The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22
AGRICULTURAL.

raiser gives the following rules for select.
ing COWS: First, / get broadside
view of the animal, at the distance of
about two rods, as [ have noticed for
for years that there was great similarity
in the general proportion of all first class
mixers, being very small in grth just
back of their forward legs, as compared
with their girth just forward of their
hips. | have never known frst-rate
mixer, of any breed, not thus proper
toned so that if this form is wanting
in an animal l have recommended TO me-,
l do not care to look at her more, unless
I want to breed for some other purpose
than the dairy. For breeding oxen, /
should want COW of reverse proportions,
i. 6, larger girth forward. next feel
the size of the milk veins, and trace them
to their entrance into the chest, which
in superior COWS, are large, admitting the
ball of the larger finger; if divided, or
subdivided, as is sometimes the case,
Judge of the size of each orfice, as | care
less for the size of the vein itself than
the orifce. Next, examine by sight or
touch the udder or bag, which must be
capacous in order to hold much milk,
with teats wide apart and free from large
seed warts or sores of any kind. | then
inquire how long she goes dry before
calving as don't want family cow to
give milk less than forty six weeks, out
of every fifty-two; also, as to the quality
of the milk; and, to close, | milk her
with my own hands. .''-Rural Ne,o
Yorker
THRUSH IN HoRsEs FEET.-This is
disease is caused by the flow of morbific
matter from the 81 stem to the. frog the
foot, (probably attracted there by the
heat and moisture of filthy stall,) pro
ducing decomposition of the frog, the
sole, and the sensibly lamina of the foot,
and may be known by it's foetid odor
Make one quart of rye meal pudding
or paste, season highly with salt, put in
sack large enough to contain the pud
ding and foot, remove the shoe and
wash the foot, cleaning with soapsuds,
and place it in the sack above the hooi
sufficiently strong to retain it twenty four
hours; then remove the paste, wash the
foot clean, tack the shoe on tightly, place
in the bottom of the foot handful Of
salt, over this place tow tc keep the salt,
then take thin piece Of wood long
enough to reach from the heel to the toe,
another crosswise under the web of the
shoe. Wet the tow sufficiently to dis.
solve the salt, and change this every day.
All cases of foot-rot or thrush in their
early stages may be cured by thorough
application of the above sailing process
without the paste.-Jounal Of AgricM-
ture.
Corn AND HoGs.-The Asheville On
CO. Ne,os administers sharp rebuke to
the farmers of North Carolina for their
mismanagement in ther farming opera
tions. 1t charges them with going to
Tennessee and Kentucky for their pork,
and paying ten cents a pound gross for it,
and footing the bill by selling corn at
fifty cents bushel-at least fifteen cents
less than it costs to raise it. This is pro-
nounced suicidal policy, one which has
prevailed so long that the country is be-
coming rapidly impoverished by it
These farmers are urged to turn new
leaf-to discard the spike .nozed native
breed of hogs, and to import Chester
Whites, and thus inaugurate a new era
in corn raising and making pork. BY
producing their own hogs and tattening
them they will save the cost of import
ing their pork and exporting their corn
payment produce considerable quantity
of valuable fertilizing material for the
renovation of their exhausted lands. and
gain nearly one hundred per cent. in sell
ing their surplus pork, instead of corn,
as they have been in the habit of doing
for series of years. The recommenda-
tions of the Ne,os are sound, timely, and
must be adopted before the farmers, upon
whom they are urged, can make their
labors remunerative.-Rurd NeW Yorker.
ApoIrND TIE WoRID-When the Pa.