The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-05
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
Matters Of Interest to the IntellIgenesr's
Farmer Readers.

Matters Of Interest to the IntellIgencer'
Farmer Readers.
Milk that contains more than fou
pounds OF butter fat should be SKINNED
two pounds to every 100 pounds Of milk
and The surplus made into butter, say
Fl. P. Carpenter in the american Cream
cry.
A bee authority says: "The want o
air TT for breathing, and perhaps also O.
water, is the cause Of bees becoming
restless, which ignorant and specifically
informed people attribute to excessive
heat"
Seeds should always be planted in
fresh, moist soil. II the soil is dry Il
draws the moisture from the seed il II
contains any, and the seed has 10 lie anG
await the necessary moisture before II
can sprout.
Practical New York dairymen claim
1t has taken at least ten and one.hali
pounds Of milk on the average this sea
son to make a pound OF cheese. This is
in excess Of ordinary years, say the
american CIltirdtOr.
T.. B. Terry says: II believe that al
the present day, in the vincinity OF good
markets at least, sure plan for keeping
poor and hard upon small farm ls to
try to raise little of everything that
will grow in the latitude where one
lives"
Mr.. o. s. Blias SAYS in the New York
Tribune that true economy In feeding
hens is to give all the feed that can be
well assimilated and turned to profitable
use, and when too much is consumed for
profit, reduce the quality rather than the
quantity"
Farm, Stock and Home put it in this
wise: "Poor roads; small loads, ex.
hausted horses, lost time, wretched
wagons. Good roads; big loads, happy
horses, time to-spare, solid wagons" Of
all men, the farmers cannot afford to
have poor roads.
The farmer takes not only cost but his
living out Of his receipts before he bs.
gins to count the profit. The merchant
counts as profit the difference between
the buying and selling price, less the
cost OF the transaction, and then lives on
his profit.
Some say it is not necessary to ventil-
ate cellar in which bees are kept, as
the upward ventilation OF the hive will
be sufficient. DR.. @. O. Miller wants to
know show much upward ventilation
will make the air pure in cellar filed
with rotten cabbage"
DR.. HUskins says that II paris green
were soluble in water it would kill the
leaves upon which it was sprinkled. 1t
is, however, soluble in the bodies OF in
seCts. London purple 10 slightly soluble
in water, and 10 hence always more or
less harmful to foliage.
A calf can be prevented from having
horns by an application OF crude potash
to the spot where the inCipient horn can
be felt-so Waldo F. Brown says. The
cost is next to nothing. The plan Of
dehorning is gaining in favor, and
done in this way has much to commend
it.
Never cut q fowls wings by clipping
of the quilts, as it makes them look un-
slightly. The best way to cut their
wing to prevent flying, is to spread the
wing out and cut the feather portion
from the quill. This will leave bare
quilts, and when the wing is closed it
rarely shows that the wing has been
tempered with. Only one wing should
be cut.
The average egg weighs about two
ounces. The fresh egg is composed OF 10
per cent shell, 60 per cent white and 80
Ger cent yelk. The white contains So
per cent and the yelk 50 per cent Of
water. The whole, as TO its solid con.
stituents, is nearly pure albumen. The
yelk contains the constituents Of flesh,
bone, nerve, sinew, HyandOttc
Mich Herald.
Professor w. A. Henry says: ~
should think ten pounds OF hay suffi'
Gent for horse literally fed on grain.
Asa rule horses consume much more
nay than is best for them or profitable
for the owner. The practice OF filling a
hay-chuse or deep manger with large
anount Of hay and allowing the animal
TO eat at will should be avoided. With
little experience ASCERTAIN the real
needs OF the animal, and keep him to
that"
Inasmuch as almost no agricultural
product, except dried tobacco leaves and
alfalfa hay, is found to contain more lime
than clover hay, and as Liebig long age
classed clover among the 'lime plants,
one could hardly be Justified in asserting
that clover is deficient in lime. While
1t ia not probable that fowls may be able
TO utilize the lime in oyster shells, etc.
there appears no. reason to doubt tina
clover may at least supply agood por
ton OF the lime required by them, fol
ten ounces OF clover nay would contain
enough lime fer an egg shell.-Prof. W
p. Wheeler.
1t pays to pet COWS; they not only dc
much better, but you are surprised II
find go much about them that seems hu
man, says writer in the Tribune. My
father and mother made much OF theil
COWS and were loved by them accord
ipgly. have seen COW lay her nose OF
lather's shoulder to have her neck
scratched, but she loved mother better
She appreciated her gentleness, anC
while she shook her horns II any Chill
dren came about, her eyes would Rlister
with delight at the approach OF mother
and she was the only person to whom
she would give down her milk. Father
resorted in vain to every article he coulC
think of; she would stand as stolid as
statue and keep her milk to herself I'M
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