Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-20

For several years we have crown rape
at the Indiana experiment station, but
in no one year in such an entirely sue
cessful manner as is accomplished
farther north. During the seasons of
1893, 1894 and 1895 the months of July
and August i'll central Indiana were hot
and dry. Rape planted at the period
usually recommended would not develop
vigorously, and poor stunted plants
would exc out miserable existence
even i'll the cool of the autumn.
have been impressed with two points
in connection with our rape: First, it
has not made the robust growth of that
growing at the Wisconsin station or in
the fields of Canada, reaching with us a
height of Is to Is inches and not being
very heavy of leaf; second, after being
eaten back, it has not sent out new
shoots in satisfactory manner SO as to
furnish fair amount of successive pas
turage
In Wisconsin the sheep are almost
hidden in the rape. A reference to the
Wisconsin station report for 1894 shows
illustrations Of rape growing with great
luxuriance, filling well between the
rows and presenting much leaf surface.
Here in Indiana the foliage is much less
robust, and one can move about the
fields between the rows without rub
bling against the plants scarcely at all.
I am impressed with the idea that the
reason of this unsatisfactory growth is
due to our being too far south to en-
tirely succeed with it. The summer
heat of the sun represses the growth of
the plant. Our soil is fertile and good,
and the cultivation has been of the best,
so that do not conceive the fault to be
here.
am told that it has been we'll grown
by Mrs. Busick in Wabash county,
which lies but short distance north of
u.s. and l notice that Mr.. Lewis adver-
tises rape seed which is grown in north
ern Indiana. Still, am under the i'm
preston that rape cannot be profitably
grown in the lower two thirds of Indi-
ana-C. S. Plumb in Breeders Gazette.
Dairy and Creamery.
Another way that is claimed to keep
a wooden bowl from cracking is to
plunge it several inches below the sur
face into barrel of salt and let it stay
there two weeks.
Don't spare the boiling water among
your dairy utensils. Notice your tin
pals and milk cans closely, aud you
will oftentimes lind in the seams of the
metal a yellowish brown deposit. Take
a sharp stick and scrape it out and then
scaId the vessels with soda water, scrub
bling also with brush. You don t
know how much disease is conveyed
through that fostering yellowish depos-
it along the seams of tinware.
The other day we saw the most aw-
full looking COWS in stable that sup
piled numerous families with milk
The animals had been allowed to lie
down in manure till their sides were
coated two inches thick with deposit
that had certainly not been removed for
months. In one case the awful coat of
filth really interfered with the poor
cows free movement Of her hind quar-
tiers in walking. The nasty stuff could
not help being more or less reabsorbed
into her body, tainting her milk and
destroying her health. And yet some
people wonder why cows get sick and
have tuberculosis
It gives one a kind of mental malaria
to pass by any spot where quantities of
butter are awaiting buyer and see a
stream of blue buttermilk trickling
from the tubs. Who would eat butter
like that?
1t requires real genius, the genius of
common sense and conscientiousness to
manage a cream separator
All cheese ought to be graded and
branded for just what it is