River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-14
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The chief industry of New Mexico is
sheep raising, and is highly profitable,
while in Colorado and Wyoming Terri
tory It is little less so, though by no
means as fully developed. The number
and value of the sheep in these three di-
visions are estimated as follows: New
Mexico /, 000,0 head, value $1.l50,060;
Colorado 100000 head, value 81 100000;
Wyoming Territory 2e5,000 head, of a
value of S450.000.
In diving. under the influence of the
sun, soils shrink in, and thus dimish in
bulk, in proportion to the quantity OF
clay OK Of peaty matter they contain.
Sand scarcely diminlshes at all in bulk
by drying but peat shrinks one-fifth in
bulk, nd,sirong agricultural clay nearly
as much. Tne roots are thus compressed
and the air excluded from them, es-
pecially ia the hardened clays, in very
dry weather, and the plant is thereby
placed in h condition unfavorable to its
growth. Hence the value of proper adj
mixtures ~ sand and clay, since by the
clay sufficient length of time, while by
the sand Abe roots are preserved from
compression and free access of the
air is permitted.
1t is claimed that Ayrshire milk is rich
in all the qualities which constitute good
milk, butter and casein, and hence fitted
to be usedas milk, and that the cream or
fatty part is in such form-small glob-
ules-that II remains for long time diff
fused through the whole mass. Hence
its adaptation to cheese manufacture; for
to hold this fat in the cheese and have
none rise ON the whey, to make whey
butter, has ever been the problem with the
cheese maker, and in direct proportion to
his success in holding fast this substance
has been his success in making rich,
soft, clean favored cheese, always in de-
misistering alike 10 the health and enjoy
ment OF the consumer.
Care F5r Cholera in ChickenS.-Fat
bacon, chopped fine and sprinkled plenti-
fully with black pepper, is convenient
and reliable remedy for cholera in chick
ems. East summer a number of hens
were cured hy lis use. When found, where
they had droppe1 from the roost, they
were So far gone that they could not get
up, anG were only able to raise their heads
0ccas ionallY. They were given a comfort
able shelter by themselves; a Tablespoonful
Of tho mixture was forced down the throat
of each bird, morning and evening. No
other attention was paid them. AT the
end Of she tlird day they were set at lib
erty and went about as usual, giving no
further tro1blc. Water may be placed
where they can help themselves, but no
food is required Smaller doses may be
gwen in cases less severe. l have not
seen it Tried on young chickens, but be-
lleve that given in small doses, say pill
as large o. an ordinary pea, morn
ing and evening, would prove
eflicacious For very young chick
ems, l wouA recommend still smaller
doses Exchange.
The Rev j. Miller had added one
more TO the many sub-varieies of the
game fowl, and acknowledges the bent
of his TeCrestions by naming it "the Par
sons Bhle Monday" From a scholarly
paper read before the Poultry Club Of
Davenport, Iowa, of which he is presi-
dent, we take two interesting paragraphs:
"Christ referred in the most familiar way
to the hen gathering her brood under
hor wings. Aud while the thoologians
kept the key of knswledge' he taught
the people the tenderness of his compass
sion by the we'll understood illustration.
Ad6 when he warned Peter of his fall he
designated the time by the ever reliable
instinct of The feathered thermometer.
= *Colunela was the first whom he
know TO have devoted work 10 the sub
iect of poultry. And though he was
nearly contemporary with Christ, the
markings and qualities of many varieties
were about as definitely classified then
as at the present. He speaks of the
Dorking, with fifth toe, the Polish with
top knot, the: game with black breast,
red hack.o, end fiery courage, and the
Black Snanish with white facn.n