Year: 1877

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market?


First see that it is clean and pure
then if the amount to be disposed of is
small, make it up in fancy cakes of small
size; if, however, the quantity is large, it
will probably pay best to put most of it
in large cakes or tubs.


Are Carter's new varieties of peas sat
isfactory2


Carter's first crop are among the
earliest in cultivation, but are pronounced
by good authorities as small and rather
deficient in flavor. Carter's extra early
premium gem are not so early, but are
larger and comparatively favorless.


Is there anything that will prevent
bitter rot in apples


Sometimes an application OF ashes or
lime will do it; dressing of fresh wood
ashes, lightly plowed under, turning the
burrows toward the trees, has been ad-
vised for this trouble.


Give some directions for growing sage
for market.


Sow the seed in the early spring and
keep carefully from weeds; rich mel
low soil is best. In June and July the
plants will be ready to set out in beds.
Before this is done the ground must be
enriched (well rotted manure is best)
and raked fine. Set the plants about
eight inches apart, in rows twelve or
fourteen inches apart. In September
every other row may be cut out and pre-
pared for market, the remaining ones
left to grow; soon their branches will
meet and these reserved plants be ready
to cut by the time the others are sold.


How should the ground be prepared
for raspberries.


One farmer says the same as for corn
draw the burrows six feet apart and place
the plants three feet apart and cover
about two inches deep.


Will corn planted in between do any
harm?


The same authority thinks not, if done
the first year.


Can apple and pear trees that have
reached some twelve feet in height and
four or five inches in diameter be safely
transplanted.


With care large trees can be success
fully moved, though there is always
more or less time lost by so doing. The
process, according to one who has tried
it, is to take off the surface soil until the
roots are laid bare; then begin four or
five feet from the base of the tree and
dig q trench one foot deep; next dig
underneath the roots, gently lifting them
out, one person holding them as they are
relieved of the earth. With this method
most of the roots will be preserved and
| the tree transplanted- without injury.
When moving trees any time from Au-
gust to October, it is best to clip the
leaves; if done before the buds start in
the spring, delay heading back the limbs
until the buds swell. Trees should
never be transplanted when they are
making terminal growth.


Is there any remedy for the red spots
on animals that lose their hair


Well, refined petroleum rubbed in the
parts affected, vigorously and quickly
with the palm of the hand, every three
days, until six or eight applications have
been made, is recommended. In the
cases of horses tails and names more
applications are needed.


Something About Butter.


Mr.. J. NJ. Peters, of New York, adj
dressed the National Butter Association
convention on "The Dairy Interest from
a Commercial Standpoint, in which lie
said that while the trade of the past year
had not been so satisfactory as it prom
ised at the opening, still dairymen had
little to complain of when they contrast
ed their interest with other branches of
commerce. Dairy produce had shrunk
in value less than most other articles of
provision except pork and beef. The
Centennial trade last year used up the
fine butter until well. into October, and
the export trade since has relieved the
market considerably. But the make of
butter has been unusually large and the
quality was not fully up to the standard.
Dairymen held for too high prices in the
fall, had checked consumption through
the winter, and were now obliged to sell
their dairies very much below what was
bid for them and refused six months
ago. New York State dairymen had
been resting on their regulations Of late
years and the West was going ahead OF
them, but they were waking up again
and would make a strong fight, and the
Western men must not think that they
had made the best butter and cheese
that could be made. He cautioned them
against being misled by the quotations
for fancy butter in any market. Those
quotations did not represent over five
per cent. of the crop, and were special
prices, which had no bearing whatever
on the production. He favored the COM
mission business in dairy products, and
urged the utmost sympathy between the
producer, the shipper, and the distribu-
tor, as being necessary to their mutual
prosperity. He cautioned the conven-
ton against circulars sent out by ire
sponsible houses, and maintained that
! trustworthy newspapers gave the reports
most to be relied upon. The speaker
urged the Western dairymen to improve
| the product of their farm dairies, rather
than to depend upon the factory system
of reworking store butter to give them
merchantable butter. This system had
helped the product of the West in COM
merce very much, but it would be far
better if the butter were made good in
the first place. Making butter good
was the only safe way to fight oleomar-
garine, an article which had become an
established competitor of butter, and
could not be suppressed by simply vot-
ing it fraud. He had observed it's
manufacture closely, and it was perfectly
harmless; and, as made in New York,
more clean1v than much of the butter