The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-02-07

OF spring. The cuttings that are
gathered in the winter should be tied
in loose bundles, and be set in damp
sand in frost proof cellar where they
will keep until needed in the spring.
As soon rs the soil dries out in the
spring they should be planted.
The young shoots of last season
should be selected for these cuttings,
and they should be cleft from the
main bushes so that they will be about
one foot long. These are nearly all
buried in the spring in deep, rich soil,
leaving only four inches of the tips
above the ground. The soil must be
trampled down firmly around them.
They will begin to start almost inn
mediately, and young orchard of
trees or shrubs will soon prove a great
blessing. Not only fruit bearing trees
will succeed in this way, but nearly
all shade trees. 1t is probably the
easiest way of starting young trees
that can be devised.
Ounce orchards should be started
every few years if good crop is ex-
pected annually, and there is no easier,
quicker and surer way than selecting
the cuttings in the winter months,
when there is plenty of time, and then
starting them out early in the spring.
Meanwhile, the land on which they
have been started can be planted the
same as usual for season or two af-
terward. American Cultivator.
! HIGHEST PROFITS IN HIGHEST EEEDrxG
Ten cows were fed a ration begin.
ming with eight pounds of grain and
twelve pounds of hay, and gradually
increasing up to as high as nineteen
pounds of grain and twenty-seven
pounds of hay per day and head, and
then gradually decreasing to the or.
iginal amount. Throughout this test
at the Pennsylvania Experiment Sta
ton accurate notes we're taken of the
amount and cost of the food, the
amount of milk produced by each
animal and its butter value as determ.
ined by t he Babcock test.
Perhaps the most striking lesson is
the demonstration given of the profit
there is in liberal feeding. The cheap
est ration used cost 1873 cents per day
and produced butter valued at 26. 9
cents, making a net profit of 7. Z cents
per day per COW. An increase of 2.9
+ASents per day per COW in the cost of
this ration made the daily value of the
butter 81 cents, and the net profit 9.3
cents per day, or difference of 1.6
cents per day per COW in favor of the
more costly ration. In other words,
the farmer who attempted to econo-
mize by feeding the cheaper ration,
would, with herd of twenty-five
COWS, save $217 per year on his feed
bills, but would lose 1897 worth of
butter that he might have produced
with the more costly ration, so that
his lll-judged attempt at economy
would result in a net loss of $120.
The cheaper ration, moreover, is
what would ordinarily be considered
good ration, and the majority of dairy
men would be likely to feelless, rather
than more, get the results show con-
clusively that with such COWS as these
the more expensive ration was really
the more economical.
A further increase of the cost of the
ration, however, to 25.1 cent per day
gave no further increase in the butter
product, and the net profit was thereby
cut down to 40 cent per day, or 1.8
cent less than with the cheapest ration
of the three. In other words, the ex-
periments indicate that there is certain
medium ration for each COW which will
give the greatest net profit, and that
any attempt to economize by feeding
less than this will result in a loss,
while, on the other hand, it is possible
to feed a COW too much as well as too
little. Generally, however, there is
much more danger of feeding too lit.
tie than too much. New England
Homestead.