The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-01-07
FACTS "a FOR THE FARMER.
MATTERS PER
TANNING TO THE FARM.
advantages Of Diversified Farming
Keep the Dairy Sweet
Watering Horses'--Horses
Teeth-Area Of Grain
Culture.
Keep the Dairy Sweet,

Neep the Larry sweet sl
Milk is one Of the most sensitive Of
substances to all bad odors. 1T read
lly absorbs every i'll smell that floats
IN the atmosphere about it. And it
not only absorbs and retains disa-
greeable doors, but it is equally hos
pltable to disease germs, which it will
take in and convey carefully to the
consumer. The products made from
milk retain whatever impurities were
incorporated with it.
So when city folk boast OF the s'pure
country milk" and delicious butter,
'tresh from the country" it isn't at
all certain that their boastings renot
vain. 40
One who recently made tour OF OBJ
servation through a dairy region be-
came convinced that the health of the
people who consume dairy products
and who does not?-requires that the
creameries, cheese factories and the
COWS that give the milk should be
placed under the strictest legal sur
velllance and direction. H
One OF the most Objectionable feat
ures IN connection with butter and
cheese factories is the inevitable pig
pen. 1t is rarely, if ever, absent.
But nothing could be more objection
able, Tor when, as is frequently the
| case, the pigs attached to the factory
are fed entirely on milk, the stencil
arising from the pen is simply intoler-
able. + or added to the natural odors
OF the pigs and their excrement is that
OF decaying milk, a combination
whose i'll fragrance may be detected,
like the smell of battle, "afar Off"
Ii the pigsty must be maintained as
an economic adjunct of the butter
and cheese factory it should be kept
as clean as water and fumigation can
make it, especially if for convenience,
1t adjourns the factory building. But
the purity OF the milk product i'm
peratively demands that it should
not be in close proximity to the build
ing. It is almost impossible-and
practically it is impossible-to keep
the pen so clean that no deleterious
odors will arise from it. The
hog-pen should be located at
a distance-a good long distance
from the factory, in spite of the in
convenience, and then be kept scrupu-
lousy clean. So greatly is the public
health involved in this matter that it
should be made an offense against the
law, as we'll as to the olfactories, to
keep a foul-smelling pigsty in the
nelghborhood OF a creamery or cheese
factory.
In fact the dairy factory needs fire.
quent inspection, not only for this
but for other reasons. The public
safety requires that the buildings
should be free from all injurious ex-
halations from whatever cause they
proceed. Nor should the inspection
stop with the factory. The sources of
the milk should be regularly looked
into to ascertain whether the COWS
are in sound condition and whether
the milk is properly guarded against
filthy odors and equally filthy solid
substances.
Not far from where we write milk
man keeps a small herd OF COWS. His
stable, although within the limits of a
rural city, is so filthy that the
stencil often fills the entire neighbour
hood. The COWS ale rarely cleaned,
and it is inevitable that some of the
manure that covers their TANKS
should get into the milk pail. This is
but a sample OF many. diaries from
which milk is sent out, either directly
to consumers or to the creamery or
cheese factory. There ought to be
some means of compelling cleanliness
when self-respect and decency do not
| enforce it.
! Watering Horses.
This is subject on which there is
still great deal of controversy, al
though most horsemen are agreed
that an unlimited supply is the best,
providing an animal is in good health.
An animal under these conditions will
not take too much, but when we take
into consideration how many stables
are so fitted as to allow of this being
| carried out it is practically. out of the
question, the more so from the
fact that horses are out on long Jour
neys; coming home hungry, thirsty
and fatigued.
Seventy-five per cent of the animal
body is composed OF water, and it is
essential to the maintenance ofhealth
that this proportion between the fluid
and the solid constituents be main
tanned. The secretions and fluid ex-
cretions are constantly tending to re-
duce the fluid parts below their nor
NAL standard, and at no time is this
made more apparent than after long
and active work, the loss resulting
from increased perspiration and res
piration.
1t is at this time that popular opin-
ion would withhold water until the
animal cools down. Now | hold that
it is just at this time when an animal
is warm in all it's clrculative parts
with an active circulation, that it is
best able to resist the cooling effect Of
a draught Of cold water. The stom-
ach being empty, the fluid passes into
the bowels and is rapidly absorbed,