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grave of all that feed and live upon it. Is 
not this wise ordainment by which first plants 
and then animals get their daily bread and 
no more from year to year, the explanation 
why closet dejections composted with earth 
give to tne vegetation where they are placed, 
only a moderate augmentation of growth in 
any one year. The nitrogen has been locked 
up, to be given out again but slowly. The 
Asiatics use the manure in a nearly fresh con¬ 
dition and so get more from it the first season. 
CATTLE NOTES, ETC. 
W. E. R., Dover, N. H.—I have used saw¬ 
dust in the stable three or four years, and 
had rather have dry pine sawdust than any¬ 
thing else. It makes a good bed and can be 
kept under cows better than other kinds of 
bedding. It is a good absorbent and with it 
the cow manure can be handled much more 
easily and made a good deal finer than when 
it is not used, and that I think is worth some¬ 
thing, as the finer the manure is the better 
it suits me. 
“ What will cure warts on cows ” is often 
asked, so I will tell how I get rid of them. A 
yearling Guernsey heifer had one somewhat 
larger than a silver dollar on her belly a little 
forward of her bag. I took a piece of fine 
strong slue thread a foot or so long, and tied 
it close to the belly, in a knot that 'would not 
slip, and drew it pretty hard. Every day or 
so I drew the thread a little harder, and in a 
few weeks the wart was gone and I could not 
tell where it was taken off. Sometimes there 
will bo one on a cow’s teat; I twist it with my 
fingers a few times, and it is gone. I can get 
rid of them in this way without waiting for 
the cow to be dry. 
For seeding down good strong mowing 
land I use half a bushel of Timothy, one 
bushel of Red-top and 10 pounds of clover. 
Can any one give a better mixture? I have 
sown some in the early fall. Some say that 
if sown at any time before September, clover 
will do well, but I get a better stand by sow¬ 
ing in spring with or without grain. 
PROTECTING CATTLE FROM FLIES. 
A. L. C., Catonsville, Md.—I know of no 
way by which cattle may be protected from 
flies while in the field unless they be entirely 
covered with sheeting or netting, and how 
short a time this would last if put on I have 
not had curiosity enough to find out by trial. 
If there is a wood lot with plenty of under¬ 
brush in it adjoining the pasturo, the cattle 
will go there to brush off the flies, rest and 
ruminate, then go to the field for a fresh sup¬ 
ply of feed. 
I tried Lawford’s Sheep Dip on a bull tether¬ 
ed out, but it did little good; in a short time 
after applying it the flies would cover him as 
thickly as ever, although I mixed the dip very 
strong. While on the subject of flies, I will 
mention the invention of a friend of mine 
which he uses while milking. It is in the shape 
of a large sack ripped down one side and put 
on the cow coming well down nearly to her 
feet. Every part except her head being cov¬ 
ered, she has no occasion to switch her tail and 
she couldn’t switch it if she wanted, which is 
a great relief to the milker. 
A slit can be cut in the cover opposite the 
udder so as to allow easy access for milking. 
GROWTH OF WHITE CLOVER. 
O. S. B., Monmouth, III.—In the Grass 
Number of the Rural in which many of the 
various kinds of grasses were mentioned and 
their characteristics, merits and demerit? des¬ 
cribed, I notice “White clover” represented 
as growing from four to six inches high, and 
as the opinion of the writer of that article 
and my own do not agree, I inclose a sample 
of the aforesaid clover which will illustrate 
my ideas of it. This sample was taken from 
my pasture of 200 acres, on which I have pas¬ 
tured, since March 21, 100 head of cattle one 
year old and over, aud 21 head of horses two 
years old and over. The pasture has never 
been plowed or cultivated in any manner, and 
is seeded to a volunteer growth of Blue grass 
aud White clover. The Blue grass stands 
from two to feet high. 1 have seen Blue 
grass over six feet high. If stock is lying 
low on level land a man on horse-back must 
approach within 15 to 20 rods, and mauy 
times much nearer, before he can find them. 
All kinds of grain aud fruit in this part of the 
State are very promising at present. 
R. N.-Y.—The bunch of clover stems and 
heads received average two feet in bight 
W. F. A., East Hartford, Conn.— The 
Early Essex potato has again proved its 
superiority as an early variety, beating the 
record of this or any other potato. E. E. 
Gardy, of South Windsor, Conn., marketed 
fully grown aud apparently fully ripe pota¬ 
toes on June 21, planted April 17, under 
ordinary field culture, with Bradley’s Potato 
fertilizer alone. These potatoes were dug on 
the With day from planting, which is most re¬ 
markable considering that it is in the earlier 
part of the season. Several growers will be¬ 
gin marketing this variety to-day—June 24. 
Mr. Gardy says his entire field is ready to be 
dug, and he estimates the yield at 200 bushels 
per acre at this date. 
Butter from Jersey and Low-grade 
Cows:—At the meeting of the N. Y. Dairy¬ 
mens Association held at Walton, Delaware 
County, after explaining the objects of the 
society and making clear the native, chem¬ 
ical composition and parts played by each of 
the constituents of milk, cream and butter, the 
object-lesson proper was given. As we glean 
from the Philadelphia Weekly Press, the cream 
from 200 pounds of milk, representing four- 
fifths of one day’s milking of 21 grade Jersey 
cows, was dumped into a rectangular churn, 
which was revolved at the rate of 48 revolu¬ 
tions a minute for 20 minutes. Then the but- 
termilK was drawn off, the butter treated with 
strong brine, again washed with water, the 
butter skimmed off and placed on the worker. 
After boing worked for a few minutes and 
salted at the rate of an ounce to the pound 
the butter was found to weigh 13%" pounds. 
It proved to be excellent in color and taste. 
In the afternoon a similar test was made of 
the cream from a like quantity of milk from a 
dairy of 17 low-grade cows, including but a 
small proportion of the Jersey strain. The 
churn was made to revolve 56 times a minute, 
and brought butter in 16 minutes. This lot 
of butter was good in quality, but it weighed 
only seven and a half pounds. The difference 
shown in favor of the Jerseys was a striking 
demonstration to all present, particularly to 
the owner of the scrub dairy. It spoke vol¬ 
umes in favor of the special-purpose cows of 
good breeding. This would have been clear¬ 
er, however, if the total quantity of milk given 
by the low-grade cows had been stated, for 
while 200 pounds of Jersey milk may make 
twice as much butter as 200 pounds of Holstein 
milk, for instance, still if the Holstein cows 
give twice as much milk as the Jerseys, there 
is an equal quantity of butter and twice the 
quantity of skim-milk in favor of the Hol- 
steins. Still there is no doubting the fact 
that the majority of farmers in New York 
State, as well as in other States, are not living 
up to their privileges as dairymen and there 
is a broad field for just such effort as the New 
York Association is making to place the cold 
facts before them. 
evidently thinks that farming pays in that lo¬ 
cality. It says that beginning at a farm half 
a mile outside the limits of the village, and 
following that line all the way to the next 
town, a distance of 12 miles, there are 11 con¬ 
tiguous farms. On every one of these farms 
the owner has not only been able to pet a 
living, but all have laid up money, and the 
owner of every one is now what might be 
called forehanded. Several of these men are 
worth from 810,000 to 15,000 each, while one 
of them is worth at least $30,000, and this has 
been made off the farms on which they now 
live..- 
The price of transplanted celery plants is 
now about 86.50 per 1.C00; of cabbage plants 
$6 00 per 
A French physician. Dr. P. Jacquin, insists 
that a child that has a cough should always 
be kept in bed, or at least in a warm room con¬ 
stantly free from drafts, and that there is no 
safety in any other course. This is reasonable, 
for as cold is caught from a sudden chill of 
some local part of the body, while we escape 
colds if the chill affects the whole body 
equally, (as when we are at sea, or moving 
about briskly in all directions during chilly 
weather on land,) so, to get rid of the cold, and 
get free olood circulation in every part of 
the body restored we must remain for 30 hours 
or more where there will be absolutely even 
warmth all over the body. Nothing secures 
-London Agricultural Gazette: “Put¬ 
ting on one side considerations in respect of 
our native wheat crop now standing on the 
ground, the absorbing interest of the trade, so 
far as wheat is concerned, appears to be cen 
tered in the promise of unusual abundance in 
the United States and the damaged outlook 
from drought in parts of Russia. Supposing 
results should prove in accordance with pres¬ 
ent indications in both conntries, what then? 
Well, America can afford to hold a big crop 
on speculation, and Russia is supposed to have 
still on band the greater part of her enormous 
growth in 1888; the one country may sell or 
she may not, but the other is sure to sell all 
she can possibly ship, whatever our times 
Ripening Cream Col. F. D. Curtis never 
churns his cream less than 24 hours old, 
and he aims to have it 48 hours old, and tries 
to keep it in such a condition, tnat it will be 
48 hours old. It is then only slightly acid. 
This helps the process of separating the butter 
globules. When the cream is properly ripened, 
it speaks for itself. It looks light-colored, and 
has a bright, satiny appearance, cracks open 
on the top, and you can almost see the butter 
right in the cream. As soon as it reaches 
this point, it wants to be churned right then 
aud there. 
Now the great trouble with the average 
dairyman is he doesn't observe these things 
closely enough. He does not. skim the milk 
properly, and the cream is kept too long. 
Col. Curtis would not put old cream with 
sweet cream. Warm your cream up to about 
75 degrees, but sourness does not ripen the 
cream. By a little neglect in ripening the 
cream, you can not get all your butter. He 
has no doubt that he has lost 5,000 pounds of 
butter during the last 10 years by not ripen¬ 
ing his cream properly. He would get his 
cream partially ripened, put his sweet cream 
in, and let the whole ripen. By repeated ex¬ 
periments he found by these means he had 
been losing about 10 per cent, of his butter. 
By ripening his cream together, he has no 
trouble in getting at" least 10 per ceut. more 
butter than he ever d # id by the old method, 
aud he attributes this loss entirely to the 
ripening. 
1 000....*...... I prices may be. Consequently, a big crop in 
America would not necessarily involve lower 
rates for export; and, on the other hand, a 
crop failure in Russia—or in a big portion of 
it—would not necessarily make wheat cheaper 
at her ports for more than another year, so 
that these conflicting elements are pretty 
evenly balanced.” 
-Hon. H. C. Adams: “It is of no direct 
benefit to me that you should believe a word 
I say, as to how cheaply I can make cream 
with a Jersey cow by soiling her, or how 
cheaply I can grow strawberries per bushel 
Simply as a selfish individual, 1 might hope 
you would not believe a word I say—my 
market would be more sure than to have you 
this so well as a good bed. I as competitors. 
Farmers who are interested in the breed¬ 
ing of horses can scarcely have failed to take 
note of the present popular desire for a useful 
horse that is equally well fitted for the saddle 
and for harness, says the N. Y. Times. Com¬ 
fort in driving is more generally desirable 
than rushing through the air with the 
dangerous speed of a locomotive, and the 
healthful and pleasing use of the saddle is as 
appropriate for women as for men. 
This growth of the public taste is in a legit¬ 
imate direction and will consequently prove 
permanent. It is in accord with human 
nature and as near as we in America can get 
to the popular English recreation of hunting, 
which is not possible under our different land 
system. A jog at the rate of 10 or 12 miles an 
hour on an excellent country road is a pleas¬ 
ure that is unsurpassed by any other of the 
many rural delights that are to be enjoyed in 
“the country,” and it is a good thing that the 
popular good sense has turned in this direction. 
Mules for work and horses for profit aDd 
pleasure will be the outgrowth ot the destined 
increase in the rearing of pleasure horses. 
The London Agricultural Gazette says 
that the women, who milk 10 cows each, night 
and morning, in the west of Scotland, get only 
50 cents a week for their work. This is poor 
payment for services which include Sunday 
labor. They work on the land as well, and the 
time they spend with the cows, night and morn¬ 
ing is not taken off the time of a day’s work, 
for which 24 cents are paid. Still/it is not sur¬ 
prising to learn that increasing difficulty is ex¬ 
perienced in obtaining women to milk the cows. 
-N. Y. Herald: “ It is with farming as 
with all el*. It is better not to bite off more 
than you can chew.” 
ABSTRACTS. 
SPICE. 
Flowers of Sulphur, retail price about 
10 cts. per pound. Tobacco dust, an excellent 
remedy for lice, etc., also retails at 10 cts. the 
pound The price of flowers of sulphur by 
the 100 pounds is about $4 50 Tobacco stems 
are steeped in water aud the water sprayed 
upon infested plants will rid them of aphids* 
etc. These stems are offered at $2.00 per 100 
pounds in bales. 
The Caledonian of St. Jobnsbury, Vermont, 
Horstord’s Acid Phosphate 
Makes Delicious Lemonade. 
A tea-spoontal added to a glass of hot or 
cold water, and sweetened to the taste, will 
be lound relresliing and invigorating.— Adv. 
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-Orange County Farmer: “During a 
recent drive through a farming section with a 
nervous horse, no less than seven ill-bred curs 
ran out from farmers’ bouses to yelp at us. 
Why any farmer will tolerate such a nuisance 
is more than we can explain.” 
-Colman’s Rural World: “What is 
the good of a State agricultural college any¬ 
how? Farmers of Missouri, this question is 
yours.” 
_Prof. R. C. Kedzie: “Shrunken and im¬ 
mature wheat has little value for making 
flour, aud mauy persons suppose that its food 
value is of a low order. But young grains are 
richer in nitrogen compounds than the fully 
ripened and plump berry. The value of such 
graius for stock feeding is not to be measured 
by their flour-producing quality. These 
wheat screenings are worth more for stock 
food than the same weight of plump wheat. 
The value of such materials when ground and 
fitted for mixing with coarse materials, like 
straw, etc., is obvious to the intelligent stock 
feeder. The material should be ground to kill 
all seeds of weeds, as well as to secure com¬ 
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-Breeder’s Gazette: “ Well, sir, it has 
cost me just $20,000 to find out that the so- 
called ‘nice, neat heads and horns, in beef 
cattle are a delusion and a suare, and I want, 
to see your herd.’ While an ugly ‘spike’ 
horn is never to be preferred to one of more 
desirable proportions, there is no gainsaying 
the fact that the hardiest and most vigorous 
varieties of cattle are anything but femiume 
as regards conformation about the head. The 
often-admired ‘ dish-face ’ in connection with 
the ‘ heifer-horn ’ almost invariably denotes a 
bull badly deficient in vital power.” 
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