OCR Text |
Show FOR AG'RICU LTITRTSTS. New and Important to Parsers. Pars-ers. The agricultural papers of France state that nothing so quickly fattens cattle as .Jerusalem artichokes. But the chief value of this food is, that the most of animals so fed will keep sweet for cihtcen-Iay.s alter the slaughter." : Cheese Factories. Cliche factories fac-tories have prove a great suiwesi in the .New England States.'- They are generally gen-erally erected by associate larmers, where dairies abound. It is found much more profitable to the farmer to abandon bis private press and send his tniik to the factory, where,' at much less co.st, a better gride of cheese is produced and of course higher prices realized.. i. , , . .Cuttings and SiiioW. If intended for planting in spring, either current or gooseberry cuttings may be separated Ironi the parent stock any time during the winter, lite later the hotter, though . before the bud:; swell. Both take root iO readily and open their buds at a temperature ?o low, it' cat in' early winter and stored in a cellar, they are liable to start into' growth b?foro they can be put out in spring. Scions of: the apple, cherry plum and pear, for' either .rout .grafting in winter, , or for j top grafting iu spring, should bo made in early winter as soon as the leaves drop and the wood ia thoroughly hardened up. For the preservation of scions and cuttings there is no kind of packing material equal to sawdust of aoout the same degree of moisture as when it comos from green timber. ' - Son, for Bkets. The Prairie Farmtv says beets and maDgold should be- planted on rieh, friable land loomy -soil1 are considered rhe best which should be deeply ploughed and thoroughly pulverized. There is great saving of labor by putting in the seed with a drill. They are best cultivated in- rows eighteen inchos apart, the plants being thinned to twelve inches in tho row. When it is desired to oultivate them by horse power, many put the rows thirty inches apart, so that a cultivator may be ran between them. Beet seed should be covered about an inch deep, and plenty of seed should be sown to insure a stand. It is easier to thin than to transplant. Keep the ground scrupulously free from weeds, thin early by the use ..of a narrow nar-row hoe, completing the work with the fingers. After the thinning is done, most of the cultivation may be effected by a cultivator or other implement drawn by a borec. Planting Seed. A correspondent of the Frairie Farmer, writing from Iowa, gives the following sensible article on the folly of planting too much seed: "A man pays one dollar for one pound of some variety of potatoes; cuts it, plants one eye in a hill, gives extra care and estivation, and reports a great yield of an extra quality of potato. Now suppose wo take the same course with some old variety, and report the result. One of the most successful potato growers 1 ever knew, in Ohio, says he rinds one eye in a hill always enough. Hon. T. C. Jones, of Delaware, Ohio, in an agricultural essay on Delaware county, says one of the most successful corn growers instructs his dropper when he comes to tho intersection of the furrow fur-row or tho hill: "There Uo you stop until un-til you there deposit three grains. Mark you, not three to sis, but three; no more, no less.' In a field of wiieat one-half sown, short one and a half bushels per acre, yielded twenty bushels per acre; the other hall', one and five-eights bushels of seed per acre, yielded sixteen bushels per acre. On a field of corn, four to six grains per hill, yielded forty bushels (by measure) of small ears and nubbinsj Another field, three to four grains per hill, yielded forty-five bushels, large carSj per acre." Death, in the Milk Pail, Not long sinco professor Low, of Cornell University, observed a peculiarity in the cream from the milk furnished by the milkman. It appeared to be ropy, and on subjecting it to an examination under a powerful microscope, it was found to contain a largo number of living liv-ing organisms in different stages of growth. Pushing hia investigations further, tho professor called upon the milkinan to inquire concerning the management and keep of his cows, and the manner in which the milk was cared for. Hero he found on looking over tho premises that the cowa, for lack of good, clean waler tho season being unusually dry were forced to slake their thirst in a stagnant pool located in a muddy swale. Taking specimens of this water and examining examin-ing it under the microscope, tho same class of organisms was found as those in the milk. It was now pretty ci-dent ci-dent whero the cause of tho trouble lay; but to make the matter moro clear, specimens of blood were taken from the cows and examined under the microscope, mi-croscope, when these also were found to contain the .same class of organisms. ' Tho animals, on applying thermometer tests for determining health or disease, were found to be hot and feverish, thus showing that these living organisms introduced through the medium of the filthy water and taken into the circulation, circu-lation, and by their power of reproduction reproduc-tion and multiplication in the blood, became the source of disease. Investigating Inves-tigating still further, a particle of the s filthy water was introduced into milk free from such organisms, and known from the tests to be in good order, and in a short time the same filthy organisms organ-isms multiplied and took possession of it iu vast numbers, producing the same character of miik as that firot noticed. Other experiments and investigations were made, but all similar in results to those we have described. These facts arc of very great importance to dairymen, dairy-men, and although it was known that the milk from cows drinking the putrid or foul water of sloughs and mud holes had caused much trouble at cheese 3 lactones, siili dairymen hardly apprc-J apprc-J ciated the lull extent of the trouble, or were aware of the precise nature ol the injury caused by such water. |