The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-04-05
AGRICULTURAL MATTERS
Dairy E~pigrsms.

CEbSTcHlS.
Farm, Stock and Home chuins up the
following batch of wisdom for its read
era: First, select good healthy cows, in
good milking condition. Feed good,
sweet, wholesome food; water regularly
with clear, pure water. Keep them in
perfectly clean quarters, with well VENT
lated air TO breathe. Clean udders, mill
at regular hours, gently and quickly
using clean, bright tin pals to milk in,
being perfectly clean about the milking
Strain milk through two strainers, wire
and cloth, Immediately after milking.
into deep setting cans, set in pure colo
water. Cool down as soon as possible
leave cans open until milk is cold. Leave
milk setting in the water at 45 degrees
n not to rise to exceed 80 degrees
Skim ~ t~wenty-four hours setting with
cream ripened to acidity Just per
ceptible to the taste. Churn in bos
ctirn, with cream at SO degrees, with
motion Of forty-tivct to fifty revolutions PEI
minute Color with butter color enough
to give a golden hue. Put color into
Cream at starting of the churn. StoI
churnlng when butter is in granular form,
the size of grains of wheat. Draw OF
the milk, wash butter in churn in three
washings, or until water runs off clear, il
clear cold water at a temperature of As Il
~ uegrees. Add a little salt at the sec
end washing; give the churn a few revo
buttons at each washing; use plenty o.
water to swim the butter in the churn
Drain OFT water. take out butter witt
iadie, aud put on the sailing table. Sif
on good dairy salt. one and one.fourtl
ounces TO the pound. Stir salt wei
through butter with sailing fork; worl
butter lightly at 68 degrees; preserve thu
grain. Pack in air-tight package, GOV
ering butter with paste salt, and hold Al
temperature not 10 exceed the workins
temperature, or So degrees.
Seeding Alfalfa.
Prof. shelton of the Kansas Agricul
tural college, in answering a correspond
ents inquiries as to the best methods Of
seeding 10 this crop, says through tn,
industrialist: 1--WE know of no grass o,
clover SO likely as alfalfa TO do what il
ought not in the most unaccountable
way. We have known farmers wht
have succeeded admirably with alfalfa
While their near neighbors have failed
mlserably with the same crop. Without
attempting further explanation of thu
perversity of this clover, We wish to sa,
that the alfalfa is a plant that feed.
chiefly from the subsoil; for this reason
1air-seeming soils may often fail to pro
dace g satisfactory growth of alfalfa be.
cause OF the unsuitableness of the sub
SOL. Our correspondent will do well te
make careful inquiry as to what his
%neighhor has done with alfalfa; and if h,
finds that his seeding is wholly an exper
iment he will do well to go slow Al
acre patch will teach a lesson lust a
forcihiy as a ten.acre field, and with ,
TENTH OF the expense.
'. Alfalfa does best upon ''old ground
and such as has received deep and thor
ough previous tillagc.
Z. Land designed for alfalfa should b
brought to the condition of good filth b,
thorough blowing and narrowing.
5 Sow in the spring without sppcia
hurry, using about twenty pounds o
seed per acre. This may be sown broad
cast or lightly drilled. following witt
roller or light harrow, or both when tb,
seed is b~roadcasted.
4. DO not SOW with some other r
as OATS Keep the weeds in check by oc
eAslonai high mowings, and, unless tn
alfalfa makes q very rank growth, do no
pasture OF NOW closely during the frs
season.