smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

Let Quercus Alba plant some sweet corn
one year and feed it to his milch COWS in the
month of August and September, as his
pastures begin to fail, and think he will
not ask the second time, if sweet corn fod-
der is profitable crop to cultivate, even il
ifit is pretty good season for pastures.
Aud perhaps he will not be obliged to re.
port that it takes twelve quarts Of milk to
make pound of butter. Ii he should be,
l would suggest that it might be to his ad-
vantage to make a change in his cows.


For many years l planted the Western
corn for fodder, and while the cows would
6ll themselves with it, aud hold their flesh,
could see no improvement in the milk.
But after feeding sweet corn fodder awhile
at once noticed change both in quantity
and quality Quercus Alba asks Mr.. Fos-
ter for his figures in relation to keeping COWS
and making butter. As | have not noticed
any figures Of Mr.. Fosters will venture
to present few Of my own as the result of
my experience. do not know how much
bran, or shorts it takes to produce a gallon
of milk, but do know by experiment that
the benefit that derive from feeding them
more than equals their cost to ascertain how
much milk it takes to make pound of but
tel. have made a number of trials. The
first one was eight years ago in September
with six COWS running in the pasture, and
having no provender when it took seven
quarts to the pound. Another trial two
years ago, with eight cows in the month of
December, it took but six and half quarts
to the pound. At this time | was feeding
some shorts. We made last year from eight
aud one.third COWS (haviug the eighth COW
four months of the year, seventeen hundred
and sixty pounds of butter, and fifteen hun
dred pounds of cheese which we sold for
eight hundred and seventy.6ve dollars. Now
we don't reckon this as being very extra,
but we do know what we are doing. Farm
ers should prove all things, "hOld fast that
which is good. w. IN Main Farmer,
Year: 1876

Of that shortsighted and peruic;ous prac-
tice we have been the foe for many years
aud we certainly never knew pastures shorter
than for the last three months of this season.
We know we cut several tons more Of hay
last haying season, because the meadow was
untouched year ago; and the hay is worth
double all the extra butter the COWS would
have made. Our meadow is now covered
with fine, soft, but short aftermath, which
will wonderfully protect the roots during the
winter, especially if it is an open one as it
now promises to be. Beside, the ground is
not all poached up, and if any one will ex-
anime clay meadow in june, he will find
little or no grass growing where the cattle's
feet pressed into the wet soil the fall or
spring previous. Raise fodder corn, or Hun
garian grass, or buy shorts but keep the
cattle off the meadows, unless you are taking
farm on shares, and then you will skin the
farm all you can, or you are an exception to
any one we ever knew. Read the following
suggestions


A neighbor of mine has a meadow on
which there is now a most luxuriant growth
Of aftermath. Last Saturday, week ago,
he turned in on this 6eld some twenty head
of cattle, and purposes to keep them there
most of the fall. viii it iujure the mead
ow? l told him it would if he turned them
in now, for it has been very wet here, and
his meadow is naturally moist. The tramp
ing of that many cattle for month, as wet
as it is now, will ruin the meadow. But he
thinks not. have no serious objections to
pasturing down an aftermath when it grows
rank, aside from the tramping in wet wealth
er. But do not believe in eating it off
bare and leaving the roots exposed to the
rigors Of our winters, with nothing whatever
to protect them. Our meadows and grass
lands would not run out so frequently, me-
thinks, if less fall pasturing was done. The
grass that springs up after harvest will
fall down and furnish protecting carpet
through the winter, and will enrich the land
by its decay, SO that it will produce, gener.
ally, enough more the following season to
compensate for the loss Of the pasture in the
fall, while the better condition Of the land
and of the grass crop itself, is SO much clear
profit.


My plan is to pasture aftermath according
to its growth. 10 dry seasons, when there
is but little growth, do not turn ia at all
In wet seasons, when there is a rank growth
pasture whenever the ground is dry enough
to prevent sinking of the hoofs l moved a
field last year that had been pastured wet
the fall before, and it was as rough as a
powed field, and did not turn off half as
well as fields that had not been so tramped.
&C. G., in Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1876




The following advice from the Journal Of
Chemistry is the best We have ever seen.
though wo think they need little more
room, but should be shut up. Our practice
has been 10 use pen some ten feet square
for dozen or more, but shut them up by all
means: ........n .n....


1t is hopeless to attempt to fatteu chickens
while they are at liberty. They must be
put up in proper coop, aud this, like most
other appurtenances, need not be expensive.
To fatten twelve fowls, coop may be th rec
feet long, eighteen inches high and eighteen
inches deep, made entirely of bars. No part
solid-neither top, sides nor bottom. Dis
erection must be used according 10 the size Of
the chickens put up. They do not want any
room indeed, the closer they are the better,
provided they can all stand up at the same
time. Care must be taken to put up such as
have been accustomed TO be together, or
they will fight. If one is quarrelsome, it is
better to remove il at once, rs, like other bad
examples, 1t soon finds imitators. Diseased
chickens should never be put up.


The food should be ground oats, sHd may
either bc put up in a trough or on 4 fiat
board running along the front of the coop.
1t may be mixed with water and milk, the
latter is better. 1t should be well soaked
forming pulp as loose as can be, provided
it does not run of the board. They must be
we'll fed three or four times day, the first
time as soon after daybreak as may be possi-
Bile or convenient, aud then at intervals of
four hours. Each meal should be as much
as they can eat up clean, and no more !;
when they have done feeding, the board
should be wiped and some gravel spread. 1t
causes them to feed aud thrive.


After fortnight Of this treatment you
will have good, fat fowls If, however,
there are but five or six to be fatted, they
must not have as much room as though there
were dozen. Nothing is easier than TO al.
low them the proper space, as it is only nec-
essary to have two or three pieces Of wood
to pass between the bars and form parti.
ton. This may also serve when fowls are
up at different degrees of fatness. This re-
quires attention, or fowls will not keep fat
and healthy. As soon as the fowl is sufh.
ciently fatted, it must be killed otherwise
it will not get fatter, but will lose flesh. If
fowls are intended for the market, of course
they are, or may be, fatted at once but if
for home consumption, it is better to put
them up at such intervals as will suit the
time when they will be required for the
table. . .I..


When the time arrives for killing, whether
they are meant for market or otherwise, they
should be tasted without food or water for
twelve or fifteen hours. This enables them
to keep for some time after being killed
even in hot weather. .1 nr. -.I
Year: 1876

FRIEND H1BBARD The surface Of the
earth is frozen from four to eight inches 10
depth, according to the exposure, and the
frost is daily penetrating Our trust that
winter would not close in without rcplenish-
ing rains, seems in fair way to be disappoint-
ed. | have no water yet at my barns and
may have thirty head of cattle, fifty sheep,
and six horse kind put up in winter quarters
any day, though we keep them out yet by
daily feeding; the cattle all coming up
nights, aud the sheep getting ration Of corn
in the pasture. Many other farmers are as
badly of. Now if we do not have an unusual
thaw and soaking rain we must drive our
stock away to the brooks, or carry water to
them, or haul it in barrels. Much labor and
care are necessary to avoid losses, by injuries
to each other, slipping on the ice, exposure
to cold and storms, and an insufficient or
irregular supply of water. When the wealth
er is rough, or the young and small animals
are driven away by the largo and strong,
they will go without drinking, and the next
day will take SO much water us to injure
them. If the farmer tries to favor them by
hauling water on stormy days, they learn to
expect it, and do not drink at the brook next
day, unless the weather is mild and every.
thing all right.


think the best way is to provide water
at the barus for the mich cows, the calves
and other animals that may be feeble or less
able to stand the exposure and hardship Of
going to the brook, if not for all the stock,
and am inclined to think it pays to haul it
for all. Those animals that go to the brook
should be sent along in squads, the smallest
FIRST, so that all will have an opportunity to
drink. Those farmers who have an unfailng
supply Of running water for house and barns,
do not know what luxury they possess.


Domestic animals need an abundant sup
ply of pure water free from ice and easily
accessible. They should have an opportuni-
ty to drink twice a day with regularity.
Without such abundant, frequent and regu-
lar supply, they fail in thrift aud are liable
to suffer an impairment of health. Perhaps
an exception should be made in favor Of
sheep. They will do without water if they
have access to clean snow. But they should
have one or the other regular. One of the
best AOcks of my acquaintance, sixteen in
number, all breeding ewes, never have water
in winter, running at large in ten acre
field. They are always strong and thrifty in
spring. do not say that they would not
do better if they had running water. 1t
seems to me they would. o.H.H.
| Springfield, ~, Dec. 4. 1876.
Year: 1876

INFORMATION WANTED.-lt will give much
satisfaction if the committee who awarded
the premiums for Mr.. Conrad Wilson's prizes
will give the public the special manner of
making up the results of feeding pork hogs /;
the manner Of preparing and using the corn !;
the age of the hogs how often said hogs
were weighed what drink or other food
was given, and any other details, to get a
certainty Of the report given by the commit
tee. Also, the kind of hogs fed; was any,
thing given to increase the appetite Of said
hogs, and was the natural growth taken into
consideration during the term Of the trial
feeding? l would also ask the particular
manner of getting the result Of butter made
by one bushe Of corn what kind of cows
were fed what age Of COW was used were
they run at pasture or confined in the sta.
bic what was the special manner of feed
ing how was the corn prepared, and how
often was it fed were the cows given any
thing but water for drink the manner OF
getting at the precise results reported in
butter from the bushel of corn fed was the
milk all churned or was it set as usual ;
what month Of the season was the trial made,
and in what manner were the COWS prepared
and fed for the trial Of the bushel Of corn


IN Y Times.
Year: 1876

THoROUGHBREDs.-A business gentleman
wrote in behalf Of farmer, to one of our
leading breeders of thoroughbred stock, ask
ing him for terms Of certain animals adver-
tised in our Journal. The request was at.
tended to and he soon received letter say
ing the farmer thought the prices too high,
and declined to purchase, although he want
ed the stock. Whereupou our business man
delivers himself of this sensible message
which we hope the before mentioned breeder
found Of some slight comfort. "There seems
to be an idea prevalent among many farmers
that the cheapest is the best, regardless Of
quality-but it is a penny wise and pound
foolish plan. l have in mind some farmers
who have bred their sheep in-and-in until
they are all run out, poor, scraggy, half
'0OOled things; and it is impossible to make
them believe that new blood would be ben
eft, The loss is their own, although it is a
shame and belittles the profession of farm
ing" Who wonders that breeders find it
Improbable to raise blood stock where such
ideas prevail Fortunately, however, they
obtain among a much smaller portion Of the
farming community than fOrmerly.-MaiHe
Farmer.
Year: 1876

TIE First FARMRR.-The first farmer
was the lirst man, and all historic nobility
rests on possession and use of land. Men do
not like hard work, but every man has an
exceptional respect for tilage, and feeling
that this is the original calling Of his race ;
that he himself is only excused from it by
some circumstances which made him delegate
it for time to other hands. If he have
not some skill which recommends him to the
farmer, some product for which the farmer
will give him corn, he must himself return
.into his due place among the planters. Aud
the profession has, in all eyes, its ancient
charm as standing nearest to God, the first
cause Of all that it is true, good, noble and
honorable. Mr.. Emerson will admit, we
doubt not that the first man was also the first
gardener, until he was sent from Eden. 1t
was after this that he devoted himself to
farming, Emerson.
Year: 1876

which pleased us most were those which
showd how many cattle of oil kinds, and
every variety of farm product that was cxhibi
tied at each county fair in the state, also
how much money went TO each town in pro-
miums and gratuities. These features all
should be glad to see Incorporated in our
future reports. Altogether it is a valuable
work, and its yearly issue and distribution
among the farmers Of Connecticut must have
wonderful influence on tho agricultural
prosperity Of that state.
Year: 1876

WINTERING FLowERs.-All the ordinary
budding flowers can be wintered successfully
in tight, tolerably dry and light cellar.
We have, says correspondent, a cellar
provided with sash to the windows, and
about the 18th of November, before severe
frost, we make bed of light, rich soil under
one of the windows, and take up all our
geraniums, helOtropes and verbenas, with
all their roots, and a small ball of earth,
put them in the cellar, and pack them as
closely as they will stand in an upright po-
sition. SiIt plenty of loose earth between
them, aud give them good soaking of
They will require no other attention, except
a moderate watering once in two weeks. In
very fine weather, open the sash for an hour
or two during the middle of the day. They
will grow but little, but in the spring make
nice plants. Before taking them up in the fall,
they should be severally cut down.-Ameri-
can CuLtigatOr.
Year: 1876

AGRICULTUAL EXpERTs NEEDED. - We
need more men among agrcuturists and
fruit men who are experts in their business.
What satisfaction it must be to a stock
breeder to be able to detect pure bred au.
imal at glance or a touch. What de-
mand there is for such men, and how fully
is their judgment respected. To be able to
name fruit at glance or by taste is a
wonderful acquirement-very few have it
and the judgment Of such man is sought
after, These are but examples of what is
wanted in agricultural practice. 1t is only
by being students that this expertness can
be attained, aad il man desires to be an
honor to his vocation, benefit to his fellows,
he must seek to be an expert 10 some branch
of it, And no man need to assume the knoWl.
edge of an expert without hard study and
keen Observation-Disclosures Farm Journal.
Year: 1876

UTILIZING CIDER POMAcE.-At this sea-
son Of the year, and especially when apples
are so plenty as now, there is much fruit
manufactured into cider, the pomace after
pressing, being often troublesome to dispose
of. We have found it pay we'll to feed po-
mace to stock, which usually eat it greedily.
If placed in layers six inches thick, with
twelve or fifteen inches of hay or straw be.
tween the layers, 1t will not ferment but
will keep in good condition until fed out,
provided it is kept from freezing. Cattle,
sheep or horses will eat straw readily, if it
has been used to dry pomace, and frequently
improve in condition, even if fed nothing but
the straw and pomace. A neighbor once
stated TO us that the owner Of cider-mill
near his fathers farm in Lyme, Conn.,, al
ways filled 80 or 40 foot barn full of straw
and pomace, on which he Wintered a large
flock of sheep, bought up in the fall for this
purpose, aud sold them fat after shearing in
the spring. He allowed the sheep to eat
all the pomAce and straw they would, and
in 50 large a mass it kept secure from freez-
ing, except at the outer edges, so that it vas
always fresh and soft when fed. In making
cider with the now common hand-mills, we
have usually pressed about one bushel of ap-
Piles at each time, and the resulting cheese
will usually last horse one day, with hay
or straw in addition. This feed makes the
horses coat silky, and makes him lively
when driven.-COuRtry Gentlemen.
Year: 1876

We are not sent into this world to do
anything into which we can not put our
hearts. We have certain work to do for
our bread, and that is to be done strenuously
other work to do for our delight, and that is
to be done heartily. Neither is to be done
by halves and shifts, but with will and
what is not worth the effort is not to be done
at all. Perhaps all that we have to do is
meant for nothing more than an effort of tho
heart and the will, and is useless in itself !;
but at all events, the little use it has may
well be spared, if it is not worth putting
our hands and our strength to.-Ruskia.
Year: 1876

Coon ADvIcE.-We know that many
farmers have an idea that they cannot write
well enough for publication but this is all
nonsense in this connection. We have plen-
ty of employees in our Office who can write
and spell better than they can talk agricul-
ture, and if our friends will give us their
experience and opinions in plain way, there
are those here who will put their communi.
cations in proper shape. We want to get at
the facts which our readers alone can furnish
US, and the rest we can take care Of here
If you have found new variety OF potatoes
which is better than the old ones, write and
let US know it. If you have found how to
raise pork at profit, tell US about 1t. If
you have proved anything by experiments in
feeding cattle, or breaking colts, or keeping
hens, let US know that, and so on.


Again, if there is anything you want to
know before you decide upon next year 5
operations, write and ask about it. If we
know we shall be glad to tell you, and if we
do not we will try and make some subscriber
inform us. A long winter is coming and it
would be very foolish in all of us to let 1t
pass without learning very much which will
help us next year. We can learn much
from books but more from each other
Mirror and Farmer.
Year: 1876

The Scientific Farmer says The New
Hampshire Board Of Agriculture are discuss
ing means of resettling the 1000 deserted
farms of that State. 1t is hoped to make
some provision with the owners by which
settlers can be induced to take them up
again, possibly by the owners giving bond
for deed after few years Improvement
This is step in the right direction, aud de-
serves success
Year: 1876

The election of Rutherford B. Hayes to
the Presidency is sure guarantee for the
next four years that the affairs of the Gov
eminent will be equitably administered and
the nation spared the modification which
would inevitably follow rebel domination.
Above all, it quiets the just apprehensions
of the loyalists of the South, who would
have been turned over to the tender mercies
of ruthless Ku-Klux Klans, whose igno-
rance and lack of humanity would have in
cited them to the perpetration Of wrongs
too revolving to contemplate. The conspir-
acy which has just been defeated was six
years in assuming its present formidable
shape. 1t had its origin in Georgia, under
the gallant % Gordon, In 1870, when that
State was made the nucleus of the 'tsolid
South" by the murder of no less than
three hundred negroes and score or more
of leading white Republicans. The failure
of the General Government at that time to
interpose its strong arm for the protection
of its citizens greatly emboldened the con-
spirators, and they gave free scope to their
vaulting ambition, carrying on the work
of prescription and death until almost
the entire South was added to the Ku-Klux
diadem which was destined eventually to
attempt the destruction of the nation by
means of rebel ballots. The North, 'fslow
to anger and plenteous in mercy" paid
but little heed to the warnings of the press,
and five States north of the Potomac were
found willing to trust the country in rebel
keeping. But thanks to wise Provi-
dence, and the good sense of majority of
the people, the danger has been aVerted,
and the good ship of State has been safely
piloted, and will soon be manned by as
loyal crew as that which has directed her
course for the past eight years. President
Hayes will doubtless have but one ultima
tum for the South: 'Obey the laws and
respect human rights, or take the conse-
"quences. A wise statesmanship in that
benighted region will take the hint, and
counsel cessation of rapine and murder
for opinions sake. The first lesson to be
taught the rebel leaders in the South is TIE
fact that they never conferred the ballot
upon the negro, and that they may not
with impunity take it from him. They
must tolerate the opiaions of others, and
must cease prescribing men simply because
of their politics. The South will find a
friend in the new President, as she has in
our present distinguished Executive, but
she will find Hayes as resolutely deter
mined to protect human rights as General
Grant has been. By the election Of Hayes
the Gordon Tucker Lamar. Randall Cox
conspiracy to degrade the nation has come
to grief, and the people applaud.
Year: 1876

erly constituted authorities quietly perform


their duties there will be no trouble. If
they will not, the Executive evinces de-
termination to afford the necessary protec-
ton. To those who borrow trouble about
the counting Of the votes, let US say that 1t
will be better to first secure the votes which
are to be counted. The proper authorities
will have no trouble in counting the votes
when the time for the performance Of that
Year: 1876

''No MAN worthy Of the Office of President
should be willing to hold 1t If counted in or
placed there by fraud. Either party can afford
tc be disappointed in the result. The country
cannot afford to have the result tainted by the
suspicion of Illegal or false returns.-U. s.
Grant"


These are the words of patriot "a man
who has proven his devotion TO his coun-
try and who has acceptably filed the Office OF
President for two eventful terms. II Tilden,
the Democratic Claimant had the honesty
to ebide by this declaration, he would at
once step down and out, acknowledging
that Mississippi, to say nothing of New
York, affords suspicion of Illegal or false
returI s.
Year: 1876

THE teDacity and efrontery with which
the Democrats insisted that Colorado had
gone Democratic, even after the full returns
were IN. is exceeded by their present boasts
on the Presidential election. Then, as now,
they knew that the decision was against
them, but they kept up their bray, in order
to cover up any means at fraudulently de-
feating the expressed will Of the people.
They failed then, and good care will be
taken 10 prevent them from making their
fraudulent acis available in the present
Year: 1876

How must Toombs, Tiden, Hill and
other conspirators feel now that they have
discovered that for four more years the
people have resolved to leave the Govern
ment in loyal hands? 1t begins to look as
if it will be some years hence before Bob
Toombs will have the satisfaction of calling
the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker
Hill.
Year: 1876

GENERAL GRANT has proven himself to
be the ''true Moses" of the colored race,
leading them out of Democratic bondage
and breaking off their shackles. When he
retires from Office he will have the satisfac-
ton of placing their destinies in the keep
ing of brave soldier, and not under the
domination of New York Pharaoh.