The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-13

A great essential is to secure good
lot of sheep to start with, and not too
many at first. Above all things pure
bred ewes should be avoided. They are
more exciting than the native grades;
they cost several times as much money !;
the fleece is rarely worth any more than
the common sheep and the lambs are
worth no more than those OF half
breed sheep. But pure bred rams are
Indispensable Farm, Stock and Home.
The smell in a newly painted house
or room is easily got rid of by the fol-
lowing method, recommended by an ex-
change: Place a vessel full of lighted
charcoal in the middle of the room and
throw on it two or three handfuls OF
juniper berries; shut the windows, the
chimney and the door close; twenty
four hours afterwards the room may be
opened, when it will be found that the
sickly unwholesome smell will be en-
tirely gone. The smoke of the juniper
berries possesses this advantage, that
should anything be left in the room,
such as tapestry, etc., etc., none OF IL
will be spoiled.
The excellent qualities of corn fodder,
says a correspondent to the Country
Gentleman, are beyond dispute. limo
thy is too binding for an animal whose
system tends so easily to fever and con-
stipatlon as does the sheep. Fodder is
loosening. cooling, and relieves pressure
or congestion on the lungs. l cured
horse once of case of heaves by simply
putting him on a regimen of corn fod-
der / have wintered thousands of
sheep, and in the fall, when first turn
ed them into winter quarters, used to
have good deal of trouble with the
collie or stretches. and since | have
adopted the practice of feeding fodder,
| have had almost no difficulty in this
way, even when. through hurry or
neglect, the sheep were broken off from
grass to dry feed with perfect abrupt.
ness. Sheep fed on fodder in the mora
ing (say twice in the forenoon) shelled
corn at noon, and good. bright wheat
straw at night, will keep their bowels in
as healthy condition as in midsum-
mer. a
Winter will soon be here and the
question of providing warm, steamed
or cooked food to dairy cows, is an i'm
pOrtant fact that should now be con-
sdered and arranged for. The owner
of herd of twenty-five mich cows in
New Jersey, erected a building for his
dairy work in which he placed COM
mon steam boiler, of 4-horse capacity,
to heat water, instead of using the or
binary stove and kettles From this
boiler an iron pipe was extended to the
water trough in the ,barnyard. 1t was
not completed until last Christmas.
Upon turning the steam on, the chill
was taken off the drinking water, butit
was not raised quite up to the tempera,
ture OF new milk. 1.-The COWS would
plunge their noses deep into it." take
hearty draughts, and Ego away looking
happy" They did not as in previous
cold weather. '.leave the trough in
condition, shaking their
heads, "but really seemed to greatly APP
preciate the change.
Now for the result No variation was
made in the kind or amount of food
yet the daily yield of milk jumped up
twenty quarts day the first week, and
the higher product continued. The
narrator says: Thus we see that simply
the water was equivalent to
enough feed to produce twenty quarts
Of milk a day, which, at the rate the |
milk sold, yielded a handsome return |
On the amount of extra investment in |
the boiler over the common heater. |
Probably the expense was even less, as
steam boilers are economical of fuel
The winter milk in this case was sold at |
light cents quart, we think; but at
i've cents it would give 81 extra per
week of profit, to say nothing of the
better condition of the cows. The re-
'ult IS thoroughly in accord with fully /
established scientific principles. Not
,nly is, a considerable amount of food 7
'equired to produce internal heat, to
upply that removed from without, and
o warm two or three pailsfull of cold
water drank daily by each COW; but in
domestic animals, as well as in man, ice
old water taken into the stomach dis
urbs digestion, and in the case of COWS
ess of the food will in consequence be
onverted into milk. n