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FARM AND GARDEN.

*r ~ Agricultural Jottinqs. English applo buyers do r.ot.accept the fruit on the appoaranco of the top row in a package, but one barrel of each lot on sale ia emptied on a platform in [lain sight of purchasers. Tliero is some dißcroncc of opinion , whether tho flow of niilk car, aotually | bo increased by giving the c->iy warm water. But if it will not do this it will at least enable her to maintain tho sumo production-wish a smaller grain ration. It saves grain fuel. • Farmers ore often . careless about, keeping accounts.,;'. But everyone who tries it finds that bosses boh'money and time by so doing. Every farm account should start with an inventory ofall. it contains. A good tVroo to do. when/the; crops are harvested, or at the beginnin» of the year. ■ No mistake is the more general (says this Indiana Farmer) than pre. venting oats after being cut, from getting any rain or dew,. The sleek oven if used as cut feed, will eat their feed wilh far more relish if the straw is permitted to soften by. being wet after cutting, Anyone can prove this iby noting bow greedily horses, males and cattle as well as sheep, eat the old ■Straw pile in preference to tho new and bright one. As a rule, owing perhaps, to the ■clone confinement 10. which the fowls are necessarily subjected,tothe lack of •ciercise due to such .confinement, to. the interruption or .lo'tal laicblof green Ifood, and to the absence of a genial warmth that brings on a tide, in the blood incident to the natural breeding ■■season, the eggs are not so ferule as •could lie wished, Early chickens are 'desirable; but they are .not altogether «caay to obtain. ~ : ■One of the best paying investments qn the farm (yielding dollars of profit <o cents of expenditure) has been the changing of seed ft m one locality to another. Ten years ago says an .American, I raised pumpkins from BeOd from a distance.; tho'yield was these was planted in "tho with : .nearly as good result for several years. In tho spring 'ol,' potatoes, being . scarce, Western sect? was used. The yield was one-third lwb than the homegrown seed, and nearly tbe-same reso't last season, '■ There ia profit in feeding for beef when one has an old .cow to dispose of, instead of a young thrifty eteer reared especially • for the domestic lupply of the' winter's meat. The beef of an old cow is proverbially and truly tender and sweet. It is really young meat, because it i» all made during the season. - But this is only true of a well-fed animal. And few really do know..how to feed such a beast. Tbe food must bo soft and nutritious. Hay j aud corn will be wasted, unless ihe bay is cut, and the torn is finely, ground; Then, by wetting the cut hay with water well sweetened by. molasses,, and mixing njgal with it, and feeding this, alightiv warm, three times a day, a •ow which t! cast ft profitable milking age, may be *."roed into the host kind of beef, The repodjjf. butter.:'teHs;^yf,' an Enfwh paper) carried out. b) 1 Cattle Society contains, the 'followi''s remarks, which will bo; read with interest by those engaged in dairying farming" The period of maximum profit of the Jersny cow. is between the age of five to nine years, when is largest. But it must bo noted that tho days in milk of the cowa. tected vary between 52; days and 79 days, and in no case does it. exceed ten weeks or 70 days by more than a few. days, Now, the .nominal ;.milking period between calf and calf may .be stated at forty weeks, -;, Therefore our conclusions as to the produce of the Jersey aro confined to the first of ten veekß out of forty in successive years ef her life. Befoie we are ablo to lay before the public complete information respecting her capacity we require -evidence as to tho produce in milk and in butter during tho remaining thirty weeks of the milk period. Our society bs, in the ora of ihe last seven .ye#&tesied tbe' value of milk of many cows at a date of six months. «nd over from calving, which are in.. eluded in tho above averages, : Possibly at some future date, we; may be able to. establish a separate clas3 in wbicb cows in tbis advanced; period of lactation slial 1 to tesfed." . . : The eye of a potatoe is a bud upon ithe thick, fleshy stem known .as the t tuber, for potatoes . grow on underground brancheß above the'true roots. -J. C, Arthur has studied the best size (of cut tubers for planting, Pieces of uniform weight gave but a small inin the number of stslka by incre«sng' tbe number of eyes to a piece An iwretfßfl in the weight of tbe nieces' caused a decided inoreaso in T| » J r group c'f eyes at the seed end of a potato aitfs physiologically as a single ' eye, and not as number of crowded but independent ey'6 o ' of the right cumber of ®, ve ® piece of need potato - luber has long engaged the attention J>i experimenters, The results of 'b o Indiana trials Bbow that tbe num.ber of eyes per piece is of little conseqt,'® DGß » the weight of the piece is a Tet J im " portßnt factor. Tbe indicated manner of cutting potatoes for plan'ting JB to divide. them into pieces of aujtablo weight and size, without regard to the distribution of the eyes. Instead of trying to bavo one, two or three ej a pieces, as the case may be, the approximation Bhonld be lo one, two or three ounce pieces, or tome other definite weight, The larger tho size tho greater will bo tbe probable yieldi

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4426, 23 May 1893, Page 4

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FARM AND GARDEN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4426, 23 May 1893, Page 4

FARM AND GARDEN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4426, 23 May 1893, Page 4

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