St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-12
FARM NOTES.
Hints and Facts That May Be of
Value to Tillers of the Soil.

Hints and Facts That May Be of
Value to Tillers of the Soil.
A Bucks county pa farmer gives the
following questions and answers as the
result of careful accounts of his poultry
kept during the years from 1853 to 1865
with corn, ranging in price from 70
cents to $3.50 per buShel: How many
dozens of eggs each will flock of 100
or 200 hens kept in one place lay in a
year? Answer = Ten dozens. How
much does it cost to keep hen year?
AnSwer-One and a quarter bushels of
corn, or its equivalent of any other
kind of feed. How much does it cost a
pound or pair to raise young chickens
for market UP to three pounds in.
weight? AnsWer-Twenty-tiye to 35
cents pair, or s to II cents pound,
according to the price of feed and eggs
set.
If twenty-five hens will yield an an
nual profit of $50 it by no means follows
that a farmer can make 500 from a
flock of fifty having the same houses
and the same range. The extra twenty
five get a share of the refuse grain,
vegetables and table scraps, aud also of
the weed seeds, bugs and worms.
Hence, they all require more from the
crib and granary, and this reduces the
profit. The larger flock crowd one an
other. the loss from disease increases.
and at the close of the season the bal
ance may be on the wrong side of the
account.
The following recipe has been tried
by lady who says she has eggs that
were preserved by it four years. They
are still good: Take one pound of I'M
Stacked lime and one pint of common
your eggs on end, in layers, in any good
tight vessel-a jar is good. When as
full as you wish, make enough of the
brine to completely cover the eggs. If
you put the eggs down as gathered each
day, add some of the brine so as to keep
all completely covered all the while.
Aim to keep the hens always at work,
and provide plenty of scratching ma
terial. Occasionally the yard should be
dug up with hoe or spaded. If at any
time Odor comes up from the yard spade
up the ground or disinfect it. This may
be done by adding gill of carbolic acid
(crude) to four gallons of water and
sprinkIing the yard with all ordinary
watering-pot. The pOultry-house should
never give off odor if properly attended
to.
Improper milking, lazy milking, in
complete milking, One-handed milking,
forcing dry perpetual mixer, or dry
ing Off too soon, or neglect that causes
garget, or too seldom relieving the
udder, are frequent causes of spelling
good cow. Indeed, milking cow is
fine art when properly conducted. and
the most important work i'll the whole
dairy business, and the most important
element in the individual COW culture.
Good sheep, good land. and good
roots generally go together; at any rate
it. is not often that they are very far
apart, for wherever land can raise a
good crop and is dry enough to carry
sheep through winter it must very soon
get into good heart and be able to grow
almost anything. Many an American
ex-shepherd realizes all this, and wishes
now that his faith in the future of the
abandoned flock had been greater.
Churning cream when slightly sour,
as is the custom in the Holstein diaries,
yields butter of a peculiar and fine
aroma. Butter made from very sour
cream is destitute of this aroma, and
has the taste which the Holstein butter
acquires after keeping some time. Stir
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but rather binders it by increasing ac-
cess of air; it may be advantages in
making the souring uniform.
Speaking of the big sorghum sugar
mills at Topeka, Prof. Failyure, of the
the time come when these extensive
and expensive plants may be run the
whole or the greater part of the year,
being supplied with a crude product
from cheap plants through the sur
rounding country, the profits will be
enormous OF the price Of sugar will be
very low"
To query about how to keep milk
twenty-four hours in shipping it, the
Farming World says: Add to the milk a
small quantity of bicarbonate of soda
This addition is by no means injurious
to health: on the contrary, bicarbonate
of soda promotes digestion. One of the
principal dairies of Paris employs no
other method but this for preserving
milk while on sale.
The digestive powers of animals differ.
To allow certain quantity OF food to
each COW, treating every cow in the
herd alike, may result in an insufficient
quantity for some and too much food
for others. The individual character
istics are to be considered, and each an
imal fed according to her requirements
and the product expected.
According to Pasteur, bisulphide of
carbon is one of the best and cheapest
antiseptics and insecticides. Already
more than $685. 200 pounds of it are used
annually to check the ravageS of phyl-
Ioxera, the scOurge of European vine
yards. Bisulphide of carbon has an
extremely offensive Odor, and is highly
infammabe and explosive.
Two COWS in Georgia are reported to
have lost their tails through the opera
tons of worms. The worm in each case
eats it's way around the tail about foot
from the body. The lower part of the
tail becomes dead, and in few weeks
breaks off. The presence of the worms
was not detected except by the work
they had done.
The price of corn has wide range in
the various parts of the United States.
These averages are: Ohio, 80; Indiana,
81; Illinois, 90; Iowa, "a: Missouri, 32;
Kansas. &c: Nebraska, %. The range
in the Eastern states is from 65 to rs;
in New York, 81: Pennsylvania, 81: and
in the South from Al i'll Texas to "a in
South Carolina.
II should Judge, sir, that you are a
farmer Eyes. SIR" "Well, j want
to ask you whether potatoes grow on
trees or vines?'' Are you trying to
guy me?' mo, sir; l am writing a
book on Agriculture Scientifically Con-
sidered,' and want to get ali available
facts
In answer to correspondent who.
wants to know if pumpkin seeds will
diminish the flow of milk, the Dairy
World replies that it is an ''Old wom-
ans notion; that there has been no
perceptible difference when pumpkins
have been fed without taking the
trouble TO pick out the seeds.