FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 362, 13 April 1910, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

GENERAL NOTES. Few cows know anything about uit theory of dairying, but, most of tiim. understand the practical side of tii« business, and this is what counts. Linseed niual, in .small quantities, is a fine food lor breeding sows: it keeps the stomach ileal thy and .furnishes food for the making of bone bacon. The superiority of the Danish milking cows is distinctly traceable to tha building up of the herds from the "breeding centres" established «-.s Kir back as 1884.

There are two essentials to the successful working of poultry with the dairy; the first is to have a line of egglayers, and the second to pro,perly feed, water, and care for the fowls.

Where there is an ample supply of water for cleansing purposes, the dairy and milking yard should be kept as clean as the bedroom of the dairyman. The effect on fhe milk would be speedily noticeable.

An English paner chronicles the performance of a cow which, between March 0 of one year and Febvuan' 28 of the next, gave 1438 gallons 1 quart of milk. This is an extraordinary yield, about three times the average.

, The cow suffering from milk-fever fails to recognise her calf; this is one of the Eure signs of the trouble.

TJie percentage of solids, not fat, in cream, is slightly lers than is to be obtained from a test of whole milk.

In .picking up .young pigs catch them by the ears, or the hind legs; they will not squeal if handled this way. Newly-calved cows should always be given a little extra food and a little extra care for the first few days.

• The ripening of cream is nothing else than the beginning of decomposition, brought about by th* action of bacteria.

Several Gippsland fanners have found red clover a valuable adjunct in maintaining dairy herds in good condition. For fertilising the prehard scatter the manure well out under the branches of the trees as well as near the trunks. Cultivate the farm home life. No effect will repay us better. There is profit in old ewes, which, if •kept in good condition, are the best of mothers.

A great number of experiments in manures for potatoes have of recent years been carrier] out in England, and the results obtained have justified certain conclusions.

Pigs that have become too fat toy over-feeding will not be so good a's breeders as if they had not developed a tendency to lay cn fat rather than a disposition to make growth, which will be reproduced in their kind.

It is advantageous to have the pinfeed troughs where they may .be washed or scalded out twice each week at least. Every farmer knows, or should know that foul feed troughs are good breeding places for parasites. The farmer who milks a few good cows should have a little money coming in all the time.

British veterinary surgeons are extremely doubtful a'= to the possibility of extirpating swine fever. Thorough ventilation is one of the first things to be spcured in the dairy if mire milk is looked for.

There are few thines cows like better than parsnips, and few which assist thu milk flow as well.

- Alternating the machine with the hand-milkins: of he v ds has been found to affect th* flow disastrously. Experiments have shown that heifers give better results from machine-milk-iflg than do aired cows which have been used to the hand.

When cream is allowed to become too the flavor of the butter from it will be degraded, and the butter entirely unfit for consumption. It is sheerest foil v for the dairy A man to attempt t,o do business and not to know what each cow in his , herd is doin? in the direction of helping him. The best cow is, not infrequently, the *one that has the best master. Hens not only require food, but also for the Tironer assimilation of that food such thinTS as fresh water, sham srrit, and shell-forming material in abundanc*. Line breeding, ptonerlv followed. is the only certain road to perfection in any direction, whether that be e duction or standard quality in shape and color.

In selecting the male bird to breed layers it is necessary to ascertain if hs comes from a prolific layer, otherwise the results will be uncertain.

Defects in breeding birds are not- always nroduced in the first off«nrin<r. although a number of tht chicks ar# liable to show the defects of the parent stock. >

If a rainy half-fiav should come it would pay well to devote it to cleaning up the poultry house. The writer has visited several farm-houses during the summer, and found almost all of them banked tin below the perches with manure, and otherwise needing attention. A clean, sweet, white-washed hcn-hous« on the farm would be a great and pleasant surprise for the flock. And, it would mean money for the owner, too. One noint at which farmers lose monev is in the selection of their Tooster* Every fowl, like every other live-stock •individual on the farm, has an individuality of its own. Some roosters are from eggs laid bv prolific hens; others descend from very poor layers. These traits are then transmitted through the roosters to succeeding generations. How many farmers can pick out a young rooster from the flock and know for sure than his mother was a trood Taver? Breeding from a properly selected breeding Tien would guard against this. Keep up the sunnlv of green food. A £00(1 lavintr hen must have a eood appetite and abundant energy, but these are of no account unless she has the kind of food, the necessary variety. nlenty of it. and clean, healthful j quarters.

ITnlp«s nip* nrc running it. nasturp, ttree feeds Tier dav are found to be morp nrofitnlVle thin hut two. The feature of the Shire horse is liis ilrlnlP T " t l , weight of bodv oifl massive limTis. TTp is drs<rihprl ns Tip- * in? "as.wide 'ns a wn""on. with n Tpc at. eaeb eorner." TTe is the heaviest hor*e in +he world. TTnmnrVetfible wheif, roar- be ninrlp bv fnpflipcr H nifTS. There it rood monev in nn»V +Tipc» dn-"s. >et.ivit.r' IS nn+ (iTiiPptinnoWe tbn ■fior«» fo r crono 1 " 1 ' *'nrm 'vnrV But, it be activity without nervonsiess. Tlip fpr+i'lisirirr voln* of pit manure Is h*twe*n that of the «\r "rul tlm horop; tb-it of the sbeeri is the riYhPst, in nitrogen. TTip tobacconist had a cough so bad, He looked as pale as dentlj; His "nipes" were stuffed, be only "miffed," Could Reareelv 'Mraw" a breath. Re looked a "weed® "out nn." indeed, Ji-nA thought h°'d SO«n be "pin v." ■Rti-t- Pennpi-mint Cure. that remedy pure Drove ills and doubts away. 11