River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-02-14

seys--commended them to the ladies
for family use, but farmers wanted a
lager breed. There was great differ
ence between breed and race. Take
the Deyons. They are race. They
don't need any of your pedigrees. Get
race and they will keep MP their char
acteristics. Having got such a race,
take care of it. A COW should be
made comfortable, and should have
the best of feed. He strongly
urged the superiority of the meadows
and pastures. He believed that native
cows We're better than imported ones,
only they did not look so nice. He de.
scribed true dairy COW as follows:
Long from the eye to the mouth: the
mouth broad; the head dishing: the
neck thin and a little dropping: should
ers wedge.shapei from forelegs to hip-
JOINT straight from hip-ioint to drop
of tail; large between thighs, giving
ample room for milk sack; the udder
well forward under the abdomen; the
belly straight, and the brisket not
dropping; the whole form such that the
COW lying down is about as straight as
when standing up. To own herd OF
twenty such cows is better than gong
to the Legislature.
DISEASES OF DAIRY cows.
DR.. W. Horne, V. S., of GAINESVILLE.
read paper on diseases of dairy cows,
their causes, prevention and treatment.
For animals to be healthy they must
have plenty of fresh air and sun. Their
abodes when housed should be clean.
we'll ventilated and warm, but not too
warm in cold weather. Plenty of good
! food and pure water are also essential.
Having. spoken generally of matters
pertaining to health, lie proceeded TO
speak of the diseases of the COW.
Abortion was first discussed. The
bull was often and enormously blamed
for this disease. It was contagious.
If one COW aborted, others of the herd
were pretty sure to follow. The caus-
es were any disturbance of the cows
tranquility, bad smells arising from
otfal or dead carcases, want of light
and fresh air in the cow-house, allow
ing bulls to be at large and tease herds:
dogs cause abortion by driving and
worrying the cows; impure water is a
fruitful cause of it, Disease of the
udder is very common. Administer.
fora large COW, one and quarter pounds
EPSON salts, two ounces of Jamaica
/ ginger in pint and half of warm wa
ter. Battle the parts with any cooling
lotion three or four times q
day. Abstract all of the milk
with a milk tube, a simple instru-
ment which every dairyman should
have. Garget is precisely the same
complaint as broken breast in woman.
1t needs care and skillful scientific
treatment. Lowering the temperature
as in the foregoing case is what is most
essential to cure. There is also a
veterinary process, which the Doctor
proceeded to describe. Angular tuner
of the jaw is very prevalent and on the
increase. Unless prevented, it will be.
come well nigh universal. 1t is propa
gated by breeding, and caused by in
luries to the jaw, especially by the use
of stanehions. For this, and other
reasons he was opposed to stanchions.
Another evil was putting cows
to the bull TOO soon after
calving. The generative organs
must have rest. Parturition
caused some disease Retention of the
placenta often occurred. This should
be watched, and prevented by manipn
lation. No medicine should ever be
given to expel the placenta. Mr.. Cars.
! well asked if saltpeter would not do
it. The Doctor replied no, not that he
was aware of. Mr.. G. said he employ
ed it, and preferred it to manipulation
The Doctor concluded by euloglzing
prevention. Such means as breeding
from healthy animals, aud observing
rules of good management, would
ward off disease.
MANUFACTURE OF BUTTER.
The subject of "Butter, Methods of
Manufacture, including Care of Milk,
Churning, Saltihg, and Packing, 4"
elected much discussion. One speaker
urged the use of Liverpool dairy salt,
or, next to that, Onondaga, and depre-
Gated the use of common salt, as It is
too coarse and full of impurities, so
much so that it will ruin butter, no
matter how well made in other partic
ulars. Another complained that the
course pursued by country dealers was
very discouraging to good butter maxi
ers. They do not discriminate as to
quality, paying as high for The poorest
as for the best. Prof. Miles said he
was in the habit of making his own
butter, because he could get better in
that way than he could buy. He had as
yellow butter in winteras in summer, and
this was attributable TO the use of
roots. He fed yellow rutabaga turnips,
and avoided a disagreeable flavor by
feeding at or just after milking. Fed
an hour or two before milking, turnips
would flavor the butter, but by feeding