Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-05-04
Dairy Items.

A celebrated Engllsn physician says
a pint of milk is equivalent in nutrita-
tive power to an ordinary mutton
chop, and as pint of milk will yield
only an ounce of cheese we must have
in the latter cheap and highly con-
centrated food. The English eat
double the cheese in proportion to the
population that is consumed by Amer
leans. The Italians live to great ex-
tent on cheese and Indian corn.
In choosing COW the Grumpy horn
is good indication; full eye an
other. Her head should be small and
short. Avoid the Roman nose; this
See that she is dished IN the face, sunk
between the eyes. Notice that she is
what stockmen call handler soft
skin, and loose, like the skin of bag
Deep from the loin to the udder, and q
very small tail. A COW with these
marks never fails to be good mixer
There is more difference in COWS than
is really supposed, and but few really
good COWS are offered in our markets.
We are frequently asked, says the
Breeders Gazette, to state the points of
difference between Jersey and Guern-
sey cattle. We may answer briefly
that all the Channel Island cattle-Jer-
seys, Guernseys, and Alderneys-have
mary characteristics in common, and
it is not many years since the word AL
derney was used as sort of generic
term, by which all the channel Island
cattle were designated. They are evil
IDENTIFY all descended from common
stock, but for many years past each
island has kept to its own stock, SO that
the differences have become consider
able, and breed characteristics are pos
sessed by each that are not common to
all.
Fair to good fresh mich cows, of no
favorably known breeding, are selling
in the Chicago Union stock-yards for
fifty to sixty dollars each. They will
probably yield a fair quantity of milk
of only moderate value during the
summer, go dry in the fall, and go to
the slaughter house, to be in turn re-
placed by others of like breeding and
little worth. A well-bred Jersey COW
which will yield a large quantity of
milk of richness unequaled by the milk
of any other COWS, and will not be dry
for more than few days, if at all, can
be bought for 800 and upward. Yet
some people say the prices asked for
Jerseys are altogether too high.-Far.
Repie,c.
1t is a common view that COW
which produces large quantityof milk
necessarily produces poor quality.
Was not this view obtained from
70 t1,,ro tn nj thu OnnI,fiN,, nf A.
milking stock? Is there any relation
between quantity and quality that
necessarily they are found in inverse
ratio to each other? The quality may
be poor because the production of a
large quantity keeps the animal in a
reduced condition. But every dairy
man has discovered that frequently his
richest gilkers have been his largest
mixers, and that ouly as they were
reduced in flesh have the quality and
quantity alike failed. Some cows pro-
duce such large quantities as always to
be while in milk poor in flesh, but this
does not initiate against the following
conclusion: Cows of the same breed,
kept in equal conditions, quality to
quantity, will more frequently be found
in direct than in inverse ratio to each
other.-Farm and Freside.
Mr.. ]. S. Latimer, noted breeder
of Shorthorns, gives his method of
dealing with all kinds of parasites in al
kinds of stock. In the spring, when
parasitic enemies are more or less
troublesome, take common bar or
softsoap, heat with little water till
melted, then add carbolic acid crystals |
in the proportion of ounce to each
pound of soap. The acid may be OBJ
tanned at druggists 10 one-pound bot |
ties, rs cents each. Before adding the
crystals to the soap, they are to be dis
solved by removing the cork and set
ting the bottle in warm water. When
the mixture is cool, make strong suds
by mixing in pailful of warm water
about q pounds of the preparation;
wash the infested animals with this |
suds. If the first application does not
effect a cure try second, and third,
with five days intervals. 1t will not
take off the hair, but it will take off all
insects and will cure mango, bran itch,
scuri or other skin diseases. 1t is also
valuable in the poultry-house, and is a
safe and effectual disinfectant.
DR.. ]. B. LAwEs, of Rothamsted, Eng
land, is not full believer in the new
system of ensilage, although he has not
given it practical test. He gives an
opinion Of the effect of fermentation on
green food as follows:
At Rothamsted / have about fifty |
four cows in milk and about thirty head !
of young stock. Their main supply of
food until next May will consist Of man.
gels. More than half of the whole dry |
matter of these mangels consists of SUI
gar, and this sugar is the most valuable
Of all the ingredients which they con-
tain. Now, If ! were to subject these
mangels to fermentation in pit until
the sugar was converted into alcoholic |
and carbonic acid l should be desitc 2
ing that valuable element of food which |
! had been at SO much cost to obtain !
In the clamps where our mangels are
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