The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-10-22

go-on the pantry shelves and all and
you will have no more reaches.
My mother did as I have told you and
she never saw "hde nor hair" of another
roach, alive or dead where they went
to,we never knew. They were in the
house oy thousands the day before the
bOrax was used NJ E. W.
We take the above, from the Country
Gent. Will our friends of the Vermont
Farmer please copy Tor the benefit of a
fashionable Hotel at Newport ?
The Dairvman's Ten Commandments g.
The following, by Mr.. T, D. Curtis
was read not long since before the Cen.
trail New York Farmers Club:
81 have been repeatedly urged to draw
up q set of rules for the observation Of
the patrons of cheese factories. | have
preferred, like Moses, to give my inspira.
ton in the form Of a decalogue, without
the observance Of which no patron can
hope to cause the land to flow with milk
and money.
l. Thou shalt not abuse nor worry
thy cow-thou, nor thy maid.servant, mol
thy man-servant, nor tiny dog, nor thy
boy whose business it is to "drive up
the cows-but thou shalt at all times
treat thy COW gently, securing her conf.
dence, and allowing no one to modest her
or make her afraid.
2. Thou shalt not starve nor stint thy
COW for food, nor give her poor, innutri.
tious or unwhoesome food of any kind
whatsoever, but an abundance Of that
which is palatable and good for her sys.
ten, that she may keep in good flesh
have a smooth coat and clear eye and
thou shalt give her salt to lick whenever
she liketh.
3. Thou shalt in no way deprive mol
allow thy COW to be deprived of plenty
Of clean water to drink, nor compel her
to wallow in mud, nor to 90 a long dis.
lance to get water, nor to drink out OF
mud.holes, stagnant ponds or pools, moi
to sip water from holes in the earth made
by her own feet or the feet of other ami
mails; but thou shalt give her an abund.
ance of spring, brook or well water, kept
clean enough for thy own use.
4. Thou shalt give thy COW ample
shade in summer, and warm shelter in
winter; and the latter shall be kept
clean and sweet, and be withal well ven.
tilated; and thy COW shall have freedom
of motion, clean bed to lie on, and an
opportunity for such outdoor exercises
as she may desire, to the end that her
blood shall circulate freely, that her mus.
cles shall not deteriorate and become
weak and stiiened, and that her digestion
and appetite snail remain good.
3. Thou shalt milk thy COW in cool
place in summer and when she is no.
heated or fretted, but standeth quiet and
cheweth her cud, and in a clean place al
all times; thou shalt clean thy cows
bag, milk her gently, and avoid getting
filth into thy milk pail and thou shalt
not save Tor thine own or thy neighbor's
use, nor carry to the factory milk drawn
from COW with calf less than four
days old, nor milk drawn from COW suf
fering from horn and hoof disease, OF
horn distemper, or fever or garget, OF
any other disease, nor from any COW
which thou hast good reason to believe i.
suffering from ill-health.
6. Thou shalt keep everything about
thy stable and dairy house scrupulously
clean thou shalt thoroughly cleanse ant
scald-not merely rinse in hot waterfall
the pals, cans, strainers, pans and otheI
utensils used in milking, carrying milk
setting milk, or manufacturing it into an,
of the products of the dairy; and thol
shalt carefully keep thy milk from ex
posture to foul, tainted or diseased a.
mosphere ; so shalt thou prevent the oil,
particles in thy milk from absorbing ba,,
odors, and fever malaria, and the virus O
contagious diseases ; and thou shalt SPAR
thyself the sin and shame of deliyerin,
milk that "tasteth of the barnyard," an'
of introducing disease into the families O
those who eat of the products of tn,
dairy.
7, Thou shalt cool and air thy milk a
soon as drawn from the COW, by using tn,
best appliances at thy commandment b,
putting water or ice into it, for tina
would be violation Of the law and com
mandments; but by bringing the milk il
contact with cool surface above tn
freezing point, and exposing thy milk il
thin sheets to clear atmosphere, that i
may become charged with oxygen, whicl
hath wonderful virtue to prevent sour
ing and tainting. 1t is shrewdly suspect
ed by some Of the prophets that airip
milk is of more Importance than GOBLIN
milk, and experience showeth that stir
ring with dipper hath a preservatiy
effect that should commend it to ever
patron of a cheese factory. Thou shai
confne thy milk in a covered can as shor
a time as possible, and protect it from tn
ray Of the sun and the hot atmosphere
A wooden blanket thrown over the ca
and canvas stretched over the mil
wagon would be ficacious-the blanke
not to be used unless the milk is cooled.
8. Thou shalt not water they milk b
mixing with it the contents of the sprip
the well, the cistern, the brook, the wa
tering-trough, or other source of waite
supply nor by feeding the COW wit
villanous slops, whey, or extremely sue
eulent food, whereby the contents of tn
milk can shall be increased in quntit