Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-09
INTERESTING TO FARMERS.

INTERESTING TO FARMERS.
ECONOMY IN DAIRY Cows.-No person
| thinks OF running two machines to do the
work of one, nor to occupy valuable space
with two objects when single one will
| answer. As with material SO with cows
for dairy purposes, and why farmers insist
| by practice on keeping two cows TO give
the milk OF one is s matter that demands
thought. Two cows instead Of one require
double amount of food, to say nothing Of
the extra care and attention needed in their
management, and hence all the work de-.
voted to them above that actually necessa-
ry for the production of a given quantity
of milk, butter or cheese is an extrava.
gance aud waste. One of the principal
causes of this lack of foresight in dairy
matters is carelessness in breeding. It NAV
be an expensive matter on the part of
dalrymen to change their stock from an
inferior to a better kind, but this need not
be done suddenly, unless the means guar.
| antee it. By selection of first-class bulls
from our principal butter and milking
strains much benefit can be gained in few
| seasons. Ii butter is the principal object
in view, the use of Jersey or Guernsey
bull will not only increase the yield and
quantity Of butter but, owing to the rapid.
ty with which these breeds mature. the
whole herd can be completely changed in
two years. A second cross results In an
increased benefit. The sum expended for
bull need not necessarily be considered as
an outlay, for the bull will possess a none.
tary value outside of his usefulness for
stock Ac
plicable to all diaries, so may the breeders
tor milking qualities resort to bulls of the
Holstein and Ayrshire breeds for improve.
ment, and our beef can be made much bet
ter by the use of the shorthorns and Hol.
stems.
EFFECT OF Doors ON MILK.-Upon this
question Professor Arnold, in the work
American Dairying," says: "The Lon.
don MIX Journal cites instances where
milk that has stood short time in the
presence of persons sick with typhoid fever,
or been handled by parties before fully re.
covered from the small pox, has spread
these diseases as effectually as if the per.
sons themselves had been present. ScarIa.
tina, measles and other contagious diseases
have been spread in the same way. The
peculiar smell of cellar is indeliblv i'm.
pressed upon all the butter made from milk
standing in it. A few puffs from a pipe or
cigar will scent ali the milk in the room.
and smoking lamp will soon do the same.
A pail of milk standing ten minutes where
1t will take the scent of strong smelling
stable, or any other offensive odor, will i'm
bibe faint that will never leave it. A
maker of gilt edged butter objects to cool.
ing warm milk in the room where his milk
stands for the cream to rise, because he
says the odor escaping from the new milk
while cooling is taken in by the other milk
and retained to the injury of his butter.
This may seem like descending to little
things, but it must be remembered that it
is the sum of such little things that deter
mines whether the products of the dairy
are to be sold at cost or below, or as high
priced luxury. Ii milk is 20 be converted
into an article of the latter class, 1t must
be handled and kept in clean and sweet
vessels, and must stand In pure fresh air,
such as would be desirable and healthy for
people to breathe"
FARMING WITHOUT TooLs.-It seems
that many well-to.do farmers have an idea
that farming can be conducted without
tools of their own, and if they can get
days run out of a neighbours pillow, machine
or implement of any kind, they are actual
ly SO much ahead. There is one point the
borrower never seems to consider, that the
lender may actually want the implement
himself, and to accommodate a neighbor
loans the article and lets his own work 90,
and often at considerable loss, for storms,
ETC., may come, that may hinder the labor
that would have otherwise been accom-.
,,lIshpd offar 20 h,,4 h.
rover, and the loss seems positive dam
age. a subscriber writes of a plan to avoid
this, the establishing of tool.iending
agency in any town where man may Dor.
row tool-a better term than hire. He
writes "The facility with which men
borrow tools and farm machinery suggests
the inquiry whether it wouldn't pay some
enterprising farmer in every thickly-settled
community who hes money to invest to
purchase mowers, reapers, tedders, rakes,
threshers, etc, and himself employing
ekillful men to run them, rent his men,
horses and machines by the day, the acre,
or the job, as may be agreed"
How TO MAKE TOMATO FIGs.-Pour
boiling water over the tomatoes, in order
to remove the skins then weigh them and
place them in stone jar, with as much
| sugar as you have tomatoes, and let them
stand two days then pour off the syrup,
and boil and skim it until no scum rises.
Then pour it over the tomatoes and let
them stand for two days as before, then
boil and skim again. After the third time,
they are fit to dry, if the weather is good
if not, let them stand in the syrup until
drying weather. Then place on large
eartben plates or dishes and put them in
tine sun to dry, which will take about a
week after which pack them down in
small wooden boxes, with fine white sugar
between each layer. Tomatoes prepared
in this manner will keep for years.
CALLED SHouLDERs.-An Illinois farmer
gives the following direction for curing
CALLED horses, and says that it is infallible
Take old leather and burn it to crisp
rub the ashes on the CALLED part. A few
applications viii effect perfect cure. A
new work.horse put to the pillow this spring
received several severe gals on both Shout
ders. A few applications of the burnt
leather made them ss sound as if never in
Jured, and no scar is now seen.