Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 25, 1897, Page 7

a DAIRY AND POULTRY. WTeresTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. dow mg Farmers Operate This Dew rtment of the Farm—A Few Hints as to the Care of Live Stock and Poultry. Butter-Making in Hot Weather. T is possible to make good butter in hot weather with- out a cellar and weenowt ice, but a good well is essen- tial, writes Kendall Perry in House- keeper. There should also be a milk house, or, at least, a roof set ob four good uprights, and a_ t&nk or long trough that may be cov- ‘red. Discard the shallow milk pans and get the tinner to make deep pans with lids, or, if you prefer, make a cloth cover by stretching mus- ‘in over a hoop the size of the can, I ike this method because it keeps out all dust, but does not exclude the air. The trough connecting the milk tank ;2hd pump spout may be a home-made ane, or you can buy iron piping for the purpose. Fill the tank at least twice a day. The water, as it warms, need aot be wasted. Ours passed through Ton tubing into a watering trough in the next yard, where it was used for the stock. Our creamery cans hold three pailfuls of milk. They are skim- med as they are set in the tank by the eminine portion of the household, but are always lifted in and out by the men. By keeping the cream pail in the ank and stirring the cream after each imming, a good, uniform grade is S assured. Use a churn from you can draw the buttermilk without lifting. Banish forever the »id-fashioned dash churn and the wash- ‘ng of butter by hand or in a butter bowl. Use a thermometer, and churn just when it registers the correct de- ee. Do not try to get butter in ten utes by hard churning. I do not begrudge fifteen or twenty minutes. When the butter comes in small gran- ules like shot or peas, drain off the buttermilk, pour in a pailful of cold water, move the dasher briskly from tide to side, but do not churn, or you will have the butter in a compact roll. Drain off this first water, add another pailful, repeat the washing, then take up the butter, salt it very thoroughly and work it with a cool paddle. When the salt has thoroughly permeated the butter, work it a second time until no brine flows from it. Sometimes it ie J better to let it stand over night before working it this last time. Pack it tightly in sone jars. Preventive Against Blackleg. For several years frequent reports fave come to this bureau concerning she great mortality from blackleg among young stock in many widely separated districts of the United States. {n some of the Southern and Western states especially, the annual losses from this fatal disease have been so great as to equal or exceed the losses of cattle from all other causes combin- ed. These losses have been particular- ly felt by the progressive stock owners, as by far the largest percentage of the calves which became affected were either full-blooded or highly graded an- mals, which seem to be more suscept- ble to this disease than the ordinary common-bred stock. As the continued existence of this disease has a very detrimental] effect upon the cattle in- du y in general, and especially upon th stock owners who, through un- tiring efforts and great expense, have avored to improve their herds, an by this investigation has been made each calf two doses of highly attenu- ated blackleg virus, with an interval of ten days between the inoculations. The first inoculation is made with a very mild vaccine, the so-called “first lymph,” and the second one with the stronger virus, the “second lymph,” and in each case the vaccine is intro- duced by means of a hypodermic syringe under the skin of the lowcr part of the tail. This method, which is very inconvenient, especially where a large number of animals are to be treated, was later modified by a Ger- man scientist, Kitt, who reduced the process to a single injection with less attenuated virus, and who chose the loose skin on the side of the chest just behind the shoulder, for the point of inoculation. Kitt’s method has been adopted to a very large extent in east- ern Europe and northern Africa with very satisfactory results, and it has, for that reason and on account of its simplicity, been taken as the founda- tion for the investigations made by this bureau, A “single vaccine” has been prepared in the pathological laboratory, and subsequently tested op a large number of calves in Texas, both com- mon and high grade stock, and the re- sults warrant the conclusion that this vaccine is in every way, satisfactory. It is desired, however, before distrib- uting this vaccine to stock owners in general to obtain a record of several thousand successful vaccinations. For this purpose a quantity of vaccine will be distributed to such parties as may desire to make preliminary vaccina- tions and report the result to this bu- reau, Those stock owners will be pre- ferred who already have experience in vaccinating stock for blackleg and are in possession of a vaccinating outfit. Explicit instructions will, however, be sent with the vaccine to secure uni- formity of operation and to assist those without previous experience in vacein- ations, Persons lacking the necessary outfit to test the vaccine should procure one if they propose to test the vaccine. It consists of a graduated 5 c. c. syringe with detachable needles, a small por- celain mortar and pestle, a glass fun- nel and some filters. This outfit can- not be supplied by the department, but must be purchased of some house which supplies such articles.* Upon applying for vaccine please an- swer the following questions: 1. To what extent does blackleg pre- vail in your part of the country and how great is your animal loss from this disease? 2. What experience have you had in vaccinating calves against blackleg? 3. How many head do you wish to vaccinate and what class of cattle are they, common, graded or full blood’ 4, What is your express office *The outfit is prepared in accordance with the plans of this bureau to meet the temporary demand that may arise in introducing this vaccine. If vacci- nation should ge extensively adopted as a preventive of this disease similar outfits will, no doubt, be for sale by other dealers furnishing this class of supplies. Until this may be the case, the unusual course of mentioning a dealer by name in a department pub- lication is followed. D. E. Salmon, Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry. Approved: James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Where Chickens Rule. There is an old “gag” about those brutes, farmers, shooing, dogging and stoning the chickens away from barn- yard and feed pens, that I am heartily tired of and would like to see suspend- ed beside the picturesque cabbage head | of ancient tradition, writes Cora Haw- kins in the Texas Stock Journal. Noth- ing in the way of a lesson is quite as effective as an object lesson and such a one has been my portion this pres- ent season. Heretofore screens have kept the larger fry and the old hens from gardens and out of mischief. But this year we eschewed such luxuries that the men starved the poor fowls, which was the cause of this voracious eagerness for rations from the house, but now I know it is nothing but dev- iltry, pure and simple. Again, no soon- er is a bed nicely made than some evil- minded biddy, possessed with the spirit of the father of lies, selects that par- ticular place for a nest and deposits an egg, a good thing in its place, but not a suitable decoration for a sleeping apartment, and having accomplished this feat, off she goes raising a racket that sets the housewife’s nerves a-trem- ble. About the barns and feeding pens it is the same story over again. When the horses are fed a dozen ciamorous fussy hens gather about each feed box and a good large share of the tired herse’s dinner goes to appease their in- satiable appetites, to say nothing of the injustice of disturbing the honest equine laborer during his short interval for rest and refreshment. With pigs, cows and sheep it is the same; the ever present hen must have a sHare of their food as well as of everything that can be picked, plucked or stolen all over the farm. Then if a particularly nice set of harness is hung carefully to it- | self, that set of harness is the chosen roost of some half dozen enterprising chickens and the results are distress- ing. The family buggy, too, is not neg- lected, and the Sunday reflections of the family about starting for church would not make good reading. I have also had another object lesson along differ- ent lines, but still connected with the poultry. A writer in a late Colorado paper has the following: “Because a man is a man, should he have all the good things of this earth? Must he have the horses, the cows, the hogs and sheep, and then have the chickens, too? Shall he not then have the whole earth with a barbed wire fence around it?” Time was when the farmer’s wife had the proceeds of the poultry yard for pin money and she sometimes flew high with the results of sales of eggs and spring chickens, but now, somehow or other, the chicken money goes into the family purse, which is, nine times out of ten, controlled by the “man of the family;” that uncrowned monarch who grudgingly doles out to those who have done their full share towards earning the available finances such pittance for household requirements and their own personal expenses as he in his wisdom thinks ought to be enough for them. Not all farmers, it is true, grudge the money their wives spend, and tke pro- portion of those who recognize that their matrimonial partners are entitled to a share of the rewards as well as the trials of their mutual -business is, we are glad to say, increasing; but if the men could be for a short time in the places of their hard-working, patient wives and realize how hard it is to have to ask for every cent of spending money, that would be an object lesson that would be worth millions of dollars to the women of our agricultural dis- tricts and make life easier and pleas- anter for them for all time. Breeds Running Together. When the hatching season ends the different breeds can run together in one flock, says American Poultry Keeper. It would be an advantage to have no males with them, but it will not injure the stock should the males and hens be of different breeds. Some breeders con- tend that when a hen is kept with a male of a different breed her progeny will never again be up to standard re- quirements in points, but we have nev- er known any injurious results from such a course if the breeds are sepa- rated two months before the eggs are to be used. We have known of the sep- aration of the breeds to occur only ten days before using the eggs, and in the experiments made we found the in- fluence of the male to extend only five days. We advise more time, however, and suggest two months, in order to be sure that no mistake will occur. It is expensive to keep the breeds separated i | # (om any i d hy Wr Y Uf F “Ey Mh ih i Me A A TYPICAL SHROPSHIRE RAM. p= = : = sacs nce = << = by with a view of devising some | and experimented on the “forage” plan | in summer. More fences are required dmiease through which the steadily in- | to its extremest limit. Every living | and frequently the separation must be creasing losses might be arrested or re- duced as much as possible. In Europe, where this disease has long prevailed, the animal losses in certain badly in- fected districts became so disastrous cattle raising had to be abandoned. About fifteen years ago three French scientists, Arloing, Cornevin and Thomas, succeeding in producing a vac- eine against blackleg, which is now-ex- tensively used in many countries where the disease prevails to a serious extent. The method consists in injecting into creature connected with the poultry yard has enjoyed absolute liberty, ex- cept poor me, and the result is that I would make soap grease out of every fowl on the place, fine or otherwise, before I would again be tormented as I have this year been. No sooner do dishes commence to clatter in the prep- aration of a meal than somebody must mount guard to keep the table from be- ing cleared by wholesale and our vic- tuals from disappearing from the plates } bv retail. My former impression was | i rs accomplished by confining the hens. We have always allowed all of the hens to run together after the hatching sea- son is over, and have done so for thirty years, with no injurious effects result- ing therefrom so far as the purity of the breeds was concerned. Teach your wife, sister and daughter to harness before you send them off on errands with “Old Tom.” Such knowl- edge may prevent a serious accident some time. Knowledge is power even in this line. PSE IES Bt RE SL OO a SA Ee Ne BORNE OTe NPN Mae RRO Y AEP IER Aree ROIS Northwestern inventors: Solomon P. Bentley, Springtield, Mirn., station indicator; Alfred Ben- ten, Sr., East Pierre, S. D., car coup- ling: George V. Bigley, Minneapolis, Minn., barrel, ete.; Paul M. EB. Cars- tens, Duluth, Minn., stringed musical instrument; Robert Clinch, Combina- tion, Mont., miner’s folding candle- stick; Charles Gullicksen, Grand Forks, N. D., telemeter; John M. Ben- ton, Lead, S. D., door spring; Godfried Laube, Huron, 8. D., stove; Ed Skaar, Kenyon, Minn., automatic wagon brake; Charles E. Wagoner, Hagle Lake, Minn., sled propeller. T. D. Merwin, Patent Lawyer, 910, Pioneer Press Building, St. Paul, Minn. NATURE MOCKS AN INFIDEL. A Seed Answers a Dying Countess’ Challenge to God. In the town of Hanover, in Ger- many, there is buried a German count- ess who denied the existence of God and ridiculed the idea of the resurrec- tion. To further show her contempt | for Christianity, she ordered that on her death her grave should be built up of solid masonry and covered by large stones bound together with iron clamps. On this tomb was engraved her defiant challenge that through eternity this tomb should never be dis- turbed. But one day the seed from some tree, either blown by the wind or carried by some bird, became lodged in a small crevice of the tomb, where soon it sproyted and began to grow. And then, as if nature had seemed to mock the haughty infidel, she quietly ex- tended the delicate roots of that seed- ling under the massive blocks of stone and slowly raised them from their places. And now, although scarcely four generations are passed since that tomb was sealed, that most insignifi- cant seedling has accomplished what God himself was challenged to accom- plish.—Ladies’ Home Journal. The Malingerer Caught. A soldier in Dublin was suspected of malingering during the spring drills. He declared he could not raise his right arm above the shoulder fer ex- tension motions, owing to rheumatism. He was ordered to see the doctor, who made him stretch his arm out level with the shoulder. The doctor then suspended two weights from his arm, and the man, being somewhat proud of his muscle, said he could bear heavier weights still, so long as his arm was in that position. The doctor then quietly got a razor and suddenly cut the string, and up flew the arm above his head, as high as any extension motion re- quired.—Edinbugh Scotsman, An Impression. “Oi must confiss,” said Mr. Rafferty, “that it ain’t clear ty me what’s meant by arbithration. ” “It’s a great ting,” replied Mr. Do- lan. “Oi’ll explain it till yez. ‘Spose two people have a quar’]}—” “Which is li’ble to happen any day——”’ “They call in three or four other peo- ple to take a hand and expriss an opin- ion, an’ the result is absolute peace or a gineral free fight, nayther of which is ty be desired.”--Washington Star. The Honest Farmer. “It’s dreadfully queer,” said the housewife, “that the potatoes you bring should be so much bigger on the top of the basket than they are at the bottom.” “Miss,” said the honest farmer, “Lt comes about this way: “P’taters is growin’ so fast right now thet by the time I git a basketful dug, the last ones is ever so much bigger than the fust ones.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Explainable. “These people next door must be queer.” “Why?” “They've lived there more than a month, and I’ve never seen the post- man stop at their house.” “Oh, well, perhaps the man prefers to have the bills sent to the office.”— Detroit News. A Brief Criticism. “I have only one fault to find with this poem,” said the soulless editor. “And what is tha inquired the author, “It’s no good.”—Washington Star, Knew Something of Each, Fred—Pa said “honesty was the best how Fred—Well, Pick Me Up. does pa know?— Halls Catarrh Cure Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. A womin in Manchester, England, has eyes which magnify objects filty times their natural size. ‘The oculists consider her a wonder. An Appropriate Ticket. Trotter—I am going to Circle City, away in the interior of Alaska. Perkasie—I suppose you will buy a round-trip ticket?—Puck. ‘Patents Issued. List of patents issued last week to Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets, Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever, 10c. If C. C. C. fail druggists refund money. A Powerful Argument. Her Father—So you wish to marry my daughter? The Diplomat—Yes; but a dearer wish of mine is to comfort your own declining years. Her Father—Say no more. You'll do. —New York Journal. ‘The Pompadour Prince. “I knowed all the time that the} Frenchman would get the worst of it,” said the man who bet so hard on Cor- bett that he hasn’t yet recovered. . “Oh, did you?” asked the other man. “What made you so wise?’ “I knowed it, I tell you, as soon as L see his picture and the way he wore his hair.”—Boston Courier. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. It C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. Modern Methods. “Our missionary tells us that the bi- | cycle is even pervading heathen In- dia.” “So the benighted natives are learn- ing to ride, eh?” “No, not to any great extent; but they are fitting the car of Juggernaut with pneumatic tires.”—Cincinnati En- quirer. Uncle Billy’s Wisdos. “Bobby asked Uncle Billy what noise was.” “What did Uncle Billy tell him?’ “He told him noise was any old kind of racket—except the kind we like to make ourselves.”—Detroit Free Press. And Now They Don’t Speak. Old Maid—There is an art in learn- ing to forget. Miss Young—Birthdays, for instance. —New York Herald. Four oranges eaten every day are ef- fective in removing the desire for intox- icants. One should be eaten before breakfast, one at 11 a. m., 3 p. m. and 6 p. m AN OPEN LETTER The greatest merit of an: medicine is sure relief. That's the great merit of Sagwa. 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SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “PITCHIER’S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now bear the fac-simile signature of on every: wrapper. pt ltden This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is. the kind yow have always bowght on the- and has the signature of (Tdi wrap- per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company President. March 8, 1897: of which Chas. H. Fletcher és Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute: which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennieg on it), the ingredients of which even he does not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” BEARS THE _FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF ~ CG Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed Youn. s R KEEP YOU DRY. Don’t be fooled with a mackintosh fe h@ or rubber coat. 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