Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-10

| sometimes desirable to use turnips
grown as a second crop and fed on the
ground, but not otherwise. Nor
should they be fed in large quantities,
as they carry q much greater proper
tion Of water than is needed, which has
to be warmed to blood heat and a
part vapOriZed at the cost of 258 to
3 ounces of starch per pound of water;
dlarrhea will follow their too free use,
as it usually does ensilage. A little
bran, oats and peas grown together,
and Oil cake or cotton seed meal will
be good in limited quantities, although
they, the two, will cost more than the
other grain foods; = to z pounds per
day will be enough at this season I'M
der ordinary conditions. They must
come under shelter during every cold
| storm.
3. During the winter they must be
encouraged to take exercise in q capa-
cious yard on dry days, and opportu-
nifty be always open to them to be out
during good weather. The barn, how
ever, must be susceptible of closure so
as to form warm quarters to be above
the freezing point at all times Their
food should be the finest, earliest and
soundest early cut hay on the farm,
and foddering of fine first crop of
clover daily, by all means cured with
all the leaves on, or second crop of
clover may be given in lieu of the first
crop. The grains before mentioned
should be given to the amount of q of
1 per cent. live weight daily, until after
yeaning, when 1 to l 4 per cent. of live
weight may be given. Corn in winter
| ma W DO TO Of -
according to the kind of other grain
given and it's percentage of albumi-
noids. Corn with oats and peas
makes an excellent diet. Sheep thus
fed will consume some straw or chaffed
corn fodder. As before said, at yean-
ing time few roots may be we'll used.
Carrots are most in favor with me.
Regularity of feeding and access TO
pure water are indispensable.
How to Test Milk.
Every one knows the difference in
milk. How to test the milk is thus
explained by one who has expert
mented for himself 1t is of no little
Importance to have convenient and
reliable mode Of testing the richness Of
milk. This is usually done by the
mere rule of sguess." There is more
reliable way within the reach of all,
whereby any person may safely govern
himself in deciding upon which Of any
number of milkmen he will patronize,
or which of any number of cows ne will
purchase. Procure any long vessel
cologne bottle or longphial. Take q
narrow strip Of paper, Just the length
from the neck to the bottom of the
phial, and mark it with 100 lines at
equal distances; or, If convenient, into
fifty lines, and count each line as two,
and paste it upon the phial, so as to
divide it's length into a hundred equal
parts. Fill it to the highest mark with
milk fresh from the cow, and allow it
to stand IN q perpendicular position
twenty-four hours. The number Of
spaces occupied by the cream will give
the exact percentage In the milk, with
out any guess-work.
We tried this experiment several
years since and found it valuable. We
gathered the idea long ago from an ag-
ricultural paper, but we carried the
experiment further, by which we found
the percentage of butter In the cream.
Set the milk in q large dish, and collect
say from 100 to 200 ounces of cream
make the butter and the percentage of
butter in the cream can be ascertained
by the number of ounces of butter made
from it.
AS per example: If 100 ounces of
milk give ten ounces Of cream, end ten
ounces of cream give five ounces of
butter, we will have learned that 100
ounces of milk will give five ounces of
butter. Such experiments are worth
being made, and made carefully. In
no other way can We know what We are
buying. In this way. also, we may
test the exact nutritive value of differ
ent kinds Of milk from our cows-a
very important matter. Farmers may
derive much benefit by making a few
simple experiments now and then.
They need not interfere with any OF the
regular duties of the farm, and moth
ing but q spirit of habitual Incidence
Of thought and action will keep them
| from doingso. Such experiments often
lead to important results, and evoke
interesting and instructive facts
Practical Farmer.