People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — DAIRY AND POULTRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DAIRY AND POULTRY.

!.''" r ERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. t’ow Successful Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm —A Few Hints as to the Care of Live Stock and I’oultry.

N exchange of the Farmers’ Review publishes the following: “Prof. McFadden, a prominent Scotch veterinarian, in the discussion following a paper read by him at the Newcastle Farmers’ club on the subject

of tuberculosis, stated his belief that 399 human beings out of every 1,000 that became affected by tuberculosis are infected from tuberculosis human beings. The hubbub raised about the danger resulting from tuberculosis milk is largely bosh. So long as the country is filled with consumptive people expectorating tubercle germs everywhere it seems hardly worth while to spend any great sums as money to prevent the possibility of spreading the disease through dairy products. The chance of besoming affected in this way is almost infinitesimal as compared with the liability resulting from constant association with tuberculous people. Calves, fed exclusively on milk, even In herds known to be seriously affected, rarely contract the disease until they are shut up in the stable with tuberculous animals. Nearly always, apparently, the disease is contracted through the lungs and not through the stomach." The Farmers’ Review regards the above as poor logic. In the first place, if it were true that the danger is small, there would yet be no reason why it

When stock is frozen in natural outdoor temperature the cases may be filled at once when the thermometer is below zero, but if above zero only one layer should be frozen at a time. Use no packing material whatever, and be sure to protect from wind while freezing. When solid frozen the stock should be put away and kept where it will not thaw out, preferably in cold storage. When the poultry is to be frozen artificially the cases may be filled full and placed at onqe in the freezer. In this case it is well to construct the cases so that a slat in the sides of the box may be removed and left off until the stock is solid frozen; the quicker the freezing the better. In the freezer the cases should be separated by slats to permit free circulation of air around them. Some packers get excellent results by freezing the poultry separately and packing after frozen. Some of the very finest frozen poultry is handled in this way at near-by points, and is not packed at all until ready for market, when it is packed In straw and shipped for immediate sale before warm weather. But for large lots, Bent from a distance, which have to be placed in storage again upon arrival in market, it is best to pack in cases before freezing. All-the-Year Creametles. On operating creameries a gentleman says: A man who runs a creamery for only five monthß in the year will find his patrons becoming thoroughly dissatisfied with the receipts from their cows. It cannot pay a man to feed- cowb for twelve months from which he obtains cream for only five months; and the man who runs a creamery can never afford to make a profit out of the losses of his patrons. Put that down as a solid fact. And the man who furnishes skill and helps to make the profit of his patrons larger, will get a larger share for himself. If a man, running a creamery will try and extend the manufacturing season tor a few months more he will find he will get so .little cream that the running expenses will run away with