Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-02-11
FARM RANCH AND GARDEN.

FARM RANCH AMP GARDEN.
One Of the best after dinner cheeses il
the strong, rich Edam, which is now
made in America.
The live stock and dairy business, and
even farming, is now carried on by COM
binatiOn of prOprietors.
Two billion dollars are invested in the
dairy business of this country. This is
almost twice as mu III money as is in
vested in manufacturing and commercial
interests.
When cow is two years old wrinkle
begins to form at the base of her horns.
At three years this wrinkle is fully de-
veloped. When she is five years Old an
other will form, and after that one will
come each succeeding year. Thus her
age can be known.
Cream snd milk can be churned to-
gether but it takes longer, and the butter
will not come evenly. 1t is costly
method and should not be practiced. II
cream is churned before the proper time
it will not be Of perfect flavor, and more
time will be required to churn the cream.
Once when breaking heifer to milk,
says a writer, she troubled me very
mnch by moving around. Whenever she
attempted to move seized her with one
hand around the ankle joint, and the
pail with the other hand. A few three
legged races were sufficient and she
never grve trouble afterwarh.
Frost Injuries butter. Butter that has
been frozen soon gets off flavor when ex-
posed to warmer temperature. Butter
kept but short time in a cold storage
soon spoils after exposing it in a warmer
temperature. Keep your milk, cream
aud butter away from severe cold and
frost.
Ia butter making it is quite as neces-
sary to strain the wafer with which the
butter granules are washed from the
sides OF the churn, as it Is to strain the
water used in the churn; it is essential
to remember that it is possible to over
wash, says the Northern Agriculturist.
Every washing takes away the flavor of
the butter.
A feeding experiment at the Maine ag
ricultui al station shows that it costs only
$l1 year more to feed l200-pound
Holstein COW than to feed 300 pound
Jersey; but this by no means deter
mines the relative value of the two ami
mails. Will the Holstein's carcass
dressed for beef sell for $ll more than
the Jerseys? And during the year
which cows milk and butter was worth
the most?
FRUIT GROWING.
The Marion County Fruit Growers AS
ISOLATION held its annual meeting, when
topics Of interest to horticulturists and
gardeners were discussed. Among the pa
pers read was one by B. s. Pague, OF the
weather bureau, on Horticulture and
Climate Considerations" He outlined
the benefits ofthorough farming of mixed
crops on small acreage rather than
wheat or any one crop on large scale.
Ten acres Of fruit trees at the age of five
years, he said, will yield more in one
year than would twenty acres of wheat
in five years; each acre, each year,
Welding twenty bushels to the acre,
and each bushel selling for 50 cents. |
He said that the weather bureau record
showed that in the vicinity of Hood river
and The Dalles, the lowest night tenn
perature was higher liz that locality than
IN any other part of the state from June
let to September 18th, making the sec
ion especially suited to peach culture, !
He explained how cold air settled in !
valleys and said vegetation on rising
; ound is never exposed to the full i l.
'ensity OF frosts or cooler night air and
he higher they are situated relative to
he Immediately surrounding district, the
ess they are exposed, since their rela-
i've elevation provides a ready escape
downward OF the cooler air almost az
apidly as it is formed. Frosts are most
ls severely felt where the slopes above
hem are destitute of vegetation, for If
he slopes are covered with trees, they
'ffer resistance to the descending cur.
ents of cold air and distribute the cold
Produced by radiation through the at
nosphere.
He then distinguished the frost and
ION frost periods as they generally exist
n Oregon and affect vegetation, and
ave an example OF how with the dry
nd wet bulb thermometer any horticul-
urist could determine for himself the
approach OF frost and gave
emedies OF how to protect orchards from
be frost by burning damp straw and al
owing the smoke to cover the orchard.