Show DAIRY AND POULTRY INTERESTING CMAPTBtlS Fort OUII nutiAL READERS flow Ca rfr fol 1 7 > rm > r > < upeeate Thli nrixtlKKnl or Ih raenA eew 117 I IllnU a In Hit lr of tins llixk end Ioullr I Uoll Imlxirlol lint Thin < < In 111 lrlnc T the present lime the moil Important single Item In dairying la lie lertlng of rows AIJ write Inif W Nook elU1y J N-ook In Jersey Ilullilln 1hli may J fO seem a sample real I iI ter but It rightly I conducted in influence in-fluence In far reach r tag With the present rair rapid and cheap method of telling milk by the llabcoek i tent no one rAn nRoril to he I Ig norant nf the butter rapacity of his tows First aa to the melhnd nt tnt Inn and then auto IU advantage The milk tit town whether liken Mparalo If I or In herd la I ronslantly varying from day to day and from milking to milking these variation usually fall Inc wllliln an extreme reuse of one I xr cent In addition the milk II gradually grad-ually growing richer from the time the row cairN unlll It dries up To overcome these variation a raw should bo lenient for at leant four eon eoullvo milking and eight milking are atlll better Thla It I easily done by mlilnic sample of the different milking and making one tent of the mixed ample To lIt an average test for the IIhol milking iwrlod two lest ran b < made onn all weeks and the other ill month atljr calving The average of these two Ill closely np proilmalo tie overate quality of the milk given during the year If but a lnlll INt II 1 mad tbo tml nhould In taken towanl the end of Iho fourth month alter oalvlng It will hi necessary to know the weight of milk given and thli can be learned Just ni Accurately by weighing the milk the tint and fifteenth of nich ffonlh al by weighing every day The real l labor of doing all thla weighing and rating I ti much lee I than would be Imagined by who has one never tented cows Having now the weights and teals what use can be made of them In every herd there are Mime lows boiler t than other Testing enables the own IT to wfwl out his herd successfully to got rid of Iho unprofitable roW and lark of thin IntML i In the matort Hate Mil inn ties fly whlrh d PIts P-Its eggs In the pulp of the apple uc nealh the ikln The yni K msgguiI grow wllhln the fruit which they render ren-der worthleis and when mature emerge from the apple and go Into the ground lying In the puPA Hate tie neath the moms welt among the grass root Hampleaof the earth six inches qware wore taken and the number of maggots under the trees varied according accord-ing to the alse from HOO to more than 11000 under each tree the pupae somewhat some-what resembling kernel of weaL Now come the point which was ter tleulirly Interesting to me The ex ptrlinenl wa tried ai to whether poultry poul-try If confined to a mall range ami encouraged to icrateh would destroy these pupae A large movable wire fence w aa plaNOI l about a tree who e fruit hid been destroyed by insect One aide of the fence was raised and about fitly hem were ealM Into the enclosure The fence wss let I down and they were conflnol to the space around the tree ta lOOn ai they had eaten the corn they naturally began to scratch for the pupae and In the count of three or four dayi It was found that the latter bad disappeared Ai th e insect remain In the pupae stele from the M 01 Ibo apple 1 ° the following spring when they appear II may be eitHcted that neat year the number of HIM bree < llng tho apple maggot will be greatly dlmlnUhed In the loralltlii where Ihla plan la I followed from per anal ei > erlrnre otendlng over many re years lean pAk poeltliely of Iho advantages of allowing fowl and chicken a free range In apple orchard orch-ard They not only manure the sot 1 and dMtroy all Intern harboring In II but they find for Mime week a ton ilderable proportion of their own food 1 the windfall which they sermon greedily with any truths they may contain con-tain The railing of poultry for ante may be much mom advuntageouily carried on where the land li I made to produce two rolMIIIlr apple and 1 cggi than where only onal la gathered i taller eeutl > A few yearn ago 1 client mimo limo In ferreting out the black toiieln butter but-ter swindle Mi Xlilo llililwln In the Ols cgo Farmer and now hero conic Id twin brother tho electric churn which originate Ira own electricity by the aid of which you ran churn In ono minute without regard to Ibo tempera turn or condition of the cream Hut Ihe grratnt aavlng claimed li I In tho quantity and quality of the butter Tho dearrlpllro circular ayi One bun drill grounds of milk contain fourteen pound of solid matter ronilMIng of I I It I I i 8INaiiCOMII WIIITR MXIIIOKN COCIC to know which one are piylng Iho tacit return for their food 1 Wllh this + knowledge at hand the dairyman hal n powerful aid In correct hrrrdlng Tbo Influmre ut the dam and pirtlcu lirly the lira 1 on the quality of the milk of the offiprlng ho < 1 been but little stiidfl and offer n fruitful field for muwtlgallun Th owner of A herd of ion nf hli own breeding will be able to Inn many line of lulluvnre farm piinnt III offspring and lo Hole r not only llano that sn prepotent for r I Rixid nut equally Important de i I rmlni prepotency for evil The man slit u I o iiimtliully testing hli cow I eta brrtlur to nut the relation tie uecm rued und milk nowto know hula wu individually alto which one will w mil iiltulile return fur Increased 1 ril 1 lli > bus brought knowledge to lieu nn many question ilmi wire pn I vlouiily Indefinite anti tin rnsnii can not fall to be h 0 lurreaMl iniuiiiunlal a i i well as Intellectual prunX 1iiulliy In tlrcltnli 1 Mr Tvgetmeler the famous Bullish autliorlty on poultry In coininintlng on n report of the Ilhod Island experiment experi-ment station rettardliig the value of t J I fowls On ordianU says Kor many year I have advocnled l the lutrodutllon ot poultry Into npplo orchards tnalntslnlns that they da r I good kwvle In two very dUtlnrt I mOllnlll by manuring the ground and secondly by hits dmtructlon ut In ects and prut that blbrnat In the oil n18 apple maggot nppnari to b e extending In America attacking the favorite o fa-vorite IWIdwIn whlcb Ilia will known r a as being 1IOIIOrl largely Into h Dili t CKiinirr and rendering It entirely I un M fit for use but the spraying Iho tr eve I t with Uoideaux mixture and farts green t true aut > ear > d lu prevent all tcrloui at I r = four pound + of oleo found poundi of rating four pound of sugar mud two hounds nf varied Mil production and by Iho old process you only uvo tho olra or butter oil but the electric churn takes up a portion of tho sugar and casing mint combines It with the oleo thereby InernMlng tho quality mid quantity of the pnHluct Hut bo fore we decide on lie I quality let ill understand what thin oMloi li I Ao curdlng In Webster cmlng li a cover Ing sea i tine That would w tint a bard thing to work Into butter but we ian nut tell what tills vltotrli burn may do Ilmlbly In trying to ho wlenlin he iisra hit word In lien or i iseln milk uinl If so It must be n great Improvement Im-provement on the quail nf tho but ter I knew H man la my luyhood day who discovered the art of making this name kind of butter but he produced l the eleitriclty by ilropplng a little lennot Into the chum luau a i It began to break for butter and it fined It In a minute 80 that It turned out a Urge quunUty of what lie railed eats but tar lie old a qiuntlty of It to a denier I deni-er wlw bad him I irrwtid for fraud and when In got through and Milled i up I ha fuuud It the lilghelprke1 butter bit mir sold If anyone In not satisfied with Ibo above expose lit l elm Invest nix dollar cud In his hand The IIIII lekThe little leeks l on the farm Amount to A roiuldtniblo sum every fear utile Ihey aft carefully Inokrd 1 after snit ttopiwd ay an rs tbMiKe livery bill or corn mlweil in libeling or rooted up In cullUatlng redm ei the crop without reducing lima work of cultivating It A leak In a roof that might lw stopivtd In a minute may b4 the niMBi of ipiilllng n dollars worth of hIIM and li a Venting to lt took for other teak14v SSVwCs Ctll ConitllUns In tnn The following letter from T D Em meet an Iowa ilockunn win bl read with Interest by many feeders la that I and other itates says Live desk He reef No doubt tbo condition timed therein will apply over a broad area ot the feeding district In tb < Ant place young cattle are very eareeth art In twentyfive year to roI own knowledge Everything K I OI feed from yearling up and theso bar aot been nearly enough rattle to s ° I around I Inileted strongly W time feeder of my neighborhood to feel cattle and consume this their corn even If they had to go to the is ukt for their feeders which a good man did and that Is I how we ban about our usual number of cattle eo Id here slut right hero la I when the rub I comes In There will not be row than nit our uiual number of runts to run out of here tbli fall from the fact that from now 01 we usually ran eir t ra ealll Why I used to buy from lllc to six eight ten or twelve cart ot rat He per week and half of then would M Kraus entile but I do not know where I would get a Ingle bad ot grass calllo In my territory 1411 not veil feeder let alone raids that would do lo chip from UtI l up unlll I lath fall everbody cut and slubed the cilllo wpetlally Iho she tab calves built and everything You ksew yourselves your-selves how It was anl shot a churl ago conic jou cant breed sad raise catlle and Ret them ready W market In six month ai you can rlth hog Aa I regard the illuatlon It 1Jlllld nee m ai though there would be plflllY o fat rntllo for this iiimmrr and till > looking at It without careful fare We f-are getting only forty to nftthousand rattle ir week In Cblearo noW alii 1 told whereas wo toed to get t fifty to i eighty thousand per week stew year ago We have Just gone lh oa a le I i clod I of three jean of hard = 11 > 11 year was presidential olldltl That li out of Iho way now and iTirjrtnlng I li trglMilng lo move alongBore evenly even-ly Time are gelling beget In tit e gall and gradually movlct thio way r > I more men going lo work emery day and thorn wIt gradually U more de I nmnd for tho product from now on uulesi I mlsi my gueii Tnen there will be n great demand from alt quarters quar-ters right along for younf atllo to goon go-on lo grair and on to COIL In not I a better consumptive dciuad on tho one side and a boiler deniind lor feeding feed-ing clock on the other II duel look to ino there wont bo any too many cattle for this summer and fall for the market lo RO Into conwmptlon I could glta a good many core reaioni for Ihlnklni so but think I biro covered cov-ered that main part of the round Of course wo will have flucuutlom but tho tendency will bo for the better especially when the cattle now on feed aro out of tko way atsndael hIII etktekeas Ixchorni I ghorni in the br 9 known of the egg Drodsdng varlet e or Mediterranean clan They are tit 5 premier In laying and IU standard by which tho pronlcacy ofher breed li 1 Judged Of the orliliM tho I Rhorn fowl them aro dlff r cca of opinion and there li I but tfttt Information to bo found anywhiro concerning their early lililory U k generally consul that n coca of fuwi teartnK n close resemblance re-semblance In rainjrtipocta to the Icp horn lioa existed la Italy nnd other parts of the tontltitt of Iuropo for along a-long period I Tint till raco ot fowl hai been widely iucnilnated < < admlti alio of llttlo douHlaaimueh oa at the present day the breed li I known In Don mark and other emtrlci u Italians nitro seems lu UrooJ ground for tho statement that Ianborns l were first Introduced In-troduced Into Atnenm from Italy The story ROM that ILl IIrlr aa 1831 n vessel ves-sel fmm IxKhoro Italy brought to this country ai a part ot IU I cargo a small iblpment of fowl > which wcro al Onto immwl Lejawni They Imme diately became peoular their prollflt laying and nontlulnff qualltlc being rccognlieil at tbli early date Whlti and Drown lrlltrn were the nt va rlrtlPi kllon Uojorn brccdnri nre mponilblo for sumo ot tbo iubvarle tie Of the breed IIII t In tinlnt nf toting at leant eililbltkM birds ii today even of the older vtrlitlei vary considerably consider-ably from thoM seen nt limo present limo In Italy Tilt Leghorn fowl hold tho Hmo plea among oultry that thi Jersey Gelds > a ne cattle The ques LIon of profit la poultry has been do aided In favor II rgRproduclnR breeds I They are lively ellve and of a rest lesi illiHiiiioa the best of foragers and win pick ep a Hood part of their living during ife year ghorni arc light eitr aji lie cot of railing them III i nuturltj to about onelinlf that I of the Hiatlc wrMIc They nature I rail I tathr i filokly the pullets of I i tin bri Ujlag waou 4 months old and r K rfli crow at the same age Thj or the tut layer averaging be h n n lam i sad tJO en per year Their I > cue nr > i pun lilM In color and weigh nlHiut 1J to tkt pouml AI tab I fowl they are t air b told My taany they are ionldnd eaaeplt The only thing that eau be wa against them II that they an seep In alts Altogetlier they are oag ot the mot profitable breeu ut uodgry thAt can be kept upon the farm at tbo oliewpnois of their kuplim will allow the railing ot two Iighiinu for the east of ono Ailatlc 1 he > muit kf warmly housed In Inter lo lay well 1 ltd to protect tholr poudu lour weltletrom 1 frostbite It don pay dairymen tb ralie good held Kim from flratclasa caws liter Hit Wryuien who are III the dead > lil11 I if slipping milk to supply the Now York trado bale l found thAt out In Orini anntl N V the mom pros pirinn dsljni now raise the promis lug calm flit fjrai maJilnory and Implement In good ntajr before storing them foi winter 1 1 le1 Cll1 ilon of Orrlirili It orcharda are to bo profllabl the must receive aa good care at othsi crops Good tillage Increaie the avallabli food supply of the soli It alto con I tervwi lu moisture Trees should bo made to tend thcli root deep Into the loll In order to for I tify themselvea against drought Thl I fi done by draining the alt and by plowing the orchard rather deep Thli deep plowing should begin the very year the tree are let and It 1 should bo continued every fprlng un ill the habit of the tree li I estate llihe1 Moisture le I retained In the upper Boll by very frequent but shallow tillage by means of which the surface of the land become n mulch for the aoll beneath be-neath Tillage ihould bn begun juit aa moon as the ground la dry enough In spring Thli tillage should be repeated ai often aa once In ten days through grow InK seaiou from spring until July 01 August I Tillage should not exlit for tho pur pose of killing weal 1 Into cultivation may IMS Injurious bj Inducing a late growth At nil event It can be of small utility when the tree begins to mature and rain become fro quenl This season of respite give the grower the opportunity of raising a green ninntire and of adding fertility to his land nt trifling expenee and with ao harm to his beer Tall plowing may bo ndvlsablo foi farm crops but not for orchard I Only I cultivated lo crops should bo al lowed In orchards early In the season Ornln and hay ihould never bo l grown I In general level culture Is I best Tits modern cultivators and harrow make such culllvMlon rniy I Tree Mpeclally npploi are often trained loo high became of difficulty 011 working clone but modern tool permit Ihe head lo bo made low Harneiue wllh no projecting homes nor metal turrets ihould bo used In boirlng orchards Those requiring no wlilltlttrem are also useful 1olnsh Is I the chief fertlllter for frill tree particularly after bearing Iotash may bo had I In wood nJihci and murlato of potash An annual np plication of potash should bo mad upon bearing orchard Of the murl ate from COO to 700 pounds to tho acre llirn manures can bo teed wllh goo1 results particularly on old orchard Cultivation may bo clapped into lithe li-the season and n crop can then blown bl-own upon tho land Thli crop may sere ai A cover or protection to the Boll and aa n green manure Prof I H Ilallry In Stark Ilroi Orchard llul Itlln drawlne IIUrklierrle In a loll reclaimed for limber one affording aufTlclcnt moisture via nol subject to drought blackberries will do well Most people plant them too close In tho beginning and they de not grow Itowa ilx feet apart are none too wide If the ground cannot bo spared one may for a year or two cultivate corn or better potatoea 01 bush ban between tho rows The greatest drawback li I the red rust which should on o account be permitted per-mitted to got a foothold Theo red tinned plant grow very rapidly bu arc easily puiieu up ivcry bit of run mint be burned ai soon as seen Ol course very dry weather Jut before or In fruiting will bo dliastroui When tho plant are well up cultivation should be by hone or hand boo Ai loon U possible after tho plant art well itarted n good mulch of wet straw should be applied Thli when done properly rwcil oat hinder the growth of potatoe for a year or two Subsequently Sub-sequently the bushes will have to be cut back severally to admit of horn cultlxatlon Ar 01 r tired lir IlnU Wo cannot well overestimate the Importance Im-portance ot water to the plant All are acquainted with the fact that green plant I If cut and dried In the sun lost much of their weight They sro largely large-ly I composed of water Thus 100 pound of meadow hay contains from sixty to eighty pounds 1 of water 100 pound Mol red clotcr about eightysix hound ol I water whllo our garden plant such u lettuce cucumbers and cabbage contain con-tain from ninetyfive to ninetyeight pounds of water to the hundred The iced of plant do not contain mi much I water n < tho Imuw and terra When well dried wheat oats and rye contain con-tain relent It per rent each while Indian In-dian corn contain about 11 per con ot w aI4ll I Good Orowlh Stop ll moeUTht great drawback to the present late season sea-son la I that All sort of fungous disease have don more damage than In n ten Ilka that of ion DO the curlleaf on p < achr bu been especially dnirueth notably nn old tree la poor roll A large grower mid the other day that I Judging from hi own orchard he would say that the difference In for tilising could be told by the difference In curl lef or In other word In one orchard whir he had fertilised freely ho had practically no curlleaf but In another orchard where fertilising had not been done the cur leaf HAH tory badI A Century 1InntA press dispatch from Washington aye A century plant that hAl been In tho White llouso couservatorlei at least CO year U I about to bloom for the first time and Hardener Kilter U 1 watching It anxiously Ho expect the bloom to appear In nbout two months The century cen-tury plant was at tho While House when Gardener rliter went there twentyone yearn ago and ha was told that It had been In the Ireildcnti hothouse forty years previously He think the plant Is I about seventy > can old nnd says It will olio after It blooms Hajipne It just beyond duty done = |