Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-14
Agricultural.

Cows That KIcK.-Many of our best
cows dislike to be MIXED, and are fussy
and uneasy when you set pail under
them. This is particularly the case
with the Jersey grades. Instances of
this kind seem to be more numerous
than formerly, and are most numerous
in dairies kept under the forcing sys-
tenn adopted by those who supply milk
for the market or cheese factory. In
many or perhaps most cases, cows be-
come addicted to it after having been
MIXED for few years though quiet
and gentle the first year of their milk
ing. There is no doubt that the pro-
duction of large quantity of milk is
often attended with sensation of sore
ness and exhaustion in the lacteral
parts, which induce sensation of dread
and dislike to be MIXED by the animal,
In case like this-and / think they
comprise fully nine-tenths of the trou-
blesome milkers-it is the IC0rst kind
of folly TO abuse cooU for kicking.
When a COW becomes troublesome
about milking, the best thing that can
be done is to fasten the foot with a rope
Make the end of the rope fast behind
her, take a wind and draw the foot a
little back and tie with a half hitch.
Put a measure of shorts or some other
provender before her, then proceed
carefully to milk, favoring her as she
shows cringing or uneasiness. The e1-
traction of large pailful, twice a day,
of a rich, highly. vitalized fluid, like
milk, can exert no other than an ex-
hausting and debilitating influence on
the animal. This on a nervous animal
soon induces irritability and what we
call vicious conduct No animal needs
kind and careful treatment more than
cows giving large quantity of milk.
How To GET RID OF CATERPILLARs.-
In paper read before the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, DIR. La Conte described the
experience of Philadelphia with the
measuring worms, which a few years
ago were a very serious nuisance. The
remedy was English sparrows. But
now the caterpillars are almost as an
noying as the worms were. The birds
cannot eat them on account of their
skins. But DIR. La Conte suggests a
feasible cure The wings of the fe-
male moth of the caterpillar remain
abortive, and she is obliged to crawl up
the trees to deposit her eggs. Ii the
cocoons in which the larve are devel-
oped into moths be destroyed, and gir-
dies of tar or some similar substance be
put around the trees the propagation of
the caterpillar will be prevented. The
same remedy failed against the female
moth of the measuring worm," be-
cause its wings were fitted for flight ;
but with the sparrows to prevent the
continuance of measuring worms"
and some such means as above described
used against the caterpillar, both pests
may be removed from city shrubbery
and shade trees.
PRESERVING BUTTER FOR FUTURE USE.
One of our exchanges in replying to
an inquiry, says Many ways have been
proposed to keep butter, but we think
that of suspendiBg it in brine the most
certain. Our inquirer in that case
would have TO select such butter as is
satisfactory TO him in market, and put
it into new packages. Use a good ia
peTing oak tub with head in each end
Take out the largest head, having
packed your butter IN a cambric sack
of the shape of your tub, only two
inches smaller, put it in the tub and re-
place the head, so as to be quite brine
tight. Now through hole in the head
pour the strongest brine to fill, plug,
place upon the large end, the butter
will float entirely in the brine and thus
be excluded from the air and preserved
for any length of time. This may also
be done IN common butter pail, by
putting a small block of oak wood on
the under side of the cover, so as to
sink the sack of butter under the brine
in the pail. The first method of float
ing the butter in the tub is an excellent
way of putting up for distant market
THE power of growing vegetables,
even the most fragile, is something lit
tie short of the wonderful. So delicate
a structure as the mushroom can, I'M
der certain circumstances, exert the
most extraordinary power, for, accor-
ding to a good authority, it is well
known that a mushraom will "iift pa
wing stone many times its own weight;
rather than turn over and grow side
ways, which it would appear so much
easier for it to do" The fact is also
curions one, that tree roots will throw
over immensely strong walls against
which they have grown, though one
would think the pressure against the
softer soil would give room for their
development, without the necessity of
their extending SO much force against
the wall.
PROFITS OF HOG FATTENING.-A far
mer in Iowa, has grown rich by hog
raising, while other farmers, who sold
their corn and kept no hogs grew poor.
He not only feeds all his own corn but
he always buys corn largely from his
ueighbors always aiming to sell his
well-fattened hogs to drovers, when the
market price reaches to the maximum.
He makes a great saving by boiling his
corn In the ear, which makes it easier
of digestion and saves the toll of grind
ing. He gives his hogs all the pum-
kins they will eat, as these sharpen the
appetite, and perform the Office of wa
ter; and he takes pains to keep the
hogs in clean, warm lodgings, with wa
tCl lilSltdu VI Auu dul ullu, 10 WdllOW
in.
CHARCOAL FOR PoULTRY.-The benefit
which fowls derive from eating char
coal is, l believe, acknowledged. The
method of putting it before them is,
however, not well understood. Pound
ed charcoal is not in the shape in
which fowls usually find their food,
and consequently is not very enticing
to them. l have found that corn burnt
on the cob, and the refuse, which con-
sists almost entirely of the grains re-
duced to charcoal, and still retaining
their perfect shape, placed before them,
is greedily eaten, with a marked i'm
provement in their health, as is shown |
by the brighter color of their combs, |
and their soon producing greater av-
erage of eggs TO the flock than before.
How TO TRAIN THE ToMATo.-W. A. |
johnson of Connecticut says: "The |
leaves of the tamato are retorse Drive |