The record-union., 1891-04-16

1000 cows / am quite confident that you
will not find a single one with milk veins
so small as not to be able to furnish twice
or three times the quantity of blood the
openings into the body are capable of
conveying. Further, / have always
found the quantity of milk to be cor
rectly indicated by the number and size
of these openings, and by no other sign.
bow often do we hear experienced dairy
men and good judges of cattle say: Give
me the cow whose bag milks down to
nothing: one that looks like rag when
you have done milking l grant that
such COW is usually a large mixer, but
you may just as surely set her down as
thin mixer and an inferior butter COW. |
have never known of a cow ofthis charac
ter TO be good butter producer. On the
contrary, it is my observation that the
greatest butter producers never show
this tendency Of collapsed bag after being
MIXED, but rather the opposite. "-PFdt3'ie
Farmer.
MILK FOR CHEESE FACTORIES.
Tin pals only should be used.
All milk should RESTRAINED immediate
ly after it is drawn.
Until after the eighth milking it should
not be offered to a cheese factory.
Milk from cows in good health and APP
parent contentment only should be used.
An abundant supply of cheap, Succulent,
easily digested, wholesome, nutritious
feed should be provided.
Pure cold water should be allowed in
quantities limited only by the cows capa-
city and desire to drink.
Cows should be MIXED with dry hands
and only after the udders have been
washed or brushed clean.
| Only pure, clean, honest milk should
be offered Any deviation from that Will
not always be unpublished.
| Milk is better for being kept over night
i'll small quantities rather than III large
quantities in one vessel.
In warm weather all milk should be
cooled TO the temperature of the atmo-
sphere after it has been aired, but not
| before.
| Wild leells and other weeds common
| III bush pastures give an offensive odOr
and flavor to the milk of animals which
| eat them.
| Milk stands should be constructed to
shade from the sun the cans or vessels
| containing milk, as well as to shelter
| them from rains.
| All milk should be aired Immediately
! after it has been strained. The treat
ment is equally beneficial to the evening
and to the morning milk.
a box or trough containing salt, TO
| which the cows have access every day
is requisite indispensable in the profit
bic keeping Of cows.
Cows should be prohibited from drink
ing StaGnant, impure water. The re-
spOnsibility for the efficacy of that bene-
| ticlal prohibition rests wholly with the
individual farmer.
| Milking should be done, and milk
! should be kept only in place where the
! surrounding air is pure. Otherwise the
! presence of the tainting odors will not be
neglected by the milk.
All the,vessels used in the handling of
milk should be cleaned thoroughly i'm
mediately after their use. 4 washing in
| tepid or cold water, to which has been
| added a little soda, and subsequently
scalding with boiling water, will prepare
them for airing, that they may remain
! perfectly sWeet.-D0iTy Column.
| BUTTER AT ONE DOLLAR \ POUND.
One dollar seems pretty high for a
pound of butter, yet there is one grade
which brings that fancy price in the
! Washington, D. c., market. As may be
! SuTmiSed, however, the demand for such
! butter is limited. Only a few families
use it, chief among them being those of
/ the many times millionaire Senator's
! Stanford and Hearst. The butterIin cues
! ton is brand Of peculiar excellence,
| made at Darlington, Pa. 1t is worked
until it is uncOmmonly firm and dry
That it is worth 81 a pound, however,
may well be doubted. Only 20 or 30
pounds a week are sold in the city
! liner Z are OIlicI SIdOeS Ol Sllt-6UgGu Dut-
ter that sells at G0c, soc, 45c and 4Oc re-
! spectively. The 40c grade is used at the
White House and is very good. The SOC
and 6Oc grades are made in Philadelphia
from selected cream and are considered
very fine articles. The butter which is
sold at the White House is from Elgin
IL. Large quantities of the best butter
sold in Washington come from the West
-WeSteIu AgricuItUTiSt.
FARM NOTES.
No matter how we'll ted the stock NAV
be, the greatest gain is secured when the
food is varied. A mess of green food may
contain but little nutrition, but il MAY
promote the appetite and induce All ami.
NAL to consume more food.
1t is not the largest farms that pay. A
farm of any size can be made to pay 6
profit if the management is correct
| When certain crops do not give q profit
try some other. The demands of the
market should be considered as much a:
possible.
Corn is benefited by all kinds of ma
nure. The roots extend quite distance
and feed over the whole of the surface. /
is crop that assists in cleaning the sol
of weeds, owing 10 the frequent cultiva
ton required, and it thrives best wheI
the young plants are given a good start
While some farmers spread all thei
crop Of corn, and bestow the labor on
large area, others may perform thei
: work on Il single acre of celery, cabbage
or small fruit, and realize larger prof
than those who cultivate ten times q
much land.
When some method is devised by which
the juice of the beet can be extracted OF
the farm and shipped to the sugar fac
tory, there viii be saving in transporta
ton and large amount of pulp retained
on the farm. Such thing as shipping
the juice instead Of the beets is not i'm
possible in this age Of progress.
When cow is turned out on bar
field to pick up her food she not onl,
travels over a great distance of grounC
during the day and secures but portion
Of that which she should have, but sh
also drops her manure where il is wasted
Nothing is saved by compelling a COW
to depend on herself. A saving of fooC
in one direction causes a loss in som,
other way.
All young animals should be pushed
from the start. When a calf makes rapiI
growth in the beginning it will requir,
less care and labor later on. The veal
and puny young animal always Is NOR
expensive than the others. Many of tn
early drawbacks are due to failure t
properly care for the young stock tn
first few weeks.
Every farmer is familiar with the use o
, the plow; but there are many kinds o
, plows, each adapted to some farms bette
than to others, and it is important to Sc
lect the right make. There is no hes
, plow for all kinds of work, as level lands
, hill lands, light and heavy soils all re
quire certain plows best adapted for thu
, work required to be done, and also 70
: the crop that is TO be planted.
Many people do not value bees as the,
should. Bees are not only good TO
, catherine honey INIT for fertili7ip,