New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-06-03
The Care of Cows Feet,

An English farm journal gives some
useful information on apoint that has
received little attention, which is in
brief as follows:
Every dairyman that wishes to pre-
vent his COWS from losing flesh, con-
dition and milking power should at
tend carefully to the soundness of
their feet; for they, more than any
other domesticated animals, are
liable to that painful and injurious
disease foul-in-the-feet. The main
cause OF this disease lies in two facts
first, that COWS are cloven footed;
second that their habits lead them to
wade through mud When any kind
OF filth becomes lodged for a time be-
tween the hoofs the part becomes in
famed, swells and discharges matter,
while a fungoid growth develops at
the same time. Steers are not so
liable to this disease as COWS; for not
being so much accustomed to indoor
feeding, they have not the same in
clination to come home before the
proper time. crowd around the gate
and convert the ground into mire.
Other causes for this disease are
tubercle and a strain in the foot
Treatment advised when the trouble
has come from the filth between the
hoofs is that the foot should be
washed, poulticed with linseed and
afterward dressed with sulphate OF
copper, carbolic acid or butter of
anthony. The foot should be kept
clean and the COWS indoors to rest.
When q strain in the foot is the cause
there has probably been anexcessive
growth OF the horny part. The toe
nails should therefore be cut with a
sharp, fne-toothed saw, while the
front of the sole must sometimes be
pared as WELL When tuberce is the
cause the disease is too deeply seated
for treatment.
Warmth of Growing Vegetation.
The act of growing implies Oh anges
in cellular tissue that always are &C
companied by warmth, at least as
compared with the freezing point.
Hence even tender vegetation often es-
capes when the thermometer registers
below the frost temperature. This is
because the thermometer encased in
tin is made SO as to be susceptible to
the slightest changes of heat or cold.
Even when frost is deposited on
plant the leaf itself is often not frozen,
and will not be unless the frost IS
thawed out too suddenly. In that
case the cold in the crystals of ice goes
into what they are IN contact with
while thawing, just the same as is
done by making ice cream by thawing
ice around it. II there is much wind
and the temperature only just down
to the freezing point, buds. blossoms
and leaves may be injured on the
windward side OF the trees, while on
the lee side the fruit will escape. This
phenomena will probably be witnessed
Oh many trees this year, and, it may
induce the habit which some trees
have now OF bearing on leach side in al
ternate years, a valuable habit where
there is a single tree OF some fruit
wanted only for family USE Where
snow lies on fruit blossoms it may
protect them. The chief danger in
such case would be not while the
snow remained with the germ OF fruit
hidden beneath it, but when it thawed. |
Showering trees with cold water as the
temperature began to warm would be
most apt to let the snoWthaW offwitn
least possible injury to the fruit.
Winter Wheat.
From every part of the country