Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — AGRICULTURAL. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL.

All lands on which clover or grasses are grown must either have Sme iu them naturally, or that mineral must be artificially supplied in the form of . stone lime, oyster lime, or marl. Senator Brace (colored), of Mississippi, has bought IO,OQO acres of land In Kansas, and will settle there as soon as his present term as United States Senator from Mississippi «rplwi«. In Greece sheep and goats are daily animals. There are 23,000,000 sheep apd 1,836,000 goats, and the average product of cheese from leach animal is eleven pounds; butter, two and thjreefourth pounds. J Western Newjfork and Ontario are beginning to ship apples to Europe by way of Montreal. The few shim men is already made turned out well, and a large business Is anticipated. Advices from Liverpool are enoouraging. Mold is indispensable In every soil, and a healthy supply can alone be preserved throughf the cultivation of Clover and grasses by the turning in of gresn crops, or by the application of composts rich in the elements of mold. fallow plowing operates to impoverish the soil, while it decreases production. Suhsoiling sound land, that is not wet, is also eminently conductive to increased production. Deep plowing greatly improves the productive powers of every variety of soil that is not wet. The ladv grape, one of several white sorts raised from the Concord, has gained enthusiastic praise from ai> extensive cultivator near Berlin, Prussia, on account of its earliness. fine flavor, vigorous growth and health of vine. He reports that out of some 350 varieties cultivated the lady grape is ahead of them all. Sweet eorn is much better than the field sorts to grow a? fodder. The stalks are sweeter as well as the grainr It should not, however, be sown. Grown iu close, compact masses, excluding the light, the stalks possess little value and will not be relished. The better way is to drill widely apart, so as to give room for the cultivator to work Itetween the rows. Than cut as the ears are beginning to form.- Sweet com is more difficult to cure; but this is not its best use. Enough should be sown for feed in August and September for the cows, and if grown as directed above it will not disappoint. reasonable expectations. - A method in practice among tbebest butter makers in England, for rendering butter firm and solid during hot weather, is as follows: Carbonate ot soda ana alum are used for tbs purpose, made into powder. For twenty pounds of butter, one teaspoouful of soda and alum are mingled together at the time of churning, and put into the cream. The effect of this powder is to make the butter come firm and solid, aud to give it a clean, sweet, flavor. It does not enter iuto the butter, but its action is upon the cream, and it passes oft with the buttermilk. The ingredients of tiie powder should not be mingled together until required to be used,’or at the time the cream is in the chum ready for churning.