Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-07
THE FARM.
PASSAGE OF THE OLE0MARGARINE
BILL.
Education OF Horses-Inoculating
Fruit Trees-Scab on Sheep
Some General Notes.

The farmers and dairymen throughout
the United States have excellent reason to
rejoice and to congratulate themselves upon
the successful issue of the oleomargarine
bill in the recent session Of Congress. 1t is
now law, and henceforth the cheat for
butter must be sold for what it really is,
and stamped as such. This will work a
much needed protection to dairy interests,
and also enable the consumers of butter to
know whether they are eating the products
of creameries or the transmog-ified refuse
of slaughter-houses. 1t is hardly creditable
to American intelligence that fifty thou
sand tons of false butter was manufactured
and consumed in the United States during
the past year, without knowledge upon the
part of those who ate it that they were in
nocently assisting in disposing of this
manufactured compound, and yet so COM
plete was the deception and fraud that such
was the case. 1t will therefore be crafty
ing in the future to know at least when we
are eating the fraud instead of the genuine
for the bill provides that all oleomargarine
shall hereafter be plainly labeled as such.
An exchange, speaking of the business
of manufacturing fraudulent butter, says
" 1t is estimated that last year not less than
than 100000 pounds of oleomargarine
was manufactured in the United States.
! 1t cost, perhaps, $ cents pounds, 000,-
| O0O-and sold as butter at % cents per
pound, would bring S25 100000. Allowing
a profit of 20 per cent, which would be
81 500, 900, it leaves a clean swindle of
| S15, 600 as commercial transaction. to
say nothing Of The fact that the entire sum
was made by Misrepresentation and down
right cheating-selling it as pure butter in
stead of oleomargarine, and at q price
commensurate with its real value
vENrILArING STABLES.
| Look carefully to the ventilation of the
stables 1t is very necessary to have them
well ventilated, both in winter and sum-
mer. The importance of this is shown by
actual experiments. The French Govern
ment took some cavalry horses which had
been in quarters with an allowance of 700
to 900 cubic feet of air, and then placed
| them where each animal was allotted l 800
| feet, and the result was that while in the
| first case, death from CHAMBERS was fifty-one
in each thousand head for ten years in
the last trial, with increased space, the
deaths were reduced TO ten. In former
| years, in the same period, the deaths from
all diseases were ninety-four in one thou
sand, and now they have been reduced to
twenty-seven. The claim is made that this
| improved ratio has been secured by giving
each animal twice the former quantity of
| fresh air.-Prdirie Farmer.
FATAL MALADY.
strange disease has appeared on the
horse ranges of Elko county The sick
animal usually shows lameness in the left
hind leg, as if it had thrown its stihe out
Soon the other hind leg is taken, and the
animal breaks down entirely and seems to
suffer great pain. The disease is always
fatal, though it runs from two weeks to
three months. 1t is much more frequent
in mares than horses, though Mr.. Dawley
has a fine stallion sick now. There is
nothing local about it, as they are taken
on the range in pasture, or anywhere, when
otherwise in the best of health. Mr.. Pix
ley, of Lamoille has lost fifteen in the last
few months James Adams has lost twenty
seven; Keith & Campbell have had it
among their bands for two years and lost |
fifteen or twenty head, and A. G. Dawley |
has lost twelve fine mares. None have |
ever got well yet, but he has two now that |
are trying hard to wear it out. 1t seems !
like paralysis in some respects, but nothing |
has been found in the bodies to show what |
it is. Mir. Dawley thinks the Department |
will send doctor out from Washington to |
see if he can study it out.-Reno Gazette.
IMPORTANCE OF CLEANLINESS
Keeping the pores of farm animals open
is as essential to their thrift as bathing is
to our health. The skip performs an office |
more essential to life and health than even |
digestion, and it is even more important |
that the horse be thoroughly groomed than |
that he be fed. Thorough grooming does |
not mean only the removal of mud and |
manure from the hair with a comb it |
means that thorough brushing and rubbing /
which will clean the hide, removing all |
obstruction from the pores. 1t is more |
necessary to groom the horse than any |
other farm animal, because he is the last |
to groom himself Cattle will groom them |
selves to certain extent; yet there can be |
40 more profitable work than brushing and |
rubbing them though it is so rarely done. |
The hog, reputed to be the dirtiest of all |
farm animals, is really the most clearly, |
and if allowed to do so, will keep his hide |
clean. This he does by first putting on |
coat of mud. This he scratches off, and |
with it removes the impurities which have |
adhered to his hide and which the wet |
earth has loosened. Wallowing not only |
contributes to the comfort of swine, but is |
of the utmost importance to their health |
american Agricult,TiSt.
RINGING PIGS.
1t is very often that we see remarks on |
the ringing of pigs, condemning it as detri- |
mental to the thrift and growth of the |