Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-09

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wooded countries, whether in hot or
cold climates, the cyclone is unknown,
while over the great plains, whether
north or south, the cyclone sweeps
continually.
Farmers Budget: Prof. Law, of
Cornell University, New York, in or
der to see the effect of s~tagnant water
IN the milk and the animal, caused
some COWS to drink from Il pool of dead
water. After a few days the milk of
the COWS contained the same animal
culae that We're found in the water. and
the cows were feverish, showing that
the water had effected the blood. The
milk, if drank, would produce the same
effect on the human organism that the
water did on the cow. and in sufficient
quantity would induce dangerous fe-
vers. The cow is not a filter through
which all kinds of food and drink can
be poured and come out clean and
pure. Any foul food or drink given it
will surely tell in the milk product.
STOKE TIE N|AClllNERl.
The time is at hand when the larger
part of the machinery can be put away
for the winter. Put it where il will not
be rained upon. Keep it from rusting.
Give the woodwork Il coat of paint, and
by all means in your power, save it,
and so riches will be given to you. The
poorest economy on II farm is to save
the money that ought to 90 to do this.
A thousand feet of lumber and Il few
pounds of nails properly used now
will ave many Il dollar and many
wasted hours next season A few
years since, when the patrons Of hus-
bandry were striving to buy all ma
chinery direct from the manufacturers,
a committee from Il county lodge
waited on Il prominent manufacturer
and asked him what he would do for
them. He answered that he could not
sell them machinery, but would do bet
ter. He would give them some advice,
that if followed, would be of more
benefit than buying machinery at cost.
This advice was that they take are of
what they had by housing it all the
season. and sharp questioning brought
out the fact that very few of them had
storage sheds. He was right, and the
advice is us good now as when given
Farmers Budget.
FEEDING HORSES.
If owners and drivers Of horses were
all posted on the subject of foods, says
the National Live Stock Journal, and
how they should be fed. horses and
other working stock would fare better
than they do. 1t is not generally
known. though constantly presented
through agricultural papers during the
last few years, that ca~rbonaceous foods
furnish only heat and motor, while
the heterogeneous foods furnish muscle
and power. 1t is not generally known
what carbonaceous and heterogeneous
foods are. and many do not know even
the definitions of the terms, or of others
that are used as synonyms. But if
these facts were known, common sense
would teach owners of horses that fast
going and hard work require frequent
feeding Of concentrated food-not SO
concentrated rs to pack in 'he stomach.
but with gust enough coarse material to
keep the food loose, SO that the gastric
juice may penetrate and dissolve it.
Corn is a concentrated food, but it is
not of the right kind; it is too carbon
aceous, furnishing heat and motion.
bat Il small amount of muscle material
and force. Hay and grass are too
bulky, and the horse cannot eat enough
to get sufficient nourishment when hard
worked or driven. Oats come the
nearest to the filing of all requisites Of
a complete food; yet, If they are
crushed, the addition Of Il little pea
meal would be an Improvement in
cases where extra eXcrtion is demand
ed. But it should be borne in mind
that the more violent the eXertion, the
the food is used mp and the sys-
tenn exhausted; and as the horse has a
very small stomach in proportion TO
his body, it will be seen that it must
need frequent filling when the horse
does extra duty; indeed, ii needs filling
oftener than it generally is filed under
ordinary circumstances. The writer
has often heard it asserted that it does
no good to feed a horse extra when it
has done extra work. AS we'll say the
owner does not require extra food
when exhausted from hard work.
Surely a man taking physical exercise
needs more food than one taking none.
The same is true of the horse.
HOW TO WASH n SALT BUTTER.
From a lecture delivered by Col. +.
ID. Curtis. Formerly the butter vas
gathered into Il solid mass in the churn,
and then taken out and worked and
washed until the buttermilk was sup
posed to be all out. In some eases,
however, there was no washing, and
ever now butter is made for immediate
consumption by retaining enough but
tcrmilk in it to give it Il new butter
milk flavor. But the latter and better
practice is to stop the churn when the
butter Is in small granules of the size
of mustard-seed or wheat kernels. Cold
water is added to reduce the tempcra-
ture to 50 or 80 degrees. A little
salt is thrown into the churn. and
the buttermilk, after q little agitation,
is drawn off. Then cold water is