Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-21
REMEDY FOR cAKED UDDER.

we'll tried and tested, from the Jersey Bull
letin: Take one-half pint aqua ammonia,
one pint soft water, one or two teaspoon
fuls spirits of turpentine, one and one
half teaspoonful fluid extract of BELLA
donna, one and one-half teaspoonful of
fluid extract of hyptolacca, one and one
camphor. Shake well and apply with all
the elbow-grease and patience you can
muster. Take about teaspoonful at
time in the hollow of the hand, and
gently, but with sufficient pressure, rub it
into the skin of the udder until the latter
gets dry and quite hot; support yourself
by putting the other hand, with an
occasional patting, across the patients
spine.
After having treated both sides, in front
and rear (the latter as far up as the udder
reaches, to doses of liniment, get down
under your COW and gently commence
kneading the bag, taking the whole and
afterward parts of the udder between the
open hands, rolling the former till the
formed Jumps are crushed occasionally milk
ing the bag empty. Stop use OF liniment
as soon as coagulation disappears, but keep
rubbing, and milk often. By all means
avoid granting, feed hay only very spar
ingly. give plenty of water, and keep the
animal from getting cold.
FARM NOTES.
Soapsuds do good service when used on
celery and asparagus.
Young turkeys should be given full
liberty now that the weather is warm.
1t may not be known to some that NUT
ton hams may be cured and smoked for
winter use.
Some dairymen get $50 pounds of butter
per COW annually, which Is good big per-
centage more than the average.
All classes of stock will need plentiful
supply OF water on warm days, and shade,
also, is needed by some animals.
"Use plenty of manure and cultivate
we'll" should be the rule for young rasp-
berry canes The first year is the time to
push them.
The fence corners must now be looked
after, as they are the harboring places for
weeds and insects, being seed-beds from
which the whole farm may be stocked
with pests.
1<Ct Vic SoWo nave Will ulCc LAY tuey
will eat each morning before going to pas
ture and keep up the grain feed. This
will help to supply the nourishment the
grass lacks.
Lice will destroy the young chicks dur
ing the warm weather unless their quarters
are kept very clean. The large lice that
prey on the heads and necks are the most
destructive.
Whether the COW will prove profitable
or not by being given exercise is a ques-
ton sometimes discussed, but that she will
keep in better health and produce milk
more wholesome by being allowed to have
exercise cannot be denied.
Plaster has been found to be an excel
lent fertilizer for nearly all kinds of crops,
and the best results have been obtained
when the plaster is mixed with stable
manure. 1t not only preserves the manure
while it is in the heap but serves to pro-
vide the plants with lime in a soluble
form, as we'll as attracting moisture
The lice that infest peach trees in some
sections have been found to be very tena-
cious of life, and growers should not cease
work on the trees, with the object of rid
ding the trees of the pests by single APP
plication of the remedy, but apply it fire.
quently. Strong soap suds well sprayed
on the trees is recommended as an excel
lent remedy.
To renew an old bed of strawberries
pillow between the rows as soon as the crop
is picked, and then level the ground with
cultivator, following with the harrow.
| The runners will soon cover the space,
When well set pillow under the old plants
and hoe frequently, so as to keep the
weeds out In this manner crop can be
secured on the bed next season.
Dried fruit from the present outlook is
destined to be one of CALIFORNIA; greatest
future commercial products. At least it
should be, with her climate and soil, the
finest in the world to grow it in and the
best to dry it in. 1t will be, if all take
pains to make the best possible dried pro-
! duct from the fruit and place it on the
market in good shape, and form unions by
which it can be shipped cheaply, and dis
tributed properly where it is wanted, so
that there be no glutted markets.
1t is more laborious to cut up the stalks
and straw intended for the manure heap
than to throw them in the barn-yard. But
the labor bestowed in that manner will be
more than compensated for by the thor
ough decomposition of the matter in the
manure heap, and the greater facility with
which the contents of the heap may be
handled when the period arrives for haul
ing and spreading the manure on the land.
When farmers make it point to have all
manure in the finest possible condition
they will save labor and secure larger
crops.
When it becomes necessary to clip a
fowls wing to prevent it flying over the
poultry yard fence, it is lbest to do it in a
workmanlike manner. OF course, any
shortening of one wing will bring the de-
sired result, but we think the method
about to be described has its advantages:
Get some one to bold the fowl then, with
sharp knife, remove all quill feathers.
except four close to the body, and the
same number at the ends of the wing. The
advantage of this mode is, first, the quills
at the tip help to keep the eggs in the nest,
if the hen sit, and those near the BODY
prevents injury by the claws of the cock,
and the closed wing is not much disfgured
by the loss.-PoulhV World.
A Good Empress.