The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-05-14
Dairy and Stock Topics.

HaVOr, not sOurlnS tle Credn.
Feed succulent foods for cheese, and
concentrated foods for butter.
Cows do better on mixed feed than
when confined to single ration.
In selecting breeding animals look to
form and perfection before large size.
Sweet cream must be churned longer
than sour, with lower temperature.
The more feed can be varied in caring
for sheep, the better will be the results.
Ensilage is good food for old COWS,
being as succulent and as easily digested
as grass.
Incoming COWS should have limited
diet of dry hay, with little bran, for a
few weeks previous to calving.
The magnitude of the cattle business
at the Yves. is illustrated by the fact that
one single range in Wyoming comprises
million acres. A pretty large pasture
that.
Experiment has shown that cows sup
piled with warm water to drink give
one third more milk than those allowed
to drink water al its natural winter tenn
perature.
Handle the rvea horses with discre-
ton at ali times. and ia the early spring
especially. Their muscles are then quito
soft, unless the animals have been well
wintered.
A square, symmetrical COW is not al
ways the best dairy COW. The mixer is
rather wedges shaped, as seen from be-
fore, and has plenty of belly, with great
hips and thighs.
An Indiana farmer states that by ban
ishing slops from the pig pen and Civ
ing the swine clear, pure water, he Sc
cured firmer and more solid meat than
he had ever raised before
The average weight of carcass OF
American cattle has been increased by
over thirty-three per cent. of the weight
Of fifty years ago, while the average
weight of milk is even greater.
Give the pigs plenty of exercise. The
run of clover field will do much for the
animals. Do not try to fatten them un-
til they have have the framework con.
structed. In other words, let the fat
go and see to the growth.
Stables and pens should be airy and
we'll ventilated, but not drafty. Place
a horse or other animal that is warm
from exercise, in a stall where draft
will strike, and injury must surely fol
low to the health of the beast.
A Kansas paper tells of farmer who
drove into town with large load Of
corn and small crock of butter. He
sold the corn for So and the butter fol-
the same amount. One was raw material
and the other finished product.
Great care should be exercised ir
changing the stock to grass in spring
The fresh grass acts as powerful
/ cathartic and weakens the animals, es
specially the young stock. The first
days pasturage should not last over ar
hour.
The whey left after making the chees,
is poor food by itself, but if mixed with
wheat middlings or bran its defciencie!
are supplied and it is then good for stor,
hogs. The acidity of the whey causes il
to be eaten with greater relish and alst
makes it more digestible.
The indiscriminate use of tincture O
arnica for petty sprains and bruises O
horses is scientifically condemned 1t ha
been demonstrated that if kept long il
contact with affected surfaces arnict
produces heating and blistering, thu,
frequently aggravating the complain
sought to be cured.
Where only few cows are kept tn,
cream pot should have its contents stirred
daily. This is partly to expose tn,
cream to the air to allow it to oxygen
ize. This even ripening of cream will
insure more and better butter, and with
sufficient feed will enable the owner O
dairy to make nearly or quite as good
butter in winter as in summer. Will
cows long in milk, however, the butte
in winter will come slowly.
A writer, alluding to hog cholera
thinks that the disease may often b,
traced 10 bad treatment on the part o
the farmer. The Infamous plan of lcav
Ing the hog for months in wet, mud. SUI
and bad weather, now and then withou
food, sometimes with shelter and thei
none, feeding them whole corn in thei
own excrements and urine, and general,
supposing that nothing can happen t,
hogs. until they are sick and nearl,
lead. is one that needs reform, and tina
Of radical character. 1t is much NOR
economical to prevent disease than t.
allow it to get in herd and then try t.
cure it.