The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-29
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Agricultural Miscellany.

UuL having a. AdIlCy 4OE Iuc country
bought q place OF twenty acres in a
delightful Virginia village. While
have never regretted themOve, ! think
probably a better bargain might have
been made had | lived there a short
time prior to purchasing. First hire
q place for q year in order TO learn
something OF the country, the rural
life and the people,-~SchuyIer Duryee.
For the Mammoth Cheese named
"City Of Buffalo lately madea t East
Aurora, N. Y, $500 COWS contributed
$4,000 pounds of milk, equivalent to
16 tons or 1000 gallons. At inter-
walls, during the process of filling the
colossal mould, ten So gold pieces were
tossed in as bOnanzas for buyers Of
slices at Thanksgiving time-and the
cover was finally forced down with six
iackscrews. The compressed product
is four inches thicker and POO pounds
heavier than one turned out In 1871,
which weighed 3, 100 pounds and was
until this latest achievement the
largest mentioned in dairy records.
A Gardener who has worried with
the hateful cutworms for many years
and has tried every popular remedy
against them has the past season
found relief by using u strong solution
OF saltpetre, viz, half o pound dissolv-
ed in three pints of water. This he
mixes thoroughly with half a bushel
OF wood ashes and spreads them about
the beans; the CutwOrms avoided the
crop so treated and never disturbed
it. The fertilizing effect of the appli-
cation also forced a strong growth
and produced q good crop OF the
beans.
The Tacoma (Wyoming) Evening
News describes some samples of sew
en- headed wheat raised and submitted
TO the editor by a neighboring farmer.
They were produced this year on
creek bottom clay loan land. The
stalks were the products of two kern
els and six feet long. The heads re-
sembled a pink cone, thick and chum-
py. There were 161 grains in one
head or 966 in the seven heads, the
grain from which the stalks sprang
produced nearly a thousand fold.
The yield per acre was S5 bushels OF
good milling wheat. That beats East
Tennesseel One of our enterprising
seedsmen should purchase the crop.
Winter dairying is more convenient
than summer dairying for several
reasons. The COWS are at rest during
the cold weather, and all the annoy
ances from flies and heat are evaded.
The farm work is not interfered with,
and the labor is not made so irksome
al If milking and churning had to be
done. The care of the milk is less
costly, because it is cheaper to keep q
dairy warm In the winter than to cool
one by the use of ice in the summer;
there is also less trouble with the milk
and butter in various ways. The
butter brings a better price and keeps
better In the winter than in the sum-
mer.
Remember that the winter mich
Gov must have a little something e
ira to take the place of the grass of
which she hGg been deprived. She
must do more than 10 keep up in fair
6<sh order, and mr@t hayenaore TODD
with Our best calves come from the
winter cows where the COWS are given
q good chance, 20 there is double In
dncement fer giving themother agood
show before az well as after calving.
"a partial diet Of roots and green vege-
tabES viii 60 far toward supplying
the loss Of grass, and modify the
change from green TO dry food.
Squash and melon seeds which have
--=sl TFvvn m cOntiguiry are never
trustworthy. All the gourd tribe are
% closely related sate .ntesS=cca With =
great facility, and the seeds-which
are really the fruit-become mixed
and impure. Melons grown from seed
thus adulterated have a course and
disagreeable flavor and are wholly
worthless. As the mixing is due to
the effect of insects, which
carry the pollen from one plant to an
other, the seed should be gathered
only fromth plants which are grown
IN the centre of a field or patch.
G. II. Lewis, writing to the Elmira
Farmers Club, mentions the fact that
carly sown buckwheat is always in
iured by the hot weather. He states
that the crops sown in June will yield
very poorly while those sown a month
Later are heavily loaded with grain.
This is O. common experience with this
crop. Although a tender plant and
destroyed By q light frost, yet it re-
ouires cool weather. A Southern
farmer who grows it largely states
that it does best when sown as late as
the first week in September. August
eown buckwheat, ike that sown in