Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-07-11
General Farming information.

Any COW can be MIXED dry In few
weeks by irregular milking, sometimes
at intervals Of twenty four hours and
sometimes Of six. Separation form her
usual company, q change to new loca-
ton, q strange mixer, and above all, g
clustering manner and scoiding voice,
are sources Of irritation that more or
less impair the milking qualities Of q
COW. Indiana Farmer. NJ 4. Il
Inreply to the query what quantity
of milk should a COW give to be consid-
cred proftable?" a well known dairy
man answers, 4, 500 pounds; $500
pounds for the first 100 days, / 900
pounds in the 100 days following, and
TOO pounds between the completion Of
that time and drying of. Prof. Brown
Of Canada, in reply to a similar ques-
ton, puts the figures at a 900 pounds
for, 200 days, and as much as possible
in the subsequent 165 days, and that
every 100 pounds Of milk should make
three and one half pounds Of butter.
\ In regard to trimming raspberry
bushes a correspondent of the Indian
Farmer says: "They should never be
allowed to grow long and slender. This
SUMMER n when the new sprouts get
abouE three to three and half feet high
pinch off the tips or cut with corn knife,
and don't wait till berries are ripe and
gone, or they will be long and slender
again. I don't think it a good plan to
take out the old wood in fall, but do it
now, and also cut of Che laterals now,
whether ends are dead or not. Cut
back to six or twelve inches of main
stalk" ! - >t
Bloody milk is caused by the conges-
tion Of the udder and the fine network
Of milk ducts: The glands secrete blood
instead of milk. The only effective
treatment is to reduce the feed, giving
only bran mash, and no corn meal,
and even the pasture should be Light.
Give cooling laxative, as q pound OF
Epson salts. Give also one ounce OF
nitrate. Of potash every second day for a
week. Battle the udder with cold water
after milking and keep the COW quiet.
A COW once thus affected will probably
prove more profitable for beef than
milk ~e Ill., 2
The number of Jerseys, Shorthorns
and Holsteins sold by auction in the
United States during the year 1883, to-
gether with the average price each class
received, according toa report furnished
the National Live Stock Journal,
adds up as follows: Short
horn, 1884, at an average rate Of
$205. Sc; 239 head Of Holsteins brought
an average of $37360 each. The mum
Der of Jerseys sold under the hammer
numbers 1888, and the average price re-.
ceived was S;409.O1. 4 \. PHI -..=.
According to Mr.. Leo Grindon, who
recently referred to the subject at Man
chester, England, not less than about
100, 900 flower bearing plants are known
to botanists, and not more than 10000
of them including five hundred kinds
Of fruit trees, all sorts of vegetables
timber trees, plants yielding fibre 10,
clothing, etc. can be used to be oil
direct service to man.. He thinks there
may be about Eve Thousand plants which
are more or less poisonous and hurtfu1
and it is a surprising and important fact
that many of the deadly plants are use.
full medicines in the hands Of competent
physicians. 9 Il n d $&@ II n 5sl .5#