Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
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At THE Birmingham (Eng.) show
there was competition for the hest
dozen OF preserved eggs. The eggs
had to be sent into the custodyaSs' the
secretary PRIOR to Oct. l, so thafat the
time OF examination by the Judges
they had to be at least two months
DID, and 1t was objected by many that
the time was too short and ought 10
have covered six months. The plan
OF testing adopted by the judges was
as fellows: To break one of each set
Into clean saucer, then to bring the
best eight together in the same sauce
pan, putting them into cold water and
removing from the fire as soon as
boiled, and allowing them to remain
one minute and half before tasting.
Another set, one from each selected
dozen. were boiled ten minutes, and
opened when cold. Those preserved
In lime water we're not satisfactory.
milk of lime being more highly recon-
mended. Others that had been coated
with melted drippings or beeswax
were also found wanting, the whites
being thin and watery. The best had
been simply packed in common salt.
These had not lost sensibly by evapo-
ration, had good, consis tent albumen,
and tasted best when boiled. The eggs
that took the second prize were ad-
judged nearly as good as the first
Poultry Keeper.
Estimating Bad Traits.
Certain traits and peculiarities of
disposition, says an English paper, run
for generations in families of farm an
amals, just as ia branches of the hu-
man family. In one strain there is a
certain flightiness, which breaks out
Unexpectedly and often very incon-
veniently; Ia another there Is thread
of stubbornness; in a third a constant
suspaciousness under every new condi-
ton. etc. A popularity will disappear
for a generation, but one knows that
certain strain of blood is practically
bound to bring it back. One Of The
most certain ways to strike out quick
nervousness for instance, from fam
lily of cows, Is to mate them with an
inbred bull of peculiarly solid and
easy disposition; but the first cross is
rarely enough in the case of sucked
offspring, because the influence of a
dam goes for sonething. The nervous
dam. even shifting danger, ccmmuni-
Gates her notions to the calf, and the
improved brain Of the latter is more or
less affected by force of sympathy.
Around the Dairy. !.
Filthy dairymen ought to be run out
of the business.
Hoard says that if the COW has a
hard, dry hacking cough, suspect tu-
berculosis.
There is not much difference in the
merit of churns except that some work
easier and more rapidly.
Oats and peas sown together at the
rate of about three bushels to the acre
make nearly green crop for cows.
If the calf is permitted to suck the
cow more than two or three days the
cow Will Ut III udiiy utPOoSo
1t is profitable in hot weather tc
keep the cows in cool stables with
screen doors, at least in the middle Of
the day.
The addition of gluten meal to the
ration of corn meal will make per-
ceptible increase in the daily flow ol
milk.
Educate the people to know that ole
margarine is dirty, dlsease-breedine
compound, and then let the courts pro-
tect 1t as much as they like.
It Is said that placing fresh water be-
fore cows in the stable, so that they
can drink little whenever wanted, in
creases the yield of milk sufficiently tt
repay cost of pipes and appliances II
a very short time.
One dairyman raises his calves OF
separator skim milk, with a little
white middlings stirred in, after the!
are two weeks old, and until they are
four weeks, when he adds wheat mid
dIings and old process meal.
How to Treat Overfed Hens.
When a flock of hens will not rang
over the fields in fair days, but sit un
der trees or bushes, making no effor
To exercise or seek food, 1t indicates
that they are overfed and too fat an
will not produce eggs. The best treat
ment is to give no food for a week. 81
as to compel them to exercise ana re
duce their flesh. 1t is useless to attemp
to secure many eggs from very "a
hons. as they are then out of condition
for laying.-Rochester Post Express
Large and Small Eggs.
proaucers generally have little ide'
as TO the strictness shown by dealer
an discriminating between large an
small eggs. says the Toronto Sun
eTbere." said one, pointing to lot 9
email eggs. "are some No. eggs tina
will weigh about eight to nine pounh
10 the hundred; they will only sell 10
lie Large brown eggs, such as W
oct from about Ayr, produced 0
plymouth Rocks, weighing Is pound
/. n the hundred, will sell at &c. In
english market regulates the price
this particular. The English COZ
SINNERS demand large egg, and as
,s not worth while paying freight o