The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-15
DairY md Stock Topics.

Airing cream gives butter good
flavor, not souring the cream.
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
a 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 at its natural winter tenn
perature.
Handle the farm horses with discre-
ton at all times, and in the early spring
especially. Their muscles are then quite
soft, unless the animals have been well
wintered.
A square, symmetrical COW is not al
ways the best dairy COW. The mixer is
rather wedge-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 frmer 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 I'M
til they have have the frame work con-
structed. In other words, let the fat
go and see to the growth.
Stables and pens should be airy and
well ventilated, but not drafty. Place
horse or other animal that is warm
from exercise, in stall where a 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 a small crock of butter. He
sold the corn for So and the butter for
the same amount. One was raw material
and the other finished product.
Great care should be exercised in
changing the stock to grass in spring.
The fresh grass acts as powerful
catbartic and weakens the animals, es-
specially the young stock. The first
days pasturage should not last over an
hour.
The whey left after making the cheese
is poor food by itself, but if mixed with
wheat middlings or bran its deficiencies
are supplied and it is then good for store
hogs. The acidity of the whey causes it
to be eaten with greater relish and also
makes it more digestible.
The indiscriminate use of tincture of
arnca for petty sprains and bruises of
horses is scientifically condemned. 1t has
been demonstrated that if kept long'in
contact with affected surfaces arnica
produces heating and blistering, thus
frequently aggravating the complaint
sought to be cured.
Where only few cows are kept the
cream pot should have its contents stirred
daily. This is partly to expose the
cream to tine 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 of
a dairy to make nearly or quite as good