Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-02-27
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Testing Preserved Eggs.

there was competition for the best
dozen of preserved eggs. The eggs
had to be sent into the custody of the
secretary PRIOR to Oct. 1, so that at the
time of examination by the judges
they had to be at least two months
old, and it 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 follows: To break one Of each set
into a 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
boileu, and allowing them to remain
one minute and a half before tasting
Another set, one from each selected
dozen, were boiled ten minutes, and
opened when cold. Those preserved
In lime water were 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, consistent 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
dmals, just as in branches of the hu-
man family. In one strain there is a
certain flightiness, which breaks out
unexpectedly and often very incOn-
venientIy; in another there is thread
of stubbOrnness; in a third a constant
suspiciOusness under every new condi-
tion, etc. A popularity will disappear
for a generation, but one knows that
a certain strain of blood Is practically
bound to bring it back. One Of -he
most certain ways to strike out quick
nervousness for instance, from fam
lily of COWS, is to mate them with an
inbred bull of regularly solid and
easy disposition; but the first cross is
rarely enough in the case Of sucked
offspring, because the influence of
dam goes for soneething. The nervous
dam, even shifting danger, communal
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
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.
Cats 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 be injured for dairy purposes
1T is profitable in hot weather to
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 a per-
ceptible increase in the daily flow Of
milk.
Educate the people to know that OLE
margarine is a dirty, disease-breeding
compound and then let the courts pro-
tect it as much as they like.
It is said that placing fresh water be-
fore COWS in the stable, so that they
can drink a little whenever wanted, in
creases the yield Of milk sufficiently 70
repay cost of pipes and appliances in
a very short time.
One dairyman raises his calves on
separator skim milk, with little
white middlings stirred in, after they
are two weeks old, and until they are
four weeks, when he adds wheat mid
d1ings and Old process meal.
How to Treat Diverted Hens.
When a flock of hens will not range
over the fields in fair days, but sit I'M
der trees or bushes, making no effort
to exercise or seek food, it indicates
that they are overfed and too fat and
will not produce eggs. The best treat
ment is to give no food for week, so
as to compel them to exercise and re-
duce their flesh. 1t is useless to attempt
TO secure many eggs from very tat
hens, as they are then out Of condition
for Iaying.-Rocheste Post Express.
Large and Small Eggs.
Producers generally have little idea
as to the strictness shown by dealers
in discriminating between large and
small eggs, says the Toronto Sun.
There" said one, pointing to lot of
small eggs, "are some No. 2 eggs that
will weigh about eight to nine pounds
TO the hundred; they will only sell for
lie. Large brown eggs, such as we
get from about Ayr, produced by
Plymouth Rocks, weighing Is pounds
TO the hundred, will sell at &c. The
English market regulates the price in
this particular. The English con-