The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-29
h0ME AND FARM.
How to Salt Butter-Care of Flowers
During Win er-Horse Shoes
and Shoeing.

All plants that are set out in the fall
| for a permanent patch, such as raspber
rles, blackherries, etc ;, should be cul
| back to within six inches OF the roots.
Canes that a, e left on will be OF no ad.
vantage next season
What are called sour apples are really
sweet, though their tartness hides the
saccharine properties they contain. Some
OF the richest sour apples, as the Russet,
make very strong vinegar, which they
could not do if they did not contain q
good deal of sweetness.
In making cider for vinegar it is a mis-
take to use the partially rotten or infe-
rlor apples for that purpose. Good vine
gar can only be made from ripe and
sound apples, and where it is difficult to
ship apples to market it will pay to con-
vert them into vinegar.
The rich black liquid that flows off
rom the barn-yard contains the wealth
of the farm. Use absorbent material,
and save it. The loss of liquid manure
is great, and if saved would not only add
fertllizing matter to the farm but in
creases the value of the solids.
Asparagus beds may be made now.
Place the roots two feet apart, first max
ing the bed very rich with manure. L
is usual to have the roots closer, but us
the roots will thicken in the bed in the
course of time, 1t is better to allow
plenty of room in the beginning.
Rose slugs will do damage if the
bushes are not guarded. A solution of
an ounce OF pyrethrum powder in gal
Ion OF water, sprayed on the bushes, is
excellent, but a stream OF water from
force pump, applied daily, is one of the
best remedies that can be used.
Keep something growing on the land
and you will then keep down the weeds.
1t does not pay to take off a crop and
then allow the land to grow up in weeds.
1t is better to plow the land frequently
if no crop is on it. The aim should be
to not allow single weed to grow.
A number of hardy herbaceous, as well
as woofy plants, may be forced easily in
the house, and will make attractive win
dow plants Among the most suitable
of these are the Japanese Astilbe, Bleed
ing Heart, the dwarf Deutzil, |, and others.
The pants should be potted now and
left outdoors until severe cold weather
sets in.
The amount of salt necessary to be
used in butter is genel ally accepted as
ounce OF salt to one pound of butter; but
in sailing butter the state of the weather
is to be considered as we'll as the prefer
eLce Of the market. In winter less salt
is required, and in some markets butter
that is very salt is OF sold as readily as
when less salt il used.
The quality OF milk cannot be fixed by
Law. The milk from some COWS will
contain lower percentage of solid mat
ter than others. 1t is even impossible
to obtain the same quantity of milk from
one COW. Her food, duration of milking
period. facilities for obtaining water and
the manner of being MIXED influences
the quality. The milk of COWS from
young grass will vary greatly from that
prod1ced from ground grain.
AS soon as the coupling season is over
the breeding ewes should be separated
from the flock and fed on nourishing
food. They should not be made too fat,
for fear OF milk fever at lambng time,
but they require good feeding if they are
to produce strong lambs. Plenty of hay
mith mess of ground oats once day
should keep them in good condition
without liability of the ewes becoming
too fat.
Do not make the earth in boxes and
flower pots too rich. All plants pro-
tected during the winter by setting them
on stand in warm room. such as
geraniums, should not MAKE heavy
grow tn, but be kept in good condition
for slipping. as the spring and summer is
the proper season for having them to per-
lection. The mealy bug must be
guarded against when the plants are
kept in warm atmosphere.
Frozen milk cannot only be trans
ported with ease, but as long as it can be
kept frozen will come out perfectly fresh.
cooking qualities and in yield of cream
as we'll as in other respects, frozen milk
correspOnded with quite new milk, and
butter and cheese could be prepared
from it qnite as well as from new milk.
These results are detailed in a paper by
NJ. Guerin, of Grandvilles, Vosges, be-
fore the Agricultural Society of France.
1t is proposed to try the idea on a large
scale by freezing milk in ordinary iron
machines.
Now that horses will be stabbed at
night or should be, the most perfect
cleanliness should be observed. The
floor, If of wood, should be frequently
drenched with water. and then sprinked
with finely ground gypsum (plaster), by
which the strong, pungent odor common
to stables will be neutralized and alb
sorbed. This strong odor of ammonia,
which often pains the eyes and nostrils
Of man, ls exceedingly injurious TO
horses. 1t rots leather and corrodes
varnish, and what must be it's effect on
the eyes and lungs Of the horses confined
in it during whole nights? Foul air pro-
notes glanders. farcy, blindness, infu-
enza (epizootic), pneumonia, heaves, all
comm n diseases OF horses; and the
acrid manure in which horses are COM
PEELED to stand causes not only the in
furious vapor but rots the hoofs and irri-
tates the skin.
The blunders and carelessness of
horse shoers often subject ''the noblest
of all animals" to needless discomfort if
not cruelty. A recent writer remarks
that the proper form of the shoe can be
adapted for relieving concussion in
horses subjected to hard and fast work.
1t allows the frog and probably portion
of the sole and bars to come in contact
with the ground, so that the weight of
the animal is distributed over a greater
surface of the foot, and not conided en-
tifely to the wall, as in the case of the
seated shoe. The elasticity of the horn
may to some extent relieve the foot and
leg rom concussioD, but the frog. il al
lowed to come to the ground, acts much
better The same authority suggests or
ad Uses, ON another point, in this wise: I: