The Republican journal., 1872-05-09
VOLUME 42.
Useful knowledge.

FEEDING TURNIPs. When turnips and
rutabaga are fed to milch cows and fatten-
ing sheep and beeves, the milk, butter
and meat will have decided flavor of the
roots. This may be prevented bv feeding
the cows only Immediately after milking !;
and by changing the feed of fat animals
from roots to hay and meal for three or four
DAYS previous to slaughtering, there will be
no unpleasant flavor in the meat
AYRSHIRE Cows AND Mixers. On the
New Jersey Agricultural College Farm the
Ayrshire COW is preferred to the common
stock, proving to be not only better mixers,
but Kept in better condition on the food
One Ayrshire COW, only medium in yield,
gave 1857 quarts of milk last year. The
greatest yield Of milk reported from the
Ayrshire in one year was 4,55S quarts. The
usual yield of Ayrshire COWS Is from 80 to
30 pounds per day.
FARM ACCOUNTS. How can the farmer
form all intelligent opinion of the products
OF the fields, the profits of his stock, the
proprlety OF this or that mode of farming,
without Keeping accurate accounts of his
business in all its parts2 No mechanic,
manufacturer, or merchant ever thinks of
dOinr business without scanning eyery
branch of his trade. How can the farm
er know that he makes any profit from
his cows or other animals, if he does not
know the product and the cost of keeping
Y ct few farmers do this. Moore's Rural
Cows LEANING THEIR MILK. We have
seen it prevented by placing an India rubber
ring around the teat after milking. An
other remedy, common with some dairy
men, Is to milk such cows three times a
day, until the muscles of the teat gain suf-
fcient strength to hold milk from morning
until evening. Another very successful and
simple way is to apply a small quantity of
collodion to the end of the teat immediately
after milking. This forms at olce a thin.
tough membrane or skin, which will pre-
vent leakage and it is easily removed be
fore milking. 1t may be had ut the drug
gist's.
SWELLING IN HORSES FEET If the
swelling is accompanied with great heat
and tension OF the parts, and more particu-
larly by cracked heels, then mid aperients
and fermentation are a good beginning; but
where any haccidity exists, stinulants and
tonics We have found tine sovereign remedy
Take of powdered sulphate of iron, one
ounce and half; powdered gentian root,
two ounces; nitrate of potassa, one ounce;
mix and divide into twelve powders and
give one night and morning, mixed in cut
or soft feed, with no more water in the feed
than will keep the particles together Feed
the animal generously and Well, and give q
little exercise daily
CLEAN THE CELLARS Look over the
cellar whenever day occurs that will per
nit of the outside door being fully opened
nnPa vino VpoatA hi. ft.n .reat., al n,
the systems of those who reside above and
breathe from hour to hour the fetid matter
in evaporation. Living over warm cellar
filled with vegetables, put in haphazard as
is usual in the fall, is only second to that of
malarous swamp. Open the cellar door
every day, and at all times when the Their
mometer outside is not below 26 degrees
above zero, for then the range of the cellar
will usually make 35, and point Just above
freezing is all that is wanted--in fact is
more conducive to keeping the contents of
the cellar and the health of the occupants
above than anything warmer.
FATTENING Hoes. A farmer who has
been experimenting in feeding hogs, says:
"tlad | ground and cooked the feed for nv
twenty hogs, find would have made G63
pounds more pork than | did, which would
have given me S33 more, | lind it will re-
qulre 345 81 bushels OF raw corn to make
3,4o0 pounds OF pork, and only 232 bushels
when cooked-a difference of IL + bushels
III favor OF cooked feed" The experience
OF our best hog raisers is, that hogs shou Id
be fed on ground feed, aud that they should
be bedded Oh huskS or leaves, on clean dry
floor, in good dry dirt pen, with an occa-
slonal piece OF rotten wood thrown into
them, as they require fresh earth, rotten
wood and plenty of fresh clean water, in
addition to their regular feed of grain
To MAKE GOOD CEMENT WALKS. Having
previously graded and rolled the ground
heat your tar very hot, and with a long
handled dipper, begin at one end of pile
OF quite coarse gravel, pouring on the tar,
quickly shoveling over and over so as to
mix thoroughly. Cover the ground two or
three inches deep with the tarred gravel,
and then roll. Clean the roller with a broom
as you proceed. Then put on a layer of
tarred gravel one and a half inches thick,
and roll. Then sprinkle the surface with
lot tar, spreading the tar with broom
finally, cover the surface with light coat
OF fine sand, and your walk is complete,
ready for use. 1t Will improve In hardness
by age. Provide portable tar kettles,
screens, and "a roller not very heavy, and
tools for systematic work, and you can
hardly fail to derive satisfaction.