The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-14

| less injurious to foliage, less liable to be
| washed away by rains, and less liable to
| choke the nozzle of the spraying m chine.
| The formula is as follows:
| Quicklime.. A lbs. ozs.
| sulphate or copper. 4 lbs. 8 oZS.
| Molasses. 4 lbs. 8 ozs.
Water......... ~ gallons.
| The essential difference between the new
| and old formula is the presence of the mo-
| lasses, which has greater influence than
| would at first be suspected.
| The prescription as given by M. Ferret
| is to add the moIasses to thirteen gallons of
| water, then slack the lime and add four
| and half gallons of water to form milk of
| lime. Pour this SLOWLY into the sweetened
water, stirring briskly, in order to mix in
| timately. Next, in the third wooden vessel
dissolve the bluestone and pour this into
the previous mixture, stirring well. In
| this blending of materials chemical changes
are taking place. When the milk of lime
and sweetened solution are intimately
mixed together, then saccharate of lime is
formed. Next, when to this is added the
| solution of sulphate of copper, a double
decomposition takes place. Sulphate of
! lime is formed on the one and soluble sac
| charate of copper on the other. This sac
charate of copper is only formed in pres
ence of an excess of lime, and its forma-
| ton is indicated by the mixture assuming
a beautiful greenish tinge. Thus the mix
| ture is rendered alkaline, the acid being
| neutralized by the lime.
| Aeration of milk tends to drive out any
bad doors that have been absorbed and to
| lessen the taste and smell resulting from
| such improper food as onions, etc. But
| aeration In itself has little effect on the
keeping quality of the milk or on the effect
of Dreaming. However. as aeration is
usually attended by cooling of the milk,
the effect is to retard creaming if the cream
is raised by setting in pans or cans in
creamer. Milk shipped to market is
benefited by being thoroughly aerated.
The following recommendation of the
Ontario Agricultural College is the result
of two trials of feeding wheat to mich
COWS. The ration is four pounds of ground
wheat, four pounds of wheat bran, six
pounds of hay and fifty pounds of silage.
| 1--WE would recon mend dairymen to try
ration of wheat and bran, or wheat and
oats, during the winter, and if it is fed to
the right kind of cows. and the product
| handled properly, we feel confident that it
will pay better than selling wheat at late
prices"
| The secretary OF the New Hampshire
State Board of Agriculture reports that
the law OF that State which requires all
imitation dairy products to be colored
pink ''has stood the test of the courts" and
is in active and successful operation, the
| sale of bogus butter being now "mainly
confined to lumber-camps in the northern
section, and this will soon be suppressed"
A more recent act, making the solicita-
| tion of orders for these fraudulent goods
as illegal as their direct sale has added
greatly in the good work of protecting the
public from imposition. 1.-THE board,' he
| Hx,
would-be consumers of honest dairy
| products from the law, and expects to
| continue active in its enforcement"
| A. Lowe of San Francisco is here work
ing up creamery enterprise, says the
Bakersfield Californian. His efforts in
this direction are being put forth among
the small dairymen south of the town, in
Garfield and Old River neighborhoods.
The plant is to cost, according to his
estimates, $6950, and will be of 1900 cows
| capacity. The building is to be 32x64
feet, with an addition 15xM and covered
driveway 10x1S 1t is proposed to estab-
lish it on the cooperative plan. Already
$3.50 has been promised. Where it will
be located has not been decided upon yet,
but it will perhaps be situated in one of
the neighborhoods mentioned provided it
is a go. Mr.. Lowe is an experienced
to talk up the advantages OF such an en-
terprise.
A poultry establishment costing over
$4,000, says the Baltimore Sun, has just
been completed at Uplands, the country
place of Robert Garrett. The buildings
were all constructed under the direct super
vision of Robert Garrett, who, like many
ladies in this country and England, has be-
come intensely interested in poultry Gull
ture.
The poultry-house is all under one roof
and is over $50 feet long. 1t has three tur-
ret towers, one at each end and one in the
center. One of the towers will be used for
choice fowls, pigeon-loft being in the
second story. The feed will be kept in
the other end tower. A reception-room,
well furnished and equipped with a
library of poultry literature, occupies the
first story of the center tower, the second
story being the bedroom of the poultry
keeper. On the right of the center tower
are accommodations for brooding 1000
"broilers" at one time. ''Brooders" are
devices for providing warmth for artii-
cially Matched chickens, arranged so that
the chickens may run in and out at will.
There are also outside yards in which the
chickens may exercise and obtain fresh air.
Compartments of brooding-pens of thor
oughbred poultry stock are on the left of
the center tower. The house is constructed
OF wood and the floors are all OF cement.
A heavy brick ornamented structure for
the lncubators is in the rear of the poultry
house. As soon as the young chicks are
well dried after emerging from the eggs
they are taken from the incubator and in
lots of 100 are put in the brooder apart
ments.
A building especially arranged for fat
tening, killing and dressing poultry is con-
nected with the establishment. Ducks and
turkeys have separate house in the rear
of the main building.
The trouble with these costly houses is
that the hens get so high toned that they
retire from business, lead listless lives, and
finally die of disease or inaction. Mean
while the hens in ordinary houses, who
| have to scratch around for a living, keep
right at work supplying the country with
eggs and chickens.
| Light single railroads, on which large
| wheelbarrows run, are beginning to be used
| on French farms The rails are fastened