The record-union., 1891-10-14

length of rows this single dressing will
not require more than one minute of
time, and during the common season of
growth will cost less than procuring or
purchasing the wide boards, boring
! twenty holes, setting the plants down
through the holes, and then after all fail
ing to suppress the weeds outside the
boards and in the auger holes, besides
robbing the plants of a large portion of
their needed watering.
HIGH BOOSTS.
High roosts are an abomination. The
large, heavy hens can only reach the high
roosts with difficulty, and they are liable
to be dislodged from their position,
thrown off and injured by the fall. Make
the roosts Iowa foot from the floor be-
ing sufficiently Highland have all the
roasts on level, instead of making them
step-like; that is, one higher than the
other. Bumble-foot, lamenesS of the
joints and other ailments are often due to
| high roosts, and it is to their seeking lofty
| perches that young turkeys are usually
affected with swollen feet and legs. 1t is
really doubtful if roosts are at all neces-
sary in a poultry house, as those who
have tried the plan of providing litter for
the hens, and cleaning it away daily, re-
port that the hens keep in much better
condition, being less liable to draughts of
| air, and are seldom lame. 1t is an eX-
pertinent worthy of a trial, as the re-
Inoval of the roosts win render the in
terror of poultry-house more roomy
and convenient.
THAT "NUTTY' FLAVOR.
| The demand in the market is for butter
| with nutty flavor, and as it is not in the
original flavor of the milk, but developed
by a certain care and handling of the
milk and cream, there must be pretty
nearly uniform care of the milk, and,
back of this, uniform feeding and atten-
ton to not only the COWS but their sur
roundings. When the whole matter is
sifted, and the actual methods explained
| how this flavor is obtained, ii will be
noticed that it is is only taking the best
care of the milk, by making every utensil
/ bright and clean and doing more than
straining dirt and its compatriots out of
the milk, but rather in not allowing them
! to get into the milk. Then, if the milk is
| cared for III Uniform way, cooled down
! to a certain point, the temperature con-
! trolled, cream ripened so much and no
more, and the cream churned then and
| not some time in the future, and the but
termilk washed out, and the butter salted
so much and worked down so dry, the
| nutty flavor needed viii be developed
promptly on time and in needed amount.
1t is a uniform care, treatment and hand
ling that insures quality, texture and fla
VOr in butter.
|
Twenty-eight potatoes that fill a half
| bushel were recently dug on the farm Of
j. O. Carvile, No Name Pond, Me-.
Grooming the COWS is not often done,
! but it would add to their spirit and COM
! fort, however, as well as promote clean
| liness.
Buttermilk is said to be true milk
peptone, and, with the exception of
| koumiss, is the most digestible milk pro-
/ duct at our command.
Tansy water is recommended as de-
stroyer Of the cabbage-worm. Where
| tansy grows in large quantities it will not
cost much TO try the remedy.
Sheep farmers should go all over the
farm and cut the burdocks and other
| bury weeds and destroy them before the
stalks become ripe and brittle.
Sheep are said to be better than hogs
for the purpose of picking up the wind
| falls in the orchard, that is, if the trunks
| OF the trees are protected by wire screens.
! If you are troubled with white spec1s
/ in butter stir the cream every morning
/ before it is churned, and the specks will
| not appear. So a good butter-maker says.
| III. o. Chase Of New Hampshire reports
a Jersey heifer that fills two-gallon can
with milk three times a day. This would
be by weight fifty-two pounds twelve
ounces.
Ii the potatoes show the slightest sign
! of rot, burn all the tops and procure seed
| elsewhere next season. Any precaution
used now to stamp out the disease will be
! beneficial next season.
Whole oats, wheat bran and cornmeal
| form an excellent ration for young stock
The health and complete symmetrical
| growth OF the body are best secured by
feeding variety Of grain.
| No difference if hog will eat almost
everything placed before him, he should
not have everything that his corrupted
! appetite Graves. Clean food will make
clean pork, and only clean food is healthy
meat.
What may be a perfect animal in the
| eyes of one breeder will fall short in some
of the essential particulars with another
mainly because some breeders will con-
| slider some things more essential than
! others.
| The hog-pen should be always literally
bedded with straw, not only where the
| pigs sleep, but the yard outside, where
they run. Unless this yard is well
bedded much of the liquid manure will
be lost.
1t has been discovered recently by med
ical men that 'lump-jaw,p as it is called,
or Jumps found on the jaws of cattle, are
sometimes caused by decayed teeth It
is not known how much the poor brutes
suffer with the toothaehe.
Breeding to chunkiness and lard is
running the swine of the country. 1t
| seems to be the hog ideal of some men TO
get as much grease as possible inside
certain amount of skin. Muscle, sinew
and bone should be developed.
Philo Waterson, of Weyauwega, Wis,
picked from one single Duchess tree last
week twenty-five bushels of choice ap-
pies with no windfalls or wormy ones.
which he sold at 81 per bushel or S25 for
the crop from one rod square of ground.
4 mixture of lard and snuff is the Cali
fornia remedy for lice on stock. This
ointment does not need to be applied to
the entire animal, but ring of it two or.
three inches wide made completely
around the neck will have the desired
effect.
Gaien Wilson says microscope should
be as much of a creamery implement as
a thermometer, to study the filth from
seams or corners OF milk receptacles or
filthy floors. The wriggling animal life
brought to view will be an incentive to
cleanliness.
Analysis shows that while more than
half the potash is lost from tan bark. but
small quantity of the phosphoric acid is
lost. Tannery ashes are worth consider
ably more than leached wood ashes, and
are always worth hauling away: still
| such ashes contain considerable potash.
! The Arabs are said to feed horses from
the ground IN order to maintain the curve
in the neck. Without doubt the Ara
bian horses are among the finest in the
world. and if feeding ON or near the
| ground IS one reason for their superior
| ity, 1t is an argument for low managers
! that should not be overlooked