The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-15
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

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HoRsEs.-A correspondent writing to
the Practical Farmer in relation to the
use of salt and lime for bathing the feet
of horses says: i have tried strong brine
on foundered or hOof-bOund horses, and
with good results. l made q solution OF
salt and water, and applied 1t three times
a day by washing the legs and pouring
upon the bottom of the feet, and holding
them up few minutes to let it strike in.
/ saw the wonderful effects in a few days.
I account for it in this way: Salt will
extract moisture from the atmosphere,
which keep the feet moist. salt operates
nearly like melted grease upon the foot.
The hoof becomes tough, yet pliable.
Like a chunk of wood saturated with
salt or brine it is tough yet moist. Here
let me add that the practice of rasping
cracked hoof to tougher 1t is all folly.
Apply brine and you will effect cure.
IMPROVEMENT IN LIVE SToCK.-The
Detroit Post says that the improvement |
of nearly all kinds of live stock is max
ing great progress in this country at |
present. The demand for thoroughbred |
short horns is greater than the supply. |
The important sales of this class of stock |
in England, the United Slater and Can
ada have been exceedingly remunerative
to breeders, and the assailants OF this ex-
cellent breed of cattle are shutting
up" and playing least in sight" The
importation of Norman, Pencheron and
Clydesdale horses has proved very re-
munerative to those engaged in the i'm
provement of this class of stock, and
breeding farms in various parts of the
country are being established, and will
soon have marked effect in increasing
the strength and action of that indispen-
sable animal, the draught horse. The
importation of whole fOcks of superior
long-wooled sheep is good evidence Of
a desire to improve this important class
of stock. No doubt the demand for
combing wool and good mutton has en-
couraged the investments. Farmers
would find it very profitable to keep the
best kind of long wool and mutton sheep.
and to make suitable arrangements for
housing and feeding them in winter.
Root crops, alternated with cereals, keep
land free from weeds and in good heart,
and at the same time supply nutritious
food for cattle and sheep when pasture is
not available. Farmers are at last
waking up to the necessity of improving
breeds of swine, and importers and
breeders of the best kinds OF Berkshire,
Essex, and Suffolk swine are having
profitable trade. The Poland-C China hog
is also coming rapidly into favor, on &C
count of combining weight of CARCASS
with early maturity.
LABOR AT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.
People are apt to look upon the sys-
tenn of student labor in agricultural col
leges in wrong light. They think the
great object of the labor is the learning
of how to accomplish farm and garden
work, and to acquaint them with the
best methods of management. This is
not true. fit were it would be far bet
ter for the students to get their educa-
ton than serve an apprenticeship under
the best farmer or gardener they could
find. For the labor at these colleges is
largely upon things simply of expert
mental value, without regard to the i'm.
mediate return in dollars and cents. In
the same way many. people look upon
the Holyoke system of educating girls
They think it is grand plan because il
teaches the students to know how to dc
all sorts of work. The truth is that the
, great desideratum is the instilling o.
, such principles and habits as will give
, these growing minds correct idea about
, labor, and teach them not to consider il
, beneath the position Of any man or wo
man; teach them to respect virtuOus
and well-directed labor anywhere and
, everywhere. The labor systems in these
/ institutions is not primarily to teach
, men how to pillow or women how to wasf
, dishes, but to give them a broader
grander lesson-that manual labor, &C
com lished we'll by any hands, is no
: only in no degree degrading, but, If wei
+ done, highly honorable and worthy o
every man or woman's effort. If. while
this lesson is being taught bya system o
education, the students thereby preserve
good degree of health and are thus EN-
abied to pursue thorough course o
, study without physical deterioration, o.
, if thereby they are taught how to per
! form different kinds of labor we'll, ther'
! is a double or triple good result. Thu
writer, as believer in that policy
, trusts that our agricultural colleges vii
, ever seek to maintain close RELATIONSHIP
, between the labor and class instruction
! that through their union the labor sys
, tenn may retain its high position ant
good results.
, SECRET OF MAKING COOP BUTTER
! Willard's Practical Butter Book" give
Q the process of making the celebrated
: Philadelphia butter, as follows: Tn
s milk is skinned after standing twenty
q four hours, and the cream is put int
deep vessels having capacity of abou
twelve gallons. 1t is kept at tempera
+ ture of fifty.eight or fifty-nine degrees
until it acquires a slightly acid taste
when it goes to the churn. The churl
8 is barrel revolving on journal in eacl
u head, and driven by horse power. TIL
!, churning occupies about an hour, and
!. after the buttermilk is drawn of, coli
water is added and few turns given t
: the churn, and the water then drawn OF
!, This is repeated until the water as it
!, drawn is nearly free from milkiness
y The butter is worked with butter-wOIk
ers, dampened cloth meanwhile bein
: pressed upon it to absorb the m0istur
. and free il of buttermilk. The cloth
: frequently dipped in cold water an
y u wrung dry during the process of wipin
. the butter" 1t is next sailed at tn
q rate OF an ounce of salt to three pound
y of butter, thoroughly and evenly incol
! porated by means of the butter-workel
!, IT is then removed to table, where it
!, weighed out and put into pound prints
Il After this it goes into large tin trays an
9 is set in the water to harden, remainin
Il until next morning, when it is wrappe
: in damp cloths and placed upon shelves
Il L one above another, in the tin-lined ceda
= tubs, with ice in the compartments q
y the ends, and then goes Immediately I
. market. Mating is drawn over the tut
10 and it is surrounded again by oil-clot
a a 80 as to keep out the hot air and dus
~ and the butter arrives in prime cond
! ton, commanding the highest price.
y Household Helps.
v EYES PUDDING Take six larg