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Another remedy is to wash and mb thoroughly with wat<>r as hot as yon 

 •an bear your hand. Then rub with a dry cloth. Then apply hog's Urd, or 

 hat is better, grate good yellow carrot fine and simmer it in the lard to an 

 ■innnent and apply and mb as above. 



Cows Winter TUenuielvea. — Many farmers are accustomed to dry ofl 



heir cows early, milking them only about eight months. We think it im- 



roves the milking qnaUties of the cows to milk them ten months, but they 



-iould be well fed. We have a neighbor, who, ten years ago, found himself 



- aort of hay in the fall, and lamented that he should have to pay out nearly 

 :A of the product of his cows through the summer to purchase hay at high 



rices to winter them. He had a moderate amount of straw, and we sug- 



- ested that the product of his cows from the first day of December, if well 

 ; i, would pay for all the com and meal, middlings, etc., necessary to 

 ^ inter his cow's in fine condition. He tried this, keeping account of pur- 

 chases of feed and sales of butter, and found that the butter came out ten 

 dollars ahead in the spring. 



CorastaUu for C«tUe. — A Maine farmer says: Farmers justly set a high 

 value on well cured com stalks, but some find a diffictilty in getting their 

 stock to eat them as cleanly as they wish. I have overcome this difficulty 

 this winter by sprinkling them with hot brine. I withheld dry salt from the 

 8to»>k a while, also husks, and made a brine by putting salt into a watering 

 pot and pouring on hot water; gave the husks a bountiful sprinkling and 

 fed them the last thing at night, instead of feeding them in the morning, as 

 formerly. I think if I had tried this plan years ago I shotild have saved a 

 great amount of fodder that was thrown out and trodden under foot. 



Foul Foot in a Co^r. — Cows and horses are subject to a disease of the 

 feet similar to scratches in horses. Diseased grantilations, similar in ap- 

 pearance to the heart of a catiliflower, break out and excrete a thin acrid 

 matter. The treatment should be, to dress the diseased part with caustics, 

 such as powdered sulphate of copper (blue vitriol) or sulphate of zinc 

 white vitriol), rubbed up smoothly, with clean, sweet lard, and give the 

 animal repeated doses of one otmce hyposulphite of soda, as an alterative. 

 The soda should be given every other day for a week or ten days. 



Kicking Conrs. — A writer says he once had a very valuable heifer 

 which was an exceedingly vicious kicker. To cure her of the habit, he put a 

 common garden hoe end in fi^nt of her off hind leg, and behind and above 

 the gambrel joint of the nigh hind leg. Then sitting down on the right to 

 luilk, he put the handle of the hoe well up under his arm and began milk- 

 ing. The heifer could not stir either hind leg, and after one week she cotild 

 be milked safely without fettering, and proved to be a valuable and gentle 

 animal. 



AVarm "Water for Cows. — ^Warm water is an excellent thing for cows 

 giving milk; it is as good as two or three quarts of meal a day; but if you 

 mix meal and shorts with it cows must be allowanced, as they will drink too 

 much — enough to diminish the flow of milk. The quantity wiil vary with 

 the character of feed and the cow. A little good judgment is a nice thing 

 here, as everywhere else. 



Roots for stock. — The value of roots for stock is not appreciated to the 

 extent that it should be. In the rotation of crops in England ttimipfl mxk 



