St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
Agricultural Notes.

A well kept hedge is good thing on
| the farm.
ButtermilE, when fed with fat forming
| foods, is valuable for small stock.
No one who intends to lave first. class
garden should neglect the compost.
Do not try to g1ow garden crops or ally
| other ordinary farm crop in soil that is
We Drain if necessary.
One of the most economical and profita-
BILE methods of manuring is by the use Of
| peavines and chemical manures.
1t takes considerable care and time to
prepare the soil for garden purposes, but
it must be done if we expect good Dps.
The roots of plants have tw offices
first. they support the plant in the ground ;
second, they take up nourishment for the
plant.
Quite trade is now done in the tail
feathers of turkeys. The feathers On the
second and third joints of the wings are
also in demand. These feathers are made
into feather busters and even the small
feathers are sometimes stripped and ap-
piled to use in the arts.
new disease, called the 'cornstalk
disease" has made its appearance in some
localities in the West. 1t has been inves-
tigated by DR.. Billings and Prof. Burrill,
who trace it to a microbe that develops
ON the leaves of co, 1, in circumscribed To-
calities in the field, and is probably devel-
oped on some species OF grasses.
According to the american AQricatlturist,
the milk supply of New York City affords
an income to the farmers furnishing it of
$10,000,0 900, at two and one-half cents
quart. Over 100000 COWS are MIXED to
obtain this supply, and $50, 900. 900 of cap
ital is invested exclusive of railroads and
of dealers Milk is drawn from five States,
and some of it is hauled 800 miles by the
railroads With vigilant milk inspectors
and an ctive dairy commissioner with his
deputies, New York is getting supply of
fairly good milk and honest butter.
]. w. Hart, of the Alabama Experiment
Station, writes as follows to H0ards Dairy
man Until few weeks ago we were,
in conjunction with grain, feeding largely
cotton seed meal to supplement pastures.
So to cow in full flow of milk as high as
three pounds day were fed. The cows
We're greedy, fond of it, and would have
eaten mere. AS cottonseed meal is highly
heterogeneous, it was used to balance the
more carbonaceous grail S, thereby secur-
ing ration more albuminoid in character.
In feeding IL an important result consisted
in the fact that the melting point of the
butter was raised several degrees above
the melting point of butter made where no
cottonseed meal had been fed-a feature
not to be despised in this latitude.
Cotton seed oil is now worth 81 a gallon.
But a new wonder was yet to come, says
the Youths Companion. Experience
showed that the ton of cotton seed was
better fertilizer and better stock feed
after it had been robbed of it's 80 gallons of
oil than it was before; that the hulls of the
seeds made the best of fuel for the oil
mill engine; that the ashes of the bulls
had the highest commercial value as pot
ash, and that the ''refuse" of the whole
made the best and purest soap stock. to
carry to the toilet the perfumes of the
best manufacturers. The history of cot
ton seed has, perhaps, been paralleled by
that of petroleum, which, in its crude
state, i'll looking and bad-smelling, has
proved mine of wealth in the wonderful
substances that have been produced from it.
German chemists have discovered in the
cocoanut fatty substitute for butter, and
now the United States consul at Mann
helm, Germany, reports that the new pro-
duct has begun to be manufactured on a
large scale in that city. A single factory
produces 5000 pounds Of it per day, worth
in the market fifteen cents pound. The
nuts used are obtained mostly from South
sea aud coral islands, Arabia, the coast
countries of Africa and South America.
Natives in countries where the nuts grow
have for a long time used the milk of these
nuts instead of food oils. The butter con-
5ains sixty to seventy per cent of fat and
twenty five per cent of organic substances:
of which ten per cent is albumen. In a
country where real butter runs all the way
from twenty five to thirty-fve cents per
pound, cocoanut butter at half that price
is thought to have great future before
it. At present it is chiefly used in hos
pitfalls, but it is rapidly finding its way to
the tables of the poor, particularly as
substitute for oleomargarine. 1t is free,
also, from germs of tuberculosis, which is
said to affect fully ten per cent of the milk
giving cows in Germany. The consul |
recommends the adoption of this new but
ter as an article of manufacture in the |
United States.-Er.