Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-09-20

and all these matters are to be consid-
cred in the final estimates.
Early Cut Clover.
Glover will soon be ready to cut.
The proper time for cutting is now
live question. Some say cut it when
1t first comes into bloom; and prac-
tice let's one half of the heads get dead
ripe. All aim to get it at the right
time, and in the best condition: but
few begin cutting it early enough to
| avoid putting in lot of dead ripe
clover at the last end. Especially if it
comes on wet, the clover must stand
until fair weather, and often by this
time it is well seeded.
What says chemistry about the
proper time to cut clover? The re-
suits Of analysis do not seem to favor
any OF the periods when clover is
usually cut. The tables give the nu-
tritive ratio of clover in full bloom
the time perhaps most generally
agreed upon-as one part of nitroge-
nous material to 81 of carbo1aceous.
This is very good ratio for ordin-
airy feeding purposes, but clover cut
at this time does not appear to be at
its best. When cut before blossoming
the feeding ratio is given as one of
heterogeneous to 3.S Of carbonaceous ma
terial. This is pretty strong meat,
and will admit of corn meal, corn
stalks, or straw, as a part of ration
and still be up to the standard. Clio
Yer cut before blossom has about QUE
third larger proportion of muscle and
cheese making material than that cut
in full blossom; and usually the more
heterogeneous foods are counted the
more valuable. There is no trouble in
getting the carbonaceous, but care
must be taken that they are in IL di-
gcstlble form. Coarse fibre is not;
yet this is what we get in ovcrripe
fodder.
Another point in favor of the clover
cut before blossom, and just about the
time it is ready TO begin to open, is
that IT is more easily digested. There
Is not SO much bulk, but larger pro-
portion of the whole is digested. This,
OF course, makes it more nutritious,
and better for producing milk or beuf
Letting clover stand until it is more
mature, simply increases the amount of
carbonaccous fibre, but the increase is
offset by loss Of digcstibility. We sus-
pect that very few of the fodder plants
and grasses, except corn, are cut and
cured ut us early period of their de-
velopment rs they should be.-Practi-
cal Farmer.
Farm Notes.
The richer the land the more nutri-
tlTe The grass, as we'll as the more
abundant When MANFRED with phos-
plate in the spring, cows will gnaw
the grass down close to the roots.
while with fresh st1be manure rank
growth will be made which nothing
Will eat except on compulsion.
If IL farmer wishes hornless cows he
need take no knife, saw or other i'm
plement to dishorn them. Mr.. w.
Brazelton of Monticello, Ia, writes in
The Philadelphia Press tn It penny's
worth OF caustic potash applied just
is the horn is starting, when the calf
is few weeks old, will stop all horn
growth and do no injury at the time
Or after to the animal.
Bran is always much lower in price
in large commercial or -four manufac-
turing ccnters. 1t is bulky in proper
ton to its value and thus occupies
more space than millers can we'll
spare, especially when the new wheat
crop is coming in. Early fall is there
fore the best time TO buy it, Late in
winter the price always advances, es-
pecially remote from mills. Farmers
might often buy bran with profit if
they would combine and order by the
carload at lowest rates.
Though milk is sold by quantity
there is great difference in its value.
Occasionally some wealthy family paws
cent II quart extra for milk OF the
Jersey COW, but the difference in price
does not, il the milk is unaduterated,
represent the difference in nutritive
value. better way would be to adopt
the practice in some creameries OF
valuing milk by the cream it raises.
some that is sold in cities by millSmen
would rate pretty poor under such q
ruling yet it would be only just to the
consumer.
Tho Royal Agricultural Society OF
England 10 atty years old and Ia about