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MBOEl'S liV'&A'ii MlW a ¥OE2IMB, 
EDITOR, 
IIm-.kimm-. County, M*.w York. 
INQUIRIES ANSWERED. 
Cow* Holding Up their Milk-Butler Cloa- 
ct, l&f. 
\Yn at nan I do with my cow ? She holds up a 
part of her milk at every milking, and is gradu¬ 
ally drying up; has good pasture all the time. I 
have fed her with corn, bran and salt, while 
milking, all to no purpose. • feed the calf. 
I am making a collar, and have been advised 
to dig a place in One corner, two or three feet 
deeper than the rest of the cellar, for a butter 
closet. Is It a good suggestion? If so, how 
should it be constructed ? Emlkn Lewis, Xenia, 
Nobtamka, 3fuy iWt lstyj. 
1. Cows fall otF in milk front various causes. 
Irregularity in Hut time of milking; perform¬ 
ing the operation in an imperfect manner; 
the lack of water in pastures; overdriving in 
bringing the animals from the pasture to the 
stable, &C;, «S:c. 
A cow will often withhold her milk when 
her calf has been taken away and is not al¬ 
lowed to stick, and especially will this he the 
case when the. calf, while being reared, is 
kept in a situation where tlm mother can 
keep up an acquaintance with it. Some ani¬ 
mals have much stronger attachment than 
others for their young, and will not “give 
down" all their milk to the milkmaid until 
they have entirely forgotten the call'. In 
such eases, if the calf happens to be placed 
where the cow can communicate with it, 
even though it he separated from her and 
not allowed to suck, still the knowledge that 
the calf is upon the. premises will often in¬ 
duce her to “ hold up her milk,” and we have 
known instances where this menial anxiety 
and maternal affection has very nearly caused 
the animal to “go dry.” 
If the calf is to he reared it should he taken 
from the eow at an early date, and placed 
where she can have no knowledge of its ex¬ 
istence. She will then soon forget it, and 
there will be no trouble on this account with 
her milk. Occasionally there are cows of a 
vicious or sulky disposition that get in the 
habit of holding up their milk for the slight¬ 
est dissatisfaction. Such cows are unprofit¬ 
able, and are only fit for the shambles. There 
is another class of cows that do remarkably 
well for a short time after “ coming in,” but 
soon begin to fail of tluir milk, Minting 
nearly dry by the middle of summer. 'Ibis 
is a constitutional defect for which there is 
no remedy. Some cows are of an extremely 
nervous, excitable temperament, and wil 
hold up their milk from harsh treatment 
and angry words, or anything that excites 
fear and disquietude. Gentleness, kind words 
and a system of petting the animals so as to 
gain their confidence and affection, with 
of the tongue into the pharynx, and from 
thenee pushed onwards until it readies the 
obstruction. Sufficient and well regulated 
pressure is now to he made until the ohstrue- 
should not he allowed to suck after the 
operation. 
When a simple blade is used ol the kind 
mentioned, there must necessarily he danger 
INSTRUMENT 
tion yields, when it is to he, driven by the 
instrument into the rumen. Care should 
always he taken to propel (hr. root into 
the. frd domurh, and we should never 
rely on the power of the esophagus to do 
this alter we have, succeeded in remov¬ 
ing it front its original situation. Want ol 
attention to this simple rule has often caused 
protracted suffering to the animal and not 
unfVeque.nlly death. The probangs in ordi¬ 
nary use are seldom of sufficient length, nor 
are the bulbs with which they are tipped ol 
a proper shape. The instrument, should not 
he less, for a moderate sized ox, than six 
feet and a half long, and the bulbs should 
be large and slightly cup-shaped.” 
A writer in the Country Gentleman says he 
lias used a piece of telegraph wire success¬ 
fully as a prohang for relieving choked cat¬ 
tle. lie describes its construction and use 
as follows;—“ Having lost, a hfiifer by chok¬ 
ing with a turnip, and having had one choked 
since for which 1 found relief, I send you 
my remedy. Gel eight lent of telegraph wire, 
double, in the middle and twist it together 
go as to leave a loop in it. Take the creature 
by the horns and run the loop end ot the 
wire down Us throat and pull it out, and the 
turnip will he pushed down or pulled up in 
the mouth and give instant relief,” 
A gag made after the plan given in the 
illustration will be found very convenient 
and useful in all operations of this kind for 
the relief of choked cattle. 
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RESTORING RANCID BUTTER. 
F. C. Seely of St. Paul, Minesota, in¬ 
quires in regard to a machine for forcing 
pure water through rancid butter so as to 
make it sweet. When at the Dairy Conven¬ 
tion at Elgin, we saw a machine on exhibi¬ 
tion for working butter by means of pressure. 
The butter to he worked was placed in a 
perforated metal hoop provided with a close 
fitting follower. By applying pressure, it 
was claimed the butter would he forced 
von Relieving Choked Cattle. 
of cutting the teat unless used with extreme 
caution and by an experienced operator. 
There is an instrument now manufactured 
for the special purpose of performing this 
operation. It consists of a small tube, en¬ 
closing four blades at right angles to each 
other. The tube or sheath is pushed up 
the orifice, of the teat until it reaches the 
knot, when the blades are pushed out ot the 
sheath and the knot split apart. In the 
bands of a skillful operator ills said to he 
very efficient, and yet we hear of the loss ol 
valuable animals, where the work has been 
improperly performed, or where I lie udder 
has been highly inflamed at the time of the 
operation. It is evident that considerable 
caution and experience are requisite in 
operating, and that “a bungler” may do 
more hurt than good. * 
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Tlie Country Cheese Market. There was 
size. Sew togther at the bottom from A to 
A, and suspend from the wall by cords fast¬ 
ened at each corner, as Shown by B B. A 
third piece may he added, if a partition sep¬ 
arating new papers from the old, or forinag- 
izinea, is desired. The front side may he 
irnamentrd to any extent. It may he pa- 
icred and bordered to correspond with the 
wall. Paper in solid color is prettier, how¬ 
ever, wit It a binding or border of contrasting 
color. The edge of the wall side should be 
similarly finished. 
The reign of rustic ornamentation still 
holds sway, and people in the country have 
every advantage for such ornamentation at 
a very trilling expense. The twigs ol spruce 
may be manufactured into a variety of pret¬ 
ty ami useful tilings. For instance, a picture 
(lame ; an easel for a mantel, or bracket, on 
which to exhibit an imframcd picture, a 
bracket, match or card receivers. 
plenty of good feed and water are tlie best, through Hie hoop and that completely freed 
things in our experience lor “ filling the milk f rom the buttermilk without injuring the 
pails.” 
II. A place for storing butter in the cel¬ 
lar should be entirely separated from the 
vegetable department, as any foul gases from 
the decay of vegetable mutter, or indeed 
grain of the butter. We presume this is the 
machine referred to, hut we know nothing of 
its merits or of the parties who manufac¬ 
ture it. 
It is said that rancid butter may lie re¬ 
odors from anything else slowed in the cel- stom i to an eatable condition by working it 
Jar, will lie apt to taint the hotter, or impart ovcr w it,h waiter in which has been added a 
to it more or less had flavor. We should anul || quantity of chloride of lime. The 
advise a portion ol the cellar partitioned oil process is described as follows:—-“To a 
pint of water add thirty drops (about half a 
teaspoonful,) of liquor of chloride of lime. 
Wash in this two and a half pounds of 
rancid butter. When every particle of tliu 
butter has come in contact with the water 
and arranged with good ventilation, to he 
used specially as a butter room. The drain¬ 
age should he perfect, and the floor made 
with water-lime cement. 
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RELIEVING CHOKED CATTLE. 
The accompanying engraving represents 
the instruments employed for relieving 
choked cattle, as recommended by Professor 
Simonim of the Royal Veterinary College, 
England, and which wore brought to our at¬ 
tention when in Europe in 1800. AVe have 
never seen the figures in any work on cat¬ 
tle, but they will he found suggestive in bad 
cases of choking where a probung is required 
to remove the obstruction 
In cases of choking, says Professor 8., the 
amount of danger may mostly he calculated 
by the abdominal distension, for death re 
good delivery of cheese at the Little Kails mar¬ 
ket for the week ending .time 12. Sati s were i 
trifle lower than for the week previous, but 
prices on the whole were pretty well sustained 
Farm dairies sold readily at 18 to 20c., and In 
some instances 21e. were reached. The delivery 
of farm dairies about the same nuinberof boxes 
as lust week. In factories more than 2,at 10 boxes 
were, sold, Including some of tho best brands in 
the State. Wo give ibc. following quotations: 
Avery & Ives, Sic.; Mohawk \ alley, 31e,; HeOn s, 
::o'..c.; Muitlieim, £%<;.; Turnpike A- .odution, 
gyc.; Hopson’s Cold Creek, SUk'o.: Countryman's 
21c.; Henderson Home, W'Ac.; Middles ilk.\2l'o',; 
North Katrllcld, die.; KmekeU’., Bridge, title.; 
Newvitle, die.; KutoiiVlllC, 20‘ c.; Top Notch, 
20‘,c.; Fairfield Associat ion, 2l)\.c,; A. Smith & 
Co., 20,\c.; Stei-kville, 21n.. Ladnrvlllo, :J0o.; Nor¬ 
way Association, «le.; Mother Creek, 2u.' : e.: <H 
HIMpmlc, Title-.; Hoke, file.; Old Fuirlietd, Til.; Shell s 
Ihtsli, 20\,t\; Davis, Till'd.-.; Chu.vlos, 20,'e.; 
Newport, ;II 1 |C.j Herkimer Co. t niou, iitf-.-o.; 
Danube Cold Spring, iibcc\; llrooknian's Cor¬ 
ners, 20>jO.; hook's, 30>io.; Springfield Centre, 
aotfe. 
The receipts of butter at Little Kails were 
light, with sales at 35to Tide. 
Wo have advices from abroad this week. Our 
Somersetshire correspondent says the stock ot 
old ctieu.se in ttint County Is all out of producers’ 
hands and scarce. New cheese is in great de¬ 
mand, and at high figures, liras; i.-- good, and a 
lair make is being turned oil from the Somerset 
dairies. 
Our London correspondent reports the mar¬ 
ket (hist week in Mil Via-- follows; IJugli helied- 
dar.SHto tills, the ca t.; Will hire double, Mi to 
78a.; Cheshire, 8t) to tills.; American extra lim 
old, none in market of any account ; new Ana r 
iean, 80 to Sts.; Dutch cheese- Edams, GO to 60s.; 
Honda*, 50 to 50s,; Derby shape, 5o to Ot.’s. per 
cwl. for now milk make. 
Our correspondent adds ft ml. cheese in London 
is exhausted. 
Tim prices we have named, if must be remem¬ 
bered, are quoted in English money, storting. 
Extra Normandy butter in London, 112 to 11 Os. 
the ewt.; Jersey, liXfe.; Irish, extra, 107a. per cwt. 
The Impression prevails with our English cor¬ 
respondents that dairy products this year are to 
rule high. 
of reel coral. Raisin stems arc dipped in 
moiled red wax and laid on the surface of 
the object to be ornamented. Well dried 
grape stems and vine tendrils would do 
equally as well, we should think, the tend¬ 
rils serving for a border. 
Rustic I’rcTimi-; Frame. 
The twigs are selected with a view to uni¬ 
formity, and with the hud end for the outer 
edge. They can he sewed together or fast¬ 
ened with hrmls or pins, and llic’i varnished. 
Easels may be made of various sizes, small 
enough for a carle de visile or large enough 
for an imperial sized print. 
Cohn kr Bracket. 
We remember seeing a very unique bracket 
in the house of a friend, and asked where 
She obtained it. “Oh !” said she, smilingly, 
“ Henry picked it up in the woods. You 
will see, upon observing it closely, that it is 
either a woody knot ora very hard growth 
of lichen or fungus.” On the top of it perched 
a lu ll in which were growing a hit. of ivy, 
hyacinth and sanguinaria. 
If the wood engravings in home prints 
equalled those ol the English periodicals, 
.some really elegant designs might bo ob¬ 
tained from them, A portrait bust of the 
English Queen, cut out by the outline and 
pasted on a black background of cloth and 
hung in an oval frame, had every appear¬ 
ance of a. bas-relief in marble, and was quite 
as beautiful. The dark lines were so highly 
touched as to appear only as natural shading. 
let it stand an hour or two; then wash the 
butter well in pure water. The butter, it is 
claimed, will he left without, any odor, and 
has the sweetness of fresh butter. ’ 
We give the above as we find it and can¬ 
not vouch for its correctness, never having 
tested it. 
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Rustic Easel. 
The easel is supported at the back by a 
piece fastened at tho hack and resting at the 
other end on the mantle, or on whatever it 
is placed. 
A bracket of twigs is an appropriate sup¬ 
port for a vase of trailing vines or graceful 
ivies. Brackets arc not only ornamental, 
hut useful in many ways. They may be 
made large enough and strong enough to set 
a lamp on with safety, which fastened to the 
wall at the head of one’s bed, or in ti hall, is 
many times of great convenience. For 
small uses, they may he cut from cigar 
boxes with great case, and made to lit the 
corner or side of a room. The following is a 
very plain design for a corner, as if looking 
up at it. 
CONDUCTED 15Y MAKY A. E. WAGER. 
OBSTRUCTIONS IN COWS’ TEATS. 
A whiter in the Country Gentleman gives 
a description of his method of removing the 
little hard knots which frequently are found 
in cows teats, obstructing the flow ot milk, 
i re uses a probe made of steel wire, (clock 
suits from the lungs being unable to expand pendulum size,) the blade portion one-eighth 
in consequence of the pressure of the ru- of an inch wide, fleam - pointed. Straps 
men against the diaphragm. are adjusted to the cow’s legs, and she is 
He says:—“In many cases, prior to un- thrown down upon a bed of hay or straw, 
choking the patient, the gaseous compounds The operator then proceeds by taking the 
which are disengaged from the iugesta and knot between the thumb and linger of the 
distend the rumen, must he given an exit to, left hand, letting the hold be above the knot 
bv puncturing the rumen, to prevent, sutlb- in the teat, and passing the. probe into the 
eatiuu.” The instruments for unchoking,as aperture in the end of the teal, up to the 
shown in the sketch, consist of a probang knot. The blade of tho probe is passed 
and a gag; the latter is to be placed in the through the knot, splitting it. each way from 
mouth, as shown. Two assistants are re- the edges of the blade. Care must be taken 
quired. One of these should he placed on not to cut through the teat, nor to pass the 
either side of the animal, holding the handle probe so as to touch the lower extremity of 
of the gag, which protrudes from the side of the udder, or “you will lose your case and 
the mouth, with one hand, and the opposite gut beaten by inflammation.’ 
HOME COMFORTS —II. 
Whatever tends to ornament and good 
order tends to comfort. LI, is a comfort to 
know where the newspaper is, and where 
you can find it at once. '1 lie number of 
newspapers that accumulate in a fort night 
in many houses tends to disorder and literary 
confusion, if there is no place for them. One 
simple in construction and material may be 
made as follows: 
horn with the other. They must also keep 
the head elevated so as to bring it as near as 
possible in a straight line with the neck. 
\Y<- give Prof. Simond’s instructions in ope¬ 
rating, as follows: 
“ The brobang being held as represented 
is to he passed through the opening in the 
gag, and carried carefully over the dorsum 
Lie says lie has performed twenty-five suc¬ 
cessful operations during Ilio last ten years 
without, perceptibly drawing blood, which 
proves satisfactorily to him that there is no 
necessity for inflammation by simply cul ling 
these knots. He advises Ihe operation to he 
performed within twenty-four hours after 
the cow has dropped her calf, and the calf 
Easel Nitrout. 
Cut from the cover and bottom of a paper 
box two forms of equal size, as shown hi il¬ 
lustration, or oval in shape, it preferred 
or eighteen inches in length and twelve or 
fourteen in width, gives a fair proportion for 
Rustic Bracket. 
To make one, cut patterns first of each 
piece, the hack, or side pieces, if for a cor¬ 
ner, the top, and the support of the top. 
Mark the pattern on the wood. Holes may 
he made easily with a heated wire, and curves 
and curls may be cut with a jack knife. 
Very pretty ones for the. corner may he made 
with a series of triangular shelves fitting in 
the corner side pieces. We think of one 
now, whittled out and fashioned with perfect 
artistic skill, the shelves being fitted in so as 
to he removed and the back pieces folded 
together by means of hinges, by a very 
clever young woman, who had never studied 
to he a “carpenter and joiner," but excelled 
as both. True, one can buy these things, 
made better than when home-made,hut nice 
ones are expensive, and then there is a com¬ 
fort in making such things one’s self. 
A somewhat new style of ornamentation 
for picture frames, easels, etc., is in imitation 
Cheap Yeast mill Vi-iimi fallen. An Illinois en¬ 
quirer risks for a recipe to make ycasl cakes. 
Hern it is, so good and ehonp that skeptics aro 
almost Justified in doubting its value till it is 
tried. Sill it quart of Hour and put it in a gallon 
crock. Pour on it enough boiling water to stir 
easily -the thicker the holler lor yeast rakes. 
Add half a pint of yeast. Mir well, never mind¬ 
ing the lumps, and in six to twelve hours tho 
mass is all good yeast, enough to leaven a Parrel 
of the same mixfuro if wanted. This is the host 
of yeast, and will keep about: a fortnight in 
the West in cool weather, and not more than 
half that time on tho seaboard, as we know by 
experience. 
To make you*!, cakes, sift a quantity of corn 
meal, and thicken the yeast, till if rolls out with 
a dough pin and is out into cakes. Dry in iho 
shade, us even a strong sun heat will injure It. 
Dry as speedily us possible. 
[know llmt these cakes will keep n year, and 
probably longer, if kept dry. No hops, potatoes, 
or anything similar aro essential to good yeast. 
As all these foreign substances aro iinneeew-siry 
for good broad, yes, the very best, it. follows that 
theyarcof no benefit, whatever, if not positively 
injurious, and consequently should not bo used, 
except to cheapen, or otherwise adulterate and 
sophisticate the stuff of life. Northwest. 
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Superfluous Bread. A good way to get rid of 
“that piece of bread loft from lust linking” is to 
soak It. in milk, (or water will do, if you buy 
milk.) add a little salt, popper, sage, butter and 
an egg; lay It. by the side of the meat or fowl 
you urn roasting, or in tho absence ol either, 
bake in a dish by itself about an hour, and I 
know you will say It. Is more satisfactory than 
having the broad “set round," and at lust go to 
the swill tub. I always look for Mint wood and 
admire Iho sensible things she says.—H attie, 
Onondaya Valley, N. Y. 
Wo think wo say just as “sensible things” us 
Mintwood, ami, as proof of it, half our corres¬ 
pondents address us as " Boar Sir 1” 
■-— — - 
Strawberry Shortcake, Beat one large table- 
spoonful of butter with two of loaf sugar, add 
one well beaten egg; rub I wo even teaspoon fills 
Of cream ol tarlur in three cupfuls of flour; 
dissolve one small tmspoonful of soda hi one 
cup of milk, which add lust. Mix and hake in a 
flat pan in a quick oven, When cold, split in 
two or three layers, pul. strawberries uml sugar 
between, with crust on top, over which dust 
sugar. - w - 
Dried Sweet Potatoes. Mrs. Rebecca Mkckby 
of Ohio tells the Ohio Farmer how she dries 
sweet potatoes: “ I boil the potatoes ans then 
slice them and place the slice-; on plates and dry 
iu the oven. When I use them 1 put them to 
soak tor three or four hours, and. then stow 
them slowly until salt enough for uso. Treated 
in this way 1 think them its palatable us when 
taken from the vine," 
Cleaning l iqminlot Khan s. 11 DlOSC who have 
tmpalnted floors consider It indispensable to 
their com fort to scour them with soap ami sand, 
would take a worn-out card (they can he pro¬ 
cured at Iho carding machines) and go over a 
small space at. a lime, rinsing thoroughly, they 
would find it much easer than scouring with 
sand, and the floor would keep clean longer, 
too.—c. F.. .r. 
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Cocoa Cake,—Haifa pound of butter, half 
pound of sugar, half pound Hour, six eggs, ono 
quarter cocoa* Rake hall an hour. 
Coeonnot Cookies. Two cups sugar, ono of 
butler or cream, two eggs, one grates! cocoa; 
mix thin and cut. Excellent. Maggie, Tru- 
niandturyli , N. V. 
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To Keep Lard. In answer to an inquiry “how 
to keep lard from molding in the summer," 
cook it. slowly and thoroughly. I am generally 
two days cooking it, and It keeps the year round. 
Keep it in a cool, dry, upper room, l.ard ought 
never to bo kept in a damp collar.—M rs. 8. L. 
Murdock. 
