The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-16

drawn of Immediately. The butter
should test about SO degrees when
ready to salt; it is then allowed to
drain while the salt is prepared. I'm
less you have seen freshly washed
butter just at this stage, you cannot
imagine how beautiful it is, each par
ticle by itself, cool and fragrant, and
OF the rich golden color that it will be
ordinarily after standing "a hours
Mrs. II. D. Shattuck.
Points OF Good Dairy Cow.
In buying or rearing dairy cows, al
ways. try to have them of some good
breed. Grades Of the Ayrshire, Alder
ney or Shorthorns are the best. She
should be of medium size; fine head;
very broad between the eyes; eye of q
mild and pleasant expression; small
horns Of waxy color preferred;
rather q long neck, which must be
thin but may be deep; barrel round,
and ribs arching we'll from the back;
body long; back straight; hips broad
can scarcely be too much so; tall fall
ing at right angles with the back, and
should be long and fine; headquarters
rather long and thin; udder we'll de-
veloped, particularly the forward
part of it; teats standing well apart,
of medium size, and pointing forward;
the coat should be of medium length
fine, and of a silky feel; the skin should
be loose and mellow and of yellowish
tinge.
Experience has taught us that. a
COW combining the greatest number
of sthe above points is the most pro-
fitable for the dairyman to keep.
Such a COW will give greater quanti-
ty and better quality of milk than a
larger and coarser animal. Our ex-
perience has been conffed almost en-
tirely to the native, but we believe
that judicious crossing with milking
families of thoroughbreds would re-
suit in immense advantage to the
dairy farmer. We would not advise
any one to stock farm with pure
bred stock, of any breed, believing
that grades of one-half or three
fourths blood at the utmost, will be
found most profitable in the long run,
for milk and butter. Practical Farm
er.
Land Too Rich For Strawberries.
1 was recently talking with friend
who lives only two miles from Mr.. c.,
and who marketed last year $500
worth of Strawberries from an acre
and onehalf, and he told me that his
crop would have been moresatisfac-
tory and yielded more money if the
land had been poorer. # was piece
which had been heavily MANFRED for
cabbages and onions for several
years, and the growth of foliage was
excessive and the fruit so soft that it
was difficult to get to market, six
miles away, in a perfect shape. The
varieties were Bubach and Haverland
pollenized with Jessie and Glendale.
He charged the softness to an over
supply OF heterogeneous manure in the
soil, or the same cause that makes
wheat lodge. Had this field been
planted to early potatoes, then sowed
to wheat or stocked with clover, plow-
ing under the young clover the next
spring, and then planted to strawber-
ries, probably 200 bushels OF pota-
toes and 80 Of wheat per acre could
have been taken off without at all i'm
pairing the soil for trawberries. Mr..
Terry, who, by a three years rota-
ton of potatoes, wheat and clover,
gives no opportunity to the white
grub, plants strawberries on a rich
clover sod, and manures but slightly,
so as not to lodge the wheat which fol
lows the Strawberries, the latter being
planted in corner of the potato field.
Mr.. T. gets very successful yields of
Strawberries in this way on land that
produces one year with another % or
80 bushels of wheat per acre, so this
is a very good guage for the requisite
fertility of strawberry ground.-Vick's
Magazine.