The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-10-20

come to the agricultural department
and their suggestions. if followed, viii
be worth money to the farmers. Ia
view of the growing interest in the dairy
and its products, the following sugge,.
tons are especially appropriate.
r. 7. N.
,~:ei. .sxt5s Dairy Hygiene.
IMPORTANCE OF MILK, BUTTER AND
CHEESE AS FOOD PRODUCTS.
In the care, the feed and housing G.
cows is where the foundation of really
fine dairy products must always be laid.
If the proper conditions exist here, they
will be very apt to be followed up by
the like proper and necessary conditions
all the way through; but unless there -
such foundation, no future exercise of
skill or careful manipulation can effect
the finest products.
If these are all right, and every dairy
man knows what that means without
categorical statement the next thing
shat demands attention is the care OF
milk from the time it is drawn and up
through all the processes Of manufac-
ture. All elements of uncleanlineSs
must be carefully excluded from the
milk and from all utensils Of the dairy.
not only because they are Objectionable
III themselves, but because they promote
fermentation and decay. Every point
about the dairy should be so constantly
clean and well cared for that the owner
would at all times take pride in showing
a customer around, and with the full
confidence that an inspection would add
to the good opinion formerly enter
tanned.
Not only are these products often of
inferior quality, but at times they. be-
come actually dangerous as articles Of
human food.
The reason given for exercising this
extreme cleanliness is, that it is now
known that all the changes of decOmpo-
sition in the milk from healthful ami
mails, are due to the introduction into
the milk after it is drawn from the
cow, of low forms of life. These germs
cause sourlnS, make the milk ropy, blue,
etc, Milk drawn absolutely clean, into
cnelnlcally clean vessels, and then sealed,
VIII remain sweet indefinitely.
THE STABLE.
l. This should be warm dry. well
ventilated, well lighted. but without
drafts OF cold air. Dryness, sunlight
ana fresh air are as necessary in stable
TO MAINTAIN vigor of cattle, as in n
human habitation Shutters with NOV
able Stats which will darken the stable
while still permitting the circulation of
air, are very desirable for summer use,
2. The stable should be kept scrupu-
lously clean, if first-class dairy products
are desire, and abundance Of straw. or
sawdust, or dried peat, and even of dry
earth, may be necessary to absorb all of
the liquid excreta, the effort being to
absorb this at once.
.. AS dlsinfectants and purifiers of air
III stables, II frequent use of white wash
on the walls and wood work, and of
ground plaster, sprinkled over the floors
is, necessary. BY the frequent use of
white wash and plaster we NAV keen
the air of stable sweet and pure. The
managers should be kent thoroughly
clean. They should be FREQUENTLY
washed out with strong salt and water.
otherwise mold will grow in them. esne,
clally in the corners. This mold taken
into the stomach may produceinfamma-
ton OF that organ, and it is also possible
mat II may produce the disease known
as lump jaw.-Iudependent.
GOOD DAIRY MAXINIS.
1t is better to have a COW that viii,
give you 300 pounds of butter wear ia,
five years and then die on vour hands
than to have one that will give Won Don
pounds year for ten years and tbe,
make you 800 pounds of old COW beef
1t is better to have a heifer calf GROW
flank and pot-bellied but thrifty. tha,
one that keeps as fat as seal e
1t is better to feed cow every ounc
of food she has the ability to take car
of. than to try and gain profit by savin,
feed. " '''
1t is best to teach the cows gentlenes
than to saw off their horns.
1t is better to pay $50 for a registere
bull calf than to have grade bull give
you.
1. Cows fed moderately on cotto
seed the year round never die of mul
rain,
2. Equal parts of mutton suet an
kerosene oil will cure caked bag in cow
Apply warm.
Denmark has for the past twenty-fv
years spent $50,000 annually in ii
maintenance of dairy schools. AS r,
suit of this training of the dairy mait
the butter of the country has improve
in quality so greatly within twenty yea,
that Denmark's exports of butter hay
increased from s., 100000 to $l3,00O,0C
per year.
l. To spend every surplus dollar in a
endeavor to make your land reach IL
highest possible state of fetility, and
improving your breeds of stock will pa
YOU the surest and best interest.
3. Stocks of all kinds, from a co
mule, steeer, heifer, lamb, kid and pi
should never be allowed to shrink
flesh from the time they are dropped u