Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-21


Sweet murmurs, like the Sirens singing,
Alluring, in orr ears are ringing.
High overhead, in amorous talk,
Midst shady boughs, the birds rejoice;
The leaflets smile; and, as we walk,
Shy violet peeps and lifts her head.
The river DER the falls goes dashing,
And rushing headlong DER its bed.
The rivers just as we've been wishing.
Away with care. Come. Let's go
fishing!
The Angler
The following points connected with
the work of Prof. Harrington, who has
charge of the chemical work at the
worlds fair milk test, are made by
Mr.. NIonrad of Chicago in recent is
sue of The Creamery Journal:
And right here allow me to assert
that Prof Harrington has demonstrated
two facts about the Babcock test of
sufficient Importance to pay for the
whole of this work. One is not new
and has been demonstrated before
yet it is very important to have it
emphasized and that is the danger in
not running the tester at a sufficiently
high rate of speed, and know what we
are doing, hence we must use testers
with cog gearing and avoid friction
and belts, as they are liable to slip
giving less speed and thus show a
lower reading.
Il have long ago come to the con-
clusion, and had to go back on my
opinion expressed the Dairy Messen-
ger No. p that drop-pockets with fric-
ton gearing would be the best ma
chine, and in Germany the criticism of
the Babcock test has been traced to
this very fault of too low and reliable
speed.
''The other fact developed by Prof.
harrington is new to me, and with his
usual modesty he ascribes it's dis
covery to accident" yet men who are
lot experimenters seldom meet that
kind Of accidents
The Farmers Field 9
THE readers of The Journal and all
other dairy papers will have noticed
that we have all explained the pheno-
menon Of black spots in the oil, which
sometimes confCse the reading by say
ing the acid must have been too strong
This, according to Prof. Harrington, is
not so, but is due to the way in which
the acid is run into the milk. If it is
run in a straight line in the center of
the milk, as is the case with automatic
filters prof Eaprin
these black Specks appear, whereas, if
the acid is poured in by hand, holding
the bottle in a slanting pOsition-thus
allowing the acid to sneak down the
sides, they do not appear Thus we
live and learn.
1.-THE statement of the points above
mentioned, viz, the danger of not run
ming the tester at sufficient high rate
of speed and the necessity Of cog gear
ing and slightly different method of
pouring the acid into the bottle, are
worthy of the sharp scrutiny of every
one measuring the value of farmers
cream by the Rabcock test"
When an animal does not eat suffi-
Gent to support its strength it is usual
ly due to indigestion. This has several
kinds of results on the animal. 1t pro-
duceS a cough by reason of the close
connection of the nerves of the stomach
and those Of the lungs. The breathing
is disturbed and irritation occurs in the
air passages. The animal loses flesh
on account Of insufficient nutrition.
The kidneys are deranged and the
urine may be thick or deficient in
quantity and has strong, disagreeable
Odor. The remedy is to give some
laxative medicine first as a pint of
raw linseed oil, repeating it the second
day after. Tonics should follow, as
one ounce of ground gentian root, with
one dram Of sulphate of iron and half
a dram of iOdide of potassium given in
bran mash. This may be given daily, I
not forgetting a thorough brushing of
the skin, which is greater help than
is commonly thought. !
A well-to-do farmer, who has by
slow degrees learned the lesson Of how
to make the farm pay" says: 1--WE I
never really prospered until we learned
to live out of the garden and cellar
instead Of the grocer's store" Good
food in abundance and of great variety,
grown on the farm should be the first /
object of every farmer.
It was said that dairyman who |
was milking a large herd of average !
cows, took five of the best and five of !
the poorest ones, and keeping an ac-
curate account Of feed and care, found /
that while the five good ones were pay
ing a fine profit, the other five were ac-
tually costing him 81 per head annually |
over and above the value Of the milk |
they yielded. Individual test is the only |
means of ascertaining the profit and |
loss in the dairy.
If some enterprising breeder will |
take the useful Light Brahmas and by !
careful selection, year after year, until |
he breeds off the feathers from the |
legs, he will no doubt find plenty Of !
customers for his stock. 1t cannot be !