Preserve Wood Utensils by Wetting and Shellac in Dairy
The article explains a simple method to keep wooden dairy tools free from mustiness and grease. Wetting causes swelling, then drying seals grease in pores. use hot water first, then cold, and keep tools wet during use. Tin pails resist sour cream longer, but for churns and stamps wood remains best when thoroughly soaked. Also covers soap use and garden soil improvement with sand for heavy clay.
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Grange Bulletin
Lightening Soil and Ventivale Garden Features
In Ventivale two sardens are described the farina eirden for vegetable crops grown by horse power and a home garden near the house with choicer vegetables including asparagus celery egg plants oyster plants hotbeds and cold frames plus space for rows and vines the garden was being developed.
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Farina Eirden
Home Tests For Milk Quality In Dairying
The article argues dairy profitability hinges on keeping productive cows and methods to record milk yield. It describes weighing milk, using a spring scale, and monthly sampling for quality. It explains when to collect samples, how to mix or separate milk, and the role of cream content, skim milk, and viscosity in assessing quality.
Animal Butter Product Method Described by Dairyman
Henry E. Alvord in Orange Co. Farmer describes a two compound churn setup using large bottles each containing 1 million pounds of milk to test butter quality. Monthly tests for several cows yield the average milk to butter ratio, enabling calculation of each animal's butter product with recorded milk yields.
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Henry E. Alvord
Orange Co
Turnips as a Farm Crop Advice by F D Curtis
F D Curtis argues the turnip crop suits meadows for corn by improving sod and soil mellowing. He advises turning sod after hay or clover, rolling, sowing 1.5 pounds per acre, covering with a brush drag, then plastering after emergence and harrowing in. Use ash scattered lightly and 100 pounds of phosphate per acre for growth.
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F. D. Curtis
American Agriculturist
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