The Red Cloud chief., 1880-03-18
FARM TOPICS.
COWS IL MILK.

cows IN MILK.
Ia many countries, says the agrsasl
tnyai Gassfls. part OF all 81 the tels
work IL done by cows. and il these cat
mo-, be well cared for. or il they are over
worked, the flow u milk Is immediatel,
more or less diminished. On the othei
side, the advantages 81 \ moderate ex
ercise for the cows ought not 10 be un.
derra,ed. Cows want exercise and
fresh air as well Is other animals, and
how often do they get little or nothing
Of eiiher' How a we expect a COW to
be healthy il she is kept altogether in
the stables where she inhaIes constantly
bad air? and how can she bear healthy
and fully developed calves under such
circumstances? Moderate work for
cows can not be condemned in princi-
pie, provided they are not overtired,
and the slight decrease Of milk, which j,
unavoidable, is more than covered by
the work accomplished. Cows in milk
ought not 10 work longer than three
hours a day.
wHiNs 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 Ia the improvement that
intelligent and public-spiri;ed 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 red? Probably not one
in five; and a herd made up Of animals
red-all red-in color, will be constant
ly throwing produce Of mixed and, oc-
casionally, of white colors. II is,
therefore, manifest that, il we are Ia
discard all colors but the red, the mar
Vicious improvement that is being made
by the use of this blood on our stock ia
all parts ofthe 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 rcsorted To,
if, As fashion now insists, all animals,
regardless Of profitable excellence, are
to be rejected that are not Of "solid
colors. Cor. National Lire Stock Jour
nal.
CURE FOR MILK FEVER.
DIR. Robert Jennings, of Detroit, gives
a few simple suggestions about milk
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, il you would have them
live. We advise the following remedies,
can be obtained in n drug
BY proper care and nursing you
will save two animals where you now
a one Sulphate Of magnesia, one
pound Jamaica ginger, rulverized, two
ounces; mix well, and divide into six
powders, n to he given three times a
day, dissolved in a half pint of tepid
alternating every six hours with
one o: the following powders: Chlorate
Of potassa, pulverized, one ounce; dig
folio, pulverized, one-half ounce;
tart. anthony, one ounce; mix, and di-
vide into six powders. Place the cow
in a large, well ventilated box stall,
well supplied with clean, dry straw, and
kept clean. II the weather is cold, pro-
Iect her with comfortable clothing. The
milk should be frequently drawn off,
and, when unable 10 rise, she should be
occasionally, which will afford
her temporary relief"
GAPEs IN CHICKENS.
1t is estimated, though the figure
high, that IN some portions of
country the parasite (Sclcrostona
that causes gapes, kills at
least t~hree-fourths of the young turkeys
and chickens by s~uffocation. The
worms are reddish in color, and the fe-
males are about three-quarters of an
inch long, while the males are not more
han a seventh of an inch. A dozen Of
he worms may be found in the wind
pipe of a fowl seriously affected, but
when thus attacked recovery is doubtful.
The remedies are numerous, but chiefly
in removing the worms. Prof.
way of doing this is TO moisten
feather, from which all but the tip of
he web has been stripped, with oil,
'alt water, or a weak solution of car
)olic acid, introduce it into the wind
pipe, twist it around once or twice, and
hen withdraw it, usually bringing away
some of the worms, repeating the oper-
stion at intervals, until all the parasites
ire removed. Some farmers use a
lorse- hair doubled in the middle and
visited, pushing the doubled end as far
nto the windpipe rs possible, and roll
ne it between the finger and thumb
several times before Withdrawing it. A
armer in the latitude of Southeast
writes that he has always been
successful in raising young fowls by
them hatch rs early as the first
IF March, or As late as September. A
Of sulphur mixed with a
quart Of corn-meal and water, and fed
% the fowls morning and evening, is
ilso a good remedy. A writer in the
london Field once stated that he gave
MS fowls a small fragment of camphor
yum, "drenched down with camphor
and sent them to roost, and
morning found them well. The
'ggS of this parasite are oval, and the
.mbryos develop while the eggs are still
N the oviducts. But how the worms
escape from the windpipe, or gain ad-
nittancc to it, is a mystery. A prize of
ESQ has recently been offered by the
london chronological Society for an
on the history of this parasite, as
we'll as the species causing the grouse
iisease.-Chas. r. Dodge, iB Land and
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.