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LIVE STOCK.
Points of a Good Cow.
At the Ohio Dairyrnjen’s Association meeting,
M. C. Baldwin delivered an address, in which
he gave the points of a superior cow. His views
were summarized as follows :
Head, small ; good dairy cattle had small
bones, and as the head was principally bone, it
ought to be comparatively small. Neck thin and
comparatively long. Fore parts comparatively
light. Hind parts deep, hip high, whole body
tapering forward. The hind legs should stand
out well, contrary to the aims of Short-Horn
breeders. Tail should taper considerably, eye
brows should be small, fine and slightly flatten
ed. The abdomen should sag down, contrary
also to Short-Horn principles. All points of
superiority were prominent in very superior
cattle, but were not so apparent in those of less
excellence.
He named four points or marks which he con
sidered infallible in the selection of good cows.
The lacteal veins should be Jarge, as also the
veins of the udder, and the net-work of veins
on the rear of the udder should be prominent.
The escutcheon or milk mirror was in itself an
infallible guide. Restlessness was an indication
of a good cow. In taking the photographs of
animals represented in the drawings, the best
animals were taken with the greatest difficulty,
as they would not stand still a moment, scarcely.
With the poorest there was no trouble at all.
The quantity of milk was always in propor
tion to size of milk mirror. More depended
upon the size of the hip mirror than on the
width of the vertical mirror—contrary to the
teachings of the books. Constitution, digestion,
etc., all corresponded with the size and promi
nence of the escutcheon. Cows having two
“ oval marks” on the rear of the udder, were
always extraordinary. The size of the front
mirror is ascertained by measuring the distance
from the front teats to the junction of udder
with the body. If front mirror is large, the
rear mirror is always sure to be, and thus you
could ascertain in the heifer, what kind of a cow
she would make.
The quality of milk can be fairly judged by
the color and oiliness of the’danruff on the upper
part of the rear of the udder—the lighter the
color, and the more oily, the richer the milk.
Jersey cows had this mark developed promi
nently.
How to Make a Horse Stand Without
Holding.
After you have him well broken to follow you,
place him in the centre of the stable—begin at
his head to caress him, gradually working
backwards. If he moves, give him a cut with
the whip, and put him back to the same spot
from which he started. If he stands, caress
him in this way until you can get round him
without making him move. Keep walking
around him, increasing your pace, and only
touch him occasionally. Enlarge your circle as
you walk around, and if he then moves, give
him another cut with the whip, and put him
back to his place. If he stands, go to him fre
quently and caress him, and then walk around
him again. Do not keep him in one position
too long at a time, but make him come to you
oc'asionally, and follow you around the stable.
Then make him stand in another place, and
proceed as before. You should not train your
horse more than half an hour at a time.— Rarey't
Horse Trainer.
Rkmkuy fob Lick on Cattlb.—l see a great
many things recommended for lice on cattle, but
I think they have all failed to get the right
thing. The most simple one is dry dirt, sand,
or any of our western soils in fine powder.—
Rubbed well into the hair, it will rid and clean
them of vermin, in one or two applications.—
There are so many fowls roosting in the cattle
and other stables, in the Host, that they are
sure to get lousy.—-1 R. t Kasson, Minn.
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What has the Grange Done I
From a speech published in one of our ex
changes, we make the following extract:
“It has caused business to be conducted on a
more economical basis, and consequently has
cheapened all goods bought for cash. It has
brought producer and consumer nearer together.
It has inaugurated in public sentiment a revo
lution in favor of a cash system. It will take
years to complete it, but that revolution has com
menced, and millions have already been saved
to the people. It has inspired the whole agri
cultural world with a spirit of economy. It has
already begun to elevate farmingas a profession,
and has drawn farmers nearer to each other, so
cially and for business purposes. It has given
impetus to intelligent farming everywhere. It
has sown seed that will ripen into a rich har
vest of prosperity for the farmers, and conse
quently for all classes. It has inaugurated a re
formation that will not cease until virtue and
honesty once more bear sway where ignorance
and corruption hold high carnival. It has put
three millions of farmers to thinking. Are not
these achievements enough for so short a time?”
An Order with 21,000 Grangers and 100,000
members, to whose ranks accessions are being
steadily made at the rate of 400 Grangers with
at least 18,000 members every calendar month
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in business operations, can scarcely be said to be
collapsing.
GRANGE NOTES.
The Maryland Granges have sent over S2OO,
to the suffering people of Kansas.
The “Grange Outlook” in Tennessee is
strongly in favor of taxing all incomes over
$2,000.
There are 1,053 Granges in this State, with a
membership of 36,000, and a balance of $3,435,-
96 in the treasury.
The Nebraska" State Board of Agriculture is
offering a premium of SIOO for the best 100
sheep.
The Grangers of Winchester, Wis., have or
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There are 582 Granges in Arkansas.
There are over forty Granges in Washington
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consin.
January Ist, there were 21,995 Granges in
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Wisconsin has now 2,508 Granges, against 304
a year ago.
The Indiana Granges have increased from 400
to 2,000 in the past year.
lowa Granges paid out in charity, last year,
$7,327.09.
The Patrons of Tennessee will this year re
duce their cotton crop one-half, and increase
their corn crop one-half.
The Newton county, Indiana, Patrons have
organized a Deposit and Loan Association.
The Patrons Mutual Insurance Association of
the State of Kansas has been organized by the
Executive Committee of the State Grange.
Patrons in Kansas are saving 25 percent, on
their corn, by purchasing it through the agency
of the lowa State Grange.
The Executive Committee of the Missouri
State Grange has contracted for 500 reapers and ;
mowers, to be delivered in season for the next
hairest.
It is claimed that the Order has saved over
$21,000,000 to the members since its organiza
i tion, and that they have invested at the present
time about $17,000.
The Executive Committee of the Missouri 1
State Grange has closed contracts with St. Louis
manufacturers for the distribution among l’a
-1 trons, at wholesale prices, of $20,000 worth of
i agricultural implements.
Eighteen months ago, the Patrons of Hus
bandry had not organized a Grange in Tennes- (
see; now there are 1,041 Granges, all repre
sented to be in thorough working order.
The Order is succeeding in Texas; despite
hard times an 1 the necessity of money, about
one hundred and fifty Granges have been
formed.
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saved to the farmers of lowa, during the last
twelve months, the handsome sum of $1,500,0U0. ‘
j The Southern Plantation says the Grangers’
Life Insurance Company has no connection with
the Order in Alabama, has received no endorse
ment from the State Grange, and is not working
in the interest of the Order.
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For the Rural Southerner.
Strawberry Shortcake —Put three table
spoonfuls of butter into one quart of flour, and
beat one egg very light ; one cup of sour cream,
one tablespoonful of white sugar, one teaspoon
ful of soda, one saltspoon of salt. Add the egg
and soda to the milk; put all together, hand
ling as little as possible. Bake in one cake on
a round tin. Bake quickly. When baked, split
it open and spread it with butter. Lay upon
the lower crust a thick coating, several deep of
strawberries, cover them with sweet cream,
sprinkle powdered sugar over them to your t aste;
cover with the upper crust. Put in the oven
for a few minutes to heat through, and send to
the table hot. Mbs. S.
For the Rural Southerner.
Green Peas.—Wash them before shelling.
Shell and pick over nicely. First put the pods
in just enough water to cover them. Let them
boil fifteen’minutes, then skim out and putin the
peas. Let them boil fifteen or twenty minutes.
When done add butter and pepper to suit your
taste. Mrs. L.
For the Rural Southerner.
Beans.—String them carefully and wash well.
Put salt into boiling water and then put in the
beans. If the salt is put in before the beans,
they retain their color, and are better flavored.
String-beans should cook a full hour. When
done, drain the water carefully from them, and
transfer them to a hot vegetable-dish. Add
butter and a little pepper. Mrs R.
TKK dairy.
Points in Butter Making.
At the recent meeting of the Vermont Dairy
men’s Association there was an interesting dis
cussion concerning several points in butter
making, reported by the Utica Herald, as fol
lows :
Mr. Arnold was asked how he would build a
milk room for a farm dairy. He replied that
where the milk was usually all right and condi
tions favorable he would need only a cheap
tight room, with double walls to enable him to
control the temperature. As for setting, he
preferred large pans, large enough to hold a
whole milking. It is time to skim when the
finger can be drawn through the top w ithout
having the cream close behind it. When cream
will do this it is about ripe enough to churn.
When cream foams in the churn it may be cured
by warming. Cream should not be churned as
soon as taken from the milk. It should be stir
red together and allowed to ripen all alike.
This will occur in twelve hours or so. But
cream should not stand until whey is formed in
the cream jar.
Freezing does not materially hurt sweet
cream. In old cream the result is an oiliness
to the butter. In thawing out frozen cream,
heat very gradually. It does nut hurt ceim to
freeze for weeks, but it must not freeze and
thaw and freeze again, for this is harmful.—
Sometimes, however, a mere freezing will ac
complish a decomposition of the cream. Pre
serving the grain of the butter consists in keep
ing whole the structure which is formed by the
coining together of the minuteparticles in which
the butter comes. When butter is examined by
a glass, it appears crumbly if the grain is perfect.
It has almost a granular appearance.
The Best Depth of Milk for Cream.
Experiments made to ascertain the best depth
for setting milk for cream, gave the following
results: A lactometer of the usual width lOj
inches high, gave 12 degrees of cream. A glass
vessel 2) inches wide with 3| inches depth of
milk gave 3j degrees of cream. Another vessel
of glass with 2 inches of depth of milk, and 10|
inches wide, yielded not quite 2 degrees of cream.
The milk was not a mixture, but all from the
same cow, and stood 36 hours. This would
warrant the opinion that cream is not cast up in
greater quantity when not placed in very shal
low vessels. The cream was carefully taken off
the two latter vessels, and the skimmed milk
put into a lactometer; that from the widest
vessel gave t w o degrees of cream, and that
from the second in width about a half degree.
A thermometer, placed near the vessels ranged
from a little above 47° to nearly 50° the whole
time.
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