The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-06-24
Dairy and Stock Notes.

Gcntleness Will help NIL tho milk pail.
Oil meal and roots make sleek cattle.
The pig is no exception to the rule
that all domestic animals require salt.
A cream thermometer will save back
ache; sixty-tour degrees is the correct
thing.
More butter is spoiled by keing over
worked than by not being worked
enough.
Cows become very fond of beanstalks,
after little use of them, and prefer
them to good hay.
The Farm Journal advises that we keer
cribbing horses loose in stables without
managers. Let them cat off the floor.
When the cream gets too thick in the
churn, add some warm water (not hot
to float the butter, and it will come
sooner.
When cornstalks arc fed, clover should
be fed with them, or cotton-seed meal.
Timothy and clover mixed is better than
clear clover.
Sheep should not be allowed to run in
muddy Yards or be driven Though the
mud to and from the field. Such treat
ment may engender foot rot.
The best butter ever produced from a
churn would have been wrctched stuff ii
the cream had been allowed to absorb
odors from the cellar or kitchen.
Most people feed horses too much hay.
Some horses will eat hay until they can
travel no better than cow. 1t costs
some men twice as much to keep horses
as others whose teams are equally well
cared for.
A good dip for young lambs infested
with ticks is made of mixture of ono
gallon of soft soap, six pounds grease,
one pint crude carbolic acid. all boiled
in ten gallons of water, with nine gallons
of cold water added.
Horses that arc troubled with worms
may be safely and speedily relieved by
giving them a small dose of turpentinc
two or three times in their feed. 1t
nauscates the worms so that they lose
their grip on the intestines and pass
through with the cXcretions of the stom'
ach.
Breeds of COWS strongly predisposcd
to milk production will sometimes give
milk before the heifcrs have had their
first calf. The tendency is increased
where the young calves run together, ir
which case, unless precautions are taken
they are almost sure to learn to suck eacl
other.
4 recipe for small cream cheese i:
niyen in the Irish agricultural Gazette
as follows: Take one pint thick cream
mix little salt, according to taste; put
it into wet, scalded cheese cloth, tic it
and hang up for day or two, and pu
a weight on it, by which time it will b'
ready for use.
Professor CaldN ell says q herd OF COW
having only very pure soft water tt
drink were seriously Affected with th'
disease called there bone brittlencss
when the herd was supplied with hare
water Oimc) the disease disappeared, bu
only to rcappcar when the cattle wcr'
nut back on the soft water again.
To fattcn horse, mix bushcl OF fla
seed, one of barley. one of oats and one
of corn. and grind the mixture together
Feed two or three quarts of the mixture
three times day, mingled with peel
of cut hay and Straw. If the horse cat:
readily, let the quantity be gradually in
creased until he will cat four or ST.
quarts at every feeding three times
day.
The crosses of ordinary Jersey bulls Of
native COWS produce some very goo'
COWS. But the male calves are not re
| liable as breeders. and arc generally s.
small that they will not pay for raising t
beef age. A male grade Jersey Is Of S
little value that only small sum can b
rot for him for veal; his best use ls t
Ec turned over to the butcher as soon q
he can be fairly fattcncd.
If you do not get as good price TO
vour butter as some one else docs yo
NAV count that there arc nine chances on
of ten that the fault lies with you an
not with the purchaser, remarks an cx
change. Really choice butter is not S
plenty but that any one who makes
really first class article can easily obtai
the highest price. 1t is very natural fc
all to think that their butter is just a
good as their neighbor's, but if the neigh