latrti ®ttsba:'flrn. 
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MILK PRODUCING FOOD. 
Carrots nail Corn for Cows in Milk. 
A correspondent asks Hu; following 
question;—“What is the value of carrots 
compared with corn, for cows that give milk 
to thirty-six hours in hot weather. At least 
such is the testimony of the Orange County 
Dairymen, who have long been engaged in 
furnishing milk for the New York market. 
Whether milk cun lie carried 225 miles to 
market and remain good, will depend, of 
course, upon the time occupied in the 
transit. If the milk is cooled on the Orange 
County plan, and put up in clean, sweet 
cans, and carried with due expedition, we 
and for those that do not?” The use of should say it will arrive in market in good 
roots us a snplementary food for cows yield¬ 
ing milk, gives better results than one would 
naturally suppose from an examination of 
analyses showing their nutritive equivalents. 
Thus when cows arc being fed upon hay, 
j order—at least no unfavorable result need 
he feared from the mere act of carrying the 
milk in the cars, especially if the milk cars 
arc arranged to keep ice. 
Great care should he taken to cleanse the 
roots operate beneficially, on account of cans and keep them perfectly sweet. They 
their succulence or approximation to the 
green grass of pastures. They, therefore, 
promote the better health of animals, and 
assist in 1 ho better assimilation of the other 
foods which are used in connection with the 
roots. 
Nearly all writers and experimenters agree 
in pronouncing the carrot of much utility, 
not only in its fattening qualities, but on ac¬ 
count of its properties of rendering other 
food fed in connection with it more avail¬ 
able. Many experiments haw been made 
to ascertain the economical va'ue of this 
root. Mr. Cor, man, in his second ”eport oh 
the Agriculture of Massachusetts, ; ves the 
experience of Mr. J. C. Ourrkn, wh ' says: 
“ The profits and advantages of carrots are, 
in my opinion, greater than any other crop. 
Tins admirable root has, upon repeated and 
very extensive trials for the last three years, 
been found to answer most perfectly as .a 
partial substitute for oats. W here ten pounds 
of oats were given per day, four pounds 
may he taken away and their place he sup¬ 
plied by five pounds of carrots. 
While we cannot indorse the statement 
that the profits and advantages of “carrots 
are greater than any other crop,” we can 
testify as to their value when given to milch 
cows in increasing the flow of milk, and of 
milk, too, of good quality. The analysis of 
carrots shows the following constituents by 
which its nutritive value theoretically may 
he compared with other kinds of food : 
Water . 87.5 
Albumen and casein. (U5 
Suirav. 5.4 
Fat. 1.2 
Gum. 1.0 
Woody liber.. . 3.3 
Mineral matter. 1.0 
100.0 I 
Prom this it will lie seen that the fat-form- 1 
iny, elements amounting to 6 0 in 100 parts 
ry much in excess of the flesh-forming 
elements, which are represented by 0.0. 
j i".. given me carrot, a higher pot 
coinage of nutritive elements, making the 
nil»ui»iin, .i.i.-, 1,5 and the carbohydrates 10.8, 
fat, Ac., 0.2. 
Indian con valuable for fattening pur* 
] - mt ., • a tHd for cows in milk, most. 
■ lirymen who have used it find it objection- 
Hide, inasmin twit is of too heating a na¬ 
ture .thenfii i causing more or less trouble 
wild Hi udder, and sometimes operating to 
dry of her milk. Dairymen of ex- 
periem:• therefore, prefer to feed corn meal 
mixed with some other grain, such as oats, 
bran Ol* the like—say one-third of the corn 
meal to two-thirds of the latter by weight. 
The analysis of corn is as follows : 
must he thoroughly scalded out with boiling 
hot water, and be sure that the water is 
boiling hot when applied. Well made cans, 
properly cared for, will last three or four 
years, and perhaps longer. The lime a can 
will last, depends of course upon its usage. 
Bad usage may bang it to pieces in a year. 
The milk cans on some roads get very hard 
usage. 
The question of whether milk sold by the 
quart will pay better than it would if made 
into butter and cheese, lias been recently 
discussed in the Rural New-Yorker, and 
to which our correspondent, is referred. 
IIiii Power for Churniiiir- 
Will you please inform me which is (lie best 
tins' power to be used for ohurninir? I have 
seen several advertised, and would like to know 
which is best.—J., Grand Maud. 
i'merk is a good dog or sheep power in 
use among the butter makers of Cortland 
county, which is easily operated and is very 
much liked ill that locality. It consists of 
a broad, flat wheel set upon an incline, 
upon which the dog walks to give it motion. 
This machine is not patented, and lias been 
figured in the lion at. New Worker, (Feb. 
5, 1870), though in the Cortland machine 
there is an improved gearing for driving the 
churns. The wheel or platform where the 
dog walks is constructed, however, on the 
same principle. We give illustration again, 
to show its general features: 
Water. 
Gluten. 
Sfcaroli. 
. 15.0 
. 11.0 
. 59,0 
Siijrar. 
1,0 
G uin. 
, 0 K 
Fat . 
. 0.7 
Filler.... 
. 5,0 
Mineral matter. 
. 2.0 
This Riven flesh formers in 1(10 parts. 
Fat formers. 
100.0 
.tl.0 
.. ,0<i.7 
From t hese tables and others 
we gel the 
following comparative equivalents: 
Carrots. 
Oora,... 
Pspcentigti Pvrtunhi(p.| Tutul Nutrttl f fl contr¬ 
ol ll.nl* of lilt fi)im-]lr.live per nlenU of )H, If'fl 
fonn.,r> In era In 11*0 |ri*nt, Ill 100 uf fciilwrinr Eng 
100 prniQ.lH ih.uii. 1 h I | mm bis | IMi liny 
0.0 0.8 7.2 go 
In feeding carrots, however, it may he re¬ 
marked that wc find their experimental val¬ 
ue, as compared with corn and hay, better 
than Unit given in the table. 
The high price of labor renders carrot¬ 
raising, on most of our Eastern soils, less re¬ 
munerative than that for some other kinds 
of roots. As a spring feed for cows giving 
milk they are valuable and may be grown 
with profit for this purpose. 
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DAIRY NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Mnrkeiiiur Milk. 
We are about 225 miles from New York city, 
on the old Western Vermont Kali road, now 
called the Harlem extension. CtTMMTNfJS & 
IUker offer and art* now taking milk at Hie fol- 
IowIbk prices 'i-Maroh, 4 cents a quart, wine 
Tin- Emery machine, constructed on ihe 
railway principle, is also a good dog power; 
for a description of which we must refer 
our correspondent to the advertising col 
umns of the Rurai. New-Yorker. 
ItovlznmnI Clieene Press. 
“One of your subscribers desires information 
as to a certain Patent Horizontal Cheese Press, 
from some practical cheese maker. Dealers 
have spoken very highly uf it as a great im- 
pmvtinienl, a* pressing the cbeeso on both sides 
with separate screws, the choose being suspend¬ 
ed between them, and net eoddenlng in lhc 
whey as in oilier presses.” 
The foregoing is from a correspondent: 
Wc get a great many letters asking informa¬ 
tion through the Rural New- Yorker in 
regard to certain patent rights. Some of 
these are quite ingeniously worded and are 
evidently designed for our editorial columns 
as free advertisements. Doubtless some of 
these inquiries arc from persons seeking in¬ 
formation in a legitimate way; hut as we 
cannot always discriminate between the two, 
and as wc cannot (ill up our limited space 
with matter that should properly appear in 
the advertising columns of the Rural, we 
desire to say to parties who are seeking in¬ 
formation in a proper way, that wc very 
cheerfully answer such communications by 
letter when a stamp is enclosed to prepay 
postage. 
In regard to the above inquiry concerning 
Patent Horizontal Press, (we omit the name 
of the patent), we may remark that we have 
no knowledge of the. practical working of 
the particular press referred to, though hor¬ 
izontal presses are now being introduced and 
are very much liked by those who have tried 
them. We can refer our correspondent to 
A. McAdam, Esq., Fort Plain, N. Y., Man¬ 
ager of the Smith Creek Factory, who had 
a horizontal press in use at one of his cheese 
factories last year. 
A llail Milk Room. 
Can any of the readers of the Rural New- 
Yorker tell me why ray dairy will not keep 
milk sweet? It is built of brick, eight feet 
if any one can tell me what alteration I can 
make to perfect it, they will bestow a favor.— 
J. B. McNeal, Easton, Md. 
It is often quite difficult to point out a 
a remedy for factory buildings simply from 
a brief description of their construction. 
Probably in the case mentioned by our cor¬ 
respondent the trouble comes from imperfect 
or defective ventilation. Possibly from want 
of drainage. In making milk rooms on the 
“ dry vault system,” and where the floor is 
made of cement upon the earth, there should 
be good drainage beneath the floor. In some 
soils there is a natural drainage where the 
surplus water is constantly passing off and 
in such cases the “ dry vault” or milk room 
is readily -constructed; but where water 
accumulates and remains immediately be¬ 
neath the floor of the milk room, the milk is 
apt to keep badly and the cream to mold. 
If there is good ventilation in the milk 
room and good drainage under the floor, we 
are at a loes to see why the cream should 
mold unless kept for an unreasonable length 
of time. In butter making the rule should 
be to get up the cream quickly and to churn 
lottltrtvlWb. 
THE PATHOLOGY OP E0WLS. 
I have been reading a series of remedies 
(or nostrums) for the various diseases of 
Chickens, published in some of our agricul¬ 
tural journals. It seems to me that the most 
of these remedies originate in the whim of 
old hen-wives or other persons on about the 
same scientific level. The poultry hooks 
and papers are filled with these nostrums 
and death-dealing prescriptions. I deem it 
a duty to try and put a stop to this fowl- 
qnackcry, as well as to come to the rescue 
of the poor animals that suffer and die under 
such treatment. If I should happen to level 
my bow at any one in particular, and the 
arrow pierces such in any tender spot, I am 
alone answerable for the wound. 
If you have effected cures by your reme¬ 
dies, prove it scientifically. Nature often 
deceives us, in spite of our conceit, and we 
often. Perhaps some of our dairy readers are led to believe ourselves the authors of 
mnflBUFG' Anil) - Mu V ■ Tun a 4> V ♦ lulu q. lUlIK Sm QGl f II IS 'Hllll OI iH'lCk, CljTht tOCt 
Aukuei?i• Wi'i.teni her* v /nm.’ sqmire, with two four inch walls all around, 
her 5 Do 5 - Yin* 5 . IViVnIri^ ', with foul inoh ®paoe between them; double 
8 enf in heave onus, hnidmu -ah nn..'.rs k- windows ami doors; built in the gran ml about 
Sent in heavy ouns, bolding 40 quarts each: cans 
cost $8.00. The company oiler to pay fieini* 
monthly, and furnish citns where required, hold¬ 
ing - back one-half due for milk at each payment 
until cans are paid for. and onshitur Hie other 
halt. Now who can tell whether milk can be 
sent, so far in hot, weather sweet? how much 
trouble to keep onus sweet, and how long they 
will last, etc.? They keep ice In milk cans In 
hot weather. We want to know whether, on 
the whole, it will nay better than butter and 
chea^e inakinR. — G. G. Burton, Manchester^ 
Milk, properly cooled as it comos from 
two and a half foci: hunt red clay -oil. It bus a 
floor six inches thick made of oemeiii «nd pieces 
of brick. D has also lour tubus on the Inside. 
Two extend to Min floor, with an oponlagnt the 
bottom ; and two are just long enough income 
through the plastering in the celling; all four run 
through the celling in the corners to within three 
inches tjf the upper floor; and all are open at the 
top and bottom. 
This hollow space between the walls is sealed 
over at ihe top, and also tight at the bottom. Jt 
i'b what might be termed a column of dead air, 
The building is banked upon the outside with 
a boo I two and ahalf to three feel of earth. The 
may be able to offer suggestions further than 
these named by us, which will reach the 
case; if so we shall he glad to print them in 
the Rural New-Yorker. 
liicrc>i»inu the Quantity of Butter. 
A correspondent writes us as follows:— 
“ I was among the farmers of Granby Cen¬ 
ter, Oswego Co., N. Y., a few days since; 
had some talk with them in regard to im¬ 
proving the quality of their butter. Among 
those whom I met was Mrs. Bristol, who 
stated that she had seen it recommended in 
the Rural New-Yorker that in butter mak¬ 
ing it was of advantage to strain the cream 
before churning. IS he h:ul been trying the 
plan since that time, or since last October, 
and had found it a decided improvement. 
It increased the quantity of butter, and by 
following out the suggestion in their own 
dairy she had been enabled to make enough 
more butter to pay for the year’s subscrip¬ 
tion to the Rural. This is from a lady t hat 
understands how her butter is made, and is 
ready to adopt a new plan if it is good com¬ 
mon Sense.” 
-4“*“*- 
Condi' iu*iii|{ Milk. — As we have repeatedly 
stated in these columns, so we state again, that 
at Elgin, III., thereisa milk condonsing factory 
under t he control of Gail Borden. 
arm (|rancrwm 
ECONOMICAL, NOTES, 
Cow Munnri* mul A*, lie* for Hniuiy Soil. 
An Alabama correspondent aslcs the best 
method of utilizing fresh cow manure and 
wood ashes as a fertilizer for a garden with 
sandy soil. Top-dress the garden with the 
ashes at once, or at any time when it is con¬ 
venient lo apply it. If the cow manure is 
not needed for the crop now growing, com¬ 
post it with muck, or leaves, or rotten wood, 
or all together, if obtainable. Add to the 
pile bones, ihe contents of privy vaults, 
chamber ley, taking care lb at there be 
enough of the absorbents named (pulverized 
charcoal is most excellent) to deodorize and 
take up the ammonia of these substances. 
Then apply Ibis compost early next season, 
incorporating it thoroughly with the sur¬ 
face soil. 
But if the manure is needed for the crops 
now growing, the quickest results may be 
obtained bv making a leach of the manure, „„ T i i , ,, . 
running water through it and watering the f , , 11 r y 
garden with the liquid manure resulting. '° A ", . , 
V> ,iii i ,7 After such experiments and successes as 
Preserve the leached manure and apply to , 1 
, will warrant any one m coming to a conclu- 
thc soil after the crops are off in the fall, cul- . „ 
....... ,, sion tuat he has found a remedy tor a certain 
tiyating it m thoroughly. , .. , . ,, •’ “ . 
- disease, and after he is able to explain its 
In there a Practical Potato Planter? symptoms and Causes, and the action of the 
Bo asks a correspondent—though rather medicine on tlie diseased organs, and give 
late in the season to have the answer prove good, scientific reasons for its use—then, and 
valuable. We have never seen a potato Rot till then, does its publication become 
planter that proved practical, hut we do not useful to the fraternity and the discoverer a 
know any good reason why such should reHl benefactor. Isaac Van Winkle, 
not be made. We remember having read of Greenville, N. J. 
one (True’s we believe) for which it was *** 
claimed that it cut the potatoes, marked its DOES IT PAY TO KEEP CHICKENS? 
row, dropped the seed about eighteen inches T , , ' 
apart and coven,1 and rolled ilk-all alone lT lf >'°“ k “ p ll f m wel '■ ■*“* “ 
operation and aa fast aa n Irorse could walk. ^ elleln ' ap °w° , ’ - UC 7 
., . , , , been our expcneuce. We have derived the 
Where this planter can be obtained we know , 
t greatest profit trout them when keeping only 
- six or eight liens. We fed them nothing , 
Apply!mu Plaster to Land. and got a good supply of eggs, while the 
C, A. Porter asks:—“ What is the best chickens were fat on what they could pick 
mode of applying plaster to land where you up, and were little trouble. But when wc 
want to get the benefit only for one year; increased them to forty or fifty, we had to 
and how much should he applied per acre.” feed them as we thought, largely, and got 
Three bushels per acre is enough for any hut few eggs, not enough to pay for the feed 
crop. If to he applied to corn or potatoes, alone, aside from the damage and trouble 
throw a tablespoonful on each hill after tlie they caused us. The trouble was, we did 
first hoeing. If to pastures, meadows or not feed them quite enough, 
spring grain, sow broadcast as early in Last year we raised thirty hens, (dung- 
spring ns you can do it, (iL is not loo late hills, see Rural New-Yorker, page 802,) 
now,) doing it, if you cun so manage it, just feeding them well from the start on meal, 
eight pounds apiece, and so fat and heavy 
they could not fly over a four foot fence. 
During December, we got 271 eggs; Janu¬ 
ary, 245 ; February, 848 ; March, 482 ; 
April, 370; which were worth, at the sel¬ 
ling rates here, something over $35. Be¬ 
sides, about twenty-five bushels of drop¬ 
pings on the hen house floor, made nearly 
odorless and fine, by working over with a 
few bushels of leaf mold, which, saved, is 
north every year the cost of the hen house, 
($8.50), for the garden and corn field. 
Yes, it pays to keep chickens well, and 
save the droppings. Give them all they 
want to eat and drink, with plenty of fresh 
meat, and hones powdered line, and for a 
dollar I will warrant them to either lay or 
set most of the time. Our chickens are 
healthy; have lost hut one by disease in 
two years. 
Du Quoiu, Ill., 1871. A. Davis. 
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POULTRY NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Err* Hi >i Commercial Commodity, 
In reviewing the Rural New-Yorker 
of March 4lh, I find an article entitled, 
the cure, wliYn it is due to her higher laws. “ Eggs as a commercial commodity.” This 
I ts medicatrie nature, the power of nature is a subject which l have frequently con- 
to overcome disease, is wonderful; and stu- sidered, but having no experience in the 
pid doctors laid better observe the maxim, matter whatever, I have been afraid to under- 
If you have found a cure for any disease, take it. The greatest objection to lake into 
give us a diagnosis of the disease you pro- consideration is that of cholera among the 
pose to treat causes and symptoms; the in- poultry—which is very common in this sec- 
grcdienls that enter into your prescriptions; tion. I reside within two ntilesof Nashville 
tlie component parts ; how they are intended and have a very fine place for raising or pro¬ 
to act upon the diseased organs, or patlio- ducing eggs, running water, &c., but do not 
logically upon the animal or fowl. know any points connected with same. Will 
I have seen published a cure for cholera, a you or some of the readers of the Rural 
disease by which many chickens are lost,— New-Yorker please give me someinforma- 
tliat sometimes infests and carries oil every lion on the following points ; 
bird the farmer or poulterer lias, and about 1st. How many liens would you put to the 
which we are all anxious to learn sometldug; acre of ground ? 
its symptom and its cure. Now wlial say 2d. What food do you consider best for 
the medical savans ? If the fowl shows signs them ? 
of cholera (not explaining the symptoms), 3d. What do you consider the cost of each 
shiil them all up together (think of that ye hen per day? 
Galen iteo), ex amine each. Now for the rente- 4th. Can the liens be made to lay all 
dy:—Take from the cud of tlie tongue of through the winter season, if so, by what 
eacli a dark, hard scale with a knife (skin it, treatment? 
I suppose, ns you would an eel)! and the 6th. Do yon know of any sure prevention 
whole number will he saved. Mirutnle dictu l to “ chicken cholera 7” 
Now, here is a parson who lias saved a 6th. Cannot Mr. Warren Lelanij he 
flock oi turkeys, and how many chickens no induced to give his experience on the above 
one knows; and for such contributions the points for the benefit of those interested.— 
columns of many papers are open. Will Amateur, Nashville , Tenn., 1871. 
the author of this wonderful remedy please - 
inform me what connection tlie scale on the Gov, Wim-’** Coiraln mid Chicken Cholera, 
chicken’s tongue has with the poor chicken’s Traveling along recently in a strange 
intestines? section, I overtook an old man with a sack 
Here is another cure for the chicken-pox; of meal ou his shoulder. Approaching him 
Turpentine and sweet nil! Did you ever nearer, lie threw down ids sack and said: 
hear of curing an eruptive disease —small- “Look here, stranger, I don't know you, hut 
pox, measles, &c. ? All such diseases, like my name is Wise— am a cousin of Gov. 
fevers, run their course in spite of the medi- Wise of Virginia, but no belter for that i 
cal faculty. You may use palliatives, and reckon; yet 1 have found a certain cure for 
you must watch what other organs they may chicken cholera, and as I want to do all the 
interfere with or obstruct in their normal good lean, I’ll toll you how to prevent auil 
action. I see no use nor any harm in sweet core tlie disease. Mix up corn meal with 
oil; hut pray toll me why use turpentine ? water, and to a gallon of mush add a gill of 
The Canadian Poultry Chronicle, a verv aool, well mixed, and fed to your fowls 
clever and sensible paper, has a whole page two or three times a week, as a preventive, 
devoted to various remedies for roup (which aQ d twice a day as a cure; and if your 
seems to be confounded with all sorts of dia- fowls are not too far gone to be able to eat, 
eases)—some very good, but others are so everyone will be cured. I have tried lids 
curiously amalgamated that 1 could not un- remedy for years, and never failed to cure, 
demand them, even with a phannacopaeia uf prevent the disease in those that did not 
under my nose. Now is it not time that have it. Now, stranger, 1 am u cousin of 
such nonsense should he suppressed ? Some Gov. Wise of Virginia, but 1 don’t thiuk I 
people are induced to use these remedies, am any better for that, and don’t charge you 
simply by seeing them in these papers. If anything for this information, only that you 
they are so anxious to publish these things, will tell all your neighbors and the rest of 
let them pass under the eyes of an expert mankind you may meet that this will cure 
first, and give us something that is really of chicken cholera, and i am a cousin of Gov. 
Hip enw -ami , , , croura becomes mouldy in a short time and is 
W, wul keep sweet liorn twenty-iOUl' spoilt. My idea was to keep milk without water; 
before a rain. _ 
Should n Go in post Ilenp be Sheltered. 
No—not if there are absorbents enough in 
it to lake up the water, and absorb the am¬ 
monia resulting from decomposition. 
milk, mashed potatoes, meat, bones, bran, 
wheat screenings, &c. They commenced 
laying at five months old, and we have got 
eggs everv day since then (October 15). At 
ten months the pullets weighed from six to 
Wise of Virginia.”— Woodman. 
The Ili'M Breed uf Fowl*. 
The question is frequently asked, Which 
is the best breed of fowls, all tilings consid¬ 
ered, for this climate ? After an experience 
of over thirty years with various breeds, in¬ 
cluding the common mixed breeds, (While 
Leghorn, Black Spanish and Light Brahma,) 
I give a most decided preference to the 
Light Brahma. They are hardy, and easily 
raised, mature early, and commence laying 
at six to seven months old—the best of lay¬ 
ers, and for winter layers superior to any 
other breed ; very fine for the table, and are 
always fat. Their quiet disposition makes 
them easy of confinement, a picket fence, 
four and a-lialf feet high, being sufficient to 
keep them. Besides, they usually, at matu¬ 
rity, weigli from ten to twelve pounds. I 
think they cousuine less feed, in proportion 
to their weight, than the common mixed 
breed, they are much more quiet, which, 
probably, is the cause,— Lockport. 
Chicken Coop* iu Peach Orchard. 
O. S, C., Mentor.—We see no good reason 
why you cannot place your chicken coops in 
the peach orchard, On the contrary, we 
think Ihechickaahould be placed iu a location 
that they can have shade in the heat of sum¬ 
mer days; the shade from the peach trees 
will prove beneficial, in this respect, to the 
brood. 
Gapes in Chicken*. 
Will you or some of your many corres¬ 
pondents tell me, through the Rural New- 
Yorker, how to cure gapes in chickens.— 
New Subscriber, Skaneateles, N. Y. 
