Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-25
The Care Of Cows.

Mich cattle, receiving Indifferent
care, age great deal More rapidly than
others.
A defect or disease of the udder or
teats, as gargety condition, is, in my
experience, apt to grow worse with age.
A naturally good COW, if she has had
rough usage, will be played out in q
lacteal sense when she is eight OF nine
years old.
Many of the so called incurable cases
of garget and diseased udder are moth
ing less than tuberculosis, and when
tolerated are terrible menance to con-
sumers.
Some originally simple injury to the
udder, such as confusion or inflamms-
tion following retention of milk at
calving, may later form the indus for
specific infection.
tuberculosis in the lungs of milch
cattle is bad enough, but in the gland.
ular udder it is a hundred times more
dangerous to consumers of milk, but
ter and cheese.-American Cultivator
Expense of Hauling.
Regarding the making of stone roads
the question is frequently asked wheth.
or the increased taxation does not
amount to more than the advantages
gained. State Commissioner Budd, OF
New Jersey, reports that before the
construction of good roads the expense
oficarting few pounds of produce to
market was SO great that farmers,
where possible, found it much cheaper
to send by car or boat. But now they
are purchasing broad tired wagons,
which carry from 100 to 225 five-eights
bushel baskets of vegetables and fruits,
while before they only carried from 80
to so baskets, and are returning with
from three to tive-ton loads of manure
On the ferry leading to the Philsdel.
phia markets this year the passage Of
2,44O teams per day was counted car.
rying from three to five tons on each
load. Stone roads place the farmers
almost at the door of the consumer
saving many intermediates, all of whom
are forced to have profit. His in
creased loads, the saving in transporta
tion, the dispensing with the com mis-
sion man, and the delivering of tht
produce to the grocer or consu mers
doors have resulted in saving to the in
dividual farmer sums ranging from tel
to twenty dollars on each load
Popularity Of Bronze Grass.
This grass, technically known a
Bromus inermus, is proving itself ont
of the very best grasses for the nortl
and west 1t yields we'll according t,
the s. D. experiment station and make
a very sweet hay of dark green colol
1t is at least three weeks earlier than
wild grass which renders it very valu
able for early grazing. The only ques
tionable feature about the grass is tina
by long standing it becomes too thick
On tststion farm plat seeded il
'98 was SO thoroughly sodded by .
that the growth was small. This pla
yielded less than another plat sown tn
same year. A plat seeded the middl
of July, @7, grew evenly, was cut i
June and the crop yielded four tons o.
cured hay per acre. The grass wa
from "A to 4S In. high when cut. Plat
seeded last year made good catch
One of the great problems of the nortt
west is to get tame grass which wi
stand the conditions to which it is sub
jected each season. 1t seems that thi
grass just about fills the bill and unles
the matter of forming tough sod
!, an objection, it will soon be widely dis
, tributed.
, The standard weight Of the seed is
, lbs. to the bushel. but this weight
seldom attained owing largely to tt
! presence of chatf. The seed is som
: times adulterated. Owing to the big
price of the seed, buyers should III
]. caution to see that they get seed of
thigh percentage Of termination an