The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-03-04
FARM AND GARDEN.


exchange contains an excellent sugges-
ton for securing fresh eggs during the
severe cold of winter. As success in
this direction means getting supply of
eggs at the very time when they will
fetch the highest, price, we think it will
prove valuable to very many readers.
Prepare a hen-house well covered and
weather-boarded, if possible adjoining
the constable. Cover the floor with a
thick layer of yard manure, fifteen to
twenty inches, say. Bank up the sides
with the same to the height of about
three feet, leaving an opening for lat
tice door covered with window glass,
which must slide up and down to per-
nit evaporation and ventilation when
necessary, without having to leave the
door open. This will also provide light,
and should be placed on the south side
of the Enclosure. A grated opening into
the cow-barn is also advantageous.
Keep the hens here, giving them food
and drink nowhere else, but allowing
them in other respects perfect liberty.
Put some eggs in this place, and they
will soon learn to stay in it during the
cold weather, and if properly fed they
will lay during the coolest months, ow-
ing to the high temperature maintained
by the manure, which must be renewed
though the plan may not prove as sue
cessful in our rigorous climate as in
France, it is nevertheless worth trial
TIMELY HINTs.-The "want" of
thing is sometimes more expensive than
the article itself The absence of
Ratchet, ak, saw, or some other imple-
ment or tool, frequently causes the less
of valuable lives and the waste OF a
great deal of property. A pail of water,
| If it had been at hand. dashed upon the
flames when first discovered, would
probably have saved Chicago. No good
| farmer is, or should be, without all the
tools and extra pieces that may be
needed for repairing farm-machinery.
If such things are not already on hand,
their purchase should be no longer de-
| layed. In a country where coal is
almost the exclusive fuel, axes are in no
special demand, but q sharp Ratchet is
often needed. There should be on
every farm saw, few chisels of diff
ferent sizes, brace and bits, an inch
augur, pinchers, shoeing- knife, riveting-
hammer, punches for metal and leather;
! files both three cornered and fiat; cold
chisel; an anvil, or iron of some sort to
be used for an anvil; a bench and
screw; supply of single, lath, and
| five or six different sizes OF nails,
including a few "clinch" nails of
different sizes; supply of various
sized carriage-bolts, a monkey-wrench,
and many other things that will readily
suggest themselves. With an ample
supply of tools, and extra clevis and
clevis-pins, etc., farmer can save the
largest portion of running to the black
smith for repairs at time when he can
least afford it. 1t is not good plan to
wait until an article is broken before
getting it mended. Take look at the
half-worn cleviser, cockeyes in the tugs,
the clips on the single-trees, the ring to
the neckyoke; and, if much worn, get
them repaired. 1t is bad policy to wait
until the sudden breaking of some of
these things causes your team to run
away, with consequent smashing of the
vehicle, and perhaps some broken bones
of your own to remind you of your folly.
-RurGl, vr, in Chicago Tribune.
WHY MILK VARIES IN QUALITY
One of the reasons why poor land pro-
duces milk which, as compared with
that produced on good land, is deficient
in fatty matters, and so is better adapted
for cheese making than for butter
making, lies in the fact that the grasses
on it contain a larger proportion OF
flesh-forming ingredients albumen,
fibrin, casein, gluten, etc.-and smaller
one of fat-forming Ones-as starch
gum, sugar, etc., than are found in the
grasses of rich land. But another reason
is found in the additional respiration
of oxygen which takes place in the
animal economy when cows are pasturec
on poor land, and have to 60 through
more exercise in the search for food
The oxygen of the air which is inhaled
to an increased extent by animals who
take an extra amount of exercise, has 6
direct tendency to consume the fat IL
the system of the animal-actua
combustion of the tat takes place. Hence
the increased heat of the animals body
and hence also diminished amount o
fat among the tissues, and a diminished
proportion of butter in the milk
Again, the more exercise an ANNA
takes, the greater will be the waste OF
the breaking up of the tissues OF the
body; and as this is the source from
which the curd in milk is derived, mill
produced on land whose heritage is scan.
, ty will contain a larger proportion O
curd than milk produced on land whoe'
heritage is abundant. 1t will now b'
perceived why it is that the milk pro
duced on poor land has larger proper
, ton of curd and smaller one of butter
than that produced on good land; i
will be equally plain that the shorter thu
|, distance cows have to travel to and from
their pastures, whether those pasture
be rich or poor land, the richer in fat
their milk will be; and it will be ever
still more evident that the faster he.
are made to travel that distance tn
poorer their milk will be. Distance ant
speed bring about a greater inhalation
, of oxygen, and the more oxygen tina
enters the system the greater will be tn
consumption of fat in it. In the no
weather in summer, when cows are tor
mented by flies and by heat, the even
ing's milk will always be found poore
than the mornings in butter. This
: explained on the same principle; AM
so is the fact that the milk of stall-fe'
, COWS is richer in fats than the milk Q
, cows who roam at large on the pastures
Chicago Times.
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