The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-26
FARM TOPICS.
COWS IN MILK.

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In many countries, says the Agricasl
tural Gazette, part or all of the fielC
work is done by cows, and if these car
not be well cared for, or if they are over
worked, the flow of milk is immediately
more or less diminished. On the Other
side, the advantages of moderate ex
ercise for the cows ought not to be un
derrated. Cows want exercise anC
fresh air as well as other animals, anC
how often do they get little or nothing
of eitherP How can we expect COW tC
be healthy if she is kept altogether in
the stables where she inhales constantly
bad ARP and how can she bear healthy
and fully developed calves under such
circumstances? Moderate work fol-
COWS can not be condemned in princi.
pie, provided they are not overtired,
and the slight decrease of milk, which i.
unavoidable, is more than covered by
the work accomplished. Cows in milk
ought not to work longer than three
hours day.
WHIMs OF FASHION IN BREEDING.
The whims of fashion in regard to the
color of Short-horn and Jersey cattle,
and the fashionable markings of swine
and poultry, are most seriously detri-
mental to the improvement that
intelligent and public-spirited men are
laboring to bring about in our farm
stock. Where is this craze about color
to stop What proportion of pure
Short-horns are redP Probably not one
in five; and herd made up of animals
red-all red-in color, will be constant
ly throwing produce of mixed and, oc-
casionally, of white colors. 1t is,
therefore, manifest that, if we are to
discard all colors but the red, the mar
velous improvement that is being made
by the use of this blood on our stock in
all parts of the country must be arrested.
And the same will be true in regard to
the improvement in dairy stock for
special purposes, in which the blood of
the Channel Islands cattle is resorted to,
if, as fashion now insists. all animals,
regardless of profitable excellence, are
to be rejected that are not of "solid
colors. Cor. National Ltve Stock Jour-
nal.
CURE FOR MILK FEVER.
DR.. Robert Jennings, of Detroit, gives
few simple suggestions about milk
fever in cows. 1t is well known that
this disease usually attacks the best
COWS, and is too often fatal, on account
of improper treatment. "Do not, I'M
der any circumstances, purge or bleed
your animals, if you would have them
live. We advise the following remedies,
which can be obtained in any drug
store. By proper care and nursing you
will save two animals where you now
save one: Sulphate of magnesia, one
pound; Jamaica ginger, rulverized, two
ounces; mix well, and divide into six
powders, one to be given three times
day, dissolved in half pint of tepid
water, alternating every six hours with
one OF the following powders: Chlorate
of potassa, pulverized, one ounce; dig
italis folio, pulverized, one-half ounce;
tart. antimony, one ounce; mix, and di
vide into six powders. Place the COW
in large, well ventilated box stall,
well supplied with clean, dry straw, and
kept clean. If the weather is cold, pro-
tect her with comfortable clothing. The
milk should be frequently drawn off,
and, when unable to rise, she should be
turned occasionally, which will afford
her temporary relief
GAPEs IN CHICKENS.
1t is estimated, though the figure
seems high, that in some portions of
the country the parasite (Sclerostoma
sy'agGnuS) that causes gapes, kills at
least three-fourths of the young turkeys
and chickens by suffocation. The
worms are reddish in color, and the fe-
males are, about three-quarters of an
inch long, while the males are not more
than seventh of an inch. A dozen of
the worms may be found in the wind
pipe of fowl seriously affected, but
when thus attacked recovery is doubtful.
The remedies are numerous, but chiefly
consist in removing the worms. Prof.
Verrill's way of doing this is to moisten
a feather, from which all but the tip of
the web has been stripped, with oil,
salt water, or weak solution of car
bolic acid, introduce it into the wind
pipe, twist it around once or twice, and
then withdraw it, usually bringing away
some of the worms, repeating the Oper-
alton at intervals, until all the parasites
are removed. Some farmers use
horse-hair doubled in the middle and
twisted, pushing the doubled end as far,
into the windpipe as possible, and roll
ing it between the finger and thumb
several times before Withdrawing it. A
farmer in the latitude of Southeast
Virginia writes that he has always been
successful in raising young fowls by
having them hatch as early as the first
of March, or as late as September. A
of sulphur mixed with a
quart of corn-meal and water, and fed
to the fowls morning and evening, is
also a good remedy. A writer in the
London Field once stated that he gave
his fowls small fragment of camphor
gum, drenched down with camphor |
water" and sent them to roost, and |
next morning found them well. The
eggs of this parasite are oval, and the |
embryos develop white the eggs are still |
in the oviducts. But how the worms
escape from the windpipe, or gain adj !
mittancc to it, is a mystery. A prize of
ESQ has recently been offered by the
London chronological Society for an
essay on the history of this parasite, as
well as the species causing the grouse
disease. -ChGs. r. Dodge, IN Land and
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