Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-21
THE FARM AND HOME.
@ATrERso FiNrEREsr ToFARM.
Err AND HOUSEWIFE.
" Big Head" in Horses, an 1n.idicu.
Disease which Bafies Veterinary Ex.
perts How to Keep Frelh Meats
Sweet Creamery We. Dairy Butter.

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1t is well to know that no & Of
"big head" have appeared in this coun-
try among the many thousands Of
horses brought in from America, says
the London Live Stock Journal. This
most insidious %disease-the origin and
treatment of which have baffied the
most eminent practitioners to discover
was first encountered in the neigh
borhood Of New York, Staten Island
and New Jersey being particularly UNI
fortunate In possessing cases. Wheth-
er it be contagious OF not Is doubtful,
but the probability is that 1t Is SO.
There is no pain or serious incon-
venience to the sufferer beyond a dull
ness and loss of appetite, the chief
symptoms being m enormous increase
Of size and swelling between the muz-
zle and eyes on the top Of the face, and
this Is accompanied by constant sc0ur-
ing.
1t is curious, however, to notice how
the bones Of the animals attacked by
big head become affected, as this dis
ease has the effect of rendering them
both brittle and porous, s having
been known in which the cannon bones
have snapped when the animals have
been made to move fast. The most
commonly accepted theory that is held
to account for the prevalence of the
disease is that some pollution of the
land exists, and various dressings have
been experimental with in the hope
that the disease will be stamped out.
Some of these are believed to have been
successful, as cases Of big head have
become less frequent. Still the mys-
FERROUS nature of the epidemic has baf-
fled the experts who have studied it in
all its phases.
To Keep Fresh Meat Sweet.
Charcoal is of great value in keep
ing ice chests, storerooms and food
sweet. Place IL shallow dish of fine
charcoal in the ice chest. If poultry
IRE to be hung in n cool place for n few
days remove the internal organs, and
partially fill the body with charcoal.
Wrap the birds in paper and hang up.
If the outside of poultry is rubbed
with black pepper 1t will be still further
protected from flies. Small birds, liver,
kidneys, sweetbreads, etc, may be
wrapped in paraffin paper, and then
buried in a bed of charcoal.
Fol keeping large pieces of meat and
poultry have n large barrel or hogslead
half filled with charcoal. Put meat
hooks in n strip of joist and place 1t
across the top of the barrel. Have a
netting spread over this. This barrel
may he kept in a cool place, and pieces
of meat hung ON the hooks.
Creamery Versus Dairy Butter.
When we look ut the market reports
we see that butter is classed as "cream-
cry and 'dairy." Creamery implies
that 1T is made in n factory from the
milk of n number of COWS owned by IL
greater or less number of individuals.
Dairy" butter is made from milk pro-
duced OH the farm. If we notice the
quotations further VIC see that cream
cry is quoted much higher than dairy
butter.
What is the cause of this? First. the
impression is that butter made Mt the
factory is far superior to dairy butter.
This is erroneous. Taking all things
into consideration, it is possible to
make better dairy butter than factory
butter. In the making of dairy butter
the farmer has the care and feeding of
his own c0ws under his own control:
also the care of the milk from the time
1t leaves the COW until it is n finished
product, ready for the market. There
fore he should be able to make a finer
product than any factory can.
The factory man does not have these
favorable conditions. He has the milk
from a number of farm dairies, fed ON
different kinds of food; the milk is
hauled from one to six miles, arriving
at the factory warm and partially
churned. But under all Of these condi-
lions his finished product sells for more
than does the butter of the individual
farmer.-New England Farmer.
Eggs for Matching.
While 1t is possible that pullets make
the best layers, and are therefore most
profitable for egg production, 1t does
not follow that their eggs are best for
increasing the flock. The pullet's egg
is generally understood and does not
sell we'll. But it is worse when used
for setting. as the chick from it will
also hn small and hav.o loo, ,,t4.y.A.