Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-11-21
sOURSFARMERS.


refuse IN butter and. cheese making
Years ago farmer who kept twenty
COWS to supply as many customers
with their products, also kept at least
half as many hogs. The COWS were
confined in a dark narrow lean-to,
Withoutsbedding. The solid manure
was thrown out of board slide win
dow under the caves to leach in the
rains and dry in the sun, the liquid
running through cracks in the hoor
to be lost forever. The swire were
kept In open pens near the house,
with yards to root in, and walloWed
in the mire for lack of absorbents TO
save the liquid. Then prime butter
sold for % cents per pound, ana |
cheese for Is cents; pork from ten 10 |
twelve dollars per hundred. Butter
was then packed to keep from June
to the next April, without cold stor-
age, pork would keep indefinitely II
salt was always to be found in the
barrel. Now the contrast: warm
and well lighted barn, wide lean-to,
and especially barn cellar for the
saving of the entire droppings, the
stock being housed in summer as well
as winter while not at pasture, we'll
bedded with absorbents, and the
swine ready to work their board IN
labor on the manure pile and adding
TO 70 fn16 w
to the high price of feed it hardly
pays to keep more swine than can be
fed on the waste products of the farm
and dairy.
Japanese barnyard nilIet is proving
to be a very satisfactory forage crop
for COWS and swine. We are feeding
it the second season. That cut the
first of August is now ready to cut
the second time. We are still feeding
the first planting, which is seven feet
tall and stands almost solid. It is
eaten clean and equals oats and peas,
, and, in fact, anything we have tried
for the purpose, and see no reason
why it would not make irst-class en-
: silage.-G. E. Chadbourne, Bridgt0n,
|, Maine.
+, Horse TechnicaIities.
a A white spot on the forehead is a
; star. white face from eye to eye
: is bald face. A strip between the
!, nostrils is snip. A white eye is a
:. glass eye. A horse has pasterns, not
!, ankles, and there is no such point as
{; hind knee or fore shoulder. White
:. around the top of the hoof is a white
/ coronet. White below the pastern or
above the pastern is white leg. A
. nose. Amble is a gait like pacing,
but slower, in which the two legs on
the same side are moved together.
). The Group is that part of the horse
= back of the saddle. The fore arm is
b that part of the leg between the ell
bow and the knee, and the elbow is
a the joint of the foreleg next the knee
/ and not to the side. When the horse
: FORCES it strikes the toe of the fore
,. foot with the toe of the hind one, ant
o this is sometimes the result Of bat
% shoeing. Everyone should know tina
d, the hand, commonly used in describ
"a ing the height of horse, is one thir
u of foot, or four inches.-Ex.
Preventing Milk Fever.
John Gilbert, an experienced En-
~ glish dairyman, takes the ground tina
a. prevention of milk fever in cows
"a better than cure, even if cure ca
be effected through the simple a.
u treatment with bicycle pump. ID
- handles large numbers of incom1n
COWS yet he has not had case
es milk fever in the last twelve year
wv says the Maine Farmer. His prevent
1t i've treatment is as follows:
rs. every COW coming in with he
third calf or over should be LIBERAL
fed on usual keep, according to tin
~, of year; in winter she should be kel
in box Qoose) when expected
hat calve. She should have one or tv
ain pints best linseed oil day Or so b.
fore calving, and again twelve hou
ldy after calving; bran mash an hour
md so after calying. and bran mash, wi
ply chaff and hay, for two days. The co
or and calf should lie loose, but the CO
- should not be MIXED for at least TO
ons ty-eight hours after calving. In t.
we'll case of dead or weakly calf, about
18th quart may be MIXED four times
lbs. twenty-four hours.
lgs, "And this is the. whole secret.
c. many it may seem unnatural, bul
"in' heavy milking cow is an unnatul
animal. And is it natural to ia
)ileI i'o'i !" "" J"9' 0"iFo1 "n"' INC -
,iob would not take until a month oil
20c: The strain ont system in reple
ems. ishing the milk supply is, l think, t