The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-06
Facts for Farmers.

The cranberry crop in 1885 was
100000 bashels, the largest crop ever
known. Michigan produced only
about percent of this amount.
Stumps are great nuisance on land
that is cultivated. Now, while the
ground is soft. is good time to twist
them out by horsepower, claiming a
long pole to the stump.
Gypsum is known as plaster of
Paris, or rs land plaster. In 100
pounds there are 46 pounds of sui
plluric acid, 33 pounds of lime, and
q pounds water of capitalization.
A correspondent of the Gardeners
Monthly says he cut 1900 pears from
Seckel tree in his garden to Tighten
the crop, but found 1850 upon 1t
when he came to gather the fruit in
August.
H. C. Burleigh, before the New
England Farmers Club, advised be.
ginners who enter into meat produc'
ton not to "expect too much from
blood neither expect to succeed
without it. Both are indispensable
to insure success"
Meyer be tempted to put coarse
manure close around young trees in
the superstition that such material
might be useful as a mulch and for
winter protection. Mice will congre-
gate there and certainly girdle the
trees.-Mchigda Farmer.
The COW, when yielding milk,
needs warmer stable than the OK.
If we draw from her twenty pounds
of milk daily that is at the tempera-
ture of 100, we mnst in some way
furnish her with the means of restor-
Ing the caloric to the system.
Fifteen million horses are now own
ed in America, and more than 1,000,-
900 year must be bred to keep up
the supply. The largest portion Of
these are used for agricultural and
heavy draft purposes, and such horses
bring from S175 to $40 each.
In those European countries from
which we get our best dairy cows but
little grain is fed. Grass and roots,
bulky food, that has a tendency to
enlarge the intestines and strengthen
the digestive organs, are much better
Tor heifers than rich, concentrated
food,
The curing of clover in the barn de.
ponds upon how it is stored. Some
barns are tight and have solid floors
at the bottom of the NOW, while
Others haye cracks in the walls and a
lot of loose rails for the hay to rest on.
While the tight barn may sometimes
keep green clover, like a silo, the
other will not.
In nothing do we need to exercise
greater care and Judgment than in
feeding. While one COW will only
fully utilize from four to six pounds,
careful test will no doubt prove the
COW that consumes ten pounds will
bring to her owner larger net profit
than the one that consumes but five
pounds.
The Department of Agriculture es-
Inmates the increased value in the
cattle of Louisiana and the adjoining
cotton States due to the use of i'm
proved breeds and crossing them on
the native cows during the last few
years, at thirty-fve percent. During
the last year the increase in the value
of every OK and COW in the cotton
States was from ten to twenty per-
cent.
When hens have been laying for
quite while the eggs at the end of
the prolific period will not produce as
strong chickens as those which were
laid at the beginning of that period.
1t 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 the last of the litter.
In churning should the tempera
ture be too high the butter will either
refuse to come or be soft and white,
as it is more difficult to free it from
the buttermilk. If too high the cream
will sometimes foam and increase in
bulk. The accepted temperature is
about 56o in summer and go in win
ter, as the outside temperature will
increase or lower that of the cream in
the churn.