The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-15

should be begun before the horns get
too large, and at stage when growth
is most rapid for best results.
| Fruit Without Seed.
| When fruit is left to nature it fares
under the hardest conditions, and
nature, always careful to perpetuate
races, concentrates her efforts on the
seed. Thus nurserymen find that
seeds of uncultivated apples are fuller,
plumper, and make more vigorous
stocks than seed from better fruit.
This suggests whether by careful cult
| walton long continued seedless fruits
may be obtained. The Zante currant
is specimen of such fruit. til really
a small grape that has been so long
propagated. by cuttings and layers
that it has lost it's original power Of
producing seed. We sometimes find
seedless grapes among the varieties
grown in this country.
These are generally grapes defective
In floral organs, SO that the fruit is
only partly fertilized. By continuing
to make cuttings from these, seedless
grapes may in time be produced. 1t
will be more difficult to produce seed
less fruit from varieties not generally
propagated by cuttings, as each recur-
renee to seed helps to establish the
seed-bearing character.
Butter Milk for Horses.
The Christian Intelligencer is au-
thority for the statement that dairy
man in England has been giving his
horses butter-milk to drink instead of
water. Each horse gets his ration
daily through theyear, and the system
having been continued for eighteen
months and found to answer in
most satisfactory manner, it is not
likely to be abandoned. There can be
no doubt, a contemporary remarks,
that the valuable solids in the butter
milk do the animal a very good deal
of good, and prevent the necessity of
such large corn feeding as some prac-
tice, while there is at all times healthy
smack about the article which leads
many people to use it. There is no
doubt that buttermilk is good for
horses. In the United States it goes
to make pork, and also sometimes to
sober old topers. Also, according to
an Irish adage, "buttermilk and pra-
ties" make strong men.
Creamery Butter.
After all that can be said for cream
cry butter it is not always perfect.
Increasing numbers note it's poor
keeping quality, because imperfectly
freed from Gaseous matter; also the
fact that it does not go so far. pound
for pound, as dairy butter, more
solid from careful making. Families
are discarding it, while they desire
the best, because needing to practice
economy. But all creameries do not
turn out "spongy" butter. Here and
there one equals dairy butter in solid
ity. Cream gathering creameries are
prone to let cream sour too much.
OF course oversouring, even in the
dairy, will produce the same sorry re-
suit. The creamery or dairy coming
nearest to the manufacture of sweet
cream butter, provided it is properly
washed and packed, will make the
most solid and best keeping article
New York Tribune.
Sheep Are Delicate Feeders.
Sheep are the most delicate feeders
of all domestic animals. When the
weather is warm they are especially
liable to be off feed, and unless their
owner is extremely careful they will
be cloyed and refuse to eat as they
should for several days thereafter.
Sheep do not need ground feed. They
can digest whole grain better than
other stock excepting poultry. But u
portion of wheat bran in their feed
and whole oats will greatly lessen the
danger that they will become cloyed.
Thorough Cultivation.
Careful blowing and thorough har-
rowing are apartial substitution lib
eral manuring in rich soil, as they fit
the soh for absorbing the nitrogen of
the atmosphere and the rainfall, and
hasten those chemical changes which
render available the nitrogen in the
organic matter, and the potash and
other material elements of fertility
which are present in insoluble forms.
| Farm Notes
One-half of the failures to secure
eggs from hens is due to their being
| overfed and in too fat condition.
When buying pigs or poultry always
quarantine them for few days before
permitting them to be with those on
the farm.
A green crop of weeds makes ma
nure in the soil. Plow them under,
and thus make them perform service
instead of being injurious.
It is very important to make a diff