Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-09-09
agricultural.
FARE, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


FARE, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
GRAM FED STOCK VERSUS GRASS FED. We
have horses that arc grain hurt-fed too
much grain. Such are canal horses stage
horses, and other animals ovcrworked and
over fed. This is common, and as we'll
known rs it is common. We kill our hor-
ses in this way, that is, they prematurely
die 10y such treatment. Stimulated to OK
cess.
him however. more with ono kind of food
or mich COWS hugely and continuously OIL
Over stimulus in yo0h will lessen the ca
pncity in after life; there will be premature
falling. So mich COW will last longer
properly treated We have an example in
a nelghbor's cow, which gave fifteen pounds
butter per week cher maximum) in her tif-
tenth year. We have personal knowledge
of this. This cow was ever regularly and
properly fed, not over-fed, receiving but
little grain, dependent mainly upon good
hay, warm stabling and ready running
water. Roots were somewhat fed, some
bran and ground grain.
The bran and meal were given but a few
months after milking period commenced,
say from March to grass time. During
winter, hay alone was depended upon
There was always an abundance, but no
waste; a good appetite was always main
tanned. There were but two COWS and per-
feet concord between them. This seemed
to do good. They were brought in in the
fall, and SO went out in the spring. Hear
ty, healthy, hay seemed sufficient. There
was nothing ovcrfed here, and the COWS
lasted.
So we have known horses to do work at
thirty-thirty years old, fat, and able to do
a fair days work then; We have known
equally good horses to be worn out Mt IS
the thing. I'VE know team that is a
pointed case, owned by our father.
The world was made to be supported by
grass-the brute world-what was not
made to devo1r each other, or live in the
forest alone. The herbivora want grass;
| they have had it, from time immemorial.
| Aplenty Of good, nutritious grass is sufi-
| cient. It will promote the best of health,
prolOng life, and make useful during life,
and especially the latter part in comparison
| to what we now too often have.-Prairie
| Farmer.
A DIFFICULT QUESTION ANsWERED.-Can
anybody tell why, when Eve was manufac-
tured from one of Adams ribs, hired girl
| wasn't made at the same time to wait on
her.-Etchanqe.
We can, easily. Because Adam never
came whining to Eve with a ragged stock
| ing to be darned, collar-string to be sew
| ed on, or a glove to be lnended fright
| away, quick now" Because he never read
the newspapers until the sun got down be-
hind the palm tree, and then stretched him.
self, yawning out, saint supper mostready
| my dear?" Not he. He made the fire, and
hung over the tea-kettle himself, and pulled
the radishes, end peeled the bananas, and
did everything else that he ought! He
MIXED the COWS and fed the chickens,
and looked after the pigs himself
He never brought home half dozen
friends to dinner, when Eve hadn't any
fresh pomegranates, and the mango season
was over! He never stayed out till II o.
clock to q ''ward meeting" hurrahing for
the out-and-out candidate, and then scold-
ing because poor dear Eve was sitting up
and crying inside the gate. He never play
ed billiards, nor drove fast horses, nor
choked Eve with cigar smoke. He never
tary Eve was rocking little Gains cradle at
| AOAAAOs AA oAOACS AC uAu AAOt NAA4A oAC WIS
specially created for the purpose OF wait
ing on him, and wasn't under the impress.
sion that it disgraces man to tighten his
wifes cares little. That's the reason that
Eve did not need q hired girl, and we wish
it was the reason that none of her descend
ents did.
DARK STABLES person who has felt
the pain and inconvenience of coming sud-
denly from dark room into the full blaze
Of day, will easily conceive the necessity of
lighting stable in proper manner
This is too often neglected in confined
stables, and the consequences ore distress
ing to a human observer. Thepoor horse,
led suddenly out TO his work, shows his
pain quickly in unmistakable expressions,
stumbles, and runs against anything that
may happen to be near, until the eye has
in some degree accommodated itself to the
new circumstances under which it is placed.
Nor is this all. By q continuance of this
change from darkness to sudden daylight,
the eyes become seriously injured.
The ret;na, or sensitive nerve, becomes
dull, and more or less useless, the horses
sight is injured, he starts and SHES at oh.
jects which he sees imperfectly, and many
a rider who has received a dangerous in.
jury has to thank his inattention to this
simple cause, rather than any vicious ha.
bit of the animal, to which it has been at.
tributed.
Blindness is almost certain to bo caused
by inattention to the above caution, but
even blindess is less dangerous to the ride,
than imperfect sight. american Stock
Journal
MAKING Cows GIVE Rich M1LK.-A Ger.
man farmer had fourteen COWS in full milk,
from which very little butter was obtained.
He separately tested the milk OF each, and
discovered that the bad quality was due to
one COW only, the milk Of the others yield.
tablished the fact, that by mixing the milk
of all the cows, the bad milk from one.
spoiled the whole for butter-making
He went to celebrated veterinarian, who
advised the employment of the following
remedy: Two ounces of sulphuret of on.
timony, land three ounces of coriander seed,
powdered and well mixed. This was
given as a soft bolus, followed by admins.
tering a drought composed Of half q
pint of vinegar, pint Of water, and a
handful Of common salt. The above was
given to the cow in the early morning, on
an empty stomach, for three successive
days, and effected complete cure, the
milk being found, after the application Of
the remedy to have become much richer,
and 10 produce large quantity of good
butter, where previously but little, and
that of an inferior quality, had been given
by the COW. No apparent cause could be
found for the deficiency of the quality oil
butter-making in the milk of this COW,
nor had the animal any disease whatever.
How TO MAKE SPRUCE BEER An ex.
change paper says: AS the season is al
hand when pleasant summer drinks free
from alcoholic influence, are frequently
brewed by the housewife, or the well
brought up daughters, who ought to be
taught little of everything in the way Of
household duties, We append the following
recipes, which are claimed to be excellent:
l. Take three gallons of water of blood
warmth, three half pints of molasses a ia
blespoonful Of essence of spruce, and the
like quantity of ginger; mix we'll together
with gill Of yeast; let stand over night,
and bottle in the morning. 1t will be in
good condition to drink in twenty four
hours. 1t is a palatable, wholesome bever-
age. 2. Those who prefer mead have only
to substitute honey for the molasses in
the above recipe, and for one third
tho ginger use allspice. Half the
quantity Of yeast will be sufficient, and the
bottling should occur The second day, ill.,
stead Of the next morning. 1t will be fit
| RI drink II, fo11r 6avc after haino 1,oftlo1