The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-02

less retarded and remedied very soon de-
stroys not only the hoofs but the glands, and
perhaps the coronary border which secretes
the hOofs.
The yearly consumption of butter in
London has been estimated at ten pounds
per head of the population, or 10000. 600
per year. without including some 5000 tons
necessary for yictualling ships leaving the
port.
To keep cider in good condition, whether
il is To be used as beverage or for making
vinegar, the casks should be filled to over
flowing every few weeks. Cider of the same
quality is best for this purpose, but when
such is not at hand, sweetened water may
he used instead.
Phe bot, the inhabitant of the stomach of
the horse is produced from the eggs of the
Cad fly, which are deposited in the hair of
the horse: from these eggs are Matched a
little grub, which is licked off by the horse
and swallowed. Sometimes several hun
dreds are thus deposited in its stomach
Formerly they were considered very iniuri-
Gus, but now it is conceded that they can
not do as much injury as the nostrums used
for destroying them.
Any respectable hen will lay $50 eggs in a
year. A pullet Matched in March or April,
if properly cared for, will commence TO lay
about the first of October and by the first of
February will have produced six dozen
eggs The worth of the eggs may be any,
where from seventy-iive cents to 81, and the
cost of raising and feeding the pullet will
not have exceeded the value of bushel of
corn. BY the time she is eighteen months
old, if well cared for, she will have laid six
dozen additional eggs. Thus her eggs would
be worth $1.12ls to s.. and the hen herself
be worth more than the cost of her addi-
tional keep.
A New Yorker writes: ITO rid land of
stumps dig around and under them with
spade, leaving basin to catch the water
of winter and spring. which, as it freezes,
slowly raises the stumps from their beds.
Some of the largest were 50 raised by spring
that we could tip them over by hand; the
solid ones | went around again to give Jack
Frost another opportunity TO get his ICY
fingers under them. think field can be
cleared in One-half the time that it could by
the old way"
All food beyond such amount that is
properly digested and assmilated by the
animal is a source of loss TO the owner, and
that i'm two ways: First, the food is lost
and second the animal is not kept i'm the
best condition for getting the most out of its
feed-its stomach is overloaded and its di-
gestive apparatus more or less disarranged.
! Just inside the limits of assimilation is the
point to have in view in feeding; in this way
the animal will have good appetite, and,
other things being equal, is sure To give the
best returns for food consumed. There is a
golden mean in feeding farm stock, which
the farmer should find.
Some of the advantages of the cooperative
factory system of butter making are thus
enumerated by Henry +. Alvord, of East
hampton. ~ The expense of manufacture
ing the butter, including maintenance oil
| implements and apparatus as well as labor,
is much less in proportion when conducted
at one place and for large quantities than foI
small lots at hundred different places. e.
The advantage in disposing of the product
| i'm large quantities and by an expert agent
whose special duty is to watch the markets
and secure the highest price. 90 The
keeping of the skim milk on the
farm where only the cream is sold
to the factory, the great relief TO
the farmers wife of having the milk OF
cream taken off the farm. saving all further
labor and care. "a The tendency of this
system is unquestionably to very greatly
raise the average quality OF the product
from the same cow There are many other
practical advantages, and il seems to us that
| the plan of associated butter making is
especially adapted to those parts of Massa-
chusetts where the greatest quantity OF
| butter is now made. and where the money
returns for the product of the dairy are the
! least satisfactory.