1868. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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ical process, and the less manipulation of the 

 curds the better, in point of flavor, qual- 

 ity and quantity. The apparatus consists of 

 an ingeniously constructed rack or perforated 

 plate, with wooden knives attached, introduced 

 npon the curd which assists to separate the 

 whey from it by means of gradual pressure. 



In this process there is no stirring of the 

 curds. After coagulation the mass is cut 

 with wooden knives, and when the whey is 

 formed and a portion of it is laded out, the 

 perforated plate is introduced and gradual 

 pressure applied by placing warm water in 

 cans upon it. The perforated plate sinks 

 down upon the curd, and the knives or wedges 

 entering the curd, operate to separate the 

 whey, and thus, by ^.voiding manipulation, 

 the best results are obtained. When the curd 

 Las attained the right consistency it is run 

 through a curd mill and salted. The princi- 

 ple on which the apparatus of Mr. Green 

 works, is similar to that employed in manufac- 

 turing Stilton cheese by the Leicester and 

 Cambridgeshire dairymen. — Utica Herald. 



AGKICULTURAL ITEMS. 



— From seven towns in Niagara County, N. Y., 

 before the purchases were fully completed, $510,- 

 289.80 worth of apples had been shipped last season. 



— Farmers measure their duties by the yard just 

 now — the barn-yard, the wood-yard and the poul- 

 try-yard. 



— Cattle are among the chief exports of Texas, 

 yet the State imports extensively butter, cheese, 

 and ev«n milk. 



— Nevada is a treeless country. The want of 

 fuel is a great drawback to the value of the mines 

 in that State. 



— In the six counties of Jasper, Mahaska, Henry 

 Washington, Wapello, and Jefiferson, in Iowa, 

 there were 384,583 sheep, according to official re- 

 turns made last June. 



— Mr. H. C. Johnson, of Danville, Vt., raised on 

 Ms meadow the past season, from just five acres, 

 800 bushels of ears of corn, which is equal to 400 

 bushels, or 80 bushels to the acre, of shelled com. 



— Satisfactory evidence is given that there is, at 

 least, a slight difference between the Jackson 

 White and the Orono potatoes, which fact has re- 

 cently been questioned. Both are excellent va- 

 rieties. 



— ^Thc Irish Farmer's Gazette gives the following 

 remedy for sore feet in sheep : Pare away all loose 

 horn about the feet without drawing blood, and 

 anoint them with butyr of antimony, keeping the 

 sheep on a dry standing for a few hours afterwards. 



— In Platte county, 111., says a correspondent of 

 the Country Gentle7nafi, farmers have been, now for 

 twenty years, breeding to thorough-bred stallions, 

 and almost every horse you see shows more or less 

 the blood that is in it. They were grading a rail- 



road through the county, and many of the farmers 

 had turned out their teams to help the work along, 

 when I was there last fall, and I counted twenty 

 pairs of horses at work along the road, that would 

 command the notice of horsemen anywhere. All 

 had fine heads, noble necks, were well muscled, 

 and astonished me both by the size of their bone 

 and kindliness of their disposition. 



— The Bloomington, (lU.,) Panfagraph says that 

 the beet sugar manufactory at Chatsworth is now 

 in fine working order. The company are feeding 

 five hundred head of cattle from their beet pomace, 

 and ship a car load of sugar every week. 



— A St. Paul paper thinks 15 bushels per acre is 

 high enough as the average yield of wheat in Min- 

 nesota last season, and that the crop in that vicin- 

 ity was damaged 20 per cent, by rains after stack- 

 ing. 



— A dog stirred up a nest of rats in a barn at 

 Brattleboro', Vt., the other day, and a man came 

 up just in time to seethpm take refuge in a barrel. 

 Putting a cover on it, he poured in a quantity of 

 hot water, and when the struggles within had 

 ceased counted up no less than seventy dead rats. 



— An English paper says that this year no less 

 than 40 tons of iron rust were taken out of the 

 Menai tubular bridge at one thorough cleaning. 

 At that- rate it will soon be carried away in old 

 iron ; so will those agricultural implements which 

 are exposed to the weather. 



— A. H. & J. B. Day, of Winchester, Iowa, in- 

 form the Iowa Homestead that they have two two 

 year old steers of their own breeding, one of which 

 weighs 2,010 lbs. ; and the other 1,970 lbs. They 

 also have three yearling steers whose weights, re- 

 spectively, are, 1,080, 1,090, and 1,250 lbs. 



— In South Oxford county, Ontario, Canada, 

 there are, according to the Ingersoll Chronicle, 64 

 cheese factories and branches, using the milk from 

 12,633 cows, and making, this year, 1,366 tons of 

 cheese. In the same county, ten tons of cheese 

 was the amount made in 1864. 



— A correspondent of an Ohio paper gives the 

 following as his cure for warts on cattle or horses. 

 Take a small quantity of blue vitriol, pulverize it, 

 and add enough water to make it into a paste ; rub 

 the warts over with this once or twice, which will 

 eiFectually cure them. 



— Mr. A. E. Trabue, of Hamilton, Mo., has re- 

 cently purchased a considerable number of Short- 

 Horns from well-known herds in the blue grass 

 regions of Kentucky. The average price paid for 

 13 heifers and heifer calves was something over 



— Our agriculture has much to hope from young 

 men who, having a love for farming, the necessary 

 capital, a good education, and abundant energy, 

 make up their minds to study farming at some 

 agricultural college, or with some good practical 

 farmer, and then settle down in the country for 



