The Russellville Democrat., 1886-12-22
AGRICUiTURAL.

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 Te properly keep straw and hay ip stacks the stacks must be s0 constructed as to shed water,
 Texas feveF le reported in Missouri, but only few cases have been heard of up to this time.
 The editor of the Orange County Far mer trains his tomatoes to poles, and they grow six feet high.
 Ton can not make your scrub pigs weigh $50 pounds at nine months, but good breeds can be made to do it.
 A very successful western dairyman says he has only one ration for his cows, and that is crushed oats and bran.
 Pleuro pneumonia is reported in Aberdeenshire and and Kincardinshife, Scotland, and Cumberland, England.
 Avoid top ventilation in the poultry house, It will cause roup, swelled head, closed eyes and other difficulties.
 Chickens can be fattened in twelve days to two weeks If they are kept in a partly dark place and fed all they will eat.
 Texas horsemeu are enthusiastic over the success of the cross of the French draught horse with their native Texas mares,
 There is general complaint among breeders of shortage in pigs, and be- fore the season Is over the scarcity will be felt.
 from the food over and above that which is necessary to sustain the mere functions of life.
 With n pFnpeF care and skill 2 well selected flock of the right kind of sheep can be made to pay lOOper cent on their cost every year.
 pr. Loring says that nothing but a horse should be called thoroughbred. Cattle of that class, he says, should be called pure bred.
 Beets and parsnips may be kept fresh through the winter by packing in sand; this will preserve their flavor and keep them from drying up.
 Every farmer must know what kind of swine breed well and are wanted in the market. That is the kind which can be bred with profit.
 Dressed meats have recently been successfully shipped from Buenos Ayres to England. Grass is very rich and
 
 Near Stockholm, Sweden, a farmer and his father before him have success fully cultivated tobacco upon the same few acres of land for nearly fifty years.
 Cider made from finely ground apples and strained through coarse canvas is far superior to that made in the old-fash- toned mills and strained through straw.
 It is estimated that 50,000,000 eggs are consumed every day in this country, or about one for each inhabitant, which includes, however, those used in the arts.
 An ''agricultural" fair, says the New England Homestead, that cannot run without tue aid of money received from the sale of licenses for the sale of liquor ought to be abolished.
 The value which competent judges have assigned the various features of butter is as follows: Flavor %; keep ing qualities, 20; texture, 25; color, To: apperrande, l5. Total, 100 points.
 4 pound of minorca eggs will require only six eggs, while with some other breeds eight eggs are necessary te a pound. This shows the unfairness of selling eggs by the dozen instead of by weight.
 The coming buttermaker, according to the National St0ckman, must have a clean mouth and breath as well as clean clothes and a clean apron, be honest, neat, smart, leyel-Aeaded and able to keep accounts.
 Commenting on the opposition of Profs. Brown and Sanborn to the ensi- lage the editor of the American Dairy man says, s.The poorest ensilage we have ever seen has been in the silos of agricultural colleges"
 While milk is standing for cream to rise, the purity of the cream, and con sequently the line flavor and keeping of the butter, will be injured if the surface of the cream Is exposed freely to air much warmer than the cream"
 Seed corn intended for next season should be thoroughly dried or it will not answer. If perfectly dry it will endure very severe cold, but if containing much water in it's composition the extremely cold weather will injure the germ. Dry it well and hang it up in dry place of even temperature.
 Drain the swamps. Col. Thos. Cogs- well, Gilmantown, N. H.,reports twelve tons of good market hay cut from three and half acres of reclaimed waste land at the two cuttings last year and the present, these being the first valu- able crops the land has eyer produced since it was in swampy, rocky forest.
 Some easy milkers will suddenly be- come hard milkers. Probably nothing will produce this effect quicker than the udder through mud or muddy water. The COW may wade through mud to drink or in crossing a spring run, and the same application for one that milks too easy and leaks milk would be far better than alum water or oak bark tea. It will make the skin as rdugh as toad's back in short time.