Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1910 — Horse Notes. [ARTICLE]

Horse Notes.

During the first days of plowing the collars should be raised often to cool the shoulders. Bathing the shoulders with plenty of cold water after the day’s work will help to harden them. Go slow the first days of plowing. It will make a gain in the end. A soft, fat horse will shrink during the first days of hard work, so look well to the fit of the collar. A collar ill fitting and a little too large may cause sweeny, and your valuable horse may be ruined. Always remove the harness at the noon hour and dry the collars. Clean the team after work and before bedtime. They will do a bigger day’s work on the morrow with less loss of condition. Don’t let the work team run down. It is money lost.—Farm Journal. , Cause of Stringy Milk. Stringy or sticky milk is due to an infection of the udder and is quite difficult to overcome. Keep the cow in the barn where it will be convenient to milk her often. Bathe the udder two or three times a day with water that is as warm as the cow can stand and milk the udder dry. In fact, she should be milked dry six or eight times a day in order to free the udder from the infection. Udder troubles are very difficult to treat, and probably the very best treatment is to rub the udder with hot water and keep all accumulations of infected milk removed often and completely.— Hugh G. Van Pelt in Kimball’s Dairy Farmer. Tonic For Sheep. A mixture of copperas, sulphur and salt makes a good tonic for sheep, one which many no doubt will need at this season of the year, says the Kansas Farmer. It tends to purify the blood and help the animal in its fight against worms and other troublesome parasites. About six parts of salt to one each of copperas or sulphur make the’ right proportion. If this is kept constantly before the sheep inside the barn, where the moisture cannot reach it, they will eat freely of it and will undoubtedly be greatly benefited by it. Old Way Not Profitable. It does not seem necessary at this late day to urge the necessity of a silo on the dairy farm, yet there are many farms without a silo, their owners preferring to go along in the old way, feeding their cows timothy hay and western grain feeds. It is not strange that dairying is unprofitable even at this time of high prices for both butter and cheese.