The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-31
Sunshine.

Ounllgnt naS especial importance Tor
dairymen. 1t hurries the growth of
heritage by its warmth, and its chemi-
cal rays induce changes which sweet
en- and enrich the juice of plants, by
developing attenuated, aromatic oils,
which are the source of fine tavors.
The influence of the suns rays on veg
etaCion is seen in the higher and more
delicious tiavors of tropical fruits and
plants, as compared with those of
higher ATTITUDES. The same, or similar
species, grow more insipid as the lati-
tude increases. Grass without sun
shine is comparatively innutritious, as
well as sour and low favored. Grass
grown in the shade differs as much
from that grown in the sunshine as green
fruit does from ripe. One is health
inspiring and nutritious, the other is
the reverse. Flesh. milk, butter and
cheese made from food favored with an
abundance of sunshine are more nu-
tritive and abound in fat and fine
tlavors more than when made from
food produced in the shade or in cloudy
weather. 1t takes but a short season of
damp and cloudy weather to affect the
quality of milk. When the weather is
wet and warm the spores OF fungi and
the germs of animalcule, which swarm
in the air, lodge upon the wet grass.
swell, terminate, mature and decay
with a rapidity that carries them
through many generations in day.
They change the quality of the vegeta-
ton upon which they grow, and this in
turn affects the animals that live upon
it, and consequently their products
also. Cneese-makers often sadly real
ize how much little cloudy, wet and
warm weather changes the quality of
their milk and cheese. though they may
not always appreciate that it is caused
by the development of mold and in
fusoria upon the grass. The direct
light of the sun is death to all such mi
mute organisms. and thus purities the
grass by shining upon it.
The color of heritage changes with
the light that falls upon it. The deep
est green is developed in the fullest
light. The necessity for due regard
to sunlight in the cultivation of large
forage crops is often seen in the growth
of fodder corn. When sown thick, so
that the tops of the plants only have
access to sunshine, the bulk of the
stems and leaves below, from being too
much shaded, are pale and weak. and
innutritiouS, and more resemble o
potato vine grown in a cellar than the
rich and healthfnl maize grown at such
distances that the suns rays will fall
upon the whole of the plants. Calcutta
ton for the suns influence should be
made in seeding for all other crops as
we'll as in crops of corn.
Sunshine is important for the dairy
mans animals as well as his plants,
The vital forces of animals, as we'll as
those of vegetation, languish in the
shade. and spring into vigor and health
fulness upon coming again under the
| influence of the suns genial rays.
| Cows giving milk turn out a sounder,
healthier, richer and larger product in
fair than in foul weather, when the food
| is exactly the same. 1t has often been
| the sub, ect OF remark, that cows do
better on warm, sunny days. But one
may have too much of good thing.
While sunlight contributes to animal
| health and vigor, too much of it may
| prove injurious. Cows, especially. are
often affected unfavorably by too much
exposure. They do not want too
long continuance in the burning RAYS
| of a midsummer sun. 1t is too
intense, and they will be more comfort
able and do better to have it tempered
with shade, which iudicous dairymen
are careful to provide. -NationaI L:ya-
| Stock Journal.