| Show DA lity AND POULTRY interesting CHAPTER CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS bow successful farciert operate thil thus of the turin A few rw I 1 11 to the care are at 0 live I 1 if back P axi and I 1 aultry Jouit rj A hotter butter farm one hears so much nowadays writes rites ft correspondent ot of the globe eng und or of the excellence ot of foreign butter and of the inferiority ot of the home 1 I product that it may perhaps be inter feting to get an insight into the bur roun soundings dings of one of our many compel a 4 in the manufacture ot of this useful neicle it Is true that brittany by no first on the roll of for manufacture so much so in fact that a great deal of its butter Is sent to denmark to be re hipped thence to bigland aland and so come into the english under tinder the prestige which right ly attaches to toe we danish product this beever boever Is by the ft ay the act fact re cairis that i large quantity of dreton breton beuer goes direct to Ln angland gland and Is afifah a as such on its own merits those I 1 use it are prepared to maintain its gerior ity over that made at homo home lettus lottus take a glance at the breton iftner er and his surroundings and see be so take almost any high rom in brittany Dritt any very excellent they af 1124 too and you will soon arrive at a WOOD lane leading out of it A most lane it will be possibly it vill lead between bleb high banks thickly studded with pollard oaks beneath I 1 which the swine will be greedily taBB taft Chine ching acorns and an old woman in a white cap and a blue dress will 11 I 1 be b a solitary cow or a flock of VOW W or a mixed crew consisting of a ww 1 sheep and a couple of geest ats a matter of course she will be knitting witting busily or it may lead down e aal avenue of chestnuts whose fruit Is 3 property and you will see two erthree or three women and twice as many children stamping the nuts out of their prickly covering with their wood aa B babets the chestnuts form a val vable addition to the peasants homely bomely I 1 i for aft of bouillon black bread and the I 1 inferior potatoes the best are given etli 0 the pets of the family the pigs to twit alt this plain fare Is washed down bibb copious draughts of elder cider tea and 1 cattee being luxuries which smack too 6 much of extravagance to the ahr ft lov tax peasant it Is not too much to say that saving saying Is the one absorbing pas III of the women and only challed ri athe the men by their love of strong uk k the lane will debouch into an att field where here the men will at to be octobie Octo bir be seen shaking ian the fruit from the apple trees the shout which may po possibly tribly greet B arrival will viii be not a tribute to but in honor of their hai having ing just bed hed a tree on oa these occasions the mug goes round as indeed it will beginning the next As there are y trees on every farm and farms avery very hand as well a BaLchan bacchanalian alian val appears to be in progress what ih the continual shouting and cheer one farm answering another and detate ate of drunkenness which prevails pr evalla where 0 0 0 t let us anter the house itself and khe he actual surroundings in which brittany butter has its origin hern hem will find no cool cleanly ddlly on oil tont ont there Is a mud floor of thi eat st description sometimes with lies es of water st standing arding on it I 1 cu nto to a room which fro tron n its table ered with unwashed cup and plat efrom from its array of cupboards some of priceless oak from its close t which line the wall Is evidently living and sleeping room of the ly here from an oak chest you 10 madame in the whitest of caps an ze contrast to her surround lings 4 several terra cotta colored earth 0 hire re bowls full tall of milk she skim and than she will pour ha he milk into a tub to fo the pigs if it closely you will aee ee fair of black dribble out of the beirl with alth the last cupful of milk she ithen 1 then churn the cream in a churn ped ed something like a bottle with a k in it which bich or s up and down i perhaps the most disgusting feat wk lot of the perform performance atice Is that instead tC wetting etting her finger linger with water when N Is making up the butter she aigist tham with her tongue this ie Is an ll cable item in breton butter miko people have tried in their own les es to make their bonnes botine sg use a 4 f it unless the mistress actually tea 3 over her servant the latter will ill dee ce return to the old familiar habit he e butter when made is of gool good tor r and color and Is palpable enough hose ose who are unacquainted with iti ito near Quim there 18 t baerle or dairy here P grything cry thing ift io on improved modern principles the proprietor ablis and actually ins three francs a pound tor for the cle le he produces this in a country re butter fetches from half a franc ne franc at the ordinary farms ks volumes tor for the estimation in ich ch common cleanliness Is held and r extremely rare it Is the better is of residents in brittany will not I 1 to tk k bought milk on account of the ty habits of the peasants who it aben the arrange 0 te ta on english farms thi cleanly i which prevails and the inspection 14 airles Is taken into consideration 11 ems ms strange that anyone can prefer S foreign butter to that made at ie e for the consumer knows ab to itchy ply nothing as a rule of the coane 1 under which the foreign article reduced whereas where aa he can be toler f ure sure that every possible i Is to taken talen in bis his own country to en ea cleanliness and the absence of con cating re to say nothing of df be a health of the cove cows thoms elTes elres i desp r will ra yea units killed ny soap A moore in bulletin coraell comell 1 ariment station it is a common 0 6 fience of those who are engaged 7 in the be investigation of animal m to occasion occasionally illy find out outbreaks brelka ot of a n peculiar kiture among sv s ill fed hocq uy by these ire meint berls of gr breiter citer or r 11 ICES II atz size usually kept wr or within the outskirts of our villages or small cities and which are fel dpn up in the kitchen refuse often including dish dishwater wa collected from holds hotels boarding houses and the cause of death in the oil ait breaks Is i in this state at least usual usually ay attributed to hog cholera the dials buls for or this popular diagnosis seems to be la in the similarity of certain of the symptom symptoms manifested by obese animals to those of bog hog such for example aa as diar rhiea and partial paralysis and the tact fact that a majority of those attacked die the courso course of the aisea disease e la is irregular deaths occurring in from a few hours to several days after the lymp toma toms appear during the past year I 1 have had occasion to make lai estIra tlona into luto the nature of several of these outbreaks of a supposedly infectious disei e in a few fea of theae these OLICS hog ho cholera or swine plague was easily demonstrated in certilia others however these or other infectious diseases could not be found the animals were usually fed fhe the kitchen slops collected fron from hotels aind hoarding boarding houses the tissue changes in the animals exam ined were it atypical typical of an known dis case ease und and notwithstanding the bacteriological ri examinations which were made together with animal Inoc eions with pieces of the diseased or cans the canse of death remained undetermined the post mortem examinations showed in nearly all of these animals enlarged and dirk colored lymphatic glands especially those of the mesentery the blood vessel vessels ot of the mesentery were very much distend ed with ith blood the alier and kidney kidneys were usually not affected but occasionally sio nally these organs were In involved voled acre there had been marked nervous s symptoms the br brian tin was as much congealed congested occasionally the lungs contained areas of rol ol lapie the intestines were as a rule palle and the mucous membrane seemed to be abnormally shiny the negative outcome of these laveeta gigions suggested nig that possibly our methods had been faulty or abit come some unknown conditions existed which had bail obscured the cause of death and that after fter all the popular diagnosis of an in tedious disease was right against this theory was the fact that the disease did not spread from the affected herds to others although as a rule precautions were not taken to prevent its dissemination and in some instances the neighboring herds were most fi favorably situated for contracting the di dibease ease it it hid bid been contagious in certain of the ou outbreaks the exceedingly filthy condition la in which the pen pens and yards were kept tied in the absence of a knowledge of definite agents that the animals had died an as a result of their unsanitary surroundings roun dings and unwholesome food a which in some instances Is still entertained as being highly probable however vc we were still confronted with the problem that in many outbreaks neither a specific infectious disease co lid ild be found nor the exciting cause os ot death pointed out altho although agh it w was as apparent that jhb cause of the deaths was to be found in ili thi food the feeders of this kind of will failed to see why they should discont liuo its use naturally they felt that if v w e could not nud find or demonstrate the pretence ence of the destructive agent in the will the cause of death must b be lomet blog else probably hog cholera r tho sands of bogs hogs are annually raised lipon this kind ot or food fur her the plea that such gibbage wa was not dot a suf table or even eden wholesome food I 1 for r their animals availed nothing for jo ahe he reply was that usually their pigs thrived upon it early in the summer in conversation on this subject with mr W F divey an enterprising farmer living near brewerton Uie Bie werton N T he related the circumstances concerning conce an outbreak of this kind in which he had traced the cause of the trouble to the soap used in washing dishes the swill including the dish water was as collected from three small bo ho els and fed to a herd ot of swine in a short time the animals began to sicken and many of them died upon inquiry it was found that in the hotels hoten large qu quantities ot of powdered soap were used in washing ashing the dishes this wi w stepped stopped and no more animals died laier later in the season dr J A mccrank bt ci plattsburg Platts burg told me of an outbreak of an apparently infectious disease among swine which had bad come under hia his observation and in which he rould could not make a positive diagnosis in the of its it cause he found that the hoga hogs were being fed the swill including the dishwater from a EL hotel upon inquiry he found that powdered soap was bein beans used in large quin quantities titles the swill from this place was stopped and the disease disappeared in following up the line of inquiry which these experiences suggested it was found that there Is among the more enterprising antt farmers a quite general belief that thee soaps when given in ble quantities are injurious and even fatal to hogs the concerius con cenius census ot of opinion on this subject together with the more definite observations of mr davey and dr mccrank appeared to be go so conclusive that it seemed important to ne by careful experiment to what client extent it at all powdered soap soaps can be considered as the cause of death in thin class of is ts farmers children it Is to 0 be regretted that eo so many of our brightest and best young people are seeking r occupations than farming some of them doubtless are choosing aright but we believe that many who arc lre going to our cities and large town towns espe specially those who are going froin from farma farms would do much better to giro sire their theu time and labor to the cultivation of the this soil oil Practical farm barint r 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