Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-06
DAIRY.

Mr. @ W. Hoffman, in New York
Tribune, is confident that with heru
of thirty COWS it would pay to have a
man devote his entire time i'll winter 10
prepsring food, currying and looking
ont for their welfare in various ways.
Lack of uniform quality in butter
results from churning at improper ten-
peratures, "salving' by trying 70 work
ont the butternik instead OF washihs
! il ont with weak brine, and churnlngi
cream 30 sour that the acids have de-
stroved part of the. finer butter-oils'-
Rural NeW Yorker
The mestjon was asked by the
Southern Lire Sto'b Jonf1ldt "nat tuo
relative values were Of hay and oran'
rho Flnira Farmers Club seem to rate
them about equal when both cost nj.
teen dollars per ton This is gooH
standard to figure from, and IS prooa-
bly, correct, 49,.
An analysis of butter and mlik re-
Gently made in the District Oh Colu
bia. disclosed the fact that OF tine wen
ty.ive samples of the former eSamineuI ,l
twenty were adulterated. Inc h,iA
was found, it is said, to be composed Or
sheep's brains, chalk and wafer
Farm, Field md StOcbnthn.
The United States Ddiryn,dn says
, that it is provision of nature that the IN
cow looks out for herself before sn9
: does for her stupid owner, and so WIZ
, not give rich milk until after she mas
!, recuperated from the effects Of semi-
, starvation. She wants some meat on
:. her bones before she will put much into
|, the nail. The farmer had better take
r the fat out of his granary than keep IL
y out of the pail.
j The A,leYtcan DairyD,ae does not
= think much of Guenon's theory on
10 indring cows, saying, If you want TO
~ yet good, profitable animal, you mao
W hettpr first see that she gives a large
:, mess of rich milk, and then, having
~ first secured this point, indulge your
~ fancy for soft hair. dandruff, qurls ana
A. vcllow crease in the skin, long horns!
4. slm tails. smooth hoofs, biz belly veins
90 and all the other fancies that 1ashiou
cd loves to revel in,
in Speaking of the rude forms OF put
ter-making practiced in some coon,raeS; n.;;
81 Dr.. Davenport states that IN olaz!'
~. they fill hide with milk, ana IL is
' tightly closed and then Justify shaken
by an athletic native at either end' OF
lde Il. is dragged about upon the grouho
'he after a galloping horse until the out'ei
an. comes. In Chill, the filled hide Il
RED placed upon donkey's back, and ne II
trotted about until the butter comes
ned In Morocco. q filed goatskin is roiie'
xa' about and kneaded by women until IN
mp, same effect is produced. -l''d'ana oe''
a.t, ,. tinel. ,.,.o oou,
haa ,ho N1tio,,al Lire Stock Journal recon
hos mends the grinding of one bushei
wv liaxseed with fifteen bushels OF oats Q
On OATS and corn. If the flaXseed is bolieC
ol one nint of seed boiled will be enoug
TO mix in the feed tor two cows. w ="
7op- have often noted the excellent ehec,
'So' especially during winter, OF an occs
eek si6nel feed to COWS of small qoailti,' !,
ape of Ground faSseod. Care must
taken, however, not TO create too gre
lhss laxitv Of the bowels
hat, -Dauymen should remember thai
vo11.feJ COW is different animal
teen, many respects from a thin COW. A
AM, tbis difprpnca is never more appare
die. or important than at the time OF ca
, in5 A COW in poor condition nee
a" e"' =. rest fol two OF three months ana inc
W " is hide danger Of Inflammation OF
I'M sna ndder unless she is highly fed But
cow that has been kept in a high C
|, At dition Is no doubt safer if MIXED
NAV the time till she calves. IL the ihllh.
Ltaj t,'i. is stopped while she Is gN.hs st =