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Mr, W. S. Carpenter. — This action it seems to me is proper. The 

 corn of Mr, Olcott is as good perhaps as anv, but b}' giving it our 

 name it seems like a special indorsement which we do not wish to 

 give to the exclusion of others which are not inferior. 



Milk Racks. 

 Mr, E. V, W, Dox, Wilson, Magara county, IST, Y,, writes that he 

 has tried, with great satisfaction, an improved milk shelf which was 

 described some time since at one of the meetings of the Farmers' 

 Club, This shelf is made by taking four-inch scantling, setting them 

 upright, and nailing strips of lath to the sides to support the milk- 

 pans. He found this to make an excellent milk rack, but was 

 annoyed by the rats that climbed up to the milk. They were effectu- 

 ally circumvented by placing the foot of each scantling in a short 

 piece of stove pipe ; and now, when the dairy season is over, the 

 rack serves to hold his pumpkins and squashes high and dry away 

 from the damp floor, which would lead to their premature decay. 



Cleanliness in Stalls. 



The same writer also discusses the best way of keeping the flaaks 

 and udders of cows free of stable filth. He has succeeded in doing 

 this by raising the animal on a platform of three or four inches in 

 height, and fixmg a sloping plank just in front of its fore feet. By 

 thus forcing the animal to keep its hind legs on the edge of the plat- 

 form, a clean, dry bed is insured, and the udder does not require 

 washing. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman, — I notice that all good farmers are, like Mr. 

 Dox, always studying the well-being. of their farm stock. If a man 

 lacks the sagacity, to say nothing of the humanity, for attending to 

 the comfort of all his farm animals, he lacks the first requisite of a 

 successful farmer. Stable arrangements should have two ends in 

 "\new ; to save all the droppings, and so dispose of them as to keep 

 the animal entirely free from filth and discomfort. Careful dairymen 

 have a boy who goes along behind the animals with a hoe several 

 times a day raking back the droppings. Short elevated stands, such 

 as Mr. Dox describes, are good inventions, and where the length is 

 adapted to the size of the animal, remarkable cleanliness can be 

 secured. But it is as important to deodorize stable matter as to keep 

 the animals out of it. This is best done by throwing three or four 

 shovels of dry muck behind each animal, A concrete or tar and 

 pebble floor is the best for cows, but unsuited to horses. 



