BRIEF DAIRY NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3570, 7 September 1905, Page 4

BRIEF DAIRY NOTES.

It 1* the neglected oow that never fills the milking pail. Be merciful k> jour eow» if you expect to make money in the dairy business. The cool nights of fall should admonisih dairymen W house their cows Bit night. Bowen- freshly cut from the meadows form a valuable adjunct to the fall feed of dairy cows. To allow the cows to lie in open postures until the nights are freezing oold is to invite a steady deoreatw in milk yield. Unless the nighte are warm and pleasant nt this season, it is wise after the evening’s milking to give the cows a feeding of fodder corn or freshly out rowan, and let them lie on dry bedding in the stable all night. The fodder can be fed to them in their nwdgers. a mil null result in a much more bountiful yield of milk in the morning than if the cows lay out through a frosty night.—National Euni. Bw.ntiaU in I'onltrv Oars, There are ft few rules absolutely n*emmry in the care of alt varieties of poultry. Feed regularly at stated times, and give no more than will be eftten up clean. A change of food will b» relished and will give a good return. Nests and roosting places muvt be kept clean arm free from offensive odor. Fresh, chan water shomd be supplied ove ry day. Qu, ,■ tudv and freedom from alarm of any kind are necessary to command, their oonfkhence, whinfc i» a very important consider*, lion; koep them familiar with your presence and voice, and do not cHsap. point tlwir confidence. Ground plas* ter is on* of the beat disinfectants to ft fifty the offensive odors erf th« hem. aad icoets but iittilij.

The wasp and the tly are Irreconcilable enemies. The presence of a wasp's nest is a guarantee to the whole neighborhood of the absence of flies. A product of the heretofore unproductive, disserts of Utah is u kind of watermelon which is picked in October. The melon ripens after it is picked. An air-cooling system on a vast scale is to he tried at the St. Louis exposition. Great fans will bring down a current of cold air from a height of 800 feet above the earth and pour it over the grounds on hot days. Prof. Wilbur C. Knight, of the state university of Wyoming, is engaged in putting together pieces of a sea serpent which he discovered inTB9S. Th" animal was 00 feet long and is one of the most valuable specimens ever captured. To see objects at a distance of 100 miles the observer must be standing at a height of 6,007 feet above the level of the sea. The rule is that the di.uaroe in miles at which an object on the earth’s surface may be seen is equal to the square root of one and a half times the height of the observer in feet above sea level, allowance being made, for the effect of atmospheric refraction. Prof. McKcndrick, in his presidential address to the physiology section of the British association, in September, remarked that the smallest particle of matter that can be seen with our present microscopes is between one-four-hundred-thousandth and one-five-hundred-thousandth of an inch in diameter. The diffraction of light in the microscope forbids the possibility of seeing- still smaller objects. Yet the living spores studied by ’physiologists are sometimes, probably, even smaller in size than the most minute particle that the most perfect microscope can show. The stars which are called “fixed stars” are, properly so described. They do not change their relative places appreciably even in the longest periods of time with vfhi<fh history has to deal. Take, for instance, the twin stars which form the belt of Orion, that const-i ’ m which is espeeV.ry the g!or\ o ir winter skies. There is no doubt that the relative positions of these twin stars, and their positions relat'vi o other

stars in the vicinity, we Tist the siinie 1,!)<'>() years ago as; t'rmy are tore far at least as the general appearance of the constellation is concerned.