The record-union., 1892-06-08

IolAb VI oCOHSIly 10 SOll1Dg Will Odliy
cut green crops, but whether cows will
keep their breeding health for genera
lions Of this style of feeding remains to
be seen. The milk tests have been an
important factor in bringing dairying 20
d sound business stand dpoint, and the
public creameries and cheese factories
nave also played an important part. In
deed, at the present time man with
sufficient capital-of money and brains
can go into dairying as q money-making
business with as much certainty of sue
cess as IN any other line of trade. And
when oleO is brought within the law
dalrylng viii receive further impetus
that may put it in the rank of specula-
ton, which viii iniure IL at first, but
finally leave it in healthy state of regu-
lar progression that will keep up with
the needs Of the country.-A. L. Crosby.
RECKLESS DESTRUCTION. OF OUR FORESTS.
The rapidity with which our forests are
disappearing before the inroads of lum-
bermen is fact which has often been
publicly commented upon and been the
subject Of more or less legislation.
Nevertheless, the reckless destruction
goes on, and large tracts are usually
added TO the treGlesS and drought
scOurged areas Of the land. It is an evil
which should not be treated with so
much leniency as has been the case in the
past. The United States is blessed with
magnificent forests, and they should not
be permitted to be swept away. Such re-
strictions ought TO be placed upon the
cutting of timber as would prevent the
deioresung of woodlands and provide
for continued growth in future years.
The evils of a different course have been
manifest III the Old W Orld for centuries,
and now in Europe the forests are guarded
with great care by most Governments,
and all waste prevented by strict regula-
uons.-Clncinnati Commercial Gazette.
FARM NOTES.
The farmer who cultivates a few acres
and does it in the best manner possible,
realizes more profit than the one who
cultiyates larger area and does it in q
less thorough manner.
Celery prefers moist soil. One of the
special liquid fertilizers for celery is soap
suds. Before transplanting the plants,
however, make the ground very rich.
Unless this is done any attempt TO grow
good celery will be waste OF time.
1t is necessary to balance the ration of
the soil as well as for the animals. Feed
ing the soil with something it does not
require is equivalent to giving an animal
food which it will not eat. The best fertil-
lzers are those which supply the soil with
that which it requires.
In California it is found that peach
stones burn as well as the best coal and
give out more heat in proportion to
weight. The stones taken out OF the fruit
that is timed or dried is collected and
sold at the rate of S15 a ton. Apricot
stones also burn, but not SO we'll as peach
and do not command 50 good price.
Five thousand persons are engaged in
the cultivation of about 2,l25 acres of
land near Paris, France. This is about
two persons to the acre, but the cultiva-
ton is on the intensive plan. So very
productive are these acres that they sup
ply the 100000 people Of Paris with veg
etables and have surplus to ship to
London.
Because a calf is willing to help itself
along by eating grass is no reason why 1t
should be left TO shift for itself on that
Milk and meal will pay a good profit, if
given to the calf in addition to grass. In
fact, we hold the grass should be simply
food Of young calf. If the fat is taken
out replace it by oatmeal.
The Agricultural Department has been
experimenting with the incubation of
swine as preventive of cholera. The re-
suit shows that lnOculation is unsafe,
causing the spread of the disease, instead
Of preventing it. In Nebraska the losses
from incubation were 10 per cent, while
the losses among uninoculated animals
were only per cent.
Europe has L, 200, coo beehives and pro-
duces 307, 100000 pounds OF honey, while
the United States has 2,500,0G0 hives and
produces 81, ,0S0,0 pounds of honey. The
largest apiarist in the world is NJ. Harbi-
con Of California, who has 5000 hives,
yielding 20O, 900 pounds of honey yearly.
1t is estimated that a bee must visit 2lS-
750 flowers for each ounce Of honey gath
cred.
The oyster plant, sometimes called
satisfy, should find place in every good
garden. 1t resembles a parsnip, but
grows only half its size. 1t can be pre-
served in a pit during the winter, and
when cut up in slices and SteWed it re-
sembles the oyster in flavor. The seed is
sown in drills fifteen inches apart. and
the plants thinned out to stand six
inches apart in the row.
Two billion dozen of eggs are used in
the United States each year, and the
consumption of this article of good is
no business in which one can embark
with more certainty of not being crowded
out than that OF egg producing. 1t will
be long time before the supply catches
up with and passes the demand.
1t is no advantage to allow red rasp-
berries to spread. For family supply
one row is sufficient, and the plants
row by hoeing. Give the row. on both
sides, plenty OF manure, and thus secure
large berries. Unless so treated the re-
suit will be unsatisfactory, while the row
will have an unsightly appearance.
If man has an orchard on flat. wet
soil, IL will require no prophet to tell that
it will produce little or no fruit, that is.
if it be not well drained. Such orchards
should be looked after at once and drains
Igsrr aaTN4 ftr-rA
this course be not followed it would be
better TO dig up the trees and turn the
! land into grass meadow or pasture or a
! cranberry marsh.
| Railway companies in Australia, after
! experimenting with various kinds OF
quick fencing for railways, especially
with a view Of keeping out Of snow
! drifts" have settled upon hedges OF
Rose of Province" It is said that a
three and one-fourth feet thick will check
snow drifts. The blossoms are salable.
and so the fence is profitable.
The famous jockey, Bergen, SAYS: 81
think the whip should seldom be used
until the very last thing, but we all have
to whip horses more than we ought, be-
cause If wedon't the public and the news
papers would declare we don't try to
win. The public doesn't seem to have
any confidence in the jockey VINO, being
on the horse, is the best judge of what he
can do, but then the public hasn't the
confidence OF everybody"
Poultry manure is worthless unless if
is cOmposted when fresh, owing 10 q
large portion becoming hard and insolu-
bic silicates, being formed. 1t rarely con-
| tains over ? per cent. of nitrogen or phos-
phoric acid, and less than / per cent. OF
potash. Collected daily, however. and
mixed with dry dirt and plaster the