Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-21

pulling you, loosen the surface of the
ground. and need not pillow again before
sowing wheat or clover. Sow and har-
row in thoroughly, and you will find II
paying well.
In respect to flax seed, its best use is
to mix in food for stock, during the
winter and spring. When well boiled
and mixed with bran, corn-meal, or
screenings, well boiled, its place can not
be supplied SO well by anything else as
an article Of food, It is very nourish-
ing; and acting on the bowels, keeps
down all fever and irritation, and the
animal comes out in the spring ready
to take on flesh and grow. A small
quantity fed daily to a cow or mare for
one week before and after calving or
foaling will give very good results. OF
Its benefits to the human subject, let
the doctors speak. Its uses are various
and important in medicine among peO-
Pile; but it is here proposed to speak of
it principally III relation to animals.
There is one point, however, that
should be noticed-and that is poison
ing by milk. Everyone ought to know
that milk, being secreted or separated
by glands from the sytem Of the COW,
must partake of the condition of the
animal. In order that milk may be
healthy, the cow must be healthy. AS
a rule, in Southeast Missouri, and more
particularly in Arcadia Valley, winter
ing q COW consists mainly in u long
course Of carefully conducted expert
ments to ascertain, if possible, how near
starvation a cow can. come and not &C
tually reach that crisis, and in the
spring they nre turned out to live by
their wits, before there is any show Of
pasture. And yet they are expected to
yield milk and produce calves. And
most likely the greater part Of what
food they had was of a dry and heating
character. To expect COW to give
healthy milk under those circumstance
es is absurd. TO require bricks to be
made without straw was the most UNI
demand Of which the king of
Egypt could think, but it was no worse
than the task imposed on the cows.
Let us look the matter fairly in the
face, for we have it to do. When u man
starves or abuses his cows and they re-
taliate by poisoning him with their milk
it is an even thing between them.
a careful review of the writer's eight
years experience and observation in
Arcadia Valley has fixed in his mind
the belief that two-thirds of the So
G llleh malarial diseases, which SO often
prevail. can be traced to the above
named cause. The COWS are starved
and abused, or shut up in ill-smelling
stables, and so contract the poison; and
by the action of the glandular system
in throwing it off. Il share of it is trans-
ferred to the milk, and 10y that to the
human subject.
The writer has seen a great deal of
milk sickness, having lived for years
where it prevailed; some of his nearest
neigh bors dying Of the disease. 1t is
merely one in IA scale Of diseases of the
same general nature, varying only in
To start at the foot of the
scale, it runs as follows: Chills and fe
yer, enteric fever, pneumonia, menin-
gifts, cholera, and milk sickness. Ow-
ing to our very favorable surroundings
the trouble rarely passes pneumonia
with US, and never reaches milk sick
ness. In the hill country of Southeast
there is no appreciable
of malaria. If any exists, it is
local in its origin-abOut filthy premis-
es, or in the abuse Of COWS, or the inn
Of the people.
So far as the COWS are concerned, IT is
the object Of this article to point out II
cheap, effective and easily available
Let each owner of mich
cow commence feeding in the fall, at
least as soon as the cold winds and
sleety rains begin to set in, and he will
find an increase in the flow and quality
Of the milk, and an Improvement in
tho condition of the animal and the
health Of his family.
NlnH ri Tar mo " IN n N
of October, in Indiana, COW giving
one quart Of milk per day. He pro-
cured corn, ground cob and all, boiled
it thoroughly; and fed about one peck
per day of the boiled food, and mixed
with it salt, copperas, and about gill
of flax seed, well boiled, to each feed.
BY New Years day his cow made sew
pn pounds of butter per week. One such
is worth good deal.
Flax seed is also good for horses,
hogs and sheep. They will eat it read
lily if well boiled aud mixed with their
feed. If each farmer would grow flax
seed at the rate of but one bushel for
zach mich cow, he would find 1t pay
ing largely in many ways.
In the market flax seed will always
command the cash, and in that respect
IS fully equal to wheat. But the lint
need not be thrown away. In Iowa
they thresh their flax with the same
used for wheat, but taking out
/ part of the concave and sell the straw |
10 the paper mills for about twelve dol |
airs per ton. Just after the close of the |
war it brought twenty dollars per ton.
It would be an easy matter for Mr..
John HI. Delano to establish a flax mill
n connection with wool-carding and |,
The lint is valuable for making ropes.
The writer remembers very well aid
ng in the business of spinning ropes in
his boyhood; and with fifty cents worth |
If lumber and nails, saw, a hatchet |
md an inch augur. he can in halt a day |
make a ropewalk where two boys Of