New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-09-17
Stock and Dairy Notes.

tthuaI crossing Is pfacLlced, degenera-
ton must inevitably follow
i Stock and Dairy Notes.
/ The common disease Of the feet CT
cattle known as ..foot all is caused by
neglect to keep the feet clean. Filth
and sand getting between the claws Of
the hoof soften, irritate and grind
/ down the skin and then ulcerates under
1 the constant irritation. A cure is
easily made by washing the feet clean.
keeping them clean, and applying
healing applications.
Any farmer who has not g OF money
enough to buy u good portable cream
cry. but who has a cool spring or who
can get ice, may safely borrow money
to procure this apparatus. If he is
only half smart he will have his
creamery paid for in less than year
! from no more than five cows
Many a farmer is daily enviously
complaining. because he has not
money enough to buy q lot of pure
bred cows. TO improve what he has
by better feeding and care, the use of
green fodder crops when the pastures
fail and good winter keeping, and 50
than q herd of cows costing 81, 900.
1t is the . to 4 cent per pound butter
which drags down the dairy business
No good dairyman should hesitate to
| help his poorer brethren by word or
| act, lest perchance ne might think
there might be more competition.
| There is room enough for all, espe-
ciallp at the top, and more butter
would be used if it were all made good
AS Easy to Go Up as to Go Down.
We hear good deal of the deteriora-
ton of all kinds Of stock by neglect,
but few have any facts to state in the
contrary direction. Every person
knows that the high bred cattle have
been brought up into their high condi-
| ton in fewer years than the common
stock has been running down; but it is
not generally thought that I, reversal
of these two processes will persevere
for 10 years in the bess feeding and
breeding of herd Of we'll selected
bull, it is very certain that he can
that is, the produce will be so much
better than the original stock. But it
is hardly necessary to say that if the
improvement is begun by a pure bred
bull of good character, the end may be
reached in one-half or one third OF tn e
time, because it is begun from higher
step. But no one should be tempted
to neglect the improvement OF his COM
mon stock because Of the too prevalent
habit of maligning it as wholly incapa-
BILE OF improvement
Hints to Housekeepers.
Mix stove backing with spirits OF
turpentine. 1t will take off the rust,
polish easier. and stay glossy longer
than when water is used.
Fold a bread cloth small and lay
over the top Of the pan, taking it off
some time before baking the bread,
so that the dough can rise we'll above
the tin before putting it in the oven.
A simple cough remedy is made of
an ounce of faxseed boiled in pint
Of water, a little honey added, an,
ounce Of rock candy and the juice of
| three lemons, the whole mixed and
boiled we'll.
! A pound OF sugar is usually required
to every piutof juice, though less may
be used in making currant or ripe
| grape jellies. For straining the juice,
it should never be extracted Dy squeez-
ing, but allowed to drip through the
! jelly bag.
| If jelly does not form the next dav
after being made, it is useless to cook
it over. If it does not become firm
when first cooled standing it in the
| lofo -
assist in hardening it. jelly should be
we'll covered and kept in cool, dry
place.
Always sift all kinds of meal and
| flour, taking a wire sieve, as a hair
sieve is too fine. measuring before sift-
! ing, unless otherwise directed. It
makes a great difference for corn bread
what kind of meal is used. Always
use the yellow bolted meal for brown
bread, and for any recipe for corn
bread, unless white meal is specified.
!, Half pint jelly-glasses are the best
! They should be rinsed in scalding
water and dried. then stood up side by
side in some large pan, and filled with
the Jelly to the brim. Allow them to
stand a day or two in some sunny win
dow, cover them, if possible, with bits
of glass. and as the moisture gathers
on the underside wipe it carefully
away.
Save the small paper bags carefully
which groceries come in; they are
! useful in many ways. Slip the hand
in one when you black the stove, and
i you will not soil it. When the flies
4 abound, slip them over the cleaned
lamp-chimneys during the day. After
fruit is canned draw them over the
can, and label them plainly; the action
OF the light causes more fruit to spoil
that any one thing.
A cement which will adhere perfect
3 " to glazed surfaces. repair broken
minerals, or in fact stick to anything,
is made by taking two ounces of clear
gun arabic. u ounces of fine starch,
one-half ounce of white sugar Pull
verize the gum arabic, and dissolve ii
in as much water as the laundress
would use for the quantity of the