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Dairy Rules.

Dairy Rules.
/. Milk from healthy COWS only should
be used, and not until at least four day!
after calving.
2. Any harsh treatment that excites
the COW lessons the quantity and injure
tie quality of ner yield.
8. Cows should be allowed an abun.
dant supply of wholesome, suitable food,
and as much pure water as they will
drink.
4. A supply of salt should be placed
where the cows have access to it every
day.
5. Cows should not be permitted to
drink stagnant, impure water, nor to
eat cleanlngs from horse stables, leeks,
turnip tops. nor anything that would
give the milk an offensive taint.
6. All milk vessels should be thor
oaghly cleansed; first being we'll washed,
then scalded with boiling water, and
afterward sufficiently aired to keep them
perfectly sweet.
Z. Cows should be MIXED with dry
hands, and only after the udders have
been washed or we'll brushed.
8. Milking should be done and milk
should be kept only where the surround
ing air is pure and free from all objec-
tionable and tainting odors. Milking in
foul smelling stable or yard imparts to
milk an injurious taint. Sour whey
should never be fed, nor should hogs be
kept in milking yard, nor near milk
stand.
9. Tin pals only should be used.
10. All milk should be properly
strained Immediately after milking, and
for that purpose detached strainer is
preferable to strainer pail.
II. In preparing milk for delivery to
a cheese factory. it should Immediately
after straining be thoroughly aired by
pouring, dipping or stirring. This treat
ment is as benefc al for the mornings
milk as for the evenings, and is even
more necessary when the weather is cool
than when it is warm.
10. In warm weather all milk should
be cooled after it has been aired, but not
before.
1S. Milk kept over night in small
quantities-say in tin pa ls-will be in
better condition than if kept in larger
quantity in one vessel.
Il. When both messes of milk are con-
veyed to the factory in one can, the
mixing of the mornings with the even
ing's milk should be delayed till the milk
wagon reaches the stand.
IS. While the milk is warmer than
the surrounding air it should be left un-
covered, AID when colder it may with
advantage be covered.
IL. Milk pals and cans should be pro-
tected from the rain, and milk stands
should be constructed to shade the cans
from the sun.
II. Only honest milk with its full
share of strippings should be offered
violation of this requirement leaves the
patron liable to heavy penalty
Western Farmer.
Breeding and Rearing Horses.
1t has been shown repeatedly by the
most clear evidence that horses can be
reared upon ordinary farms with much
more profit than is afforded by any other
kind of live stock. From the first to the
last there is profit, and if it is necessary
to realize the profit the young colt can
be sold as soon as it is weaned for as
much as three year-old average steer
or cow will bring. Farmers need find
no difficulty in going into this business,
and the very least persevering among
them can get out of it without loss at 8
days notice, if the fit to do 50 comes
suddenly upon him. All he has to dc
to begin is to keep mares for his farm
work, and arrange matters so that they
will not all be retired from work at the
same time in the busy season. by get
ting all the work that may be possible
done in the Fall, the Spring work will
be eased up so much that the mares may
not be overworked when they are need.
ing rest.
In chosing mares for rearing colts the
very prevalent mistake of picking up the
poorest animals, the blind and the lame,
under the belief that anything will do tc
rear colt, should be avoided. The fire.
quency of unsound blind, spa,
vined, ringboned, broken winded and
weedy-is due to this grand mistake an6
neglect of the fur dmental principle OF
breeding that like produces like. The
same error is made in choosing the sire
The prevailing idea seems to beat least
it prevails outside of professional breed
ers-that the Sc vice of male an NAL is
something as free as air and water, and
the owner of the beast is extortionate il
he exacts fee at all equivalent to the
value of the service. A dollar for call
and S. for colt is too often considered
the standard price, and when the courage
is screwed up to the point of giving $:
or $40 there is too often q latent hop,
that payment may be escaped in some
way. A rather costly experience during
few years past has proved to the writer
that in the ma, ,ority of cases payment Of
this valuable service will be evaded il
possible. No one has ever voluntarily
called to pay for the service, and many
have escaped it by very questionable sub
terfuges, or have put off payment by ex,
cuses until patience has been exhausted
and the debt abandoned as not worth
further trouble. This is very discourag
ing to an owner of good animal and
tends most effectively to lower the stand
ard of this service.
On the other hand, the owners of the
stations are blamab.e for some delin.