Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1892 — LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY.

For Kicking Cows. The Germantown Telegraph gives the following directions for preventing cows from kicking: Tie your cows short up in the stall, then take a rope half an inch in diameter, tie it securely around the cow just back of the foreshoulders, insert an inch stick, which ought to be two feet long (an old buggy spoke does nicely,) under the rope!, give it a couple of turns, the short end catching so aS to draw the rope very tight, and then tuck the long end of the stick under the foreleg. If the cow still offers to kick, give the stick another circle turn. I have seen vicious kickers completely subdued in two minutes by the simple twist of the rope. The device is not patented, and is very effective, as the cow soon learns that every kick means an additional twist of the rope and stick. Of course the rope should be removed as soon as possible after the milking is over, as it is a very powerful persuader, . Dairy Notm, Good care of the dairy cows should commence with the calves. Ground oats mixed with t&e bran and corn meal will be sure to increase the flow of milk. Have yom oats? Try them. Do For the cows as you ’would have them do for you; your best for their best is a fair exchange to whieh no good cow will ever object. Live Stock Note*. “Thk most stidlM veterinary surgeon often cannot telTwhether a horse is sound or oot, ” writes Dr. Galen Wilson. A cheap poultry house Is as good as an expensive une if it is only warm and clean and keeps out drafts, and hens will lay just as well in it. The fanner who gets the craze for raisamg—-or trying .to raise—fast trotters, has (entered .upon a branch of inwiliiasttry iin which there are few prizes -and many'blanks. SuETLAnDiponies are becoming so popular for children’s riding and driving animals that five carloads were recently-shipped from the East westward ;to a single horse dealer. A'Chcap Dairy Cooler. ilt ;costs lot of money to put in a «oold storage or cold air system in a dairy or other building, and most farmers cannot afford the outlay. We therewith present the plan of a dairy house that is used by Henry Fr»dTidkß of Australia. The necessary (thing is an abundance of cool water, \whidh may be found on most farms.

'The principle of ‘cooling is that water is forced by gravity or otherwise, onto the roof of the building and the evaporation takes up the heat. In* the illustration, AA is a pipe which iruns up and connects with a horizontal pipe on the ridge and ©there parallel to it about half way down the roof. These, savs Farm and Home, are perforated with -small ’holes and the water is forced through them in small jets out on the roof. Jt runs down and is caught by the gutters and then used for irrigation iif necessary. The building is double roofed and virtually double walled ‘by lhaving a closed veranda all aromnd iit. It is a model dairy in every respect. jßyt.this construction and the means adapted to apply water, the building .can be cooled in a short time to any desired temperature, even in thetootiteat day in summer. The principle iis.a’.very simple one and could be applied, where water is plenty, to other mses, such as cooling one’s dwelling house, stables or a building for keeping meats, fruits and vegetables.