The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-03-07

Ing even WHICH, Lue cows uTe uIy. |
Some OF our associates think and
practice differently, but the writer's
own experience is in favor Of drying
off the COWS as here-indicated.
Because o good mixer is always thin
before the end Of the season, many
farmers advocate keeping cows thin
in order to make them good mixers.
They mistake cause for effect. The
COW is thin because she is a good
mixer, nota good mixer because
she is thin. There is q great preJu-
dice against corn-meol for mich
COWS. If fed without Judgment 1t
may be injurious, but in our own
experience we have meyer known two
quarts OF corn-meal q day, cooked
or uncooked (but far better cooked),
have any other than the most ben
efcial effect. Do not forget to card
the COWS, or to give salt regularly
and an abundant supply OF fresh
mot ice-cold) water.
SrAGNANr WATER AND MILK.-lt
has been known for u long time
that milk standing in a room where
patients are,sick becomes permrated
with the subtle poison OF the dis
ease. Contagion has also been
spread through milk, by reason OF
persons recovering from sickness at
tending to the labors OF a dairy.
The kind of grass or fodder on which
the COWS feed also gives a peculiar
flavor and quality to their milk. ln
addition to these facts, it has re.
Gently been demonstrated that tho
most startling consequences may
ensue from the animals drinking
stagnant water. Professor Law, OF
Cornell University, has examined
with q microscope milk OF an unu-
sual, ropy appearance, and found it
full of those fungior vegetable organ
isms that abound in stagnant wa
ter. On INJURY he found that the
COWS from which it came had only
stagnant water to drink, and inves-
, tigation revealed the fact that the
;. blood Of the animals teemed with
: these fungi and that the COWS were in
:. la feverish unhealthy condition.
@ The warning which this discovery
v ought to convey is very simple. 1t
is the duty of dairymen to see that
+ their cattle have n supply ofpure,
+ sweet water. They use such q great
quantity of water that q judicious
concern for the health of the com
munity should induce them to en-
. ploy none but the very cleanost.
SKUSKs AND CRows These AMI,
,, mails are not the unmitigated nui
. sances they are generally considered
;, to be, and should not be ruthlessly
;, slaughtered on sight. Like the vast
= majority of creatures, they have {
y useful Office to perform The skunk
ifhe be watched quietly on a moon
n light evening, and not disturbed
v may be seen busy in the garden and
cornfield hunting grubs, beetles, and
y, mice, and will pass within q yard O
:, ones feet without giving any no
tice of his presence. If he sucl
y eggs, it is our fault and his good
luck that they are permitted to liz
. within his reach and if he take W
his quarters beneath the barn-door
u it shows his wisdom, as we'll as thu
s. folly of the man who permits hi
y barn to DO opened underneath TO-
9 his entrance. The droppings OF thu
q skunk will prove abundantly o
Ii what his food consists, and it is
o libel on him to say:that he will picl
up chickens. If they .are in theil
!, proper places. More over, he viii
u ! not climb o fence, and if the yards
= ! are properly protected (as they
u should boy with boards or pickets
: there will be no danger of suddenly
disturbing him after dark too close
to the house. Tho scrow, also, will
u be found to have many good charac,
tors, and not being 80 black as he
r looks, if he il studiel.-HearM and
t Home.
New USE FOR FnE1n EdGs.-Tht
Maine Farmer says: "Mr. John
Murphy, of this city, q gentleman
, of intelligenceand close observation
recently made to us some interest
ing statements in regard to the val
lie Of fresh eggs in aIording nour'
ishment to weak animals, that are
worth remembering by all farmers.
He remarked that he had known q
young colt which to all appearances
. was nearly dead, the breath OF life
. being barely perccptible, to be quite
. instantly revived by giving it one OF
two fresh eggs. The same results,
in several cases to which he was
) knowing, have followed tho admin.
> istering of eggs to weak calves, and
) also to feeble and chilled lambs. A
remedy so simple, so easy at hand
and so etEectual in the cases men
| tioncd-which often occurs with