The record-union., 1893-05-03

some particular line of horse breeding.
ana work Systematically and intelIi-
gently to that end. The farmer that reaps
sure proflts IN these days of close compe-
utlon must learn to watch his corners
ciosely.-Farmers' Guide.
ONIONS FOR PROFIT.
For onions coarse manure should be
spread in the fall or winter, and plowed
In as soon as the soil is mellow in the
spring. After plow and harrow have
zone thorough work, it will pay to dress
the surface with six to seven hundred
POUNDS per acre, or more, of special
onion manure. This should be raked in
py hand to get level and perfect seed
ped. As soon as this is done the seed
s1ouId De put in that the young onion
pants may start as soon as weed seeds.
NO crop requires better surface than
onions. If horse implements be used in
thls last work, every step taken by the
team Will show when the onions are COM
ing up in depressions, and frequent loss
OF crop in these foot prints. Manure,
soil and seed should be of the best pos
slble quality. Following these precau-
tons thorough cultivation will return a
large and paying crop. The seed is
usually sowed carefully by hand seed
drlll, having roller attachment, and
four pounds to the acre is the quantity.
AS soon as the rows can be seen, wheel
hoe or shuttle hoe should stir the soil be-
tween them. When the plants are plainly
visible they should be carefully hand
weeded.
Two weeks from the first wedding the
onions should be weeded again, or if the
weather encourage rapid growth of
weeds the operation may need to follow
sooner than this. Ten DAYS to two weeks
Ialer they Will require another hOeing
and wedding and still later repetition of
the work if necessary. Usually the shut
lie hoe will do ali the wedding required
after the crop has been carefully hand
weeded the third time. As the crop
reaches maturity the tops fall and turn a
golden hue. Killing up should be care
iuiiy avoided. When fully ripe pull and
rake eight rows into one. In a few days
tney Will be dry enough to cut off the
tops. When yard manure is used it
should be well rotted and spread in the
Iall alter the crop has been gathered.
onions may occupy corn or potato land
the second season, but those who raise
them devote the same field to their
culture year after year, believing better
crops possible with less labor, and that
the onions are less likely to be ''necky''
with soft bottoms. \ yield of 600 bushels
per acre is not uncommon.
THE CHEESE FACTORY.
think the Babcock test is very little
understood by the average dairyman, and
the benefits derived thereof are scarcely
realized by those who use it. The bene-
fit in cheese factories is not only a lust
and equitable division of the actual
value of the milk delivered by the
patrons, but will also show them whether
their cows are turning their costly feed
into milk nearly all water, and conse-
quently of little value, or whether they
are turning it into butter fat, which brings
the cash.
There is no doubt in the minds of our
most intelligent dairymen that the but
ter tat Is ~ per cent. of the value OF milk
made into butter or cheese. Such being
the case, it is evident that any test that
Will accurately measure the butter fat in
milk Will give its actual value. Patrons,
remember when you deliver your large
mess OF low per cent. milk to the factory
that the same feed would probably have
put more money into the pool had you
delivered smaller quantity of better
quality milk.
May be you don't see the point, but the
maker can't get more out of the milk
than there is in it, and you will have to
take part of your dividend in thin whey.
Where the dividends are made from the
weight OF the milk alone, you may think
the more milk the more money, but re-
member every man is thinking the same
thing, and may be somebody else is ahead
of you in in the race for quantity.
You can have this satisfaction, how
ever-lf he is ahead, probably the money
ne has put into the pool has cost him
more feed than what you put in has cost
you. | believe it to be tairer and better
way, and patrons and maker will be ben
etted by making the dividends by the
test.-W. II. De Long in Practical Dairy
man.
NEW BREEDS OF STOCK.
1t does not require many years for
man to live in order to see what can be
done IN The way OF producing new breeds
OF stock or by breeding for certain ends.
A long life carefully devoted to this OBJ
Ject, however, brings out some wonderful
and valuable results. The late Luke
Thomas, whose place, New Garden, was
near Rlchmond, Ind, gave his attention
Tor hfty-seven years to breeding cattle.
Tor his own use primarily, on the same
farm. He had some extraordinary ex-
perlences during that protracted period.
bis chief object was to secure a race of
cattle OF the largest and richest milk-giv-
ing properties and at the same time secure
a heavy beet-growing herd. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that he succeeded, though
his beginning was in 1880, when blooded
cattle were not to be had in the West, and
he followed out his original plan to the
end, keeping his blooded stock separate
from the others later. Mr.. Thomas ex-
perience would be great help to many
farmers, for it would teach the lesson that
if careful breeding from scrub stock will
accomplish so much, the farmer of to-day
has no excuse for keeping Improbable
stock when he can breed up by means
right at his door, so to speak. The whole
profit of keeping cattle on the farm de-
pends on the kind.-Cinciunati CONNER
cial Gazette.
BEEF CATTLE.
1t has long been predicted that the SUD-
ply of beef cattle in this country wonid
run short. This time has about arrived.
The great herds that have covered the
vast plains from Texas to British Colum-
bia for the past two decades resulted i'm a
surplus OF beef, and consequent lowering
of prices, so that it came to be believed
that beef could not be profitablv pro-
duced on any but the cheap lands of the
quondam American Desert" The LIGHT
scrub stock of the great herds could not
but that doesn't prove that grade and thor
oughbred cattle are not profitable even
bred on the high-priced land contiguous