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sheds; they were pestered with flies, but 
he observed that in one shed, the walls of 
which were a blue tint, the cows were not 
worried. He therefore added a blue 
colour to the lime with which he washed 
the walls of his buildings, and from that 
time the flies have deserted his buildings. 
The following formula is used by him for 
the wash:—To 20 gallons of water add 
10 lb. of slaked lime and 1 lb. of ultra- 
marine. The washing is done twice 
during the 
especially such a simple one, is well worth 
summer. Any remedy 
trying in districts where the flies in 
summer, in this State, are such a serious 
pest. 
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Preservation of Milk. 
There is uo subject of greater impor- 
tance to the whole community than the 
problem of how to provide a pure milk 
supply. Milk is an absolute necessary , 
andan extremely valuable food when 
pure, but when impure is a source of 
danger to all who consume it. The loss o¢ 
infant life owing to the children being fed 
on impure milk is appalling. This has 
been recognised for a very long time, and 
efforts have been made to reduce the 
mortality by the use of sterilised milk. 
These, however, have been far from satis- 
factory, many doctors asserting that 
_ sterilised milk produces rickets and other 
troubles. The use of preservatives, such 
as boric acid, is attended with a consider 
able amount of danger, and in many 
countries they are absolutely prohibited- 
JT learn from American exchanges that the 
probability o* the problem of supplying 
cities with pure inilk is ina fair way © 
being solved by the discovery by the New 
York experiments station of the value of 
carbon dioxide under pressure as a pre- 
server of milk. This gas is perfectly 
harmless to the human stomach, but it is 
gaid to be a complete preserver of milk 
for a period of about five months when 
added to it under a great pressure, At 
the station mentioned a pressure up to 
175 1b. to the square inch was used. The 
milk was then said to be carbonated. 
Discussing the subject, the ‘Michigan 
Farmer’ says:—‘Carbonic acid gas is 
deadly if it fills the lungs, because it takes 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. - 
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the place of oxygen that the lungs vould 
have. Water would do the same thing. 
Carbonic acid is not injurious in the 
stomach because the stomach does not 
have to have oxygen. It is probable that 
the carbon gas added to the milk under 
great pressure keeps the ferments in the 
milk from receiving some element they 
must have for development aud causes 
their destruction by depriving them of 
this. 
the disease germs, though this phase of 
It ought to have the same effect on 
the matter has not yet been worked out. 
We have been drinking sodaswater for a 
long time, and no one has ever thought it 
injurious. We will probably soon be 
drinking carbonated milk. The possi- 
bilities of this discovery being revolation- 
ary arevery good. There are some details 
of cost of application of the gas and the 
manufacture of receptacles that will 
stand the pressure, but that is a problem 
that concerns mechanics only.’ 
see eerac cee secreseee 
News and Notes. 
Overloading of the churn retards the 
coming of the butter, and adds to the 
labor. oy 
Good, rich cream, with a larce per- 
centage of butter-fat, will keep sweet the 
longest. 
The more uniform and comfortable the 
dairy cow’s snrroundings, the 
uniform will be her yield, 
more 
The poorest investment on the face of 
the earth is buying a poor cow for 
general purposes or dairy, 
you in debt. 
Very few club-headed, thick-necked, 
steer-horned cows are any good. Even 
with the cow the tail tells a tale; the 
heavy club tail seldom follows a good 
cow, while, on the other hand, a slim tail 
is one of the characteristics of a good 
one. 
The first week the calf may get six to 
eight pounds of its mother’s milk, but 
rich milk should be diluted with’ a little 
water, Always feed at a temperature of 
about 90 to 100 degrees. 
will cause scours. 
She will run 
A variation 
Never make the 
mistake of overfeeding. This is a very 
easy thing to do, and is the cause of many 
calves’ deaths. 
Gardener, 
January 1, 1909 
Kind usage pays a large dividend in 
handling milk cows as well as other 
stock. The cruel or quick tempered inan 
ought not to be on a stock farm. 
A party of travellers were looking at 
the Niagara Falls, and one of thein was 
heard repeating in melancholy 
‘What a waste ! What a waste !’ 
tones, 
‘I per- 
ceive, sir,’ said—another visitor, turning 
to him, ‘from your depression at this 
waste of water, that you are an electrica! 
engineer’ ‘No, I am not,’ was the 
response; 1 am a milkman.’ 
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