The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-26


soil rather bare of nitrates before the
cereals begin growth in the spring A
large part of the nitrates which would
be lost were a cereal crop grown is
assimilated and retained by root
crop; and when the roots are fed on
the land. we may return the nitrogen
to the soil in the manure of the ami
mails and thus enrich the land for q
cereal crop.
Stock and Dairy Notes.
When man complains that his fin-
gers get so cold while he is milking,
we are ready to hear him complain
that for some reason his COWS do not
give big messes. A temperature that
makes fingers uncomfortably cold in a
few minutes is not calculated to help
the milk production of an animal that
must endure it twenty-four hours per
day. Cold fingers at milking means
less milk.
Don't adopt the idea that good
beef animal must be a poor mixer. It
is erroneous. Good calves to grow
into beef animals can not be raised
without plenty of milk, although it
may just as we'll be skinned milk il
something is used to replace the cream;
and we cannot have plenty of milk
without good mixers for dams. The
best beef animal. because the most
profitable, comes from q breed of COWS
that will raise a good calf and with
milk and butter pay for their keep
besides.
The milk and butter test fever has
subsidized. The tests became generally
discredited, and at the best they had
little practical value. Stuffing a COW
with all the milk producing food she
can handle has little practical interest
to the dairyman, and is OF little value
as evidence in favor OF breed. But
every dairyman should test the animals
of his herd, not to see how much milk
they can give when force-fed, but to
determine which animals pay the most
or the least for their food-which are
the most and which are the least profit
able when full fed and wisely fed. The
test must take account of the quality
OF the milk as we'll as Of its quantity.
Unless the dairyman makes these tests,
how can he know what animals he
should keep and what he should sellp
Household Hints.
To take out spots from wash goods.
rub them with yolk OF egg before
washing.
The favorite linen for embroidery is
one OF the "old bleach" manufacture.
This linen is woven with a firm round
thread Of a superior quality OF fax,
and is grass bleached.
The best way to fry apples is to
halve them. remove core, put some
butter In fryin9-pan and put in the
halves the cut side down, then add a
little water and let boil dry; then fry.
To clean hair brushes. put a table
spoonful Of ammonia into tepid water,
dip them up and down: until clean.
then dry with the bristles down. In
place of the ammonia they may be
cleaned by using a teaspoonful of soda.
The fashion of sewing tiny sachets
OF fragrant powders in the corsage of
dresses is not new, and is certainly
a very agreeable one. There also the
perfume used must be no stronger
than violet or eau d'Espagne, amber
or orrls-root
Ivory may be bleached by placing 1t
for an hour in a solution of alum;
then polish it with piece OF woollen
and wrap 1t in linen to dry. Another
method is to take peroxide of hydro
gen. and to one pint of it add one
ounce of aqua-ammonia. Warm it
and soak the ivory in it for twenty
four hours; then dry and polish with
chalk.
When any part OF a dress skirt or
drapery has been torn or soiled, it
can often be successfully covered by
changing the arrangement of
draperies. or by an ingenious DISPOSE.
ton Of trimming. in harmony with
what is already in use. A rent should
always be darned with ravelled
threads of the material, and we'll
pressed on the wrong side, on several
thicknesses OF heavy cloth.
For small articles about the house.
such as book covers, blotttug-cases,
wall pockets and the like. q revival of
the darned backgrounds, once 80 pop
ular. has taken place. The design
is merely outlined and lightly filed in,
and hence is doubly effective against
the darker and artistically irregular
stitches Of the foundation. The work
is easy. the workers attention being
mainly required to keep the saines sef
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