St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-02
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FARM NOTES.
Hints and Facts That May Be of
Value to TiIlers of the Soil,

tdiue 10 I1IIerS Oh the SOIL.
1t is curious to note how differently
people GO at it to wash dairy utensils
says the National Stockman. Some
wash pans, pals and watts carefully with
cold water in which is little salt or
soda; then rinse, and then thoroughly
ssald with hot water. Others pour on
boiling water first; sometimes rinse with
cold water, more often with the hot.
ticular about any method. The first
plan is far superior. The idea is to get
all the milk off. and out of the pals,
ETC., before scalding. Boiling water
seems to cook milk, cream and butter
milk onto and into the utensils, and
there, like any other milk substance,
there is change soon that imparts the
bad influence to the succeeding mesSeS
of milk. As between all hot or all cold
water to wash dairy fixtures take the
latter with little salt, and far better
results will follow.
&Prof. Afford says: Choking over
my records, find that with cows of
like age and breeding. those which
calved in September and October gave
from S04 to 1000 pounds of milk more
per year than those that were fresh in
the spring. | also find that the winter
milk is considerably richer than that
made from Succulent Dasturage, and
from one to two quarts less Of it is re-
Qulred to make a pound of butter. [
estimate that two pounds of butter will
bring as much money in winter as three
pounds IN summer. / can also show
that cows fresh in the fall have longer
milking period than spring cows, mas
much as about the time they would
naturally commence to fail the fresh
pasturage comes Oh and gives them a
good send-off for the summer"
Twenty years ago fall blowing was
quite common in Northern Illinois and
nearly as rare in the middle counties !;
but the practice has been making slow
but steady progress southwark, and we
may see, in ten or twenty years, more
flies, from Cairo. in latitude 81 deg, to
Dubuque, in ~ deg. so. Still, and the
fact lends force to the epigram, There
is nothing absolute in agriculture" the
oats OF last year grew stronger, devel-
oped weaker straw, lodged worse and
rotted more, on fall-plowed land than
on land plowed in the spring or not
plowed at all.
The new process of retting fax and
hemp invented by Edwin A. Hartshorn,
and patented Jan. Is, 1889. will, it is
claimed, change the present methods of
treating these tibers, and bring the
United States to the front in their fut-
ure production. The Cable flax mills,
or which Mr.. Hartshorn is president,
will probably establish the first plant
under the new pa ent. Mr.. Hartshorn
will visit st. Paul very soon for the
purpose Of interesting citizens in the
culture of flax and the encourageme mt
of the binding Irvine. linen and other
fax productions in st. Paul.
An ingenious device for controlling
excitable horses has been invented, says
the Indian Farmer. 1t is attached to
the brOw-band of the bride, and light
but firm cord runs through loops along
the reins to the hand-piece. In case of
fright pull the cord, and instantly the
horse is blindfolded. This diverts his
attention from the object of fright and
puts him into another train of thought.
Let go the cord and the double spring
instantly withdraws the blinds from the
eyes and rolls them out of sight. This
device is not clumsy and does not clog
in action.