The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-07-14
FARMERS DEPARTMENT.
Notes.


milking her, but 10 keep on milking
the COW just as you had been, but
stop her food not starve her down,
but give her the kind of food that
makes more flesh than milk, and
give her only little of it, just
enough to keep her in good condi-
ton.
1t is related that geniusat Pitts
field, ILL.,, has made II big barrel
churn upon wheels. He goesthrough
the country, gathering cream and
when a proper quantity has been Sc
cured returns home. On the way
home he connects the churning gear
and as he drives along the churning
goes on as the wagon moves forward
so that when he arrives home there
is nothing to do but take out the
butter and draw off the buttermilk.
That comes pretty near portable
butter factory, and its inventor is
probably Il born Yankee, instead of
being a native of the "Sucker State"
Get the ground ready for turnips.
Plow it SO as to allow the grass and
weeds to start up. As fast as they
shall appear run the cultivator over
the field. In this manner nearly
all the grass and weeds will be de-
stroyed before the arrival of the
time for putting in the turnip seed,
and it will save labor in growing the
crop. 1t is also best to spread the
manure on the plot now, as manure
frequently contains seed of weeds.
If a COW of any breed is not doing
her best as a dairy COW, it is in entire
accord with all our practical exper-
fence to so change her food and care
as to bring her up to der best; but
when we get that COW to her best
there is no known method offeeding
or care that will make her do any
better. But breed that COW so as
to make her calf better dairy ami
NAL than the COW herself and then
the same food and the same care
which the dam received will give
better results. Hence, it is the
breed first and the care afterward.-
Prof Alvord.
Depth for Planting Seed.-As a
rule, the majority Of the farmers SOW
seeds too deep. Small seeds need
just enough covering to give them
moisture and darkness. The soil
should be pressed on fine seeds only
so as to exclude the light. Espec-
tally should this be done very care
fully and slightly just before a rain.
Many seeds are lost and the reputa-
ton of some good, honest seedsmen
ruined in the estimation of some in
diyiduals, because fine seed are
sown too deep, and the soil is pressed
down too hard upon them. A great
many farmers are in too great a
hurry to sow seeds early they do
not wait for the ground to get sulli.
GENTLY dry and warm. 1t is hard
to give general directions that will
apply to all cases, but as rule, the
smaller the seed, the lighter should
should be the soil in which they are
sown.
While the man is certainly a failure
in his business who cannot make
good butter out of good milk yet that
man has never been discovered who
could make first-class butter out OF
second-class milk. The dairyman
should above all things have his barn
and premises in goodsanitary condi-
ton. Any decaying animal matter
whether it be dead rat or split milk
about the barn or milk-house, will
transmit both its odor and its de
composing properties to the mill
and its product-butter.
Milk and Milking.-Prof Arnold
the dairy authority, believes that
one will draw milk from a COW in
close stable, some milk into sauc,
and leaves it there exposed to til
odor for n short time, and then al
tempt To drink it, lac will discoyc
what IL foul smelling fluid it can I've
come. Major Alvord, another ayr
cultural writer and close observe
would draw the milk in the pun
open air, and thus have it Thorough
ly oxygenated. He says that whe
the cows are MIXED in the same n
in which they stand, the milk wi
be bad, but if MIXED in fresh ri
the trouble will be obviated.
Value of Oilcakc.-The statemei
is in print that nearly 3000,0(
bushels of Aaxseed are annual
grown in the State of Iowa, and tn
the oilcake produced therefrom
largely exported. And it is per-