Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4340, 24 November 1908, Page 4

Farm Notes.

A NOTE FOR DAIRY FARMERS

A case «*»me under notice recently in which u l'aru.Or, when treating a valuable cow for milk fever by the method of pumping air into tto udder, completely .-p«»i!t the cow for n.Ukiu;r pippoSt s ly gross carelessness. S» fur ns the attack of milk fever was concerned, tho treatment Was eminently successful, but shortly after, symptoms of acute inflammation of the udder appeared, and as a result, the cow is now yielding an offensive brown-coloured mixture of milk and pus instead of pure milk, and it is practically certain that she will lose at leest two of her quarters. The whole cause of this trouble was the use of a dirty teat-tube at the time the animal was treated for milk lever. The owner admitted that it had been lying about in the cowshed for some months before, and that he did not take the trouble to clean it bofore he used it! Whenever a a teat-tube is used, it should always be first thoroughly cleaned and then sterilized by immersion for a few minutes in boiling water. The. sore shoulder in horses is usually caused by the dirty collar. The more uniform and comfortable the dairy cow’s surroundings, the more uniform will be her yield. Depth of rib, together with the well-sprung rib of a wide horse, means heart, lung and digestive capacity.

Are hop - pickers doomed ? In America hoys are being picked by machines. Five machines, it is said, can do tho work of two hundred and fifty pickers. Grass will always be the mainstay, and should bo grazed systematically by being subdivided. Tliero is more in systematic grazing than most farmers will acknowledge. - A cubic inch of bone taken from the leg of a half-bred spring-cart liorse, will weigh less than a cubic inch of bone from tho leg of a thoroughbred. If placed under a microscope, it will be found that the tissue and the earthy matter ol the former is coarser and looser than that of the latter. The cause for the decline of the milkmaid is explained by a correspondent of the North British Agriculturist as follows : —“ A lnd and lass come up here coarting.. She drops hairpins aboot, a coo eats them and dees. Whr’s tae pey ?” Many farmers will not allow a woman to tend their cows, owing to the hairpins dropping among the fodder.