The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-11
AGRICULTURAL.
Fretfing Stock


their necks and tongues, manifesting
their uneasiness and anxiety for theil
breakfast. 1t took about two minutes
TO do the work, which would amount to
an hour a month, of vigorous fretting
as unfavorable an exercise for the pro-
dgction of milk or fat as an animal can
be subject to.
Two minutes fretting will do as much
harm as two ounces of meal will dc
good; sixty ounces are three and three
quarter pounds, or at the rate of forty
FIVE pounds a year, wasted for each COW,
and with NO compensating advantage
for the feed could just as well be got
ready before brought in.
Regularity of feeding is of great I'M
portance, and much loss results from
disregarding it. :,
A person weighing $50 pounds would
probably lose three pounds it twenty
four hours by refraining entirely from
food. At the same rate, an animal
weighing 1000 pounds would lose 20
more than three-quarters of pound al
hour. In two hundred days, at three
times a day, there would be GOO feeds,
and if two hundred of these should av'
erage quarter of an hour behind time
there would be an aggregate of 80 hours
abstinence, causing loss of over forty
pounds. This is supposing that the ami
mails do not know that feeding time ha:
come. and are quiet; but unfortunately
for the careless owner, they do know,
their stomaches are frst-rate time
keepers, and if they cannot feed they
will fret, and thus make the loss still
greater.
If the opposite error be omitted and
we feed before the previous meal is di
gested, the mischief is as great, for the
stomach becomes overloaded and the
animal .gets off his feed" when, OF
course, he will lose flesh, until his appe'
tite is regained.
Laugh and grow fat" is an old say
ing, and the nearer your cattle come
to laughing, or to the cOntented and
comfortable condition that makes it easy
for men TO laugh, the faster they viii
grow, and grow fat. The great secret
of success in all operations, is to learr
the nature of the materials we have x
deal with, and treat them as that ma
ture requires.
Usage HFDGE.-A few weeks since, ;
correspondent of the Prairie Farmer en-
tered his objections to the Usage orange
as a hedge plant, stating that 1t wouit
neither stop cattle nor swine. Ihes,
objections seem to have good effect
for they brought out other correspon
dents in reply, who have furnished some
interesting and valuable statements IL
favor of the efficiency of these hedges
Among others, c. W. Marsh states tha,
sixteen years ago he set out 1900, max
ing ~ rods of fence. A proof OF the
good manner in which the work wa'
done is furnished by the fact that they
all are growing to-day except two. III,
saws he has exercised the same care thai
he should give in raising good crop OF
corn. In five years good hedge was
formed. and il is now eleven years since
the line has turned out as fence, anC
no horse or horned animal has ever been
through il in that time. One end has
been used for the last three years as
fence for hog pasture, since which nt
hogs or pigs have ever been through IT
The cost has not been twenty-five cents
per rod.
RIxGwoRM.-This is a disease occa'
sionally met with among horses and
cattle. and in many cases 1t proves a
very troublesome disorder. i consist:
of a peculiar growth of organic cells IL
the surface of the skin. In man, ring
worm is a common affection, and 1t Is
said to be communicable from him to
the lower animals, but like all other
skin diseases, it is generated by un
cleanliness. The symptoms of ring,
worm are small, apparently liberated
patches. appearing on various parts o.
the body; these patches look white and
scabby and have great tendency tt
spread, the animal soon falls OF in con
dition. and his coat gets dry and dirty
looking. -,
TREGTaiENT.-The patient should be
kent from coming in contact with
other animals, the affected parts should
be well cleaned and touched with q
mild caustic and afterwards dressed
daily with iodine or mercurial oint'
ment. Ringworm, if attended to IN
early stages, is easily cured.
-ORCUARDs At TIE WEST.-A cores
pondent of the Northwestern Farmer fur
nishes that paper some excellent sug.
gestions for the successful planting and
management of orchards, of which the
following is briefsummary:
|. Be careful to plant on the higher
and drier portions Of the farm, and
avoid low and wet places.
.. Ascertain the experience of other
planters in that region, as to the best,
most reliable and hardy varieties, and
plant no other except for limited trial.
This information may be obtained from
books and periodicals. For want of it
many trees have perished or borne but
little.
3. Give orchards good cultivation
either with no crops at all between the
trees. OF with such crops as beans, pOta-
toes and cabbages, that require the fire.
duent use of the hoe or passage OF the
cultivator.
4. Shelter from severe or cutting
winds, either by planting at moderate
distance from the natural forest or by
planting belts of timber.
BuTTER-MAKING-RUssIAN Process
II is stated that a method prevails in
Russia, in preparing milk for creaming,
differing somewhat from that common
" adopted in most other countries. Be
fore proceeding TO milk the COW, ket-
tie. partially filed with water, is placed
npon stove, for the purpose of having
the water raised to the boiling point by
the time pail is filed with milk. The
latter is strained into another pail,
which should be of tin and perfectly
sweet and clean, and. when filled, placed
in the boiling water till the milk be-
comes raised to about the scalding point,
when il should be transferred TO pans
and placed in the cellar or milk house
till the cream rises. The advantages of
this process are said TO be an abridge-
ment of the time usually required for
churning, and an increase of the butter
product. The extra labor is but trifiing,
while the benefits this preparation OF
milk for butter-making bestow are
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