:tii[g &)usb;nulnr 
experiments] of otliers may show different 
results. 
Bearing upon this point, some German ex¬ 
periments have been made, in which it ap¬ 
pears that some food has a decided effect in 
doereasing tku butter of tho milk. In a 
communication to the Munster Agricultural 
Academy, and the subsequent investigation 
hy Dr. Koenig, the following facts are 
' brought out: 
Since January last,” he says, “we haro 
been giving to SO head of cattle weighing, on 
an average, some 800 lbs. each, a daily allow¬ 
ance ot about three centners of so-called 
sour food 7 along with their mid-day meal. 
It consisted of grass of tolerable quality, beet 
leaves, Swede turnip leaves and carrots, and 
was stored in a well-cured pit. As usual, for 
the first 34 hours, the cattle did not take 
kindly to it ; but afterwards they ate it with 
a certain degree of relish. After we had 
been giving it forsome little time, we noticed 
that our butter was losing its good flavor, 
and soon acquired a rancid taste; the milk 
also was deficient in fat, so that where we 
formerly used 14 litres for a pound of butter, 
now at least 17 or 18 wore required. After 
its discontinuance, we again got a pound of 
butter from 13.13 litres of milk on green 
feeding. It would bo interesting to know if, 
a,ml in what way, this so-called ‘sour food’ 
accounted for by the fact that the people live 
chiefly upon fish and vegetables, and their 
garments are either cotton or silk. In addi¬ 
tion to eats and dogs, the only domestic ani¬ 
mals possessed by the Japanese arc horses 
and homed cattle. The horses were origin¬ 
ally brought from the Corea, and are larger 
and stronger than those of Chinn ; they are 
docile but timid, and quite useless for caval¬ 
ry. They feed exclusively upon rice straw 
in place of grain ; their hoofs wear away so 
rapidly that the best horses are useless after 
their sixth year. In 1870 the whole number 
of horses in the empire amounted to 350 , 000 , 
and the number of oxen was reckoned at 
01)0,000 head The latter are indispensable to 
t he cultivation ol rice, and are also frequently 
used as pack oxen. Cows’ milk is shunned 
as “ white blood,” and the Japanese are con¬ 
sequently unacquainted with butter or 
cheese. Asses are. rare, and goats and pigs 
are only to he found in the seaports fre¬ 
quented by Europeans. 
EFFECT OF SOUR WHEY, &c., UPON THE 
CHEESE AND BUTTER PRODUCT. 
FEEDING DAIRY C0W3 
The following statement is credited to an 
experienced Herkimer Co., N. Y,, dairyman, 
1 Lvkius Lewis. We do not know where it 
was first published: 
During the seasons of 1846, 1847 and ISIS I 
instituted a Berios of experiments, which 
were conducted with all the care l was able 
to bestow, for the express purpose of testing 
tho value of the various kinds of grain as 
cattle feed in conneclion with pasturage. 
And in every instance 1 found that while my 
cows obtained sufficient good, fresh grass, 
feeding meal and shorts, either with or with¬ 
out whey, would not increase the quantity of 
milk or the quantity of butter or cheese. 
Bub as soon as the pasture supply failed to 
afford all the cows required, or as the grass 
became less succulent, as it usually does lo- 
A question of considerable importance 
has been raised among tho patrons of cheese 
factories as to whether the milk of cows at 
pasture, which are fed upon whey or other 
sour slops, will make as much butter and 
cheese as when the cows are fed only upon 
good grass i Cheese manufacturers of expe¬ 
rience are now pretty generally of the opin¬ 
ion that the milk of whey-fed cows is more 
liable to turn sour or take on putrid taints 
ALDERNEY AND JERSEY CATTLE. 
About a year and a half since the Messrs, 
®OWLER imported some Alderney and Jersey 
cattle. Those under the first denomination 
were chiefly dark gray or fawn-colored, and 
all had black noses and the points so insisted 
on by fancy breeders; while those called 
Jerseys had white nosea and were spotted, 
or marked more or less with several shades 
ot color, mostly light red. Tho price was 
highest tor tho first mentioned, but all sold 
well. 1 w itmussed this sale in Baltimore. 
I think the origin was the same, but. during 
later years a few breeders have made rules 
and have bred to certain standards. At any 
rate half a century ago all the Aldorneys I 
ever saw in England, which all came from 
the Island, were most like those called Jer¬ 
seys ; )>ut I have seen hundreds of cows 
brought, from Franco to Ipswich in England, 
some being in that market weekly, and their 
milk is the same as the Alderneys, and their 
genera I appearance much like t hem, only 
very hollow in tho back, and a plain, homely 
look from bad feeding. These French ani¬ 
mals, as heifers of two and three years old, 
would sell for $30 to $30 each ; the highest 
Price for the best, whe.n just about to have a 
calf, would not exceed £10, ($50).—Working 
Farmer. 
Those that feed whey claim that they' get 
more milk on account of such feeding, and 
believe it the most profitable way to dispose 
of the whey. Those who do not feed whey 
are of the impression that* given quantity 
of whey-fad milk will not make so much 
i lieese as milk produced from grass alone, 
and hence, that they are robbed of their just 
rights by those who feed whey. This not 
iinfrequently causes dissatisfaction and ill- 
feeling. A case of this kind came under our 
observation several years ago. A certain 
dairyman who had a large farm and herd, 
and who was an excellent cheese rnanuflie- 
tnrer, built a large factory upon his farm for 
the accommodation of himself and neighbors. 
He manufactured at a certain rate per pound, 
and was to have all the whey. At first hogs 
were kept to consume the whey ; but after 
a time, as the number of patrons increased, 
as there was often a surplus of whey, he 
arranged pipes for conducting it to his milk¬ 
ing stables and in boxes before in's cows. By 
and-by it was known among the patrons 
that the whey-fed herd was yielding more 
milk than any other herd in the neighbor¬ 
hood, and some complaint was made that 
the milk was of inferior qualify, and the 
manufacturer was requested not to use the 
whey in this manner. He paid no attention 
to it at first ; but as the talk and feeling in 
the neighborhood soon warmed up to fever 
heat, he found it necessary to convince his 
patrons they were in error, or else abandon 
the feeding. He therefore invited his patrons 
to meet at his premises on a certain day and 
see his cows milked, and after the milk should 
have been placed in a separate vat by itself, 
VERMONT CATTLE LAW. 
The last Vermont Legislature passed the 
following law “ Any person who shall suf¬ 
fer any cattle, horses, sheep, or swine to run 
at large in tho public highway, or yard be¬ 
longing to HJiy public building, except on his 
own premises, ahull, for every offense wil¬ 
fully or knowingly committed, forfeit and 
pay a line of not loss than three dollars nor 
more than ten dollars for each and every 
offense so committed, with full coat of prose¬ 
cution, to be recovered before any justice of 
the peace of the county, whether residing in 
said town or not, where such offense is com¬ 
mitted, on complaint of any grand-juror of 
the town in which suell offence is committed, 
oi the State’s attorney of the comity ; and it 
shall be the duty of town grand-jurors and 
State attorueyB to prosecute violations of 
this act.” 
POISONING BY WATER DROPWORT. 
Dn. Cha.iu.e8 A. Cameron, Professor of 
Hygiene, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, 
and Analyst of the city of Dublin, has sent to 
the Lancet the following case of cattle poison¬ 
ing. A herd of seventy-four oxen were at 
the end of last April turned into the demesne 
of Lord Dunravcn, Adore, County of Lim¬ 
erick. In a few days the animals began to 
sicken, and In about a week forty-three died. 
Mr. Keyes, V. 8., who saw Rome of them, 
stated that in most of the eases death took 
place very soon after the illness was observed. 
The animals foamed at the mouth, had dis¬ 
tended nostrils, shivered at the loins and hind 
extremities, the respiration was rapid and 
laborious, and they had tetanic spasms, the 
neck being curved laterally. Some of the 
annuals reeled iu a circle fur several minutes, 
and then fell and died instantaneously. As 
it was suspected that the animals had been 
poisoned, tho stomachs of some of them were 
Bent to Dr. Cameron for examination. He 
could not detect any of the ordinary poisons, 
but in the herbage found in the first stomach 
he observed numerous fragments of a plant 
wliieh he suspected was the Water Drop wort 
(CEncmthe crucutn). Dr. Cameron sent for 
Borne of the herbage of the demesne, and this 
was found to include a largo proportion of 
the Water Dropwort, ouo of the most viru¬ 
lent of British poisonous plants. There are 
on record a few oases of poisoning of man* 
and some of the lower animals by Water 
Dropwort. The symptoms noticed by Dr. 
Keyes aro similar to those observed by M. 
Bellamy, and described by him in the 
Rucuil tie Medecine Veter inawe, for 1856. 
THE JEWETT PANS 
^ Laura B. Boyce writes to the Vermont 
1* 'inner : ” We had a set of Jewett pans put 
in on trial tho 10th of June, and they are 
such an improvement on the old method that 
I am quite us enthusiastic over them as Mr. 
Douglas predicted. I can take care of the 
milk of our 34 cows as easily in these pans as 
i could the milk of five in the old way ; but 
taking care ol' the butter is quite another 
matter, as 1 churn seven times a week—just 
a day’s cream at a time. I find that the 
cream cornea much quicker than when I at¬ 
tempt to ch urn more at once. I can skim 
and wash one of our pans in 30 minutes— 
some claim they can do it in 30, but I cannot; 
there is no handling of the milk ; it is carried 
to its receptacle remote from the milk room, 
and the men can use it when they choose. It 
seems to me that there is the least possible 
work in taking care of the milk by the use of 
these pans, and the butter is as nice as 1 ever 
tasted. V e have made 10,1)00 pounds in June 
from the milk of 33 cows (we have now 34, 
but have been fatting calves, so that we only 
had the milk of 32). 
A V ermont paper says It is frequently 
objected to the use of Jerseys and their 
grades, that although they are valuable for 
the dairy, a common farmer cannot afford to 
grow stock which will not be useful for the 
butcher when its dairy days are over. This 
implies that the Jerseys do not fatten well, 
an opinion for which there is not the slightest 
foundation. A good Jersey, so long as she is 
milking, turns her fat into the pail to that 
degree that she looks like a rack of bones ; 
but when she ceases milking she does not 
lose her appetite, nor does she waste the fat- 
producing elements of her food. On the 
contrary, she stores them away in a rich, 
highly-colored, and well-flavored deposit, 
that makes much better beef than can be 
obtained from uny other cow of her age or 
size. 
< oncerned, and the whole proceeding was 
carried out in a strictly honest and straight¬ 
forward manner, extending even to the cur- 
mg of the two samples of cheese. And it 
'•vas found that the whey-fed milk not only 
made the most green cheese, but that the 
difference in weight wus maintained during 
the jjroceas of curing. 
ihis experiment silenced complaint in that 
neighborhood; and yet it does not prove 
that whey-fed milk will make any more 
cheese—or even so much—as grass-fed milk, 
the test should have beeu made with tho 
same cows and under favoral >lo circumstances 
as to a sufficient supply of grass. And it 
must be observed that in this experiment 
t le manufacturer's cows were a choice lot, 
vHijJe among them were several farrow cows 
'vhieh were giving an extra rich milk. All 
things being equal, whey-fed cows may, and 
probably will give more milk than when the 
NOTES FOR HERDSMEN 
io Make a Cow Millc Easy ,—Always let 
your cow, or cows, go dry in the down sign 
of tho moon, that is when the moon is taken 
off. A siue result follows. Try it.— Fran- 
sana Lour, Frederick Co., Md. 
Stock Poisoned tvith, Buckeye, L. D IIoit, 
Livingstou, Ala., says, may be relieved by 
feeding the affected animals freely with cot¬ 
ton eeod. It should be begun at once after 
poisoning and continued several days. 
Producing Sexes at Will—M. T. Rolovt 
Renville Co., Minn., writes tho Farmers 5 
union: “ I can give yon a rule which has 
proved almost unexceptional with me fur the 
last five years. This year my three calves 
were all heifers. Have the female served 
with the male as soon as possible after com¬ 
ing in heat for a female, and vice versa for a 
male. You will not miss your calculation 
Live stock in japan 
In place of iron shoes, the horses are shod 
with straw ones, which scarcely lust longer 
than a day, and are then throwu away to be 
replaced by fresh ones. Herds and flocks 
are not common in Japan. This is readily 
