The record-union., 1896-05-25


and after calving. Previous to this Pc
riod great attention should be given to
the general condition and health, seek
ing by generous and proper feeding to
make the COW strong and thrifty. After
calving the herdsman's skill is taxed to
the utmost The cow should have her
liberty in a roomy comfortable pox
STALL All water should be given in small
quantities, with the chill taken off. III
her temperature becomes too high. give
her ten drops of aconite twice day
Milk often the first day, but never draw
all the milk at these milkings.-William
Stevenson, in American Agriculturist.
THE RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER.
Early in the spring of 1894 1 planted
on an old tobacco field in the Ohio river
bottom an acre of Russian sunflowers
They were planted with corn drill, In
rows three and one-half feet apart, ana
We're afterward thinned to sixteen
inches apart in the row. The plants
were given the same cultivation as
corn. The season was favorable, and l
harvested $3.50 pounds of clean seed,
or a trif1e over eighty bushels, for which
L received 50 15 per cwt., a total or
SCI 81 from one acre. During 1899 J.
planted several acres, but on account
of the repeated ravages of cut worms,
the stand was very poor. Only two
acres were harvested and 1900 pounds
secured from the two acres. AS the
price had declined to 81 per cwt., sold
one, but determined to feed them in
stead. At the time, l was feeding beef
for my own USE To the other foods l
added Russian Sunflower seed, and
killed a very fat beef of most excel
lent quality. / am now feeding the
Sunfiower seed in connection with corn
and oats, all ground together, to my
ewes and lambs and also have a sep
arate department in my sheep shed, in
which 1 keep a supply of the ground
mixture, to which the lambs have free
access. 1t is interesting to note how
soon they learn to eat this feed and how
rapidly they grow, all becoming fat and
plump. 1 pour boiling water over the
mixture, and feed it to my hens every
morning, getting an abundance of eggs
in return. Some of my neighbors are
feeding the seed to horses, hogs and
other stock, and report good results
The feeding should be done with care,
and as the grain is very rich, it should
ferring to the agricultural department
bulletin, we find that corn has an av-
erage value of 1913 per cent protein, 5
per cent. of fat; wheat has 11.S per
cent. protein, 30 per cent. fat; whole
sunfiowers 1872 protein and 212 per
cent. fat. Taking into account the area
in which sunfiowers may be grown, the
yield per acre, the ease of cultivation,
/ H.
their palatability and the results in
feeding so far as they have been tried,
l cannot see why they may not be
grown with profit for feed, and thus
help the farmer out of his present diff
ficulties.-W. S. Dean of Indiana in
American Agriculturist
PREPARING STRAWBERRIES FOR
FRU1TING.
Fine berries and large crops depend
so much upon the treatment the plants
receive the spring of fruiting, that no
one can afford to neglect them then.
Where the soil is freed from weed seed
the matter is vastly simplified But
such soil is not always to be had, and
the richer the soil the more apt it is to
be infested with weeds.
Subdue the weeds by running shall
low cultivator down middles as early
in the spring as practicable. Scrape
around and between the plants with
small, well-sharpened, wedding hoes,
which will remove all weeds and not
cut deep enough to injure roots.
Then apply over rows, plants and all
about 800 pounds an acre of highly
soluble commercial fertilizer rich in
IL !,
wood ashes, if to be had in sufficient
quantities, are excellent. Ten good
loads of manure and fifty bushels OF
ashes an acre will do, scattered over
and around the plants; the ashes on top,
as they hasten the action of the manure
Remember that almost anything can
be safely scattered over and on straw
berry plants while in a dormant state,
while not growing. Should the applica-
ton be unavoidedly delayed till growth
begins, it should be applied just before a
rain, which will wash it off the leaves
into the ground; or it can be scattered
around and between the plants. Where
the soil is not SO infested with weeds
as to need much scraping, the manure
and ashes are best applied late the
| previous fall.
If weeds appear after the fertilizer
| is applied they must be dug out, or re-
| moved by hand SO as not to draw the
| fertilizer or manure from the plants
| The weeds we'll overcome, apply
mulch. 1t is best to scatter it over
and let the plants grow up throught it
The berries then form above the mulch
and keep perfectly clean Pine needles
!
| hay or straw chopped small enough not
to blow off will answer. With plenty OF
manure no mulch is needed.
Take the advice of am old grower Of
| Strawberries, keep your fields clean
manure them well, and unless youl
varieties are worthless, yov will not
fail of your reWard.-G. w. Blacknall ir
| Farm News.
| MOCK PINEAPPLE SALAD.
An excellent and new fruit salad is g
I combination of sliced apples and or
| anges. Select four large, juicy anc
rather tart apples, peel and core them
then cut into thin slices across the
grain of the fruit. Peel and slice half g
dozen oranges, cutting the pieces rather
| thicker than the apples. Arrange in g
| salad dish, laying a slice of apple or
| each piece of orange. Save the Juice
! that comes from the oranges as yoU
cut them, add to it one wineglass OF
| sherry and the juice of a large lemon
Scatter the fruit with powdered sugar
| and pour the liquid over it, The sherry
may be left out and more lemon juice
used if one objects to wine. To some
persons this combination of flavors sa.
| yorS so much of the pineapple that /
is called a mock pineapple salad.-Nev
| York Post.
| FRUIT SOLD BY WEIGHT