New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-08
FOR THE FARMER.
Agricultural Notes.

Good sheep. good land, and good
roots generally go together, at any
rate it is not often that they arevery
far apart, for whether 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 real
ICES all this, and wishes now that his
faith in the future of the abandoned
tock had been greater.
Aim to keep the hens always at
work, and provide plenty of scratch
ing material. Occasionally the yard
should be dug up with hoe or
spaded. IF at any time odorcomes
up from the yard spade up the earth
or disinfect it, This may be done by
| adding a gill of carbolic acid (crude)
to four gallons of water and sprink-
| ling the yard with an ordinary wa
| tering-pot. ThepouItry- houseshould
never give off odor if properly at
tended to.
The Dairy World says: ''The term
work in the manufacture of butter,
ought to be considered obsolete. 1t
is now tolerable only in the sense of
pressing the butter into solid mass.
Butter is no longer worked by in
telligent butter-makers to get the
butter-milk out of it, for it is washed
out while the butter is in a granular
condition; and it is no longer work
| ed to incorporate the salt with it,
for the salt is readily stirred in while
the butter is in the granular condi-
| ton
| Professor Long, in a lecture before
a chamber of agriculture in England,
said that ton of butter takes from
the soil 81 lbs, of nitrogen, 1.5S lbs.
OF phosphoric acid and one Ii. of
| potash, the total value of which he
estimated at about so cents. 'sNo
other product says the New York
Daily World, takes so small an
amount of fertilizing material off the
farm The same professor esti-
mates that a ton of cheese takes
from the soil liz lbs. of nitrogen.
LIS lbs. of phosphoric acid and one
pound of potash.
Most of us make mistake by
feeding at3the Wrongend of the hogs
existence. We don't get down to
business in the way of feeding until
Il month or two before we sell him
for pork. This is all wrong. The
main secret is in giving the piggy a
good send-of during the first two OF
| three months of his existence. Dur
ing the first week OF a pigs life it
is quite important to feed the sow
SO as not to start too great a flow
of milk, a handful of shorts twice a
| day in less than half a pailfu1 of
/ warm water being the best feed att
the time.-[Rural New Yorker.
| Prof. Manly Miles rs: ssThe adj
vantages of ground feed may be sum-
married as follows: /. tits conyen-
iently fed with cut fodder, and an
economical consumption of the feed
may be secured ?. When mixed
with cut fodder the demand on the
| several organs of digestion is equal
lied, and the digestive apparatus as
a whole acts more efficiently. 3.
| The wastes in the aimentary canal
are reduced to minimum, as the
| digestive secret1ons are brought into
more Intimate relations with all the
food to be digested- 4. A greater
aggregate return may with greater
certainty be obtained for the feed
| consumed.
It beef is the object aimed at, the
first consideration in feeding to be
considered carefully in this season of
( transition, is continuous thrift, with
out cessation Or serious change in
rate OF flesh making To stop an
advance is generally to fall back,
losing time and feeding material and
lnjning the quality of the meat. The
shortening of the career of a 1,6OO
| pounds bullock, as many of our best
feeders have done, is only accom-
plished by regular and iudicious sup
ply OF feeding material, and the re-
suit is beef vastly superior to the an
Gent and less thrifty method. The
saying is IN subsistence during the
extra year and the higher price for
better led beef.