Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-01-23
ABOUT THE FARM.
Hints for Farmers and Busy
Housewives to Appreciate.


w. b. X. writes: have about sew.
enty different varieties of grapes In
my grounds, aud all who see them ex.
press surprise at such healthy vines
| number and size of punches, and fin,
flavor of fruit. After much expert
menting for five years with fertilizers
! have found the following satisfac
tory: Cow manure, nitrate of potash
sulphate of iron, lime and salt. Tn,
salt, copperas and potash are applied
early in spring as soon as the ground
opens, the lime after rain, and lastly
the manure. Good cultivation has
followed through the summer, and
have almost wholly escaped rot and
mildew, while the vines Of my neigh
bors, were, with few exceptions, in
Tested with them.
A half-gradc COW is much superior
to n l6-l6 grade, when the dam of one
is n good scrub and the sire ilrst-class
Jersey; while in the other case u
moderately good scrub COW has been
bred in succession to indifferent bulls.
II Judgment is exercised, and only
good bulls used, grades may be, as in
diyiduals, quite equal to good Jerseys,
A bull that is not tit to use on register
ed cows is not III to build up herd OF
grades with.
Broadly speaking, the beef type !,
built on the ideal of the paralclopipe,
| don--tho form that embraces the largest
solid contents within the shortest
boundary lines---or Of the egg. In tn,
same general way the milk type is built
on the model of the wedge, and mode
cows in any of the milk breeds vii
generally approach this form more ol
less closely, but each will still retain III
distinctive breed form. There is 1
Jersey form and II Guernsey form; a.
| Ayrshire and llolstcin, not to he mis-
taken the one for tho other by any
trained eye,
Morgan a. Brown Of Columbia
Tenn, tested Landsccr's Signalin,
5S, l0l the last week of October. Sh,
was ~ months old the day she com.
| plctcd the test. In the seven days she
gave 1875 pounds two ounces of milk,
which churned llpounds I rs ounces
Of butter, sailed one ounce TO the
pound ready for market. The flow of
milk varied from - pounds 10 ounces
TO 90 pounds three ounces. Mrs. Kate
NJ. Iiusick of Wabash, Ind, reports Z
| pounds II ounces of butter from De-
tober ~ 10 November from Imperial
Riotrcss 80, 300. The amount Of milk
was 100 pounds four ounces. She
was fed an ordinary wooden bucketful
of cut clover hay, boiling water poured
over il and allowed to stand covered 2
hours To this was added four quarts
Of bran, one quart of ground corn and
onc-half pint OF. old process oil meal.
Tie corn and oil meal were gradually
increased until the last two days she
had two quarts of corn meal and one
pint of oil meal twice n day, the bran
and clover hay remained the same.
The feeding value of the yellow field
pumpkin Is based upon the amount of
dry meter in 100 pounds rs well ms on
the chemical composition of that mat
ter. The whole pumpkin has about 80
per cent water and dry matter;
0.G of per cent. of this Is albumi-
noids, 9.S carbohydrates, OIL fat and I
ash. The value Of this when figured
in the ordinary way is about 10 cents
per hundred pounds, but rs the pump
kin contains little poetic acid, which
| becomes digcster of other food and
| gives il an additional value, IL may be
said that good, ripe pumpkins are
worth 10 to II cents per hundred
pounds to feed in moderate quantity
with other food in the milk ration OF
| for fattening. A small quantity OF
pumpkin gives relish and improves
the flavor Of the milk. But with ref
erencc to the effect of seeds, care mus
be taken if the seeds are fed 20 the cow
that they are mixed evenly with tn,
rest of the pumpkin. The seeds ar,
given in some csscs as diuretic medi
cine. Their action is apt to be on the
kidneys, and the dairymen often say
that their cows shrink in their milk
when freely fed with pumpkins.
If the seeds get separated so the
cows eat more than the natural pro-
portion of seeds, this effect upon the
kidneys would naturally affect the
secretion of milk. The Chinese are
accustomed to eat pumpkin seeds be-
tween the courses at dinner, and they
are probably taken as an appetiser and
dgcster. These seeds are rich in
nitrogen and oil, and are very nutri-
tious. Some feeders have been very
successful in fattcning pigs with a
small allowance of pumpkin seeds in
connection with other food. These
seeds used as a part of the food for
poultry would fatten them rapidly.
1t should not constitute more than one
fifth TO one-fourth Of the food given TO
poultry.
The dry matter in pumpkin seeds
and the stringy parts amount to about
% ppr cent or more than double that