The Penn's Grove record., 1888-02-11
FARM NOTES.


does not setm to be any good reason
to fear that the noble Shorthorn is to
be counted out OF the ranks of the
mixers yet. Formerly this breed WAS
the best dairy COW known, and in those
days when Mr.. Bales was busy improv-
ing them, the original S%horthOrn cows
were copiotIs and rich mixers. Forty
two quarts OF milk and two pounds Of
butter per tlay was the common yield
Of the first Duchess without the ex-
cessive feeding o common with
''tested" cows. There was 10 testing
about the Duchess, her weekly product
OF butter was made on the pasture and
sold by her mistress every week. And
the natural ~proclivlty to make milk
and butlerI has not left the SllOrthorn
race, although breeders for many years
have been sloing all that might be pos.
sible to elitninate this valuable ctarac-
teristic and make them only fat-prc-
ducing animals. At the recent English
Dairy show a Shorthorn COW proved
the champion mixer and buttermaker.
After pa bays from calving, her milk
Yield amounted to 45t pounds daily,
and her batter TO 4. 4 per cent, equal
" . q pOuiYIo Hsi uoy. II totoi oc''S'
in This milk amounted to a.. per
cent, which shows that the COW was
not only at excellent buttermaker, but
exceptionally good for cheese. If there
is a really good general-purpose COW
this is surely one.
A FoREHANDED husbandmaB of
Western New York, whose land is
level or only slightly rolling, draws
manure IN winter as fast as made and
broadcasts it upon bare ground or not
more that six inches Of NOW in fields
intended for hoed crops next season.
He has persisted in this practice for
years, and makes the remarkable state
ment in Farm L,fe that some load so
applied is equal in effect to three, at
least, spread in spring." Moreover, he
gets just so much work out of the way
during a comparatively slack time.
lBELIEyE the great success of the
Danish butter arises solely from the
education given in their schools and
colleges. Every pupil is taught OF the
same lines, and it IS impressed upon
them that butter, being a manufactured
article, requires the same care and at
tention to details as any other manu-
facture. This education, we must re-
member, commencing in 1865. first be-
gan to bear fruit in 1875, and now we
find that during the five or six winter
months,i IL it were not for Danish butter,
We would, l am afraid, have to turn to
butterine.
DORSET horn sheep have been crossed
with but few breeds, but among those
that have been tried one have answered
so well as that between a horn eve and
a good Down RAM, producing, as 1t
does, a sheep well adapted for grazing.
and much priced by butchers, as 1t
carries 9 large amount of lean flesh,
with fine quality, and weighing, from
grass, from twenty to twenty-five
pounds per quarter at IS months old.
HENRY STEWART says that when
sheep are Kept for wool and mutton,
and the latter last, the lambs should
not come until May or June, when the
ewes on fresh grass will have abundant
milk, and will raise large lambs at less
expense than those that come earlier.
So that while for market lambs ewes
may be coupled in August or September
for the flock the ewes and rams should
not run together until December or
January.
PROFESSOR SANBORN advises farmers
to attempt to use chemicals mot includ-
ing lime, plaster or salt) only after IN
telligent buying, a careful study of the
soil by comparative tests, and then on
horticultural crops mainly, including
potatoes. This advice will not apply.
However, when wheat approximates 81
per bushel, or when soils are largely
deficient in potash or p~hosphoric acid
A BULL with an ugly temper Is dan
gerous. whether with horns or not. A
Polled Angus bull In Minnesota some
time since dashed It's owner, an old
gentleman named Sherwin, to the
ground, and then, falling IN its knees,
butted him repeatedly, inflicting such
injuries that its victim died shortly
after having been rescued.
DIR. SALMON says that considering
that tuberculosis is caused by a specific
germ, and that conse quently it does not
originate spontaneously, and also that
1t Is not often transmitted from one
person to another by c0ntagion 1T seems
very probable that the disease Is largely
kept up by affected animals and of all
animal food the most dangerous is the
meat and milk of tuberculous cattle.
IT would be better to kill a few of
the young pigs at birth than to compel
the SOW to suckle too many, as lack of
milk and cold will cause the weaker
ones to die. Large litters are at no
time desirable, and especially in winter.
CBoPPINa a hole in the ice to allow
the cows TO drink is simply a method
of chilling them, thereby causing
a ~shtinkage in the yield Of milk, Warm