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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05
Italia.

Alfalfa is a perennial plant, in many
respects resembling clover. 1t has long
been known in Europe and its most eX-
tensive cultivation in this country is in
California and some Of the western and
southern states. 1t seems especially
adapted to dry climates and succeeds
best on light sandy or loan soil with
3 subsoil through which its long top
roots can penetrate and find their way 70
moisture. II has been grown success
fully the Geneva station in New York,
but in experiments on farms in different
parts of Vermont has been largely win
ter killed 1t will not thrive among
weeds, but must have clean land the first
year. In reply to inquiries that have
been made no better answer can be given
than a brief statement Of some Of its bad
and good points as discovered at differ
ent state stations throughout the coun-
try and summarized by the central office
at Washington.
Among its disadvantages il has been
found less hardy than clover and not so
easily established. If allowed to grow
too long the stalks become hard and
woody. Cattle cannot be safely pas
tured on 1t except i'll dry regions, It re-
quires peculiar treatment to make good
hay. Its good qualities are that when
once we'll established it lasts for years
1t withstands drought well, grows rap
idly and may be cut early and will fur
nish several crops of green fodder each
season. If properly cured it makes good
hay and il relished by all farm animals.
In brief while valuable as feeding
stuff and as a fertilizing crop, it re-
quires peculiar conditions of climate and
soil for its growth and careful culture
and curing to make it "A profitable crop
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05

The mutton molino is now the sheep
for breeders to go in for.
The man who possesses the most sheer
Of any single owner in America is Hag-
gin, the California horse breeder, He
mas 100000 sheep and this year sold $40,
OO0 worth Of spring lambs.
4 Colorado trotting horse is named
BuSiiuless. Not one reader in a thous-
and would probably recognize III this
new departure in spelling the name Of
Alexander the Greats famous steed Blu,
ccphalus What are VIC coming to?
Cattle for western ranges want good,
broad, strong feet. In looking for cattle
to be driven or shipped, therefore, do not
purchase those with small, narrow, light
colored hOofs
The native cattle Of Honduras are be
ginning to attract attention from the
fact that, except as to their horns, they
present every point that the American
Jersey cattle club require for registry in
their herd book. The Honduras cows
have never received any care cT special
feeding, yet their milk Is rich. The
American Dairyman suggests that a
great milk, butter and cheese TT" lie might
be built up cheaply by some one who
would cross the Honduras cows with the
pure Jersey. Central America presents
no end Of room for herds TO grow up with
the country. Ranching there would
have the double advantagexof cheap
labor and mild winters.
In the absence of authoritative
proof they refuse to consider the United
States free from pleuro-pneumonia in
Great Britain. They would really Il lit
tie rather we would have plcuro-pneu-
monia than not, those English, except
the poor people who want our beef to
eat.
William Weaver, of North Dakota, has
undertaken the work Of crossing the
buffalo with the domestic cow. He has
selected for this purpose the polled Angus
cattle, The cross produces a long haired,
shiny hide, which brings a high price in
the market, while the restaurants pay
more for the hybrid meat than for the
wild buffalo flesh.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05

San Diego county, Cal, expects a yield
OF nearly 10000 pounds of honey this
season.
The editor of The American Bee Jour
nal says on the subject If feeding
swarrnS in honey blow to forward
storing; When honey can be obtained
from the flowers it is useless to try to
feed" the bees in any other way. They
prefer the fresh nectar from the fora,
and will gather and store it in the
combs, and entirely ignore all the food"
you place before them.
a bee keeper tells Colorado Farmer
that lit appears now that the Lang
stroth-Simphcity hive and frames, with
the one-piece-one-p pound sections, is
meeting the general idea of standard ,
All the other improvements can be at
tached,'
An Iowa apiarist tells in gleanings in
Bee Culture how to water bees. He
says: IL take tub tie piece of burlap
over IT, put in piece of brick or stone
that will keep it down in the center, and
then fill in with water until it comes up
about one-third of the way on the bur.
lap, which leaves a large surface for the
bees to alight ON. 1t is only occasional
ly that a bee gets drowned. One ad-
vantage Of the tub is it does not need
looking after except occasionally. Try
il and be convinced.
Professor Cook says ON spacing: Il
have my frames about II inches from
fixed so as to be just SO far apart. l
have used those that were spaced, and
did not like them. | can space with my
eye TO suit me best, A slight variation
is not Objectionable"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05
BLOOD IN HOGS.
That Is what Makes the Difference,
other Things Being Equal.

Other Things Being Equal.
There is no questioning tho value of
the corn crib cross in the hog business
a liberal course Of feeding will make a
tolerably good hog out Of badly bred
critter. But such a hog is made at "A
very great expense We often see a few
wiry headed, long nosed, long legged
razor backs come into market with a
load Of slick, neat porkers. These
woods hogs have come from the same
n"ighborhood with the respectable pork.
ers. The grain they ate cost just as
much per bushel as that which went to
make up the good hogs, and our razor
back sells for half cent pound less
than the good hog But this is not all;
the scrub hog has been fed three months
longer than the we'll pred one and does
not weigh as much; so we have loss of
one-half cent per pound, three months
feed and the difference in weight as
result of keeping the scrub hog.
Now this is no imaginary picture. but
one that can be proved any day by
trip to South Omaha or any other large
market, and by no end of evidence from
practical hog feeders. 1t is scarcely
possible that this difference in quality
of hogs is a wanton piece Of bad breed.
ing on the part Of farmers, No farmer
is willing to breed and feed hogs, or any
other kind of sock, at II loss. We are
confident that the mistake is in inattcn-
ton to the hog stock. \ great many
farmers think hog is a hog no matter
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05
TESTING FOR BUTTER.
GIVING EACH PATRON OF A CREAM
cry HIS JUST DUES.
Plan Adopted by Firm of Experienced
Creamery Men to Find the Amount of
Butter Fat in the Separate Lots of
MILK Furnished to Them.

We commenced the pan of testing
milk for butter fat April 1, 1890. TAX
ing the tests about onCo per week, we
took five tests in April. and made an
average of the five tests for a basis Of
each patron. At the end Of the month
we found the churn had made 0Ss per
cent, q 80 per cwt.) more butter than
the test work indicated: therefore we
added that percentage to each teet, Civ
ing each patron his pro rata share of
what the churn made more than the
test work indicated
The tests are all made by number, the
person making the tests never knowing
whose milk is being tested After the
tests are made and reported the foreman
of the creamery attaches the patrons
name to the numbers then the work is
ready for the bookkeepcr This is done
10 remove any cause for suspicion of
favoritism on the part Of the patrons
We keep a daily record of the butter
yield of the creamery, and if we have
any suspicion that any one is dishonest
we take test Immediately and they
are credited by this test until another is
made.
For April the lowest yield for any
patron was 3.G2 pounds Of butter for
each 100 pounds of milk delivered. and
the highest was IA pounds Of butter
for each 100 pounds of milk received
the last receiving 81 per cent. more per
100 pounds of milk than the first.
This creamery is operated on the divi-
dend plan, the patrons paying us four
cents a pound for making the butter. On
the olo plan Of paying by the 100 pounds
of milk each patron would have re-
ccived siXty-scven cents per 100 pounds
for his milk as we paid by the test the
lowest received tifty-seveu and seven
eighths cents per 100 pounds, and the
highest seyenty-three cents per 100
pounds
Weare now using the Patrick or Iowa
station test, and like it well.
The following is the percentage of
cream and of butter fat IN fourteen sam
pies Of milk, the milk having been al
lowed to stand until the cr,Im raised
and was measured; then it was tested
with Patrick test:
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05
AerntinG MIX.

1t does seem as if kindred interests
and common sense would dictate TO the
patrons of the once per day cheese fac.
tories some concerted plan about uni
form milk care and delivery. Where the
milk goes twice per day to the factory it
gots shaken up on the road, and the
maker has to, by 8 p. ~ where he can,
give it uniform treatment, and a certain
amount Of aeration. With the once per
day delivery plan the care Of the night S
milk devolves upon the patron, and eight
out of every ten of them resolve to do
as little as possible for the best keeping
of the milk.
If there was an immense job OF labor
connected with the home care Of the
nights mess there would be some tx
cuse, but with twenty-five cent Their
mometer and big dipper one can
9erate big can Of milk, and know that
the temperature has been reduced a GER
tain number of degrees, and insure
almost absolutely "A good keeping condi-
ton of the milk, JON Gould.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05
PROFIT In ANIMALS.
A GRAY PERCHeRON WITH A NAME
LIKE A WOMAN'S HAIR.
In the Illustration Is shown One of the
Most Beautiful Fercherons Ever I'm
ported Into -CIydesdales
and Percherons.

Wisconsin is b,,o.,..... Aotcd as pro
ducer of fine blooded horses, particularly
draft and farm stock. We present here
with a picture of Gladden." of Wis
consin, one of the finest Percherons ever
imported into this county. OF the heavier
horses of improved breeds, none are SC
snowy as the full blood gray Pcrchoron.
Percheron and Norman horses come from
adjacent districts of France, Perche and
Normandy.
AS to the merits of the Clydes and
Percherons, the question is still Open
The Clydes are claimed to be faster
walkers and more hardy and less liable
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05
BETS AS FEED FOR COWS.
Interesting and Conclusive Experiments
Made at tho Ohio station.


A bulletin issued by the Ohio expert
ment station gives the results of an
experiment in feeding sugar beets to
milch cows, made last winter, together
with a summary of two similar expert
ments, one made by the station in 1889
and one by the farm department of the
Ohio State University in 1879.
In the last named experiment eight
cows were kept under test for eleven
weeks in 1859 twelve cows for eight
weeks, and in 1890 twelve cows for nine
weeks. the cows in each case being
weighed daily as well as their feed and
milk In each of the three experiments
the cows ate more hay and more total
dry matter when feeding on beets than
on other foods (hay, meal and bran in
1879, corn silage in 1889 and 1S90). and in
each case more milk was given from the
beets than from the other foods but it is
not vet demonstrated that the increase
of milk was produced economically.
For twelve wears records have been
kept ON the farm now occupied by the
station which show that the average
yield of beets over this period has been
nearly sixteen tons per acre, against an
annual yield of about fifty-hve bushels
of Shelled corn per acre. But a crop of
tifty-fve bushels of shelled corn, with
its fodder. will contain nearly twice as
much dry matter as sixteen tons Of beets,
and these experiments indicate that,
whether fed dry, as corn meal and dry
fodder, or a. corn ensilage, the dry mat
ter Of the corn crop will be found about
as effective, pound for pound, as the dry
matter of the beet crop
1t is possible TO raise much more than
sixteen tons of heets to the acre One
crop Of two acres is reported at 81 tons
per acre, and smaller areas have given
still larger yields, but such crops require
very rich land and thorough culture.
Whether 1t is possible to produce a
pound of dry matter in be"ts as eco
nomicallya it can he done in corn is not
yet definitely settled, but the probab;li-
ties are against it,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05

If you want good laying hens in winter,
writes a correspondent of The New Y ork
World, keep an eye on your early hatch
ed chickens, and select the best developed
and healthy looking pullets for furnish
ing You with eggs next winter. For
several weeks after Matching the young
chicks should be fed a little five or six
times day. After they are half grown,
three or four times a day-nOt to fatten
them, but to make them grow. ! would
give but very little grain, and that should
be mostly wheat, oats or rye, some buck
wheat, and very rarely a little cracked
corn. Two rations out of every three
should DO soft food made of wheat bran,
shorts, mashed potatoes and little corn
meal, all we'll stirred mp together, If
mixed up with milk instead Of water it
will be greatly improved.
Give the scraps from the table through
the day along with their other rations.
See TO it that they have green food Of
some description and plenty of fresh wa
ter. Green clover and cabbage leaves
will be excellent) also little bone meal
in their mash, and gravel should always
be within their reach, By forcing the
best pullets IN this way you will be
quite sure TO set them to laying in the
fall, which, il properly housed and fed,
they will continue through the winter,
when, II left TO shift for themselves and
mako a slow and scanty growth until
cold weather, they are not likely to lay
at all until next spring.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05
Sows Devouring Their Young.

In answer to a query from II reader
The American Cultivator says: A fever
ish condition Of the system is the usual
reason why sows eat their pigs, and this
indicates excessive feeding either for
milk or fat. As the pigs were nine days
old and growing finely when the sow
began eating them, she probably was
feverish from over accumulation Of
milk in her teats. In such condition Il
chunk of salt pork might relieve her
teats by partly drying her up, 1t is
often recommended, hut we never tried
it and never had occasion TO do so. The
best rule is TO stint the sows in food
about narrowing time and have what
they eat consist mainly Of slop, pasture
and potato peelings. After all danger
of fever has passed will be time to give
food that stimulates large milk aAow
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05

to ailments than the Percherons. Both
Percheron and Clvdesdglc blood is now.
however, so diffuscd through the west
that the native stock is rapidly being en-.
larged i'll size. There are already great
numbers of Porchcrons on the farms in
the west. They IRE shipped to the cities
to furnish the magnificent draft horses
now seen SO commonly.
The strength Of "Chaldean" is shown
in his magnificent flowing mane and tail.
No weakling OF a horse ever had a mne
and forelock like that They are long
and flowing as a woman hair.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05

TIE SILK COTTON TREE At NASSAU
ting open by five valves, each cell contain.
ing number of broad seeds surrounded
by dark brown cotton similar in character
to that Of the cotton plant, which botau-
ically i, nearly related to this tree
The silk cotton tree grows very rapidly.
It's imposing size and great beauty. and
possibly the belief that the woolly append
age of the seed might prove Of greater
value than il has turned ont to be, attract
ed the attention and excited the wonder of
travellers in the carly days of the discovery
Of the New World Oviedo Nuldes. Who
landed in san Domingo i'm 1914 and wrote
the earliest account Of the natural history
of America, was the first author to men
ton it, and from Oviedo's day 70 the pres
eut the silk cotton tree has been described
more or less in detail by every author who
has written of the natural feature, and
productions of the West Indie, and tn!
Spanish main
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05

A Boston horticulturist of note once
said that peach culture Is briefly summed
up as {Qllowsi Good trees, good varie-
ties. good soil, FAVORABLE positions, mod
crate fertilization. intelligent pruning
(if any at all), death to the borer, and if
the ssasona are propitous there viii be
abundant crops. Plant tree or an or
chard every year, cut down and burn up
as soon as the tree shows signs Of decay,
Throw away tho knife and rely Oh fresh
young trees which bear freeiythe second
Or third year, and saving the irregular
win; me- which We always have had and
always shall have, and, wa would odd,
cold, wet surnmers when tho wood does
not rtpen, the peach Is quite as sure a
crop Nd the pear.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05
Khnbarh and Gingcr rrc.crve.

Wei rub, skin and cut up "a sufficient
quantity of rhubarb not TOO young We'll
it, ana to every pound Of rhubarb allov
thrcy-quarter~ of pound of sugar, whic
should be well crushed. Put all tolethe
i'm u large pan and let it stand all night
next day put it into preserving pan Wit.
one pound of ginger chips Boil one hou.
This makes an excellent preserve, the gin
ger giving Just the favor required to ruu
barb, which rs apt to he r.thcr ias.pi.
t'Ir.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05

Per Cent by Pat
of frap1u 1i.L-t- Test

We give you this to show the meli-
ability Of cream as an indication of the
butter value of milk
We do not think we have reached per-
lection with our test work. There are
SOME point, open to criticism, but we
shall try to improve a, fast as we can.
feeling sure We are working in the right
observation-disclosures Bros. in Creamery
J1uru4l
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05
CHEAP FANCY GATES.

and changes that may be required to
suit the special style of fence with which
the gate is to be used. These fancy
gates are best made of strong, light
wood.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05

namental fence, A DECORATIVE GATE.
in the accompanying cuts are shown
three models of gates that any carpenter
can make, and which may be appropr-
ately used with almost any style of
picket, rustic or ornamental barb wire
fence
A convenient size for these gates is
three feet six OF eight inches wide The
space between the posts for an ordinary
door yard gate may be three feet ten
inches. This Is, however, u matter to
be decided by circumstances and the use
to which the gate is to be put.
A wide gate is more convenient than
a narrow one. especially when there is
occasion to pass in and ont with any
wheeled vehicle. as a baby carriage or
wheelbarrow. The designs here given
are susceptible to various notifications
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05
FARM AND GARDEN.
RESERVATIONS WORTHY OF NOTE
IN RURAL AFFAIRS.
Models of Fancy Gates for the BENEFIT of
Readers who May Bc Contemplating
the Luxury of an Ornamental Fence
About Their Lawns,

Servieesble farm gates, gates desira-
Die for their durability, cheapness and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-05

I h o ease wi { h
which they may
be oonstru C t e d,
have often been
d es cri bed, but
one seldom sees
either illustra-
ton or descrip-
ton of fancy
gates suitable to
finish off an or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-19
HIS BLOW MAY PROVE FATAL

Fireman Simon Powalsk, Of the British steamer
RhOdora, prisoner at the Tombs Court yeSieray
morning charged with a murderous assault on James
Young another fireman on the same ship. Powalski,
Young and John Mullins ordered by captain
DIVER 10 clean the ships brasswork. Young went 10
work on tie starboard sde the other two on the port
side Powalski began abusing Young for getting along
so slowly. sharp words followed. and Powask seiz-
ing steel wrench, struck Young tremendous blow
on the back Of the head.
Youpg was taken ashore on a stretcher whcp the
steamer anchored of Bcdlows Island, and sent 10
Chambers street Hospital There II was discovered
that he had sustained compound fracture of the
skull and other injuries, which In all probability
Will pr1ye fatal. Powalski placed under arrest
nv Ronndsman Graham, OF the Steamboat squad, and
when arra!gncd before Justice Patterson was held TO
await tho result OF YOung's Injuries.