Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-04-08

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crease, diminish or cease entirely. What
mean the various peculiari los which we
have just noticed!
ut is well known that the nature and
! quantity Of the food given to the cattle
have great influence on the qualities Of
the milk. If reason did not give the
force of law to this observation the
| facts that can every day be collected in
| the districts of Havre, Dixmunde, Neuf-
chateau-everywhere in short, where
animals Of the bovine species receive
abundant OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES soon es-
tablish the justice of the principle.
Starting from this line of consideration
several German, English and French
writer's have pretended that it is possible
to classify the food given to the COW and
afterward to determine their value ac-
cording to the quantity of milk which
they cause to be produced. They have
thus admitted, in general manner,
that:
some hundred pounds of good meadow (or
English) hay well harvested are worth eighty
pounds of clover hay or yetches, or fifty
pounds Of oil-cake.
"Two hundred pounds potatoes, $50 pounds
pea straw and vetches.
| root with leaves on, 300 pounds barley or oat
| straw, 400 pounds rye or wheat straw.
"Ttree hundred and fifty pounds Siberian
cabbage, twenty-five pounds pease, beans or
vetches, or fifty pounds oats.
1.-TWO hundred and fifty pounds beet root
without leaves, 500 pounds green trefoil or
| vetches.
| 1.-TWO hundred and fifty pounds carrots.
| "If these proportions are just and well
established, which we will readily admit
to certain point, it Is also right to say
that there are certain inaccuracies which
| it will not lie useless to mention. Thus,
| is it not plain thai the hay and straw
grown on rich and loamy soil is much
more nourishing than that grown on ex-
hausted ground? Does this not prove
that there is a great difference between
fresh straw and that which has been long
threshed-between the straw produced
by cereals completely ripe and that of
cereals cut before maturity-between
the produce mixed with bad herbs and
that which has been kept in proper
state of cleanliness? 1t must be re-
marked that each kind of food exercises
different action, according to the ma
ture of the animal which consumes it;
one likes strap, another prefers hay; one
fancies English hay rather than clover,
while another thrives better in pasture
than il the stall The nutritive power
of the food, moreover, is influenced by
the state of the temperature. The nour-
ishment acts differently, according as the
weather is dry, dull, orralny-according
as the animals are left at rest or used
for hard work, and according as they are
well or i'll treated; it is equally unques-
tionable that the milk is much more
abundant in one season than in another,
which must necessarily be attributed TO
the direct influences of the atmosphere.
"Ths is not all--the disposition materi-
ally affects the milk. Give any horned
animals new and particular food and you
will Immediately perceive change in
the flavor and color of the milk. This
fact has been again recently established
by an experiment made at an institution
in agriculture. Food, consisting exclu-
sively of spergula, had been given to the
food, to which are attributed such pre-
cious properties for milk in nearly all the
other districts of Belgium, had been al
most forsaken by the animals; it is need
less to add, that after that the milk suf-
fered considerable diminution, both in
quantity and quality.
the natural disposition Of each animal
acts for good or for evil upon the organs
of digestion, and has consequently a di-
rect influence upon the animal economy,
and upon the Improvement or deteriora-
ton of the milk. "-Xdssachusett Plough
| man.
THE other evening kind looking old
man was escorted to a room or the third
| floor of hotel to pass the night, and it
wasn't five minutes before the bell indi-
Gated that he wanted to see waiter A
colored boy ran up, stuck his head into
! the room and asked what was wanted.
| The old man said he didn't want any
| thing but the waiter was hardly down
stairs before the bell rang again. did
you want sufliny" he inquired, as he
reached the room again. Nothing" re-
| piled the old man, as he opened the door.
! In about two minutes his bell rang again,
and this time the waiter exclaimed: "lf
| you don't want muffin what ar ye pullin'
| de bell fur" Il want to oblige the
waiter" replied the old man. ode waitah!
Oblige de watahy" "fes, it says here:
Please ring the bell for the waiter and
| if he wants it rung I'm willing to oblige
| him, though I'm tired and sleepy and
/ Slid II pun IL lHtIC IL Ioul HlbIS uH-
| less know that some of his family are
| ckw-Detroit Free Press.
| THE SPkINC Internationally it is
| to be white in color and chip in material
Both excellent qualities. What is
| simpler, prettisr, more effective on the
heart OF wong man than the sight of
some ones face Unframed in a gracefully
! outlined chip bonnet. and decorated in