The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-07-17
Good Butter Producers.
From the Country Gentleman.


. With COW worth several Thousand
dollars Mr.. Shoemaker makes butter at
a cost Of Al cents per pound for feed
and with our common stock on the same
feed it would cost us from - TO 20 cents
for the same article. This is q good
lesson for lis to ponder upon anda it be-
hooves us to strive to reduce the .cost of
production by increasing the butter and
milk capacity of our dairies. Il costs
Mr.. r."Shoemaker no more to keep his COW
that 26t pounds week than it does me
to,keep nine which makes pounds We
can not all afford to buy Coomassie or
Stoke Pogis stock, bptswe cangrade Up,
by using good bulls 6f pther less noted
families, a1d-insyeed of dairias Yielding
from 100 t6 100 pounds per annum, as
is now the case in a majority of dairies,
they would, other things being, equal,
double their yield. = y. :7''.:: -
"A gentleman who is now herdst,an
for Messrs: Shields, of Beams Station,
Tenn, graded up herd Of twenty COWS
I'M this: town q few years ince, andt there
are 3-year and 4-year-oldheifersm ii that
herd, three. quarter Jersey blood (which
have tested 10 TO- 104 pounds per, week
on pasture alone in July, which is our
hardest month to make butter, in, and
he did not even use registered bull.
Some of these helfers have tested as
highns'22 fper cent? cream,F whleat q
cheese factory near hear the average
was only 8 per cent. Such results will
be snre< eIfollsw jadieio iousv breeding and
crossing with I tie, JERSEY pt SGuansey
stock, ana the cost 81 cutter r will i thus
be reduced and the profits increased, 49,
: Why "a Kerosene Lamp Bursts. yr4w
Girls, as we1las Boys, need to- :plnder-s =
stand about kerosene EXPLOSIONS A
great many fatal aceidentshappen from
trying to pour oil into lamp while it
is lighted. Most persons suppose that
it is the kerosene itself that explodes
and it. they are veryccareful to keep.
the oil from being todched BY the fire
or the light there will be'no explosion.
But that isnotSs6. If acan or lamp is
left about half full of fkereseneol the oil
will dry up, that IS "eyaporate, q lit
tie, and Will form by smingling in the
.air in the upper part Of the can very
explosive gas. You cannot see this gas:
any more than you can see saif., But b.
ii is disturbed and driven aoAts,- and "a
blaze reaches it, there will be a terri
BILE explosion. although the blaze did
not touch the oil. There are several
other liquids used in houses and work
shops which will produce an explosive
Mpor in this way. sBenzine is one, burn
ing fluid is another, and *naphtha, alco-
;hol, ether and chloroform may do the
same thing. = 49, - ~ - Ez,f'5'S;.s -. r~=@
= !. In q New York shop lately there was
p can of.benzine or gasoline on the floor.
A boy Is years old lighted a cigarette
and threw the burning match on the
sAoor close to the can. He did not dream
there was any danger, because the
liquid was corked up ID the can. But
there was great explosions, and he was
,very badly hurt. This seems very mys-
:terious: The probability is. thattle can.
had been eBtandi in the1eA 8Q5d wiiles
and agood deal sc sy,spor had fornsd {
,somes of which had LEAKED otft around
the stopper, and Twas hanging in q SORT
OF invisible cloud over and around; the
can, and this cloud when the MACH
struck. it. explode
1 Suppose s girl tries to ell q kerosene
lamp s., without g trstt exiting iishing