The record-union., 1891-11-04


make far too hard work of it. They milk
''all over" so too speak. They sit down
on the middle of their backs and lift their
elbows high in the air, and then milk
with reach and jerk that would tax
the best quality of rubber. This often
frets the cows, and they hold back the
richest part of the milk. The mixer
should sit down squarely beside the cow,
with his feet under him. With a firm
grasp and even pressure force the milk
from the teats with as little muscular ex-
ertion and bodily motion as possible. The
best way is to alternate the streams of
milk. When the COW is about finished
reach the hand well up on the udder and
bring down the last few streams, and
then stop; never strip.-Practical Farmer
FLOORING FOR HORSE STABLES.
John Burgett of Wisconsin says that
after many years experience and
thorough trial of all kinds have become
satisfied that clay floors, tamped solidly
TO make them sufficiently hard, are by all
odds the best for horse stalls. They are
elastic without being soft, and have the
best possible effect on the hoofs. If
plenty of straw is kept on the floor, as
should be on any floor, it viii absorb all
liquid excrement, and besides prevent
the shoe calks from seriously disturbing
the clay. Earth floors largely reduce the
soft and tough, enabling it to stand more
wear and tear than when dry and brittle,
as they always are on wood or even con-
crete floors, though the last are preferable
to wood Western Agriculturalist
FARM NOTES.
The ground that will warm first in the
spring, and be the earliest IN condition
for the plow, will be that which has been
well drained.
Disease germs may be taken into the
stomach by eating celery that was ferti-
lized with untreated nightsoil. The
germs are not in the juices of the plant,
but on its surface.
The scarcity of ice during 1890 was the
cause OF intelligent dairymen learning
| how to secure the rapid creaming of milk
by diluting with cold water. The lesson
should not be forgotten.
1t is the caseine Ieftin butter that causes
1t to sour and spoil. Remove all of the
caseine and pure butter will keep sweet
and fresh Indefinitely, if protected from
the air.-Jersev Bulletin.
Do not sell anything off the farm if it
can be converted into something better
1t is much cheaper to ship butter than to
ship hay or clover. EndeaVor TO feed all
materials that are bulky.
1t has been suggested that instead OF
storing potatoes in bins they be stored in
boxes OF size that may permit Of easy
handling. They viii keep just as we'll,
and can be more conveniently stored.
The English farmer grows turnips for
sheep and leeds them on the ground, the
sheep eating the turnips without the ne
! cesslty Of the farmer harvesting the crop
by hand. No labor is required in feeding
the turnlps, and the sheep improve the
soil.
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teacher, but the valuable hints published
are not all theory but the practical ex-
perlence of others, which is made known.
The best farmers are those who read and
test the theories and experiments OF
others.
novel method Of preventing a horse
from switching the lines with his tail has
been suggested. 1t is to cross one line
over the other twice. and the horse will
then seldom get the lines under his tail.
/ and the lines will not be changed in posi-
ton for driving the horse.
Early lambs always pay. If the lambs
OF our common sheep will give as good
! results as may be noticed every season
when the prices are high for early lambs,
| 1t should encourage farmers to use the
| large breeds of mutton sheep for pro-
ducing early lambs. An Oxford lamb
! born in March viii weigh 60 pounds by
| -'ANNJ @NAiN' iAAHJ CA-'AE 90 llAbN1 do OIu.
Every weed pulled out Of the straw
berry beds will save much labor in the
| spring. it is well known that the straw
! berry beds can be made to last year or
! two longer than the average if they can
| be kept clear Of weeds in the rows. This
is only to be accomplished by hand
wedding, and the work should hegin
from the time the young plants are set
out. Never allow single weed to
grow.
The growth of pure bred stock is SO
rapid that farmers who have not in
formed themselves in regard to the ad-
vantages OF pure breeds may suppose the
claims made i'll behalf of the pure breeds
to be unsupported. In California a Hol-
stein cali, SIX months old, weighed AL
pounds, having gained at the rate of two
pounds day from birth, the gain dur
ing the last three months being Il pounds
per day.