The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07

cow ceases to give milk or is dried
up, any feed is considered good
enough for her. 1 think this Is a
great mistake, and the result is d.
minished product of milk, both in
quantity and quality, when she does
come in. There is a large draught
on the system to sustain the calf
while the COW is carrying it; and to
keep the COW in good condition
good feed is as important as when
she is givin milk. 1t is my opinion
that one dollars worth of food when
the COW is dry is worth one aud a
half dollar after she comes in. An
animal in poor condition cannot d.
gest as much food as an animal in
good condition. If the cow is poor
when she comes in she will not di-
gest enough food TO support the sys-
TEN. and, at the same time, to make
large quantity of milk.
From w. p. Hazards treatise on
butter-making we extract the fol-
lowing: In families or where the
dairy is small, good plan to have
butter cool and firm without ice, is
by the proc ess of evaporation, as
practiced in India and other warm
countries. A cheap plan is to get a
very large-sized porous earthern
flower-pot with an extra large sau-
Ger. Half fill the saucer with water,
set il in trivet or light stand--such
as is used for holding hot irons will
do-upon this set your butter; over
the whole invert the hower-pot, let
ting the top rim of It rest in and be
covered by the water; then close
the hole in the bottom of the flower
pot, and repeat the process several
times a day, or whenever il looks
dry. Ii set in cool place, or where
the wind can blow on it, it will rap
idly evaporate the water from the
pot, and the butter will be as firm
and cool as if from an ice-house.
A correspondent writes: 1 prefer
grade cows to thoroughbreds for
milking. A COW may in height OF
flow give large quantity and yet
the aggregate at the end of the year
be less than another who did not
give so much in the height of her
flow. In one instance, COW giving
twcnty-nine quarts per day for ten
days did not give so much milk in
the year as another giving sixteen
quarts at her best. This is not unu-
suai in a herd. Generally a COW
will give one-half her milk for the
season in ninety days from dropping
her calf. Seven quarts of milk per
day, or 2250 quarts in the year, is a
good yield for any COW; but L have
made eight quarts per day, or 2900
quarts in the year per cow from a
herd of 100, one COW giving ten and
a-halfquarts per day, or $3.50 quarts
i'll the year. They ran very even,
but it was after five years close at
tention. A COW is best for butter
after ten days of age. Divide the
milking hours even twelve hours
between milkings.
WILL THE DIP CURE sCAB?
should like to have your opinion
of the subjoined sheep dip. Will it
effoctually cure scabby cross hogs ?
DIP Tor 400 sheep-fiity-six pounds
of soft soap, five pounds of sulphur,
,, and six gallons of pitch OLA. b.
With this or any other remedy for
scab, much depends upon the care
and manner. of using it. Your cross
bred hogs will of course, now be
shorn, which economies the dress
ing and enables the poison to get
ready access to the female parasite
borrowed in the skin. The dip will
be effectual, provided it is properly
used, the sheep kept in the tub
about a minute, any rough itching
spots firmly rubbed with the
solution, and the worst cases placed
by themselves, and dipped again af-
| ter an interval of a week. Any acari
escaping under thick scabs, or eggs
Matched after the first dressing, will
thus be destroyed. Pitch oil, like
the allied csrbolic acid and creosote,
is an effectual poison for these para
sites. The sulphur and soft soap
conveniently help to form an emul-
sion, and thus enable the oil to mix
with the water; they have also some
insecticide effects, and, moreover,
cleanse the skin. Distributed over
400 sheep. each would get two and
aud two-fifth ounces of the pitch
oil, which is amply sufficient, and
would, indeed, be q poisonous
dose were 1t not that it is
used much diluted. In sheep
dipping there is, of course, great
waste of material. Properly TO dip
400 sheep, your materials, convent
emily divided into at least two lots
will be dissolved in about 400 gal.
Ions of water. The irritant pitch oil
viii hence be safely diluted. In
using strong pitch oil and carboliC
dips-and unless tolerably strong
they do not effectually kill the scah
aearus-the volatile antiseptic il
sometimes absorbed in considerable
amount through the skin, occasion
ally the dipping fluid Is swallowed
and the sheep reel, struggle and
sometimes become insensible-they
are, in fact, rendered dead drunk by
TIE inebriant narcotic. Recovery
from such cases of intoxicatien is
promoted by placing a wet cloth
over the patients head, dashing cold
water over the head and neck, and
if breathing is, difficult, abstracting
a few ounces of blood.-North Brit.
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