The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-01-12
rARn AND WORSHIP NOTES.


Keep sheep dry under foot. This is
even more necessary than roofing them.
Aylesbury and Rouen ducks have
been exhibited weighing over % and %
pounds the pair respectively.
Young COWS do not give as rich milk
as do those of mature age. A lean COW
gives poor milk and fat one rich milk.
In France when vinegar is 10 be made
clean barrels are rinsed with old vine-
gar before the new substance is put in.
The rinsing is said to make vinegar in
about half the time required without
this practice.
A hcifer coming in at two years old
il the best time for developing her flu
ture milking qualities. Comfortable
quarters, generous feed, regularity in
feeding and kind treatment will do
much, however. in rearing fine mixer.
Cattle undergoing a fattening pro-
cess, as well as those kept for the pro-
.duction Of milk, should enjoy the great
est possible amount of rest. All violent
exercise must be guarded against, as it
increases the decomposition of fat.
In selling an OK weighing 1900
pounds, only as much nitrogen is sent
from the farm as would be lost by SELL
ing about 1 1-2 tons of English hay. OF
phosphoric acid such an animal would
represent an amount found in five tons
of hay, while one-eighth of ton of hay
would supply all the potash the OK has
in his body.
Washing the leaves of the wax plant
occasionally is the very best treatment
for it. When washing, brushing with
q soft brush about the axis of the
leaves win tend to keep the plant free
from mealy bugs. one of its insect en-
oniss. WAsn he plant commences iti
srswth We would supply it once wcek
WITH manure water.
A veterinary surgeon of Dundalk
Scotland, of considerable experience
states that sand is not only an excellent
substitute for straw as bedding fol
horses, but that il is, in many ways, su
perior TO it, as the sand does not heat
but saves the hoofs of the horses. Ill
states that sand is exclusively used fol-
bedding in his stable.
A Steuben county correspondent o
the Genesee Farmer says that he cured
q thrce-year-old heifer of sucking her
self by smearing the teats night ant
morning with soft grease and thel
busting them with pulverized cayenn
pepper. The applications were contin
ued about week, and perfect cur
was effected.
But few diseases attack swine if prop
erly cared for. They need shelter iron
wind and storms, and warm bed
these, with proper feed, will do NOR
than all medical remedies. Ashes, char
coal, and sulphur, promote the genera
health if applied occasionally.
The following is said to be a sur
remedy for warts on cattle: Mix equs
parts of blue vitrol, lard and hone,
and snoint them once in five days, whe
they will be removed without making
core.
If the legs of hens become broker
they will lay their eggs without shell
until the fracture is repaired, all tn
lime in the circulation being employe
for the purpose of uniting the bones.
The Lancet asserts that night wor
is not Injurious to adults under certai
conditions. The hours of sleep shout
never be curtailed, and the light shout
be white, powerful, steady and concer
tratcd by 4 shade upon the work.
argues that an insufficient, Pickering O
too dilfused light is one of the most 81
rious causes in producing brain irrit:
ton which troubles night workers.
J.W. MacLean, physician of No
walk, Conn.,, furnishes the followin
recipe for . preventive of scarletin
diphthcria, which, he says, he has use
with marked success for four years
One drachm Of Monsel's salt, or ii
sub-sulphate of iron, in eight ounces {
cold water, adding plenty of suga
simply to overcome the taste of I'll
iron. Of this solution give from tw
to eight teaspoonfuls each day accort
ing to the proximity of the disease.