The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-13
THE DAIRY.

Pure, cool water is essential to al,
domestic animals, but more esneciaiiv
" Ink cows. If You want pure butter,
give pure food and drink.
-,Glazed earthenware milk mans
no,aing about six quarts, and with a
nan men rim projecting around the ton.
are used with satisfaction in some Of
the dairy districts of Ohio.
All mixers are likely to be troubled
more or less with cracked teats. and
when nothing is done to prevent mr.
cure, sometimes COW gets so bad that
IL IS weeks before she can be cured. If
Que Keeps few ounces of glycerine in
one stable, and at the first appearance
Oh roughness or cracking pours a few
drops IN the palm of the hands before
milking, it will stop all trouble at once.
OCCASIONALLY a COW gets teat cut or
sGratcned with briars so as to make it
almost impossible to milk her. We
nave known COW to dry up from this
cause. Every timewe attempt to milk
q cut teat we break open the old wound.
ana II 1t is a bad one, it is almost i'm
possible to heal it. Every dairyman
should have set of milking tubes to
use IN such cases. Waldo does not use
them at all for ordinary milking, but
IN such cases as those referred to he
hnds them of value. -Rural NeaU Yorker.
How to Get Full Milk PAIL
we assume that the COW is properly
led. Lacking this condition, no COW
can milk as she ought, says the London
hoe Stock Journal. But careful feed
ing seems to have but little influence on
the milking properties of some COWS;
they lay on flesh instead. Yet, as they
have first of all to live before they can
think OF giving much milk, or in fact
any milk at all worth speaking of, and
as about two thirds of the food they
have an appetite for goes to sustain the
offices of life, it is clear that under
feeding will not lead to profit. This
is proposition well enough established
and it appeals alike to our Judgment and
interest. Yet, after all, breed is of the
first importance, because without it
good feeding is of small effect on the
milk pail; but, if we have both breed
and feed, the pail will overflow-if we
let it. Breed, then, is first; food, next;
then good milking by hand, kind treat
ment, shelter from the storm, and all
that.
Milk Fever.-Place the COW in a
cool, shaded place, or roomy box stall
or shed, well bedded. Give purgative
consisting of a pound and half of Ep-
som salts dissolved in quart of warm
water, add thereto pint of molasses
and two ounces of ground ginger. Fol
low this up every half hour with stimu-
lants, such as half an ounce of aromatic
spirit of ammonia and one ounce each
of tincture of ginger and sweet spirits
OF nitre, given in pint of cold water or
hnseed tea. Apply rags to the head
constantly wetted with cold water, or
bag loosely filled with chopped ice. APP
ply strong hartshorn liniment or fluid
blister along the spine, and friction
with equal parts of alcohol and water
to the limbs. Keep the udder constant
ly free from milk. In the case of much
boating, insert trocar in the left
flank. Give frequent injections of
blood-warm soap suds. On recovery,
give tonic medicines, such as a scruple
OF nux vomica, one dram of powdered
Sentian root, in pint of thin Cruel or
hnseed tea, twice or thrice daily during
week. Western Rurat.