Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-30
FARM DEPARTING EMIT.
E. L. HUFFMAN. Editor


COUNTRY BUTTER.
Now is the time for those who wish
to make money out of butter produc-
tion to supply themselves with abun-
dant. cheap and desirable feed. Winter
butter always sells well and first-class
butter brings the top OF the market
then.
But little preparation Is necessary in
the summon. Grass is abundant and
the best of foods for both milk and
butter. In extra dry times n small
patch OF sorghum for soillng, and the
work Is done. In winter, however.
conditions change. Food must be pre-
pared In advance or the business suiler
or stop.
The first point to be considered in
preparing winter foods Ia to get some
thing palatable to the COW. There Is
q whole lot OF stun published about
dgestablllty Of foods. but pay no at
tention to that. Just prepare some
thing that the COW will eat more OF
than what IS necessary to sustain life
and she will attend to the other mat
tiers.
a COW will eat enough Of most any
kind of food to keep her alive. Her
natural inclination Is to stop then.
Her milk supply comes from what
she eats over and above that amount.
She must he tempted by choice foods
20 eat. and overeat. where milk and
butter are desired.
one OF the best ways to secure this
IS by a variety of foods. Ensllage.
hay. wheat bran, cotton seed meal,
etc. etc. are all good foods, and easily
obtained.
Now is the time to build n sllo. This
IS one OF the very cheapest ways OF
preparing winter foods. A sllo should
be on every farm whore stock are fed,
and especially where butter IL made.
Another point Is TO supply foods
that do not iniure the butter Millet
should never be used. 1t gives a hor-
rlhle favor to butter.
Cotton seed and cotton seed meal
should never be made the only food.
Butter made from such food melts at n
very high temperature. II has n waNy
appearance and remains In the mouth
OF the eater a long time before II melts.
Use some cotton seed or cotton seed
meal, but use II with liberal quantities
OF other foods.
on most every farm some calculn-
lions are being made on profits to be
obtained from butter during the coming
winter. They will never be realized un-
less the proper foods are prepared
Now is the time 10 prepare these
foods.
1t costs money 10 got butter fats
into cows milk. and IN saving and
preparing foods the greatest profits are
made. No matter how clearly butter
is made, II It sticks 20 the roof OF your
mouth like glue and has no flavor, as
IN the case with butter made from
cotton seed. 1t viii not srll for a good
price.
Build sllo. cut hay and get IN
fuil variety OF winter foods for tho
COW. The COW and the women folks
VIII do the rest.
THE RUsTING or SMALL GRAIN.
Earliness in ripening is with nil the
small grains the Indication OF bright
straw. heavy yield and fun develop
mehl OF the grain. 1t Is accounted for
usually by the fact that the early grain
Tlpens In cooler weather. This Is not
alNaFs the case, for there " frequently
a sprll Of hot weather which comes
early and is followed By cooler days.
Yet TIE early-ripened grain has bright
er straw and bettcr-nlled heads than
that which ripens later Perhaps this
i due 90 the fact that the soil nf the
lat'-ripaned grain is always much the
W4rme9t. There is progressive de-
Nel2pment Of warmth ia the soil all
ttnlusn the summer. until rains chill
ne surface and the RAPIDLY lengtheu-
lNt uisats Decrease tho sunshine on
Whlch warmth depends. Yet the very
lHte sowing Qf spring grains which
would bring their rlpeu.ng late On the
I4A. inefea9cs the tendency 20 rust.
Usually. Indeed rust attacks tho iate-
snwn grain before the seed stalk np-
pears and then the crop ls necessarily
failure. The chief part Of the buIi,
ana weight OF grain Is obtained
through the leaves from the air. II
requires sound, healthy leaves 10 elab-
crate the carbon which tnakes tho
starch OF grain,
Il is probably the excess Of nitrogen.
when Us developed by heat and mol4.
thre In. the soil. that makes late-gown
s srea,., ap p 20 rust The plant gets a
h1Nu'Sr amount OF food than It can use.
Ihu rust is the fungus growth which
uses w part Of this excess OF san,
liut the nature Of rust In TO increase
very rapidly. 1t spreads over ana do
stfoys the substance OF the leaf ON
which II feeds. II may be said that
MOI weather always occurs before
small grain rtpens. and thut Il should
always be rusted. That It is not IL
que to the fact that the Grain pInnts
increase grently in size Just before Inc
Time the seek stalk IL formed. ana
mat they then crowd each other ana
tsqulre so much moisture To supply
me waste from evaporation thnt eaeh
plant gets something less than II rn-
lures There is also the fact that
hinall grains are usually not cult
noeu' Ihere is no artificial develop
inent OF nitrogen In the soil
How cultivation and thin secdInp
would aueet small grains can easily bo
seen. where scattered grains OF ants |
hre dropped with the excremcnt AZ
Erain-fed horses In plowing or cult. |
waiting hoed crops. These scattered oats
grow very thrif,ily At first. nut soon |
Iust and scarcely produce anything. |
FARMERS often think this ia duo Ia |
the extra amount OF manure which lg /
put on the ground with oats thus |
feeued' But oats scattered thInlv |
among hood crops without manure viii |
rust Just the same, Tho ristlnr ID /
Que TO the excess of nitrogen witch |
good cultivation develops In an fairly. |
rlch soil For this reason on very rich |
land there should be no narrowing of |
gram after II Ia up, This Will pro- |
mote more vigorous growth, but that !
wanted 40
10 there any way TO prevent rustlnr |
o. grain on rich land? we think thnt |
hperal use OF mineral FERTILIZERS. es- |
peciaily phpsphate and potash. have |
such an effect. Probably 10 The dis
solved minerals are taken up by the
rnDts they ohstruct the flow or gap. and |
thus prevent too rapid DEVELOPMENT, |
The potash unites with sand and "a
nenoslted on the outside Of the stalk |
y y true that the mineral also In |
creases decomposition. and thus makes
larger proportion of nltratea In Tho
sVlli hut these do not cnure rust Ne
cause tho mineral In the soil rsto,,4. |