The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-03-26
AGRICULTURAL.


mont, an old butter dealer, stated before
the State Board of Agriculture at its
session in Montpelier last week that
only thirty per cent. Of the Vermont
butter taken to market ruled as first
class. He said that the great mistake
was that the cream was allowed to stand
too long, and laid down for the dairy
woman this code: skim early, churn
early, and sell early"
Fresh eggs, according to the Name
Farmer, afford great nourishment 10
weak animals. 1t tells Of colt which
to all appearances was nearly Dead
the breath OF life being barely percePtl-
BILE, which almost instantly revived by
giving it one or two fresh eggs. The
same results have attended the admin
istering of eggs to weak cattle and to
feeble, chilled lambs.
RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF EGGS.
On leaving the ovaIlum, the egg TO
be extruded week hence is not much
larger than a pea in common puli,et.
In It's passage through a tube hardly
eight inches long, it imbibes fluids from
the wall to increase its size. On Its
transit through the last four inches the
growth is still more rapid, while it also
is coated over with lime, mixed like
paint with mucous, which hardens
quickly. This is the finishing process
before being laid. In twenty days, the
eggs of one hen would exceed the
weight of her body. So Of any bird.
Yet the whole Of that mass Of albumen
is drawn directly from her blood: II
stiuted in food, of course it would limit
the number as well as size Of the eggs.
In the laying season, if domestic fowls
cannot range for insects and worms,
which furnish albumen for their eggs,
they must be fed with animal food to
meet the demand upon their systems
for that material.
CASES OF ABORTION IN COWS.
LIST. Bad smells, whether from putrid
bones, or other decaying animal or
vegetable matter, or from slipped fptus
or aiterbirth, or from blood, all Of
which have a tendency to annoy and
irritate the animal and produce uterine
excitement.
ID. Impure water whether stagnant
or impregnated with farm yard drain
age, or with gas tar or mineral sub
stance.
Sd. Mouldy or innutritious hay or
straw, frosted turnips, especially il con-
shutting the first feed in the morning
before hay has been given; frosted fog
grass in the autumn, diseased heads Of
grain affected with smut, free feeding
on wet clover or other succulent food,
especially when distention ofthe rumen
or looseness OF the bowels has resulted
from it, or where the animal has been
transferred to it from poor pasture.
4th. Kicks or blows from the cow
man, or rips from the horns Of other
cows, bv which the fGtus is often killed;
being driven or harried by dogs gallop'
ing from the attacks Of the gadhy;
fighting with each other, or jumping
and riding upon other COWS that are in
season. by both Of which causes the fGtus
is often expelled, especially in The early
stages Of pregnancy; the twisting Of
the COW too sharply round when turn
ing out OF her stall, which is apt to
cause a rupture of the navel string and
consequent expulsion of the the fGtus.
9Th. (And this is perhaps one Of the
most certain causes 1.-THE contagion or
sympathetic influence communicated
to the rest Of the herd by COW that has
aborted, if not Immediately removed
far from their sight and smell, and the
ground where the fntus and other dis.
charged matter has lain been dug over
or sprinkled with lime.-BoSton AdVer-
ttSer.