Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-12-18
REMEDY FOR THE GARGET.

the great majority OF farmers. -Ezchange.
REMEDY FOR THE GARGET.
Cows frequently have so slight touch Of
the garget that their proprietors do not al
ways observe the fact A neighbor's COW,
during the past season, was affected with the
garget so that her milk was full of small and
hard Jumps of milk. But they did not OBJ
serve it until the difficulty was pointed out to
them. L. B. Arnold, secretary of the Ameri-
can Dairymen's Association, says :-Garget
may be cured if taken in season. To reduce
the swelling and Jumps in the udder, if any
exist, rub the swollen parts twice a day, till
they disappear, with a liniment made by mix
ing one-half ounce of spirits ofturpentine and
one-half ounce Of liquor of ammonia with a
half pint of linseed oil. This will remove
them if anything will. The appearance of
blood in the strippings is an evidence of weak
ness in the lacteal glands. They are too
much debiitated to hold the blood they take
up long enough to elaborate it into milk,
when the milk already formed is removed,
and ceases to afford any resistance to the
passage of the blood into the tubes of the ud-
der. The blood which appears in the strip
pings has, doubtless, bright and fresh ap-
pearance The lacteal glands should be
strengthened by increasing the general vigor
of the animal and by lessening the labor of
the glands by abating the flow Of milk. TO
increase the strength of the animal some kind
ofgrain that will not be heating should be
given. A Cruel made Of scalded oatmeal
would be as ef6cacious as anything. TO d.
minish the flow of milk leave little in the
bag at each milking till the blood disappears,
but do not leave so much as to create any fe-
yer in the bag. Stop milking just before you
suspect the blood will begin to appear in the
milk. When the milk ceases to be colored by
blood the milk may all be drawn out as usual.
Another remedy for the garget is a piece
of poke root, sometimes called "koke root" as
large as mans fore-6nger, cut into small
pieces and mingled with a cows feed twice a
day.
STABLE EcoNoMy.-In selecting site for
the horse barn, high and dry situation is
essential in order to drain the stable, purify
the atmosphere around it, and preserve the
health of the inmates. The stable should
front the south to shelter the stock from the
prevailing cold winds, and give them the ben
6t Of the warmth Of the sun. 1t requires to
be thoroughly drained and we'll ventilated.
Damp, filthy stables, full of decayed vegeta.
BILE matter and foul air, are the prominent
causes of such fatal disorders as bring fevers,
inAuenzas, farcy and glanders that destroy an
nually so many valuable horses. Fresh air
is indispensable to supply the place of that
which has been once breathed, and take away
the fumes of ammonia always found in close
stables, depriving the atmosphere of its life
sustaining element till it is not fit to breathe.
Next to ventilation, light is essential to the
health of horses. Blindness, as we'll as other
diseases, have been attributed to dark, ill-ver-
tilated stables.
SULPHUR FOR GApES IN POULTRY.-Mr.
H. w. Lamar writes to the Tribune that
when he was boy, and big brick ovens were
in use in the South, every morning when the
biscuit for breakfast were taken out and the
oven yet hot, Sally made up pone of corn
meal (unsifted) bread, with heaping table
spoonful of pulverized sulphur to the quart
of meal, mixed with water and nothing else,
and this was fed to the chickens and turkeys
morning and evening, and never knew one
dozen chickens lost with gapes, as it is known
that sulphur is death to parasitical worms.
The young turkeys had pill of ground black
pepper given each morning when they ap'
peared dropping, until again lively. These
pills are easily made by adding enough flour
to cause adhesion.
INTERESTING TO FARMERs-A series OF
experiments, instituted to test the average loss
in weight by drying, shows that corn loses one
fifth and wheat one fourteenth by the process
From this the statement is made that farmers
will make more by selling unshelled corn in
the Fall at IS cents than the following Sum
mer at 81 per bushel and that wheat at 1.32
in December is equal to $3.50 for the same
wheat in June following. This estimate is
made on the basis of interest at per cent
and takes no account of loss from the depre
dations of vermin. These facts arc worthy ol
ideration.-Erchange
Dressing BLACK HOGs.-In dressing black
hogs the water should not be so hot as in
scalding white ones. If this simple rule be
observed, there will be no difficulty in dress.
ing black hogs. Instead of this color being
an objection, 1 regard it as an advantage-fol
the skin of a black hog will always be found
to be smooth and glossy, free from cutaneous
eruptions, and always clean.-Farmer.
ag- The mixing of iron scraps, filings OF
drilling chips from machine shops in the soil
about the roots of pear trees, is becoming gen
eral with some of our best fruit growers. The
health and productiveness Of the trees are
greatly promoted thereby. Pieces of iron
hoop, old scythes and other useless bits of iron
have long been used by the most successful Of
our growers.
a9r Mildewed linen may be restored by soap,
ing the spots, and while wet covering then,