The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-06-11

knoll created by careless or too con.
slant culture, jutting itself up amid
fields rosy with growths of wild prairie
roses or purpling with feathery blooms
of Venus paint brush, there scatter
the seed of the Meliotus.
In two years time, the seed will
have terminated and will have thrown
up great branching slaves of
sweet scented foliage and snowy bios.
SONS. Then having reached perfection
like every world bepefactor, it dies
leaving in the earth beneath it an i'm
mense of richness. The ground be
meath the plant in that tin has been
cut through and through with roots as
large some of them as a mans wrist.
This is natures way of blowing land
too tough for mans implements to
break up. These roots dying every
two years fill the earth with decaying
matter. This is old natures perfect
plan Of fertilization. These great
roots make millions of cisterns that
hold or lose the moisture according to
the demands of the crops above. This
is natures complete system OF tile
drainage that mans most artful
u ethods cannot excel or even equal.
Thus one sees also that as land reno.
vator no plant can equal this. 1t is
even better as forage plant than
Johnson grass. 1t bears frequent cut.
tings with the scythe for winter stor-
age, its strengthening qualities are
great whether fed to stock green or
dry. 1t yields more beautiful honey
than any plant in this section. It,
beautiful white blossoms and its grace
fnl three toothed foliage, fragrant as
vanilla grass, lend themselves happy
to florists usages.
A NEW CREAM SEPARATOR.
Dairymen will lie interested to learn
that a simple, effective and cheap
cream separator has been invented
| which promises to revolutioniZe dairy
ing.
The invention is from the brain OF
Mr.. j. Berrigan of Wadsworth cream.
cry. N. Y, and is described by Edward
F. Dibble in the Rural New Yorker
The following is his account of the
machine and mode of working it;
The separator, the first he ever made
was rudely constructed. 1t consists O
a gas main about six or 'even inche
in diameter and about 2 1-2 feet high
with cap on either end.
This gas pipe is set up on either en-
and on .one side q water gauge
screwed into the top cap, small al
pump, such as is used on q Shipma
oil engine is connected with the "a
main by q quarter inch pipe. and til
only other opening into the main Is
tube through which the milk is poured
Such, in brief, is description Of tn
Berrigan cream separator.
| In order that a thorough tes
should be made from beginning t.
end, went to the dairy farm of Q. {
J HOvey, which adjoins the creamery
and took seven quarts of such milk a
is commonly found in dairy of 7
cows, right from the pail of one of tn
mixers. Then l poured the milk
still warm, into the separator. M
Berrigan took hold of the pun
handle with the request that | shout
time him. did so. and after twenty
five seconds pumping the steam gaug
registered an air pressure of forty fiv
pounds to he square inch. (Under
Island the air was not exhausted fror
The main, but pumped in
1ale pressure was above
to remain on for two an
one-half minutes, when it was take
loft, and strange as it may seem, in fiv
lminutes began to see small specks {
Icream rising to the top of the waite
4 gauge. In twenty minutes nearly a.
4 the cream was on the top and /
twenty-five from the time Mr.. Berriga
A began to pump all the cream had rise
and the line between the milk an
cream was very sharply defined, ther
being an inch and half of cream O
top OF the milk, by actual measure
ment.
After the milk had been draw
of, took the cream 1.-TWO pints) to m
home, ten miles away, and churned
the next day, when it had becom
slightly acid, at a temperature of 9
degreesand the butter came in a mic
granular shape.
Mr. Berrigan does not pretend +
explain how or why the cresm rises
he is not scientist, and wisely leave
those questions for the professors t,
| answer.
A pressure Of eighty pounds to tn,
| square inch left on for three minutes
caused the cream to rise in eight min.
utes, and after the milk has beer
areated or inflated it may be placed IL