The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-29
City Milk and Country Milk.


City MILK and Country Milk.
II actually believe you get better milk than
we do" said country woman visiting rela-
tive in the city.
1t was fact, too, thas was the worst OF it.
You have heard all your life abuse OF the
kind Of milk the unfortunate city people have
to put up with. Its blueness its thinncss, its
rottenness, its still-slop quality have been
ding donged into the ears of newspaper rca'l-
ers till they really believe that city dwelcrs
do not know the taste of pure milk.
Now, the facts are just the other way, more
shame to the farmers. Large dairymen sup
ply milk to city customers who will not put up
with any monkey business. Competition is
so sharp that milk must be No. |, and served
in the cleanest, daintiest manner, in order for
it to be sold at all Consequently they secure
the best breed of cows, and give them tho
best feed regularly. They keep them cleaner
than the farmer does, and see that they have
only pure water to drink. Their pas
lures are NEEDLESS. One batch af ragweed or
wild garlic would ruin their trade. Milk is as
sensitive to changes of food and water, to the
health and contented mind Of the cow. as
barometer is to weather changes. Milk is the
cows barometer
The difference between the city dairyman's
COW and the farm COW is often one to make
milk drinker weep or swear, according to
his sex. Contrast tho well kept, sleek creature
of the first part with the poor brute that
pastures on ragweed and drinks green
swamp water, fights flies and mosquitoes and
is driven home with dog at her ears and a
brute of boy with club at her heels. You
will then know why your city boarder
"somehow doesn't like milk"
Then go and reform your ways. Get every
weed out of your pasture. Give the cow only
pure water to drink. Have a warm stable
ready for her this winter. Do you ever ex-
pect to get to heaven if you let your COW
stand knee deep in manure with the sleet
beating against her bumped up back and the
icicles hanging from her sides You never
will, though you are forty Sunday school
superintendent in one.
And don't say anything more about the
superiority of country milk over city milk
Poultry Vermin.
After chicks and turkeys are three months
old kerosene may be used for lice and no i'll
results follow-provded the oil is used in
sensible manner. Do not wet the chickens
all over, but rub little of the oil on top of
the head, under the wings, and into the
feathers on the under part of the body. Don't
mix any sulphur with the coal oil; tho oil it.
self is sure death to lice. But let me tell you
that if chickens are kept free from lice until
they are three months old, and after that age
furnished with wallow of dust and ashes,
and their coops occasionally treated to white
wash or coal oil, they will not be troubled
with lice enough to hurt
About those red miles, or spider lice-well
do think they are just the meanest "critters"
that ever vexed fowls and their owners
When they once get in fowl house nothing
but "stern, unrelenting warfare will clean
them out They don't stay on the fowls
during the day, but hide on the under side
side of the perches, and in cracks and crevices
about the roosts and nests. At night they
come forth from their RETREATS" and Just
swarm on the fowls. To begin the war of
determination catch all your fowls and rub
coal oil into the feathers on the under part of
the body, and under the wings. You needn't
be so particular as with chicks, for little
kerosene more or less won't hurt old fowls
After you get through with the hens,
stop minute and think how uncom-
Portable you feel with million hen
lice crawling up your arms; then
carry everything that is loose out of the hen
house, and whitewash the house thoroughly
If there is an earth floor in the house, or a
floor covered with earth scrapo off the top
and put it somewhere where tho fowls can
not get at it; then spread on fresh earth and
scatter lime freely This part of tho work
DONE shut up the house as close as possible
carry in an old iron kettle half full of live
Goals, pour on a pound of sulphur, shut the
door, and turn your attention to the "mova-
bles" out of doors. Wet the perchcs thor
oughly with coal oil and set fire to them. If
you can get new perches just as well as not
better let the old ones burn all up, but if you
must use the old ones again, put the fire out
with and old broom and pail of water, and
the lice will be out too.
Whtewash the nest boxes and pour coal
oil into all cracks where the lime does not
reach. After you get through with this and
have "changed your clothes" the house will
be smoked enough, and you can open it to
the air
The next day, and about every day for a
week after this house cleaning, examine the
under side of the perches after tho fowls have
left the roost if you find single mite wet
the roost thoroughly with coal oil, for if but
a half dozen of the little bloodthirsty wretches
escape destruction they will "bring forth after
their kind" with astonishing rapidity, and
next thing you will know, the house will be
"iust swarming" with red mites again.
While am talking about lice, l may as
well tell the poultry keepers who do not even
suspect the presence of red mites in their
fowl houses, that it wouldn't do a bit of harm
if they were to examine the under side of the
perthcs for the ",lark red patches" which are
simply millions of red mites.-Fannie Field
in Prairie Farmer.