DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How Successful Farmer* Operate ThU Department of the Farm—A Few Hints as to the Care of' lire Stock and PoSUif. 'll® ; NTIL every farmer haa a silo, it is in order to preach the silo, so we beg those who hare si ‘ los to bear with us if we seem to re peat self - evident truths. Remember what an awful lot o f preaching 11 — LitKes lu save cl icw sinners, and have patience; or do bet ter, help us spread the truth. 1. The silo stores away corn mors safely and more permanently than any other plan. Silage Is practically fire proof, and will keep in the silo indefi nitely. 2. Corn can be made into silage at less expense than it can be preserved in any other form. 3. The silo preserves absolutely all but the roots of the corn. 4. Silage can be made in the sun shine or in rain. Unlike hay, it is in dependent of the weather. 6. When corn is ready for the silo, there is but little farm work pressing. 6. Corn is worth more to the dairy as silage than in any other form. 7. At least one-third more corn per acre may be fed on silage than on dried corn, stalks or fodder. 8. Corn is fed more conveniently as silage than in any other form. 9. Silage is of most value when fed in combination with other food richer in protein. It is not a complete food, 10. Owing to its succulence and bulk iness, silage is the best known substi tute for green grass, and is therefore especially valuable as a winter food.— Jersey Bulletin. Keep the Best Breeders. The best birds should not be sold but be retained as breeders. This is the way that improvement in quality of the stock can be kept up. It is a great mistake to sell the flower of the flock and then be forced to take what is left for the breeding pens. It does not mat ter how tempting the offers may be, or how much money may be offered for the best of the flock, the fact of such an offer being made by another breeder is proof conclusively that the same fowl would be just as valuable to the owner for his breeding pens. Often the breeder is hard pressed for money. He takes a pair, trio, or breed ing pen to the show, and there some visitor or exhibitor with cash to spare is highly impressed with their excel lence and beauty, and determined to be the' possessor of such fine specimens, ■offers a very high price for them. The - owner feels the need of money, and thinks to himself that this is an un usual chance to make money which may not occur again in a lifetime; that these much admired birds are the direct pro geny of inferior ones; that the same skill in mating which has produced such fine birds can be exercised again in the same direction. This reasoning is. illogical, and the one who parts with the best specimens of his production on such reasoning is taking a back step, as he cannot feel assured that a superior progeny will be the natural result from inferior parents. Of course there is a strong temptation to part with the best of the flock when a big price is offered, or to gain a good customer. Many novices may yield to the tempting effer, and cherish the hope that the same breeders or their like may produce as good results again. But we caution one and all to banish such delusion and not part with the best breeders for love or money, if you aim at attaining high rank in fancy fowl breeding. Although cases have occurred when apparently inferior breeders have Induced specimens greatly their su perior, and cases will occur when a vast improvement will be manifest in each succeeding progeny, still the poli cy of selling the prime birds of the stock and keeping the inferior ones for breeders is unwise and cannot be too strongly deprecated. It is well to bear in mind the fact that by continuously mating the flower of the flock, or with equally as good or better specimens of other strains, we are tending to progression step by step. Finely bred animals of every kind can only be kept up to the mark of excel lence by unremitting selection and at tention. But if we use inferior birds for breeders, certainly we make no pro gress, and may lose ground already won.—Ohio Poultry Journal. Preventing Scours In Calves. I milk my cows for the butter that is in the milk, and I cannot afford to let the calves have it. I therefore feed skim-milk. The great trouble in feed . ing this way is scours, but I have learned that this difficulty can be en tirely prevented by the use of rennet extract, to be given with the skim-milk as we get it from the deep-setting We make a business of dairying, and the calves must take their chances with the skim-milk, and everyone knows the difficulty in feeding this bare skim milk. If we increase the quantity a lit tle or have it too cold the calf’s diges tion is upset and scours follow. I ac cidentally. stumbled onto the use of rennet extract in liquid form, which, can be bought at $1.50 per gallon, and is of such strength that one teaspoonful is enough for ten calves getting four quarts each of milk at a feed, to pre * vent any danger from scours. With this adjunct skim-milk can bo fed with as great safety as new milk, and now I -an put my calves on skim-milk in about five days. I feed the milk at a temperature of about 80 degrees at first, I but after two months I reduce it to 6$ ! or 70 degrees. The rennet extract never fails to prevent scours.—C. L. Gabriel* son. Thm Lastihn Fowl. History tells us that in February, 1S72, Major Croad, of England, re ceived his first importation of Lang shans from China. The following No vember he exhibited them at the Crystal Palace, and six years later the fowl was introduced into the United States by the late Mrs. R. W. Sargent, of Klttery, Maine. Both in this country and in England, the introduction of the breed brought forth a regular storm of opposition, no doubt on account of the boom it at once created. But to-day the Langshan is all the better for the warfare, and fears no rival. As chicks the Langshans are strong and vigorous, coming out black, the head and breast with different shades of canary, and the legs of a light color. When they assume their first feathers, they often retain a few white nest feathers, which, however, entirely dis appear with their moult in the fall. As pullets they are early layers, some having been known to lay at the age of five months, although laying at such an age is rather uncommon. For best results at winter egg production, they should be hatched in April or May. They do equally well in all parts of the United States, and can now be found in every state in the Union.— Mr. Boyer, in Farm Poultry. Andalusian*. The breed appears to have originated In the province of Andalusia, in Spain. It was once classed as a variety of the common Spanish fowls, but was later accepted' as a separate breed. The breed produces larger birds than the other varieties of Spanish fowls, and they are also said to be hardier. . The chicks feather rapidly and easily. This helps them to resist the storms and cold, and appears to aid them in coming to maturity. They produce eggs abundantly, and are also consid ered good table fowls. The comb and shape of the body resemble the other Spanish varieties. The plumage is a bluish gray, nearly blacit on the back, and glossy. The neck hackle is dark slate, often nearly black, the tail bluish gray: the beak and legs are of a dark blue tinge, nearly a slate color. Some times the plumage is penciled by dark er shades. • The fowls mature early, and the cocks are fighters. The hens do not seem inclined to sit as a general thing, being considered non-sitters. There are reports of the hens having produced as high as 225 eggs per year. The flesh is of a fine flavor, tender and juicy. The birds are plump-bodied and do not consume as much food ns some other breeds. Nlcht Cap* on Fowl'*. Some years ago an old lady living in Massachusetts cast about her for means to prevent the combs of her fowls from freezing. Her pens were dilapidated and she did not feel able to repair them. At last the idea struck her of making flannel night-caps for her birds, and this she proceeded to do. Every cold night after the fowls had gone to roost this good old lady would go out and carefully put on the night-caps. This got to be very tiresome before spring came, and the next winter the good dame concluded to repair the house in such a way as to obviate the necessity for making poultry night-caps. Germicide rower of Milk.—The sug gestion which waa made by Fokker, that freshly drawn milk was a germi cide, surprising as it may be at the time it was made, has b^en abundantly veri fied by more recent work. The experi ments of Freudenreich, as already pointed out, confirm the position ad vanced by Fokker, and in more recent years others have reached the same conclusion. Indeed, we have learned to recognize that animal secretions in general have more or less of a germi cide power, and it is no longer a sur prise to us to find this true of milk. The germicide property of freshly drawn milk has, however, been more recently investigated by F. Basenau, who is Inclined to question the matter, finding that for a certain pathogenic germ which he studied, milk has no germicide power. Any practical value to this germicide power does not as yet appear. It is known that fresh milk is a very poor medium for the growth of certain pathogenic bacteria; for in stance, the cholera germ is quite rapid ly destroyed in fresh milk. To what extent this germicide property destroys the cholera germ, however, we do not yet know. According to recent work it appears to be due rather to the multi plication of the lactic organisms. Dairy Products in New York.—Here are figures of consumption of dairy pro ducts In the.city of New Yofk; Butter, $18,155,658; cheese, $10,068,391; milk, condensed milk and cream, $16,249,254. 50. The total amount expended by New Yorkers on dairy products in a year is, therefore, $44,473,203.50. That is enough money to build 1,111 and a fraction miles of railroad at $40,000 a mile.whicli 13 a fair figure. In other words, New Yorkers eat enough dairy products in a year to build a railroad from there to Chicago. But it should be understood that it Is eastern New York, and not Manhattan Island that is meant, for the figures include the consumption of Brooklyn and adjacent places.—Ex. Potatoes or Corn for Stock.—Tests in feeding show that it requires about four and one-half times as much weight of potatoes os of cornmeal to secure equal results from hogs, and the pota toes must be cooked. Considering that the tops of potatoes cannot be used as food, while corn produces a large pro portion of fodder, corn is a better farm crop than potatoes, but in proportion to yield and value of the grains and tubers potatoes are the most profitable. It i3 fodder that gives corn such an advan tage over other crops.—Ex. A Gftnerona Child. A few days ago 1 ran in to see a woman friend of mine—one of those dear conventional women who take life seriously, and wouldn't do an unusual thing for half your kingdom. While we were talking my friend’s little daughter came into the room, bhe sidled shyly up to her mother. “Mamma,” she said, “may I go down to Mamie’s just a minute?" The day was cloudy and the mother demurred. The little girl insisted. “I have to go, mamma,” she said. “Why, dear?” asked her mother. The little girl hesitated a moment and then, to her ultra-particular moth er’s dismay she cheerfully explained: “Why,” she said, “I lent Mamie my chewing gum last night, and 1 want it myself now.”—Washington Post. A Grim Jett. Youth’s companion: Deathbed jokes are generally not authentic. Thu cel ebrated one attributed to Tom Hood, for instance—that he protested against blaming the undertaker who had blundered into coming before the great wit was dead, and said that the man had “only come to urn a lively Hood”—is known to be decidedly apocryphal. Nevertheless, a remark somewhat of the same sort, which is .attributed to Lord Chesterfield in his last illness, is undoubtedly authentic. Chesterfield was very ill, and his death was only a matter of a few weeks; but his physi cian advised that lie bo taken for an easy drive in his carriage, aud ho went out As the equipage * was proceeding slowly along it was met by a lady who remarked pleasantly to the great in valid: “Ah. my lord, I am glad to see you able to drive out” "I am not driving out, madam.” an swered Chesterfield; “I'am simply re hearsing my funerall” The Atlantic Monthly for November will contain among other features three short stories of exceptional quality: In Harvest Time, by A. M. 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