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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
VALUE OF CHEESE AND WHEY. 
Will it pay to make cheese at 15 cents 
for 1% pound? We have a number of 
pigs and chickens. Of what value is milk 
to chickens? What is the value of whey 
as a food for pigs? We live too far from 
market to sell milk every day. Twenty 
quarts of milk make about five pounds of 
cheese, is one robbing the farm by selling 
milk? w. G. b. 
Catawissa, Pa. 
According to your figures, you are 
able to make 12^4 pounds cheese from 
100 pounds milk—since a quart of milk 
weighs about two pounds. At 10 cents per 
pound for your cheese (or as you say 15 
cents for lj4 pound) your milk would 
bring you $1.25 per hundred. Add to 
this the feeding value of whey, which is 
when fed to pigs with grain in the pro¬ 
portion of one pound grain to four 
pounds whey—about 15 cents per hun¬ 
dred, and your milk totals $1.40 per hun¬ 
dred. This same milk (if testing four 
per cent or over) ought to make five 
pounds butter per hundred. At 25 cents 
per pound this would amount to $1.25 
per hundred—the same as if made into 
cheese. The skim-milk, however, is 
wor(fi (when fed with grain) something 
like 30 cents per hundred, bringing the 
total value of 100 pounds milk when 
made into butter (at 25 cents per pound) 
$1.55, which is 15 cents better than when 
made into cheese. In other words, but¬ 
ter at 25 cents will pay you better than 
cheese at 10 cents, provided your milk 
tests four per cent or over, and less 
labor and skill is required than in the 
making of cheese. Then again, there is 
only five cents worth of plant food in 
100 pounds whey, whereas there is 15 
cents worth in the same amount of skim- 
milk. There is no plant food in butter, 
so when butter is sold and the skim- 
milk fed out at home there is practically 
no loss in fertility; that is, of course, if 
the manure is not wasted. In selling 
cheese, about 10 cents worth of plant 
food is lost to the farm with every hun¬ 
dred pounds of milk made up; and if the 
whole milk is sold, 15 cents’ worth of 
fertility goes with it. 
The value of skim-rpilk to chickens 
would vary considerably under different 
conditions, probably from 20 to 30 cents 
per hundred would be a fair estimate. 
c. s. M. 
SKIM-MILK AS FERTILIZER. 
J. Y., Port Jervis, N. Y .—Can you give 
me the value of skim-milk as a fertilizer 
for garden vegetables and small fruits? 
Ans. —A ton of skim-milk will con¬ 
tain 12 pounds of nitrogen, about four 
of potash and four of phosphoric acid. 
A quart of milk weighs about two 
pounds. A 40-quart can of such milk 
would carry about eight ounces of nitro¬ 
gen and 2y 2 ounces each of potash and 
phosphoric acid. If you filled your' can 
with water and put into it five ounces of 
sulphate of potash, 18 ounces of acid 
phosphate and a little over three pounds 
of nitrate of soda you would have a 
liquid about equal to the skim-milk. 
Fresh liquid manure from cattle contains 
about the same amount of nitrogen, a 
little more potash, but practically no 
phosphoric acid. The skim-milk would 
give about the same results as liquid ma¬ 
nure—a quick active growth of stem and 
leaf. 
TREATMENT OF APPLE ORCHARD, 
M. L. B., Wellsboro, Pa .—What would you 
think of (he following method of cultiva¬ 
tion and fertilizing for a Winter apple 
orchard of 200 trees, about 40 years old? 
In what would you suggest improvement 
of this plan? The orchard is located on a 
knoll of clay loam in a cow pasture, which 
has been unbroken for over 25 years. In 
the Spring as soon as the snows melt, give 
it a medium coat of manure, then run a 
spring-tooth harrow or a well-loaded disk 
harrow over the orchard lengthwise and 
across. Sow broadcast about the time the 
buds burst, GOO pounds basic slag, 200 
pounds sulphate of potash and 100 pounds 
nitrate of soda per acre, and harrow in 
with a spike or spring-tooth harrow. Cul¬ 
tivate lightly until August and then sow 
with Crimson clover and vetch as a cover 
crop. 
Ans. —This plan is excellent. We 
would use the. disk in preference to the 
spring-tooth, and tear the ground up 
well. The mixture of chemicals is good. 
With us vetch has proved an undesira¬ 
ble crop. Crimson clover and Cow- 
horn turnips give us good results. The 
turnips add nothing except organic mat¬ 
ter to the soil, but they help protect the 
clover and give good results. 
SULPHUR ON POTATOES. 
R. B., Shirley, Ind .—Explain how to use 
sulphur on potatoes at planting to control 
the late blight. Is it more efficient than 
spraying with Bordeaux? 
Ans. —Sulphur on the seed pieces will 
not prevent late blight. It will help pre¬ 
vent scab, which is very different from 
blight. The germs which cause the lat¬ 
ter may float in the air and lodge on 
the growing vine. In such case, you 
can see that sulphur on the seed piece 
would not help. The way to protect 
potatoes from blight is to spray the vines 
early and keep at it so they will be 
covered. Bordeaux Mixture has been 
used for this, but compounds of sulphur 
or sulphur and lime are now doing the 
same tiling. 
“HEN AND CHICKEN” PINEAPPLE. 
The oddly-shaped pineapple shown in 
Fig. 144, which is reproduced from the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle (London) has of 
late become common in native gardens 
at low elevations in Ceylon. Though 
grown for its fruit, the latter can only 
be described as of second-rate quality, 
being rather pithy and insipid. The two 
■striking peculiarities of the variety are 
that the fruit does not bear the usual 
characteristic crown of small leaves,.but 
a growth resembling a cock’s comb in¬ 
stead, and its habit of producing a num¬ 
ber (usually from seven to ten) minia¬ 
ture growths at its base. 
HENS IN A GREENHOUSE. 
I see on page 117, F. FI. asks “Flas 
anyone tried hens in a greenhouse?” 
Yes, I have tried them several times, 
having had greenhouses-most of my life. 
First, I tried laying hens under the 
tables in center of a wide house, enclos¬ 
ing the space with wire net, but they 
stopped laying and in less than a month 
I had to remove them, as they were get¬ 
ting sickly. Another time I tried young 
chicks very early in the season, but roup 
and other ailments attacked them and I 
had to remove them to a dry shed to 
save them. It would seem that the at¬ 
mosphere of the ordinary greenhouse 
where there are growing plants is too 
damp for the health of the fowls. They 
want a drier house and plenty of fresh 
air to do well, not the close atmosphere of 
the ordinary greenhouse where plants 
or flowers are grown. 
Massachusetts. o. l. hall. 
Sandy was having his first taste of 
life in the African forests. Borrowing a 
gun, he set off one day in search of game. 
A little later his companion spied in the 
distance Sandy running at full speed for 
home, with a huge lion behind him, gain¬ 
ing at every step. “Quick! quick! Jock!” 
he cried, “open the door. I’m bringing 
him home alive.”—Credit Lost. 
March 10, 
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