Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-02-28
A FEW NolEs OF GENERAL INTEREST
70 Secure the Best Fence posts-Seedfug
An Orchard.

10 Secure the Best Fence posts-Seeding
An Orchard.
Fifteen thousand tons of starch have
been made from potatoes this season
in Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Da-
kota. This enormous output necessi-
tated the use of nearly three and half
million bushels of potatoes.
The simplest and cheapest method of
making sure of a good fence post is to
fell the tree while in full leaf in the
summer and let it season with leaves
and branches on until fall, and then
cut up and USE Made in this way posts
will greatly outlast those made from
winter-felled trees.
Secretary Morton has issued new reg
ulatons to railroads in regard to trans
portation of animals affected by tuber-
culos1s or scab. The regulations pro-
vide that such animals must not be
shipped and will not be allowed to en-
ter stock yards or other places where
live stock is handled for the interstate
trade.
The objection to seeding an orchard
down to grass is that it takes from the
soil the moisture needed by the trees.
and when allowed to grow close to the
trees seems to choke them. Glover does
not have this effect, nor does it usually
make rank growth under the trees. 1t
rather tends to retain moisture by its
shade.
Melrose, Conn.,, has probably the larg-
est cider mill in the country. The COM
pany owning it used $4,000 bushels of
apples the past season. They have
shipped their cider and vinegar to al
most every state in the Union. They
shipped carload of cider to Illinois
last week, and have about 500 barrels
of cider stored for vinegar.
1t is reported that the Germans who
have recently made heavy purchases of
American apples, intend to use this
fruit in the manufacture of champagne
by an entirely new and secret process.
Whether this be true or not the Ameri-
can apple is gaining a firm foothold in
European markets, in spite of the enor-
nous quantities of French and Dutch
fruit.
Hoard's Dairyman states emphatical-
ly that 1t will certainly pay a man who
keeps only three or four COWS to know
what each COW is doing. If he can not
otherwise conveniently get his milk
tested, say, twice a month, it will pay
him to own a tester and spring scales
or balances. The small testers. especial
ly those running with gears, are usually
quite accurate.
The quantity of salt found suitable
for an OK feeding on hay, straw, turf
nips, etc, is, says Professor Aitkin,
from half an ounce to one and half
ounces per day for every 1000 pounds
live weight; but if food rich in potash
salts, such as potatoes, corn, beans and
peas, is being fed to stock the quantity
of salt may be considerably increased
with good effect.
At recent dairy meeting held at
Chicago, Professor w. A. Henry, of Wis
consin, said that the "new stuff" had
injured American exports and benefit
ted Canadian cheese shipments abroad.
He referred to the fact that in 1880 ex-
ports of American cheese aggregated
$12, 100000, and in 1894 $71Se,0O0, a de-
crease of 40 per cent. Canadian exports
of cheese increased from $4,000, 900 in
1888 to SIS, 900 in 1894, standing now
at more than double the American ex-
ports. Professor Henry believed that
Great Britain and Germany would
eventually close their ports to Ameri-
can cheese, If the manufacture of the
filled" article were not stopped.
Professor Van Slyke, chemist for the
New York agricultural experiment sta
ton, is authority for the statement
that we know nothing whatever of the
composition of the natural coloring
matters in butter. Whatever they may
be, they are mixed or united with the
fats, so as to defy detection. So far
as chemists have been able to find out,
none of the several compounds of which
either milk or butter is composed is of
any hue except pure white, so that the
coloring can not be a natural part of
the fat. Some have suggested that col
or in butter is due to the shape and size
of the fat globules; in other words, that
light is the main factor in color develop
ment.