The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-21
THE DAIRY.

BLOODY MILK.-The Rural New
Yorker says: "Cows coming in are not
generally over-fed by dairymen, but as
soon as calved, grave error is often
made in the sudden change to rich
food, which in many instances will give
rise to some disease of the mammary
gland by over-stimulatiou. Cows with
large udders are liable to bruise the
gland by lying on stones and setting up
Inflammation of the part injured-hence
bloody milk. Treatment-Place the
animal in poor pasture and feed on
laxative food. Battle the udder with
cold water and give one to one and one
half pounds of EPSON salts"
ONE of the latest swindles noticed is
the following, clipped from the Lewis
ton (Me.) Journal 1t comes this time
as "butter contract" GA couple of
well-dressed fellows drive up to the
house of the expected victim and make
an engagement with him to take all his
butter for q year at high price. A
written agreement is then made, and in
due time the contract " is returned in
the form of anote held by third party,
which the farmer is obliged to pay. The
safest plan is to make no written con-
tracts with strangers who thus suddenly
turn up and of whom nothing is known"
DESPITE the very high butter produce
of some COWS reported from time to
time, the average butter produce of the
United States is much below what might
be expected. Prof. Atwood, in referr-
ing to the exaggerations abroad in ref
erence to the production of butter in
the country, says in communication to
the Country Gentleman: 1.-The average
of Orange County, N. Y, is only 1856
pounds per COW. For the whole coun-
try, deplorable as the fact is, the aver
age butter product cannot be over 125
pounds a year for each COW, and is
more likely to be as low as 120 pounds
Seven millions of COWS would then pro-
duce $40, 100000 pounds of butter an
nually." Does not Canada, as well as
the States, need more careful selection
of dairy stockP
BITTER cream, says the RWrdI NeW
Yorker, may be caused by the COW eat
ing bitter weeds, as rag weed, boneset,
willow leaves and twigs, etc. Or it
may be caused by the COW being iniuri-
ously affected by the hot weather, or by
impure water. Or it may be caused by
a fungus growth in the cream when kept
in cellar that is not well aired or has
anything moldy in it. Or the cream
may be kept too long, or the churning
may be too long continued If the Bit
terness is supposed to be from any cause
without the cow,a good pinch of saltpeter
in each pan of milk may change it. If it
is within the cow give her half an ounce
of saltpeter once day, for two or three
days; this will help to carry off the i'm
purities through the kidneys. Other
causes may be removed or prevented.
IT does not follow that because a COW
is of pure breed and fine symmetry it is
the most profitable to the farmer or
dairyman. A mixed breed is generally
more satisfactory and advantageous
taking into account the outlay. A cor
respondent of the Dela0are County Rec
ord says that he bought an old COW of
dealer for $26.50, including calf, the
latter being Immediately sold for 1926.
The mother was turned into small
field and fed about three quarts of
wheat-bran. In little over the five
succeeding months she made 139 pounds
of butter, and before the expiration of
six months she was sold for $75. 1t
would have been difficult to have
picked out an animal of an elaborate
pedigree that would have proved so
profitable in the same time.