St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-07
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Dairy Dots.

In report from the department OF
agriculture at Washington OH the horn
fly occurs the following: The proven
tive Is obviously to lime the dung in the
fall i'm places where the cattle prefera-
bly, stand at night. AT the present time
applications may be made to mich cows
and valuable animals which will keep
the flies away. The applications may
be % fish oil and pine tar, with little
sulphur added; (2) tobacco dust, when
the skin is not broken: 60 tallOw and q
small amount of carbolic acid. The lat
ter application will have healing effect
where sores have formed.
This is what the American Dairyman
thinks: Is the butter good "keeper?'
That, among good butter makers, be-
longs to tradition; a superstition of by
gone days, but still holding high place
among the commission merchants who
are always conservative" as the En-
glish call it. Butter is made nowadays
to eat, not to keep; we mean, of course,
good butter. Can anyone give the pres
ent average age of a fine tub of Elgin
butter? Would it see its tenth day?
Prints, are a frail flower and sure to
wither ifyOu talk to it about keeping,
and yet great deal of the best butter
is marketed in this form, though not
through commission houses. Give the
bookkeeping variety a wide berth. as
they say atsea.
When an animal becomes choked,
says q writer in the New England
Homestead, find the obstruction by
feeling along the throat with one hand,
and in nine cases out of ten it is found
in the outlet. With pressure of the
thumb and fingers the obstacle can be
forced out the way it went IN, and gen.
orally the animal is ready to assist In its
removal. A few years ago l had a
heiter that was choked with apples
every few days, and in every instance
removed them in this way withOutdif
Guilty or danger of iniuring the animal.
think anything which an animal gets
into its throat and cannot get down in
the natural way should not be punched
or puSht q down, thereby endangering
the life OF the animal. but it should be
taken out in the way it went in.
Milk when fresh. says writer, Is a
thin emulsion of butter fat in watery
solution of albuminouS matter, milk
sugar and mineral matter. Under the
microscope it appears to be clear
liquid, in which is suspended an i'm
mense number of small fat globules that
are more or less collected into groups.
uc SiOUufoo val y CoiSiucIdUly Ill SiLts
the smallest being about one ten-thou-
sandth of an inch. The average dame
ter for cows milk is about one five
thousandth of an inch. Twenty-Five
fat globuleS placed side by side, in con-
tact with each other, would span dis
lance Just about equal to the thickness
of the paper upon which this bulletin is
printed. The size of globules varies
considerably with different breeds. 1t
is characteristic of the fat globules of
Jersey and Guernsey milk to be large
and quite uniform in size; of the Ayr
shires to be small and variable, while
the Holstein globuleS are small, but
quite uniform in size. The number of
globules in given volume of milk
varies greatly according to their size
and to the per cent of fat. An average
number would be about 1900, 00O, 00G. 600
in one quart. Milk containing large
globules will cream more rapidly and
efficiently than milk with small glob-
ules. Uniformity in the size of globules
is also desirable, as globules of the
same size will reach the surface in
about the same time.