The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-25
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Remember that butter made in
September is second only to June but
ter, and that it is easier to keep up the
supply of milk than to restore it after
it has fallen off. The suckers from the
corn-field, leaves from mangels, soft
headed cabbages, or, best of all, some
especially provided corn fodder or oats
and peas mixed will be useful to keep
up the supply of milk.-N. Y. Times.
Many hogs die every year of dis
ease resulting from want of pure water,
and yet this loss is submitted to year
after year. The remedy is simple
one, and compared with the loss of
hogs and cattle an inexpensive one,
VIZ. dig well. Want of water is pro-
ductive of much suffering, which re-
suits in disease and death. See that
every animal is well supplied with pure
water in abundance. Ponds, sloughs
ana foul spring holes are not fit to sup
ply stock with water, and wells or cis-
terms only should be Exchange.
Professor Jennings. veterinary
surgeon, says: Wolf teeth are not in
furious to the eyes of horses. The
theory is fallacy. Neither are they
supernumerary teeth, as has been as
serted by very many clever authorities.
These teeth are natural to all horses,
and should be described as such. All
colts have them at some period be-
tween the first and fifth years, fact
easily demonstrated. Having per-
formed their function, the roots of the
tooth are absorbed and they fall out, or
may be removed in the four-year old
with the thumb-nail.
The disease known among horse
men as pink-eye'' has broken out in
the Hartford, Conn.,, stables, and there
are large number of horses already
down with it. "Pink-eye'' is described
by horsemen as disease which gen.
orally follows excessive warm weather
and sudden changes, and is much like
cold. 1t settles on the lungs or pro-
duces congestion of the bowels, and
unless the horse is properly cared for
it is somewhat dangerous. If the
horse is kept at work the ailment very
soon kills it. The appetite is gone and
the joints of the legs become very much
swollen.
"A great recommendation of bran
as food for COWS is that it restores to
the soil the phosphates and other sa-
line materials which milk carries of
in large quantity. The pastures of our
old dairy farms have become exhaust
ed of their saline elements by the vast
amount of milk and bones they have
produced, and there is no more effectu-
al restorer of fertility than bran. We
have seen wonderful effects on old,
worn out pastures by feeding the cows,
not only in winter, but all through the
year, with wheat bran. In summer it
is fed, three or four quarts per day to
each COW made into a mush with whey,
and the result is seen in the pastures,
not as soon, but as nearly, as in the
milk pail. In the winter bran and
roots, or bran and meal, in conjunc-
ton with early cut hay, make cattle
thrive and give wonderful potency to
the pile of manure.-N. Y. Herald.
"A correspondent of the New 70 rk
Tribune gives the following as a Gu re
for refractory horses: "My meth, ID
with balky horses and l think ii
equally good in case of kicking Oh
backing in harness, or running away
has proved very successful with my
team, requires but moment in its
execution, and is not, think, in the
least inhumane. l take strong
string (three-ply broom-twine is the
hest), long enough to reach from the
horses neck to the carriage. fasten
one end around the horses neck in a
hard knot, so the loop will not slip,
bring the throat-latch through the
loop to prevent the string from work
ing back on the neck. When the
horse balks do not strike at or about
him, but sit quietly in your seat and
pull on the string until you choke him.
If the horse is very stubborn you may
have to choke him severely, but he
will be willing to pull before he is
choked down. Two or three chokings
will render him afraid to balk. tried
this on my team last fall, and have had
no trouble with them SINCE"