The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-12-03

/ like whitewash for this purpose.
Greed of Cows.
1t is hardly necessary to tell any one,
lays the livestock Journal, that the
domestic COW is a great feeder, and
that this is especially true of cows that
are great mixers. The appetites of
domestic animals are largely what
years of feeding for certain ends has
made them, and they may, therefore,
be. regarded as in measure abnormal.
This is shown clearly enough by the
great milk and butter tests, which
have shown that cows can be system
atically overfed up to point where
death quickly follows. This being the
case, it is necessary in feeding cows to
be careful that feed of a stimulating,
concentrated character be administered
regularly and judiciously. The over
indulgence which cow will practice
at times, when allowed unrestricted
access to grain or apples, is usually
due not only to the greatly developed
appetite induced by an abnormally
active udder, but far more toa want
of regularity in feeding and the
neglect of the feeder to meet
the demands of such an appe-
tite as they develop. With proper
feeding, cows can be trained to take
care of themselves with any kind of
food before them. Even with apples,
than which no kind of food is more
dangerous to cows when INDUCED in
to excess, this statement holds good,
and when properly trained, being fed
at first moderately and the quantity
gradually increased. they seem to learn
to measure the quantity their
stomachs can manage, and may he as
safely trusted in the orchard as any
other animal. In the case of bovines
the trouble arises from the unnatural
distension of the rumen by habitually
overcrowding it with coarse food in
an effort to satisfy the appetite in
duced by any great draft upon the
system. Thus stretched, it will hold
more of a concentrated food than the
animal can digest before fermentation
becomes active enough to be injurious.
1t may be stated here that, fed judic-
iously, apples are healthful, safe,
and an excellent milk producing food.
Care of Cellars.
A great mistake is sometimes made
in ventilating cellars and milk houses.
The object of ventilation is to keep the
cellars cool and dry. but this object Of
ten fails of being accomplished by a
common mistake, and instead, the Gel
lar is made both warm and damp. A
cool place should never be ventilated,
unless the air admitted is cooler than
the air within, or is at least as cool as
that, or a very little warmer. The
warmer the air, the more moisture it
holds in suspension. Necessarily, the
cooler the air, the more this moisture
is condensed and precipitated. When
a cool cellar is aired on warm day
the entering air being in motion ap
pears cool; but as it fills the cellar, the
cooler air with which it becomes mixed
chills it, the moisture is condensed,
and dew is deposited on the cold walls,
and may often be seen running down
them in streams. Then the cellar is
damp, and soon becomes mouldy. To
avoid this, the windows should only
be opened at night, and late-the last
thing before retiring There is nc
need to fear that the night air is I'M
healthful-it is as pure as the air OF
midday, and is really drier. The cool
air enters the apartment during the
night, and circulates through it. The
windows should be closed before sun
rise in the morning, and kept closed
and shaded through the day. If the
air of cellar is damp, it may be
thoroughly dried by placing in it a
peck of fresh lime in an open box. A
peck of limo will absorb about seven
pounds, or more than three quarts of
water, and in this way cellar or a
milk-room may soon be dried, even in
the hottest weather. A bushel Of lime
absorbes twenty pounds Of
water, and still appears as dry pow.
der. In this condition it will be very
useful to spread over the garden Oh
lawn, or around fruit trees, or it may
be used sfor whitewash. This precau
ton is often necessary in the dairy
because of the prevalence, where ali
is damp, of mildew, and the various
forms of mould. The orange and red
kinds of mould especially, which some
times form upon the cream, have g
most injurious effect upon the butter.
American Agriculturist.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Ii shade is excessive about the house
thin out some trees.
Many primroses are killed every
year by overwhelming.
Shearing lambs in midsummer i:
claimed by English farmers to greatly
increase the growth of the carcass.