Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-03-02
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Testing Preserved Eggs,

there was a competition for the best
dozen OF preserved eggs. The eggs
had to be sent into the custody of the
secretary PRIOR to Oct. l, 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 TO
have covered six months. The plan
OF testing adopted by the judges was
as follows: 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 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 mad
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 adj
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
finals, lust as in branches of the hui
man family. In one strain there is
certain f1ightiness, which breaks out
unexpectedly and often very lncon-
veniently: in another there is thread
of stubbornness; in a third a constant
suspiciousness under every new eondl-
ton, 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 or me
most certain ways to strike out quick
nervousness for instance, from ram
ily of cows, is to mate them with an
inbred bull of peculiarly solid ana
easy disposition; but the first cross Is
rarely enough in the case Of sucked
offspring, because the influence or
dam goes for something. The nervous
dam. even smiling 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.
to h, mt
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.
II 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 per-
ceptible increase in the daily flow of
milk
Educate the people to know that ole
margarine is a dirty, dsease-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 little whenever wanted, in
creases the yield of milk sufficiently TO
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
dlings 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 1t indicates
that they are overled and too fat ana
will not produce eggs. The best treat
ment is to give no food for a week, SO
as to compel them to exercise and re-
duce their flesh. 1t is useless to attempt
to secure many eggs from very fat
hens, as they are then out OF condition
for laying. Post Express.
Large and Small Eggs,
Producers generally have little idea
as to the strictness shown by dealers
in discriminating between large ana
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 .
10 the hundred, will sell at &c The I
English market regulates the price In |
this particular. The English con-
sumers demand a large egg, and as It.