded at night
in Summer they will make a good
deal of manure during that season,
while under ordinary management
much of this is wasted. If the ward
is not we'll bedded liquid excrement
is SOC dissipated in the hot sun,
while the solid portions are dried up
SO as to be nearly worthless. The
manure from a COW during a season
is well worth 81 per month for the
time she is kept in the barnyard at
night. This is far too large a sum
to be wasted, especially as the ma
ure thus lost may make the differ
ence between successful and unsuc-
cessful cropping. Manure on the
farm ought to be, and is, worth
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