The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
HOME, FARM AND RANCH
Items of Interest and Profitable Point
ers for Husbandman and Housewife.


s Items of Interest and Profitable Point
J, ers for Husbandman and Housewife.
:, The following hints are condensed
from an extended article on this sub
!. Ject in the New York Tribune. writ
t ten by Mr.. Richard Goodman, Jr:
e Prof. Arnold states that it costs
!, more to make milk from old cows
4 than it does from young ones having
l the same milk-producing capacity
I The period of profitable milking does
!, not terminate at the same age with
ali cows alike. Some hold out longer
) than others, but, as a rule, the best
: effects do not reach beyond the eighth
year of the cows age.
Cracks in floors-whether of wood,
Drlck or stone-are apt to accumulate
no end of Gecaying matter. Cracks in
walls or ceilings may cause currents
OF air, bringing dampness or mold,
dust or muStineSS, from cellar or gar
ret, or sundry smells from other parts
of the house. The outdoor air should
not be poisoned by ground Stops, cess
pool, priyy, hog pen, hen house or
stable odors.
Stringhalt is nervous disease and
IS very difficult and sometimes impos-
sible to cure. 1t is caused by failure
of certain nerves to act, by which the
contraction of the muscles is not con-
trolled and the limb is lifted up inv0l-
UNFAIRLY. This excessive muscular
action wearies the horse and inter-
feres with his usefulness. 1t may be
beneficial to give ten grains of nuX
vomica daily Tor three days, then to
stop for week and repeat, and do
this for three weeks. Brisk rubbing
of the limb, especially from the stifle
downward, with rough cloth for
fifteen minutes night and morning
may be useful.
As cure for thumps in pigs, it IS
said that foxglove (digitalis) is GER
tain. By administering one or two
drops at time T. d. Curtis says he
has cured severe cases. One drop is |
enough for young pig. Let il be |
given once every three hours. Mr.. |
Curtis says that thumps is caused by !
the palpitation of the heart, and owing
to this palpltation the pig has no in
cl1nation to suck or eat and it dies
from exhaustion. The disturbance
with the heart is caused by excessive
fat and lack of tone or muscular de
velopment. Digitalis acts as tonic
and helps to obtain full and natural
action of the heart.
Keep utensils clean-tln washed
and summed, wood washed and aired.
Wash the first in cold water, then
in warm water and soap then with
cold water again. For wooden ware
use warm then cold water in prepar-
ing for use; the reverse of this in
cleaning them-without soap. Use
CASTLE or odorleSs olive soap, and not
yellow, grocery, or half-made soft
soap. Use tough linen towels for dry
ing utensils. Keep salt where it can
not absorb odcrs, and guard against
bitterness, Jumps, or pan scales. Keep
the butter color free from mold or
must, and refrigerators clean with as
little washing as possible.
Remove pals from stable as soon as
filled, or place beyond the reach of sta
BILE odors or dust. Never use the
froth to moisten the mems hands, or
the cats tongue. Keep the mixers
with their dirty boots, covered with
liquids and solids from the barn door,
and their clothes with COW hair, souri,
and dust of dry COW manure-out of
the milk room. Milk rooms in New
England, New York and the west
must be above ground, as the best
cream cannot be raised below ground.
Build of wood, lath and plaster, Sc
curing one or two good air spaces by
back plastering, or use OF good odor-
less sheathlng paper under clapboards,
and nailed to studding midway be-
tween the lining boards and the lath.
A good suggestion with regard to
the destruction of weeds is made by d,
the American Cultivator. Do not. it :
says, be content with killing those
which are upon the cultivated land or !.
among the crops, but those which are
around the borders of the fields should !
be dug out or cut down before they
ripen their seed. A Well-cultivated
field with row of tall weeds about it
ripening seeds to fill the land with :
foul stuff for another year has more !
a sloVenly look than one not hoed. 1t !
looks like premeditated laziness, while :
the field left unhOed may have been :
Of time. If it is worth while to hoe
at all, it is worth while to hoe the end !
Of the row.
Butter is in the cream in the form, :
of PARTICLES of fat, inclosed
in membraneous covering, the whole
called a globule. The particle of fat I
has an individual structure. This
structure may, by the force of heat or |
friction, be destroyed. To save it in
its natural form is to preserve the |
grain" Butter with perfect or nat :
ural grain has many essential qualities
that give it value. 1t has a finer !
color, and clearer, waxy appearance, :
4 foCfn on6 q | i
quality. The melting point of butter, {
upon which mainly depends its keep |
ing quality when subjected to high |
depends, in turn, mainly J
upon its structure of grain. If butter,
on its way to the consumers, is to be
exposed to the influence of heat, it
must have its structure preserved; ]
in other words, it must have a good
grain"
Set Jersey milk in shallow open pans !
at 600 temperature to obtain firm, !
waXy grain, and sweet nutty flavor.
Skim at thIrty-slx, twenty-for or
twelve hours according to the temper.
allure. Better butter is produced by !
open, shallow setting at 600 than by !
with milk of native cows; and better !
even than with centrifugal separator.
Setting milk, ripening cream, and
churning and working butter should
all be done in a temperature as near
600 as possible, without variation
from the time milk is poured into
pans until butter is put into icebox.
Use a~ehurn which will permit the
granulation, washing and half the
working before it is taken out into the
butter worker. Many a churn will
spoil the grain of butter quite as
quickly as most patent workers. But
ter made after these rules will bring so
to rs cents per pound.
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