New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-12-05
THE FARM.
Some Points for Farmers.

Some Points for Farmers.
English cheese mongers it is said
hold very limited stocks and prices
have an upward tendency.
The home consumption of cheese is
said to be much larger this year
than ever known before.
Nanny correspondents report a
much larger yield OF wheat on sum
mer falloW than on wheat or corn
stubble.
The recent wet weather in the east
ern states is said to have been amain
cause Of the large falling off in the
exports Of cheese.
If your milk room is too damp
place a quantity Of lime in it. The
lime will absorb the surplus moisture
and soon make the room dry.
Horton ellis, of McHenry county,
Ill, is credited with having the largest
creamery in the world, the annual
product exceeding 100000.
The usefulness of any dairy COW is
in her udder, and toward her udder
its shape and it's yield, all the capa-
bilities Of the COW should be directed
In Michigan one farmer in each one
hundred raised only five bushels of
wheat this year per acre, while two
in each one hundred raised over
thirty bushels per acre.
1t is better to have a COW that
knows how to attend to one branch
of her business thoroughly than
to have one ambitious to excel in
everything.
In consequence ofthe generally bad
crops and bad weather in England,
the farming population are turning
more attention to fruit growing
than formerly, and also to poultry
and vegetable growing.
| A Southwestern journal suggest
that in view of the returns from some
of the open-range cattle shipped each
year that the scrub had better be left
| to die on the range rather than to
freight him 900 miles to market and
then sell him at $1.4O per 100 lbs.
Small POTATOES, pumpkins, sugar
beets and mangels and turnips boiled
up in a large boiler, and after they
are thoroughly cooked, they are
mixed with several bushels of a mix
ture of equal parts ground oats,
corn and mill feed. This is very good
food, and fattens rapidly.
A New York firm has sent out a
circular to cheese makers, complain
ing Of the great amount of poor
cheese that IS being forced upon the
! market, owing to the efforts of the
factories to make the greatest weight
Of cheese to the hundred pounds of
milk, resulting in "a loose, moist,
ill-keeping cheese that goes off flavor
and rots. 2
The dealers in this part Of the
world do not know what good cheese
is, it is SO long since they have had
any, says the Orange County Farmer.
In our family we use about ten
pounds per annum of the best we can
get If fine goods were to be had we
would probably use seventy five
pounds instead of ten and we imagine
this is true of others.
If paint be put on as a preserva-
tive rather than for mere ornamen-
tation, the roof should not be un-
painted. It may not be seen, but
the action of rain failing upon a roof
is much more injurious to shingles
implanted than it can be on the sides
and clapboards of a building The
falling drops cause the fbres OF the
wood to break, making a fuzzy sur
face, which holds water and induces
decay. Paint entirely prevents this
SO long as it lasts. 1t is cheaper to
keep the roof covered with some in
expensive paint than to have the
labor anG expense of renewing shing-
les every few years.