The Globe-republican., 1900-01-18
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Departments OF the FArm-A Few
Hints to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
DRir Notes.

cutters and shredders- By the old
way, waste was encouraged The large
ends of the stalks were uneaten and
had to be cast out as rubbish. They
were not even fit to be used for bed
ding. Where shredding is possible |
these same stalks are not only rem
dered fit for the cows to eat, but if.
by chance, anything be left, it is suit
able for bedding.
It is estimated that the butter and
cheese consumed in England amount
to $4,000 tons, OF which 264. 900 tons
are imported The wonder is that the
Engl.zh buy much of their dairy prod
uctS pm countries that are more |
denselI populated than England Even /
the far ends of the earth are helping |
to supply this important class of food |
1t is rather humi1iating that the |
United States of American can get so |
small a part of this immense trade, |
and that, too, because some greedy men
are allowed to impose the British
public by bogus products
A contemporaneous dairy paper says
that it does not regard the grinding
together of the corn and cob, into
What is known corn and cob meal,
as any advantage to the feeding ra-
ton. However, it has been demon-
Strated that the cob ground up is as
valuable the meal pound for pound
provided it be ground or mixed with
the corn meal. One of the largest feed
only grinds up all the corn on the cob
that it can get, but even goes to the
trouble of purchasing corn cobs by the
carload to grind up for the of its
cattle, and regards corn and cob meal
very valuable.
New Zealand is not going to be be-
hind other countries in fostering her
export trade in dairy products. Real
izing that the government regulations
of Canada, Australia and Denmark
have accomplished much in the way of
developing their export trade in dairy
products, New Zealand has placed on
| the statute books act called the
Dairy Industry Act" Among other
things this act provides for the stoT-
ing, at government expense and under
/ government supervision, of all butter
| intended for export, provided the but
| ter be not put into the warehouses
/ more than thirty days before the
| steamer that is to take it sails Sim
| liar regulations are made as to cheese.
| The whole is under control of the de-
| partment of agriculture.
The Pure Butter Dealers Associa-
ton of Philadelphia is doing a work
| that should be paral1e1ed every
state where there are butter laws II
is gathering evidence to present in
| court to the sale of o1eomargarine
| for butter not only by the butter
stores but also by the restaurants and
iDte1s. It is not that the sellers OF
suits, but it stirs up the people to e
realization of the fact that such
places are selling using butterine
instead Of butter Most of our hotels
| put, on proud airs and would not fol
"a good deal have the travelling public
| convinced that they use a substitute
for butter. Only keep these places ad
vertised and they will soon discard
o1eomargarine for pure butter. The
same is true of big grocers, especially
| -
tom, that of tie rich and we11-to-do
Too little effort has been made to bring
their habits to the notice of the PEG
| pie.
Keeping the COW stable clean ant
sweet is one of the necessary requi
Kites of good da1rying. 1t is impos
sible to draw milk in a stable that i
nauseatfng in it's atmosphere and hav'
the milk pure The atmosphere fur
nisheS the cause of bad doors tina
become worse when developed in tn
milk 1t is not infrequent that a mai
takes great pains to have his hand
washed and clean clothes when h
milks and yet allows the odors of tn
manure to permeate the Who'll
stable that it is impossible to get goo
l results to clean product Ever
few months the stable should be give
a thorough cleaning, using not onl
I've washes but disinfectants well
Then the daily task should be to kee
: 1t clean OF course it is not posSibl
4 to do as great New Jersey dairymae
i | doeS-keep a man to do nothing bu
. | to remove the drOppfngs fast a
f | they made, but the barn should
f | cleaned out often enough to proven
7 | the odors from permeatng every
thing Whitewashing is valuable be
= | cause it not only covers up germs thu
:. | may have escaped the disinfectar
washes, but acts as a reminder to til
| dairyman that his stable is to be keI
:. clean. Dirt cannot accumulate O
Whitewash without being recognize
and thus the cleanings are likely to
nearer together Some have adopte
the practice of painting the board
near the cows with coal tar TIL
would appear to be good thing.
, prevents the boards taking in fit
and holding it. they should also
easier cleaned for this painting.
u Poultry Notes.
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