Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-01
wounds will soon heal and gardeners
are less busy than in Nav

butter TO make IL the most satisfactory
to the consumer Tastes differ. Some
want great deal OF salt and others
none. Unless you are supplying pri-
vate customer, therefore, salt from
three-quarters to AN ounce per pound.
National Stockman and Farmer says:
Prof. Tracy put five COWS into the
hands OF poor mixer for two weeks,
and then gave them to a good mixer
for the same time. neither mixer
knowing that n comparison was being
made, and got 22I.5 pounds (44.9
pounds per cow gain in quantity OF
milk by the change.
Michigan subscriber writes to the
American Agriculturist that the fol-
lowing is the Lake Superior method
OF holding cows troublesome tail
while milking: Draw the bush OF the
tail into the inner bend OF the left knee
when sitting down on the milking stool,
and hold it firmly clasped by keeping
the knee closely bent
A Nebraska paper declares that the
great need OF the west is more stock
to consume the grain surplus. That is
true, but as it further AYERS the stock
must be OF higher grade than the
average which now exists in the west.
With cattle at present prices, even
with extreme low prices of corn, there
Is no money in anything except tn,
best quality. In dairies and in gooo
sheep, say OF the middle wooded
variety, which are profitable for both
wool and mutton, and in Strictly first
class beef cattle, there is fair profit.
La eight-month pigs that will weigh
200 to 250 pounds, and two-year-old
steers that run from 1920 to 400
pounds, there is good profit. But
there is nothing in scrubs. Better to
sell corn even at fifteen cents than TO
feed such.
A writer says that ian exceedingly
delicate and fine favored butter may
be made by wrapping the cream in a
napkin or clean cloth and burying it a
foot or more in the earth for from II
TO 20 hours" We mention this plan
for the benefit OF the boy who has to
do the churning. He can bury his
cream and play marbles TIL the 'but-
ter comes" That will beat the new
tangled butter-separator.
Some kinds of seeds may be kept a
long time and a very large per cent. Of
them will grow; another class will
terminate fairly well, while of others
but very small per cent. will grow.
Some lose their vitality the second year.
Wheat retains its vitality for a long
time, and can be used when more than
one or two years old, but it is not adj
visable, only when fresh seed cannot
be secured. But rye must be fresh.
In regard TO cutting off the seed ends
of potatoes and throwing them away,
j. NJ. Smith says: Last spring | saved
n bushel of the seed ends and planted
them by themselves right in the middle
of piece OF two or three acres that
was planting; and | found, when we
came to dig them, that the yield was
about just the same, ana the potatoes
about the same size. But those coming
from the seed ends were nearly week
earlier than the others.
Prof. b. ID. Halstead finds that the
common asparagus is heliotropic, i. e.
follows the sun in its daily course. In
early morning the shoots are nearly
upright, but when the sun is two hours
above the horizon the same stems lean
Enthusiastically to the eastward. At
noon the stems are leaning somewhat
to the southwark and at evening they
point westward. The curving is most
prominent with averaged-sized stems
which have escaped the gardeners
knife, and are between one and two
feet in height.
w Brazelton tells in Hoard's Dairy
man how be kills the horns on his
calves. He says get a stick of caustic
potash, then when the calf is, say 10
days old, take it by both ears. stand
straddle of it, then let an assistant have
a little water. wet the place where the
horn would come. then after wrappin g
Il rag around one end of the caustic
rub the other end on the horn spot. 1t
being wet, will dissolve enough of the
caustic TO cause a dry scab to form. II
thoroughly rubbed for, say minute,
one operation is all sufficient. Mr.
Brazelton's calves six months old thus
treated have no sign OF horn.