Year: 1879

AGRICULTURAL.
YAg Hill Co OREG. July 13.-What
| is the largest breed of fowls that do not
| sit j. MCC.
A'as,oer:-Blacl Spanish.


Early fields of seed leaf tobacco are
now reported as nearly ready to be cut
| in Wisconsin. Some pieces of Spanish
have already been cut. The crop Of 1873
| Is about all sold out SO that when the
new crop comes in it viii have a clear
field.


In Maryland the fruit crop is reported
| unusually large. In the New England
States the prospect is good. So it is in
Wisconsin and Minnesota. In Califor-
| nia the crop is excellent. With these
exceptions the crops will be but an aver
age one in any of the fruit growing stat
es, and in many of them it is quite small
While we do not anticipate an absolute
scarcity of fruit IN our principal fruit
markets, there will be no gIut, and good
fruit will Recommend fair prices nexa
fall and winter as it has during the sum-
mar.


REMEDY FOR MILDEW.
1t recent meeting of the academy of
sciences in San Francisco. DR.. Arthur
". SAKE, of Santa Clara, made state
ment of series of experiments made by
himself during the past few years, to the
effect that q solution of sulphate of cop
per, sprirkled over grape vines just be-
fore the starting of the bud, is far better
than sulpher to prevent mildew, being
cheaper and more easily applied. He
stated that during no season had he seen
any sign of mildew when he used this
solution, but that one year he neglected
to apply it, and the result was the vines
were badly affected


ABOUT BREEDS OF SHEEP.
Medium sized sheep with plenty of
lean, is what is priced by city butchers.
Southdowns possess this qualification.
Lincoln, Cotswold and Leicester sheep
are large and carry much fat The Lin
coins have long. rather coarse, heavy
t1eeces. The wool of the Cotswold is
medium in length of staple and in firm
| ness of fiber. The Leicesters have long



stapled wool. Oxford-downs are heavy,
carry much fat, with medium wool ia
length of staple and fiber. Hampshire
downs have short, strong wool and make
good mutton. Shropshire.dowus are
smaller than the Hampshires, have finer
wool and make better mutton, and rate
next to the South downs, which make
the best mutton, at least to the English
taste, and they ought to know. They
have rather fine wool, and wherever NUT
ton IS eaten no fault can be found with
their meat. One reason why long and
medium sheep are not SO well liked in
the United States is that they cannot be
kept in large flocks as can the Merino,
and consequently more expense is entail
ed in caring for them, but they are grow.
ing In favor form year to year, especially
in all the more closely settled districts of
country, aid especially since the longer
stappled woods have advanced in price
consequent upon the universal wearing
of woolen goods by gentlemen in sum-
mer.


ENTERTAINERS HEED


I find paragraph in your issue of
July 9Th, which is worth the subscrip-
tion price of the Prairie Farmer. for q
quarter of centuary to dairyman who
is keeping, if but five COWS. It is what
L practiced for eight years while I was
conducting an Experimental Farm and
Agricultural School. 1t is simply this.


Set given quantity of the milk of
each COW separately, keeping the milk of
each COW in air OF the same temperature,
and let it stand tie same length of time
for creaming. Then ripen the cream of
each COW in the same manner, and churn
each mess separately, and carefully note
all the results obtained. This method is
the only reliable one by which to deter
mine the value Of COW for butter MAX
ing.


My experience in large number of
trials was the same as that given in the
article extracted, i. e., that the most
prolific mixers were often the most
worthless butter producers. I also found
that the weight or bulk of cream was not
a safe guide by which to ascertain the
quantity or quality of the butter.
| For period of several years I had an
arrangement with two neighboring milk
producers, by which could test every
COW they purchased, and I often found
cows, which on account of the small
yield of milk, were Improbable, and they


were large butter producers.


In turn, [ turned over to them my


COWS which proved to be large milk pro


ducers and unpaying butter COWS. This


course was mutually very profitable.


If all dairymen would adopt the course


described it would in two years, more


than double the value of both the milk


and the butter dairies of the country.
CHICAGO LII. T. WILKINSON.


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