A NEW WAY OF FEEDING MILCH COWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2079, 3 November 1885, Page 4

A NEW WAY OF FEEDING MILCH COWS.

[TIMVRU HhllAM).] In the«o days of "HcmiHitio farming " the good ulil ruins of in.in.igmg stock to I o quito out of fnnhion. Everything must bo done at "high pro-wire," and the unfortunato animals, insteid of being allowed to crop the hucculnit pasture aiui enjoy themselves after thnr fashion, arc craminui with food chcnncilly analysed and administered on scientific piincipleK, with the mow of producing certain scientific icaults. The latest " fad "of this kind which has coino to our notice consists of administering codlivcr-nil to cows with thr wow of improving the quality ofthur milk. An Ksso\ dairyni.vn was Kd to adopt tins plan from reading a statement by Sir J. 13. Livvos to the effect that oilciko was chiefly valuable on account of the oil left in it, which, for purples of food, lie valued at Is per lb. The dairyman found ho could Ret a barrel of cod-liver-oil for £<> which amounted to only fid per lb, and ho resolved to try its effects Ho started the plan of giving each cow tliree ounces of oil night and morning, in addition to the umal foods, grama, roots, me.il, kc. The quantity co*t not quito 2d per day. "Tho result,' ho tells us " h.is been most satisfactoiy in e\ery way. The digestion of all tho animals unproved at once, their general health and condition all through tho cold weathei has been all I could desire, and, without being able to give any an.tlytic.il or scientific data, I can only Hay that m my experience as a cowkeeper I have never had Mich excellent, sweet and delicate milk and butter in the spring months of the year until I adopted this new departure in agiiculture." In fact, tho Essex danyman gets quite enthusiastic over tho subject. It h true, he remarks with a tingo of disappointment, that it docs not increase the quantity of tho milk, but he strongly asserts that it enriches it and improves the condition of his stock. He was ho pleased with its effects on the cows that lie tried it on hw horses, and even on his wife and children, in all ca*os with the most gratifying success. If this dairyman is an enteipnsing man, and wishes to make a rapid foitune, he will advertise his milk from covvi! fed on codhver oil as tho great remedy for consumption. There is no doubt tho patients might tike many things that would be woi-e for then), and knowing how prone the public aro to run after panaceas, we venture to s.iy there is a gold-mine in this idea to anybody who can judiciously take it np. _________^__

Thk worthiest people are the most injured by alandciers ; as we usually find that to be the best fruit which the birds have been picking at. Thkke is a sad tale of a leading article writer whose editor had views of style. The views were that the same word muat never be repeated in an article. Now the word "grouse" occuired twice in the same paragraph. "What do you mean by thu ? " cried the angry censor as he scanned the proof-Bhect ; "grouse twice, and in one paragraph, too ! " " Well, they are grouse," aaid the impenitent scribbler ; " what else can I call them ? " " Call them ! Why call them the feathered deni/en* of tho moors," yelled the editor with a feeling for style, and probably that article on the Twelfth must have been one of the most curious, by dint of periphrases, that ever charmed the leisure ot the top of the omnibus. A coxsiontAiiLh part of the American petroleum shipped to Europe is, after being deodon&ed, made into butter and suet, which are used by the, poorer classes to some extent, but very largely by bakeia in the large cities, who use it in making cake. The confoctionets also employ it. It has a great a (vantage over butter in that in store cakes or in candy the petroleum not only docs not become lancidaud bttray the age of the article, but acts as a picservative in keeping the other ingrediuuts of the cake or candy from spoiling. A recent hjgieuic council, sitting in Paris, piotebtcd against the use of oil, but it is not thought its consumption in this way will be lessoned. M. Albert Wolff tells a good story at the expense of the late Jules Vulles. Although a Socialist, VallCs was far from disdaining iilthy lucre ; and w hen Villemessent engaged him to write the daily chronujue lor the Evenement at £1200 a year he was beside himself with joy, and at once adopted a more luxurious mode of living. After three months his chroni'jue was found to be too heavy, 1 and Albeit Wolff (this was in 13G6) was [ deputed to tell him that he should have £800 a year for three articles a week, the other three to be done by Wolff himself at a similar salary. Valles' reply, j says M. AVolfl, soon became historic m journalistic circles. He answered ', haughtily, "I have arranged my life upon the footing of £I*2oo a year, and I rer fuse to make any concession." In the ' end he had to submit, and wiote a novel J for his 'JO.OUOf., instead of making l clironiqueb. <i TiikKL are two ways of looking at a > picture. Mr Ruskm has extolled Mr i Holman Hunt's "Triumph of Innocence " . as " the greatest religious picture of our [ time." Air C. G. Lcland, the weU-known i American writer, pronounces it to be the 9 greatest humbug of the day, and a queer . mixtuie of craukiness and cleverness, f He says : — "The Triumph of Innocence " c might, asiegard3 name, be more appro- - puately styled 'Three Children Sliding s on the Ice,' oi ' The Two Green Donkeys.' ir Mho Demon Mokes ' or ' Goblin Abscs ' - might also be suggested, tmicc the first t thing which strikes the beholder's eye is the wild, unearthly, eccentric expression - of the eyes of these evidently uncanny I creatures. The most impenitent mule s that ever let out his heels in a tangential s curve at his driver would shrink appalled c at theii glance." c A Nkw L/UToiihTj r.— We owe a debt t of the deepest gratitude to our Teutonic q bicthrcn.for it la through their marvellous ■ powers of invention we are in possession •- of an infallible test for gauging the quality n of that curiously subtle compound denomr mated London milk. No longer can the >t traditional." 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