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Show DAIRY AND POULTRY.' INTBRBBTINd CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Mow Snrm.fol farmers Oprrat Tli j Drsurlment ol tha t-nn ' Hint. la tho lar. of I.lt. Mock I au.l luallry. I'oullrr Jfnlr. i We are glad to see that some of our experiment stations are taking up the work of Investigating along the lines of poultry culture Wo do not know of any line In agricultural science that Is shrouded In greater mystery. Poultry diseases nro entirely beyond the rro,Im of books at tho present lime, though many books pretend to tell people how to treat them Their advice Is appa rently based nn limited observations j rather than exhaustive Investigation If one would be convinced on this point bo has but to read the luiestlgatlon carried on by thn goiernmcnt some yeara ago aa to the dlseaso known as i chicken cholera. Tho report In tbo on- , nual bulletin Issued by the department showed many things that are not generally gen-erally supposed to be facts connected with that disease. To Illustrate. It Is generally glren aa a reliable Indication Indica-tion of cholera that the fowl must die within a few hours, and that It the disease dis-ease causes the fowl to linger for some tlmo it may be taken aa granted that the disease Is not cholera, but merely Indigestion The government has I shown this to be entirely erroneous, the fowls remaining sick fur weeks and even sometimes recovering. Foreign nations nro taking up this work with some vigor, perhaps" more than are we What wo need Is a most thorough Investigation of tho disease, biologically and otherwise. Wo have many problems that can bo solved In no other way. Wc hnvo n dlseaso that wo call roup It Is quite widely believed believ-ed that there are really several different differ-ent diseases nil claused aa ronp, because be-cause they nro almllar to each other In some ot their symptoms An Investigation Investi-gation ot the gcrnii would tell us what wo really had to contend with and might point out a solution. It might be found also that some of them wtrs diseases common not only to fowls, but also to tho human family. Ws would thus be put on our guard agalnit them, Just as we havo been agalnit tuberculosis In ca'tlt. There Is another line that the stations sta-tions can follow with advantago and that la the breeding up ot fowls, or st least nn Investigation of fowls as lo their Individual tftricltles. It Is n loaf Job for any poultry raiser to attempt lo keep a hundred oi more fowls sept-rate sept-rate and record their egg production from day to diy for a yeir or two. Yet such work wnuld doubtless be a revslatlon when Ita end was reached. time anil Stnllrtne. Mr. 0. U (lahrllsen of Iowa rartb; ever gete a thing wrong about coirs. Ills letter on bagnTll ,1 Jmpohjia In 1 read anttoirvnfahhmtitdi.r l Ilevlew who keepa a cow lle'wants ' his cowa to go dry from two to three months between calves. So do I He I believes the onn who gives hit rows n root of from Co to 0 days will have equally good .relume for food and caro aa one who milks his cows to with-1 with-1 In a month ot parturition So do I. I Mr. Onbrllsen believes greed for a short rest between ealies as entailed disease upon the dairy cow and weakened weak-ened her calves. I do too He aays as calving time approaches the cow'o physical condition should be i lowly watched Hho should he proprily fed and well treated so she will do well at calving time. So say I He believe In oats, as I do, and he believes lissom or glander sella should be among tb medical store of every well rnulaled farm, Hut I don't. Honor bright! I havo never given an oume of either ' ttpsom or glauber salts, nronl's or salt-I salt-I poire to ono ot my rows, and ono rare-' rare-' ly over fulls lo "do well." I prefer nlco gruel, titrnlpa. etc., to cause a lax con-I con-I Ulllon of tho bowels." I have usked scores of dalrjmen In the last flvo ' years It they male n nra.n.o of giving giv-ing Kpsom salts, etc to ih Ir cows about calving time, am! to r i garget, etc Not one In ten make calculation calcula-tion of giving medicine M t with M cowa or more don't spend S& centa a year for medicine. And lli-r are the one whose cow don't have many afflictions. af-flictions. I was "brought ui to not take medlclao or give iu .1 li e, I got no "soothing syrup" v.ii..i I was a baby, Father said babies lo not ery I for soothing syrup Mitlr ale n i great many turnip and and broth when I was pretty little Th no medicine medi-cine policy worked well In papa's family. fam-ily. 01 fourteen children tle are living, tho youngest past fifty. The second that died had piauri Hirer-score and ten. Of course we wc i nro right. Mother weaned her babies in-fore they wero a year old nud then he had a year on an nveiage to recjperate b-fore b-fore the next one. The fourteen children chil-dren were twenty-Uc getting here. It wast Major. J(i .iva 1820: Anne J! , 1K8, U i Jtto, A. X 1852 M 1). and Saran (twin,), 1834. andy so It was conn; ltd to i10 end all born In a year that eluli bs divided by two and about esro year apart. Father did not shut mother In her room during the wliu-c for fear exrrclso and cold would siup hi ImMm growing but I have digressed. What cow want I to have heen born right, to be fed and eared for right, and when they beu.iu mother It won't talis any drugs to tide thftn safely throuth the ordeal of Wromfijg mammas. Ilro. Oabrllsen would a,,,, told you If he had thought j' the' time tho covr ' d i nuirj take a great tie. At mtrt. . Ktbfr rarely erer pt ft ? w v tlco allow! -v. iit ibw JfiSil I . Ws to v r lh spring eighty M!s every day in winter for water i on. n day. I ay I allow them to IX) It mast b n very cold or stormy y foe my eowq not to choose to ifo I ihe iprln In all ordinary weather r row giving milk will pass by n t full of nlci water In the bi-n yen! '! go back lo he airlns with Ihe dry generally allow them to ta tie tramp If they so .leelre, ntia It the) M Mini lew milk and eat more tiny I believe 1 am lhi gilner in other way. The mi thirty days after a cow ea'iea Ir tb time to fully adopt tha Hsrd Oould ' no exercise" theory, (rather looked .ml for mother about tarn), but after Hi it no need ot boxing up good strong .-OR, or Mr lcdltor, I nm sorry so wise a aiortnl n Mr. r U Oabrllsen' cannot ltt over tho M that eowa In, perfect ti'allh need that nauseating "Hpeom salt'" I wonder If he don't mix In nv ginger? Hood bye. I will write HU. . A. X lirATT. Wlntrr twin. During the rnmlng winter tho grain that will be ii.ed far poultry will amount to thousands of bushels, yet grain Is not an rssentlnl lo siicce aa tome other foods saya Cotman'a Hiiral World. Cut bone has given excellent urews In experiment, nnd It has been ili nionit rated thst when It Is used In connection with corn and grs It make the ration a very suitable one. Hirhielvely grain Is a detriment to laying lay-ing because it warms the body, pro-idles pro-idles a portion of the essential elements ele-ments neceMsry to egg production, but Is lacking In the substance that form the albumen, shell, etc. When the hen I deprived of n sufficiency of all the elements necessary lo produce eggs, she will lay only as many eggs as she can supply the albumen for. With plen-1 ly of corn she Is then provided with j sll the element for tho yolk and to warm her body, such elements being j known as "rarlmnerrous." how It Ihe carbonaceous elements are proportion- stely balanced by Ihe "nitrogenous" materials (rut bone, clover, etc.) the hen may lay nearly every day, and she will not liecome fat because the production of tho egga takes from her all over, nnd tint which she may need for the support ot her body, but If she Is fed llberall) with corn, and Is not given enough of the other foods, she will not lay ao frequently, hence the loss of carbon In the form ot egga will bo reduced and the excess of carbonaceous carbon-aceous matter la then atored up within the body as fat She may bo apparently apparent-ly not too fat, tfli nay lay fairly up lo the a crane, but If tho carbonaceous material Is not balanced with the proper proportion of nitrogenous material ma-terial ahe wl'l aoi'U btcomc too fat, and this may hafnen gradually, as alio may lay n autfiricnl number of eggs lo prevent pre-vent brcouiMg veo-y fat until aha has done fairly well, but sooner or later sbo will cease to lay, succumbing to a natural law of 'ipply and demand-not demand-not being able In pioduco something from nothing the corn being useful In protecting her from cold, and serving ns n valuable assistant In tha production produc-tion oi aabuUiKilua'noncUiit1ioUm,' and nitrogen, the farmer sustaining a' loss because he dons not fortify bis corn with nitrogenous foods. A flock ot poultry on any farm ran be mado tho source of a neat Income; but, even should tho farmer oaly raise enough for his own family, selling nerer an egg ror a feather, Ihuy will pay better than anything else requiring same outlay out-lay of tlras and money. Iroirn Milk Imtu.lry, "In Sweden and D-mark," so sayi Ilterle (France), "hu been created a new Industry that dwrve notice It consists In oollectlag at a central station sta-tion the milk from farms within a given radius, paslstiitxlng It at 75 degree de-gree C (1C7 degrev !'.), and then freezing It at the loinaeralure nf It) degrees de-grees (It degree I'.) Tho bloeka of frozen milk nre placed In stout wooden cask holding about doublo the volume of the blocks, and the extra spate Is filled with stsrlllxcd uillk, after which tho casks nre htrniettcally sealed. As they are perfectly full and kept cool by tho block of froieu milk, which melts very slowly, tlo shocks of transportation trans-portation aro poweilcs to churn the milk Into butter, and thus It may bo preserved at Isast twenty days, ao that tho Dane and Hwrd.ie aro now aendlng atuceesfully to their neighbors, and even to i:ngland.whols cargoes ot milk. Wo shall soon see, doubtlew. Norway vessels unloading cask of milk In our ports. Here Is Indicated n means ot utilising profitably o'lr I'reuoh milk, ot which there I nn utcesslve supply ut certain point and .1 lack at others, owing to (be expanse und distance ot transportation " Traualatnl for th Literary Digest. Hog for Slaughtering. Hogs to be slaughtered should not bo fed twenty hours before slaughtering. They will not bleed freely, rojyihoiitc! they bo-come bo-come heated by causing or any other cause It likewise ha. a tendency to check Ihe Haw ot blood. Nur ahould a hog bu scalded tinl fully expired, After the bog Is hung up and tho Intestines, In-testines, lungs. rt and all an removed re-moved and waehsd out, split the hog right through th center, leaving a small attachment near tho. tall and at the end of the snout, so s not to overbalance over-balance It, and a soon a the loaf lard Is cold ennijgh to b principally removed, remov-ed, take It I out. This will Insure the perfect cooing of the meat. This last precaution Ave learned from our large lumbering loneerns and packer In tb early day. Ivben ' - dressed hog We have t' "i " '"fi iifattlce. The ut. u. . ti m weutlal Its irct aollt..-. N.Krr al low t.. i l"r"' fWtd, or jMck It :u fro' k""-'itlu ; fur It U lure to spoil. Api' .ard stand drouth much !., . J many of our otnor Jams v 'i. anik'hls lo encouraging to the pple eiitfila I |