The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12

enough apart to admit of several culti
vations. Then, with good season, anC
comparative freedom from insects anC
disease, and the use of proper nipple
ments in harvesting, large and protita
BILE crop may be expected. In the vir
gin soils of the extreme West, remuner.
alive crops may perhaps still be raised
by the old careless methods, but the
time is close at hand when all these con-
ditions will apply there as well as in the
older sections of the country.-ADIeri-
can Agriculturist.
| How HORSES ARE SPoILED.-How
/ quick horse becomes dilapidated and
| demoralized after it comes into the pos
session of some people. 1t makes no
/ difference how young or how nice they
are when they get them, they all look
alike in less than two years, and always
have that discouraged, destroyed APP
| pearance. | have seen men who claim
to have great REORGANIZATION we
looked upon as wise, prudent and
shrewd in buSiness-that did not seem
to have any idea of what treatment and
care a horse required. If had a boy 10
years old, that was not more capable
and reasonable about such things than
many people, l should think he was a
hopeless idiot. Many seem to think a
horse can endure every thing, go with
out feed all day and half the night, and
be off on a journey in bad travelling,
time after time. When they get home
they put them into an old, dark, dirty
pen, throw in a forkful of hay, the first
they come to, and let them rip" They
never rub or clean them, and never take
any pains to protect them from cold or
dampness. They overload them re-
peatedly, compel them to labor under
difficulties" when in no condition to
labor. How many young, stylish horses
have we seen all drawn out of shape,
and all sagged down, their back six
inches too low in front of the hips and
a foot and a half too long. A horse
needs feed regularly and often, as often
as once in FIVE hours, at least, ut regu-
lar hours in the day. They can not
bear fasting as well as Eliminating ami
mails; but they should never be cram
med full of hay, especially after long
drive when they have been without all
day, nor Just before hard days work
or long Journey. l have seen a good
many horses nearly spoiled by fasting
and examining. 1t will soon spoil their
digestive organs, and, if long continued,
it will weaken them and destroy their
vitality so that they will never take on
flesh at all even under good treatment.
And so they always remain, a crooked,
shapeless mass of unsightly, useless
f" hOrse-flesh." But, strange as it may
appear, people never know the differ
enCe as long as the animal has pauuch,
hair and hoOfs! 1t is not all work that
brought them to this. There are
thousands of horses that look as well as
they ever did. 1t is the general man
agement. 1t is not the team horses nor
the livery horse so much as the farmers
horse, that shows bad treatment. Some
pretend that the horse has poor con-
stitution, or is sick. Others call it a
lack of vitality. l should call it a lack
of common sense in the Uranium of his
owner.-COr. Mdi1se Farmer.
THE CARE OF MILK.-A creamery
company publish the following rules
and suggestions for the guidance of
their patrons who furnish milk to the
company. Every person who has the
management of COWS and attempts but
ter-making should study them:
RuL, 81. Never, under any circum-
stances, put pail of milk into your can
before straining. One pail Of unstrain-
ed milk may spoil whole can, ard o, e
can of impure milk will certainly injure
III ,,,;Il- -. o-ooy,, xry;+ N, biob - ooprau
in contact. In the name of decency,
we beg of every patron to be particular
about milking and properly straining
his milk.
3. Cans containing milk should never
be kept in milking barn during the
night. The scent of the stable (howev-
er well kept will injure the milk and
spoil the nice flavor fresh butter should
have. An open shed little distance
from your barn, your woodshed, or your
kitchen, is the only proper place for
keeping milk over night.
SuggeStiOnS.-1 Insist that your
milking be done in a clearly manner.
Too much pains can not be taken in this
particular. Carelessness here will en-
tail great loss on the manufacturer,
and insult the consumer.
3. Bed your cows with sawdust if pos
sible; it will keep your COWS clean, and
the stable tidy.
3. Do not, under any Circumstances,
leave your pals and strainer at the barn
over night. Please carry them to the
house and insist that they are properly
washed morning and evening. Much
depends on this.
4. Use only tin pals for milking.
5. The tin straincr pals are the best
for straining milk. Some dairymen use
strainer pals and also cloth stretched
over the can, thus straining the milk
twice. We advise this double straining
of milk. 1t costs you but little trouble,
while it will greatly add to the value of
the butter and cheese from your milk.