Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-05-07
CURIOSITY SHOP.
What Every Farmer Wants TO Know
of the Newer Notions.
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It Is a thing to think about this
claim that the goat is not subject to
tuberculosis. Some high class English
folk are making safe by the use of
goats milk. Well to do Americans
generally have taken little interest la
| 1t. Where Italian workmen abound
there may often be found the trail of
the playful copra Near small "Ital-
ian quarter in New Jersey city late
/ ~ / came across some of these ami
mails browsing contentedIy on tin cans
broken bottles, etc. while rustling
around with them in general mix
up were number of chubby, hand
some and hardy little Italo- Americans
Of tender years. a striking object les
son on the efficacy Of goats milk for
children
| The British commission on tubercu-
losis reports the public as very slow to
realize the peculiar virtue of this high
favored tactical fluid. People do not
imbibe 1t with any eagerness. But the
| testimony brought forward In favor of
goats milk as a protection against tu-
berculosis In man has an awakening
quality. Scientists of undoubted repu-
| tation are quoted to the effect that the
goat is not subject to tuberculosis.
Among 10000 goats and kids brought
to the Paris abattoirs for slaughter
each spring not single case of tuber-
cuIosis has been found by the inspect
ors.
Three years or so ago there was
quite an effort to boom the milk goat
in this country, but little has been
heard of it since. Now, however, the
advance all along the line In milk
prices, together with the tuberculosis
agitation, may give the milk goat a
4 lift.
The milk goat of Switzerland is "the
/ Swiss peasants cow, the Swiss baby's
foster mother, blessing to santa
RUINS for inyalids and a godsend TO
the poor Why may it not be In some
measure the same here?
/ The Muslin Curtain Idea.-The mus
lin curtain as substitute for glass
windows began it's career i'll the poui-
try house, gave so much satisfaction
and received such Endorsement that
some of the dairy folk thought 1t might
do the trick equally well for their
4 dairy barns. And so 1t does, according
to the enthusiasts. They say the tenn
perature is not very much lower where
! muslin is used, and the air is robbed
of some moisture in passing through
the muslin, so that there is less damp
ness than In more tightly closed barn.
/ Professor King, originator of a very
popular system of barn ventilation, has
criticised the SO called muslin system
pretty severely The farmer does not
need to rely upon hearsay or theory
hot air or cold Ia this matter He
can soon settle the question for him
self.
Joy For Sheep Farmers Barrie's
| whole book devoted to the charms of
MY Lady Nicotine win be as drop
in the ocean compared to the chorus of
4 joy from the sheep raIsers of the corn
belt and some other sections If the
fragrant weed turns out to be real
Fl RAcACAtAfC u 0zi0 1CA&Cd3 AVA tAdt
"contwisted" stomach worm of our
sheep.
i / believe 1t is DR.. III. P. Miller Of
Ohio who has originated or perhaps
revived the use of tobacco for the
stomach worm in sheep. John NJ
Jamison, another well known Ohio
sheep grower, has told in the National
Stockman that he has been feeding to
his lambs tobacco stems from half an
inch to an inch and half In length
bought from factory These he
sprinkles with a very little salt and
no more water than the stems viii en-
tirely absorb. The lambs eat these
readily, and 104 lambs consume from
three to four quarts of stems every
twenty four hours.
Another sheepman reports that he
fed tobacco to sheep all last winter,
and his lambs had nc trouble last
summer from worms though the sea-
son was favorable for these parasites.
i Some sheepmen use tobacco dust and
the refuse leaves. AS to any bad eff
feet of tobacco on the sheep, no one
thus far appears to have reported any
damage. Still, 1t Is well to go slow
with 1t until longer period of expert
ence demonstrates this point decidedly.
Spring Troubles of Sheep.