The record-union., 1893-08-17


Chief Buchanan announces the results
of the cheese contest of fifteen days in
May between breeds of cattle at the
Worlds Fair, as follows:
Jerseys. Guernseys. Shorthorns.
ohaesd Mile 1850 I@55 i5S i37355 g
Guern- Short
Value Of cheese-.....-.. SIS g SlS5 2 $40 10
Value of WHEY. 926 Y 81
Increase live weight 4 z q 60 81 81 y y
Cost Of ieed................. 98 IA e 2 % S6 %
Net protit.................... ll9 81 IS 30 81 80
The Jerseys in the fifteen days gave
1,109.7 pounds more milk than the Short
horns, and 2,357.S pounds more than the
Guernseys, and the Shorthorns 1,24S
pounds more than the Guernseys. The
milk of the Jerseys, when made into
cheese, produced 32l.14 pounds more
cheese than the Guernseys, and 374. Ii
pounds more than the Shorthorns. The
Guernseys, though giving less milk, ex-
ceeded the Shorthorns in cheese by 53.O2
pounds. The increase in live weight is
largely in favor of the Shorthorns over
both the other breeds. The Guernseys
and production shows that the Jerseys
took care of and profitably assimilated
larger amount of feed than the Guern-
seys, and but little less than the Short
horns. The awards are:
Best breed in cheese-making, the Jer-
seys. Best COW tout of the seventy five
of any breed, Jersey COW, Ida's Marigold,
&. a. Sweet, President Third National
Bank, Buffalo, n. y, owner. Second
place, Jersey COW. Merry Maiden, .. IL
q. Il. Graves, Maitland, Mo-, owners.
Fourth position, Jersey COW, Signals
Queen, Frank Emo, Pine Plains, n. y,
owner. Third COW Is also Jersey, Lily
Martin, owned by Captain NJ. c.. Camp
bell, Spring Hill, Tenn. Fifth highest is
u Shorthorn, Nora, owned by Daniel
Sheehan, Usage, la. Each of these five
cows is entitled to an award. Sixth,
seventh, eighth, ninth, eleventh and
twelfth places are taken by Jersey cows,
and the tenth place by Shorthorn.
The Guernseys produced cheese at less
cost than the other breeds. The JERSEYS
have always occupied a high place as
producers of butter, but have been con-
sidered generally as small mixers of rich
cream. That the Jerseys should have
produced so much more milk and cheese
than other breeds is a general surprise to
those who do not know their capacity in
this direction, says Chief Buchanan, and
shows that they are great mixers and
the champion dairy COW of the world for
both butter and cheese.
Each farm was credited with the guam
tity of milk given daily, the total solids
in milk, and the whey. Each breed was
credited with the total milk given and
quantity OF cheese actually made at the
dairy and the whey. The cheese was
scored by experts and valued. Each cow
and each breed was deblted with the food
consumed. Increase in live weight was
credited at Il cents pound. Each cow
was MIXED IN the presence OF a repre-
sentative OF the testing committee. Each
cows feed was weighed by such repre-
sentative twice daily. The feed apaly-
sis OF this milk was made by, skilled
chemists. A regular ledger account was
kept with each COW. This test is the most
complete, the most carefully conducted
ana the most thorough that has ever
been made in the world, it is said, and
twenty-five cows of each breed competed.
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
1t is claimed if corncobs are boiled in
molasses water, using two quarts of mo-
lasses to two gallons of water, and then
hung up, several half cObs in each plum
tree, they will be so attractive to the
curculio that they will not trouble the
plums. After a few weeks the cobs
should be removed and burned. The
curculio deposit their eggs in the cobs
and by burning them they are destroyed.
Repeat the process several times until the
fruit is ripened and gathered.
Dust young turnip plants with wood
ashes as protection against the fly.
This is the time of year to consider
what you will do this fall about fruit
planting. Keep watch OF the markets
and see what is most in demand in your
own locality and prepare to supply il.
Don't plant anything just because all the
neighbors have it. That is the way to
make an overproduction.
Many trees exhaust themselves In an
attempt 10 produce fruit and only bear a
worthless kind, when a little trouble and
expenditure to supply them with fertil-
lzer would strengthen the trees and
make the fruit salable.
Currants and gooseberries are readily
propagated from cuttings, and will max g
large growth when even small piece
of root Is attached. With plenty of root
we have known a few punches of cur
rants TO be ripened on plants set out the
previous fall or early IN the spring. But
ii the plant is to be layered and new wood
made it is not best to leave any fruit on it,
Arborvitaes, to make a permanent
hedge, should not be planted nearer than
three feet apart with plants not over
eighteen inches high, and should be kept
trimmed down to eighteen inches until
the bottom is well filled in and the plants
are thick together. The beauty of a hedge
is in its base. and the hight should not be
over three feet, except as a screen. Trees
set two feet apart will thicken at the base
sooner, and If there are no trees to hinder
the outward spread OF the roots there
need be no fears that they will not last
lifetime.
As years pass on such hedges need an
annual dressing of well-rotted manure
The ground should be well prepared, as
for the best garden. The plants should
lie set with the least exposure OF the roots
TO the wind and sun, just as the sap is in
good flow in the spring, ana should be
carefully mulehed and properly tended.
When so planted and given proper care
and pruning they will last 100 years. To
insure long life the hedge should be comic
and not flat on top.-kansas Farmer.
To renew old beds of straw berries clean
them out thoroughly between the rows
in August or just before the runners
start. Ose the hoe in the rows and leave
one good plant in each place, with one
foot OF space between each plant in the
row. Work the ground between the
plants and also in the spaces between the
rows until the soil is loose, killing all
weeds and grass This method gives the
old plants an opportunity to ill up the
rows with runners.
When the new growth on your pear
tree withers and dies and you think the
tree gone up, try this, advises a writer in
the Farmers C0ti, simply split the
bark on the trunk and principal branches
with Jack knife. \ ou have trimmed off
all the branches on the trunk thus ex-
posing the bark to the hot sun, and have
stimulated the growth of the tree by ma
nuring until the bark cannot expand fast
enough. -Four weeks from the time YOU
split the old bark you will see it separ-
ated by one-fourth inch or more new
growth. ."-Baltimore Sun.