The Forrest City times., 1892-04-01

smaller area, and with actually less labor than by old-fashioned methods.
 As a rule. we believe that desp plow- ing will yield the best rssults, year in and year out, especially whom com bined with a thorough system of un- der-draining. Such exceptions a the one above noted serve mainly to "prove the rule" But let every farm- CT test the matter for himseli, and thus determine whether his soil is one of the exceptions.
 Feeding Straw to Cattle.
 The philosophers tell us that a good sized COW must eat 140 pounds of straw a day to support life and as COW cannot chew up and ruminate this amount of straw it is easily seen why COWS are always in such thin flesh when compelled to live on a straw stack. Indeed it is about as much as cows can do to retain their flesh in cold weather on a feed of all the iirst-class hay they can eat. This, however, is not saying that straw has not its uses in feeding. The feeding value of straw will depend upon the kind of straw and the condition in which it was cut. We never thought much of ost or rye straw for feeding purposes but wheat and barley straw make an excellent ration when cut short say in inch lengths made wet and mixed with corn meal and bran. This of course is the ration for COWS in milk, and straw in such ration is just about as good as ordinary hay, especially tho straw of barley that has to be cut green to prevent the grain from shattering out. If 1t was not for the barbs on this straw that make it disagreeable to handle and sometimes dangerous to the eyes of tine cows, we would just as lief have 1t as the ordinary quality of hay.
 Success Depends Upon Little
 ThinGs.
 Success in honey producing always depends on an infinite number oflittle successes. If we can imagine that our apiary of 100 colonies represents . great factory of 100 hands, every one of them being perfectly drilled and equipped, and capable of performing a certain amount of work, we can see how it is when one to three or more colonies become demoralized, right Ut | the beginning of honey-how. The aggregate business suffers in propor. | ton to the small failures. If we pre- pare an apiary of 100 colonies of the best strain for the honey harvest, we will have to manage them with more than ordinary skill, if more than 15 per cent of them do not waste their time and opportunities, sulking in ! great clusters on the front of the hive, ! or by indulgng in excessive swarming, i or refusing to stay anywhere long enough to settle down to business. | Perhaps no apiary can be managed at times so effectually as to wholly prevent loss from the causes l have named but by the proper knowledge of the nature and habits of bees, this loss can be reduced.--G. H. Kirkpat- rick, in the Indiana Farmer.
 Dairying In Denmark.
 Is it true that the Danes have trebled the yield of milk in that coun- | try in three years with the same num- Der of COWS. To be modest in our as sertions, we simply do not believe it.. They have, however, done wonders in this direction, but that is not saying that they have performed miracles, which they would be doing to treble the yield in three years with the same COWS. How low down they were in the scale when they began to improve we have no means of knowing, but to make an increase of one hundred per cent. annually for three years is sim ply impossible. The fact probably is that while there has been consider able increase in the amount of butter made, it probably has not been moro than third or half more than or iginally, but the quality has been inn proved SO as to make it sell for per haps three times what it originally did. What tho "three times" figures really mean, III MI prooaOhitiess is that Denmark now exports three times as much butter in value as it did three years ago, or just before the improvement began. The whole world is indebted to that little country for the light she helped to throw upon the science of butter making. Dairyman.
 About Saltina Butter.