Title: Breeder and sportsman
Identifier: breedersportsma471905sanf (find matches)
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Horses
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : (s. n. )
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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13 vHu; SvccDirr itnO -t^ortsnttm LOctobek 21, )V( 5 CEMENT FLOORS FOR STABLES. A cement floor is made in the same way cement sidewalks are laid. A many farmers who have been writing the writer seem to think that in preparing to lay cement feeding or should dig below frost Ml with broken rock, gi S to make a Arm foundation upon which the floor should rest. This is o need labor. Simply level the ground, or it" you desire to have the surface of the floor level with the surrounding ground you should dig four or five .inches deep. Hoard's Dairyman gives the plan for preparing the cement as follows: Use any standard brand of cement, and to one part of cement add seven parts of gravel, made up of good. nd and pebbles up to two Indies in diameter. Spread the gravel on a platform to an oven depth of a few inches, and upon this spread the cement evenly with shovels. Then work the cement thoroughly into the gravel by turning the two together sev- eral times, until the whole is a uni- form color. To this mixture add enough water to make it easily handled and so it will quake under the tamper and the water flush to the surface when tamping is complete. Do not wet the mixture until ready to use it. and the suggestion is made to have it in place and tamped in one hour after wetting The mixture must be turned several times after the water is added to make it evenly wet. The concrete is put in place in sec- tions, five inches deep and six feet wide, crossways of the stable floor. Commencing at one end, place a board five inches high, six feet from the end. and fill the sections to the full depth as you go along. When one section is filled and thoroughly tamped until it quakes, move your board ahead six feet and fill in the fresh space. Sec- tions may be less than six feet wide, but should not be more. When the concrete is in place and is still green you are ready to put on the skim coat. This is made up of sand and cement in the proportion of two sand to one cement, mixed to a good, even mortar, spread on with plasterer's trowel to the depth of one inch and finish smooth like a cement sidewalk. Make no effort to give the concrete a smooth finish, for the cement coat gets a much better bond on a rough surface. A good way to roughen the surface for the skim coat is to walk around on your heels while the concrete is being tamped into place, but on no account disturb it after setting has begun, or you will spoil it by prevent- ing further setting. In putting on skim coat use a one inch strip and apply mortar as thick as the strip. After the skim coat is on and smoothed down it must be roughened to prevent stock from slipping. This is done as follows: To a piece of six inch planed board, one foot long, fasten with small fin- ishing nails triangular shaped strips as long as the width of the board, one- fourth of an inch deep, and one-fourth of an inch wide at the base, spacing them about two inches apart At one edge of the board the strips are beveled off at a good angle so they will not catch the cement when the corruga- tions are made. When the "corrugator" is made and drawn across the freshly-troweled sur- coat the strips will cut ditches one-fourth of an inch deep and one- fourth of an inch wide at the top. which will make a surface sufficiently rough to prevent the floor from being at all slippery. SUCCESSFUL WOOL SALE. The first wool sale held in the town of Wheatland was a complete success, and practically all the wool offered was disposed of at fair figures for fall clip, says the "Four Corners." The sale was conducted at the C. K. Dam warehouse, and to Mr. Dam's ef- forts is largely due the complete suc- cess of the first Wheatland wool sale. His experience heretofore stood him in f good stead and matters were so ar- ranged that it was a simple task for buyer and seller to reach an under- standing quickly. In this manner the sale was conducted without a hitch, ana and was satisfactory to all concerned. In all 350 bales were represented and we give below the transactions: Eight bales, C. K Dam, sold for 16 cents to Rosenberg. Fifteen and a half bales, D. P. Durst, sold for 17 y*. cents to Mary s ville Woolen Mills. One hundred and twenty-six bales, Price Blackford; bid rejected; after- ward sold private to Green. Three bales, Chas. Greitman, sold for 14% cents to Marysvllle Woolen Mills. Fifteen bales, Butler & Bergman, sold for 15% cents to Green. Thirteen bales, Wm. Carter, sold for 1G^2 cents to Rosenberg. Six bales, H. Jasper, sold for 15 cents to Findley. Nine bales, T. W. Peckham, bid re- jected; afterwards sold private to Green. Ten bales, Jeff Thomas, sold for 15 cents to Green. Seventeen bales, A. Robinson, sol<? for 16% cents to Rosenberg. One bale, E. E. Jasper, bucks, sold for 13% cents to Dickens & Kerns. Two bales. B. Church, sample of 27 bales bid rejected; afterward sold pri- vate. Two bales, Wm. Erwin, sample of 35 bales, bid rejected.' One bale. F. W. Anderson, sold for 16% cents to Marysville Woolen Mills. Seventeen bales, George Ahart, sold for 15 cents to Dickens & Kerns. Three bales. James Tucker, sold for 15% cents to Green. One bale, Frank Dixon, sold for 13 cents, Dickens & Kerns. One bale, M. Olsen. sold for 17% cents to Marysvllle Woolen Mills. One bale, George Oakley, sold for 15 cents to Green. Twenty-six bales, Dan Click, by sam pie, to Green. Warranted to Give Satisfaction. Gombautt's Caustic Balsam
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Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb, Splint Sweeny, Capped Hock, Strainea Tendons, Founder, Wind Puff*, and all lamenrst from Spavin, Ringbone and other bony tumor*. Caret all aVin diseases or ParuiCi, Thrunh, Djphthen". Removes all Bunchea from Hone* or Cattle. A* a Human Remedy for Rhrumatiim Sprains, Sore Throat, via. It Is invaluable. 01 Cmiitic Balsam sold I" â Wnrr-ntM 10 jrlvo iu-tl* faction. I . bq drutrirl'l*. or 11 The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0 A SHORT CUT IN BUTTER MAKING "While in Ontario last winter in at- tendance at the dairy conventions, Pro- fessor H. H. Dean announced a "short cut" in butter making- which prom- ised much in economy of time and la- bor, and indicated better results and finer flavor; but time was wanted to test out the market side of the new experiment. It was in brief, to take the sweet cream from the separator at about 3 per cent fat, cool it down to about 50 degrees immediately, put it into the churn, then add the starter. and churn at once. John Gould, in Ohio Farmer," says there is no diffi- culty in churning1 sweet cream, if it is about 3:,' per cent fat, and the tem- perature is down to about 52 degrees, and the granulation is about perfect. and its churning is quite- as exhaustive, as with very ripe cream. It has been market taste that lias pronounced against sweet cream butter. Now M eight months' market verdict has been given to the new plan, and it Is very pronounced in its favor, so much so that the Montreal market is premi n of % cent over mar- ket price for it. For six months the et cream butter were ly higher than Die ripened cream butter. In storage the sweet n butter lost 3.3 points, and the am butter 7 8 points. When the butter is taken from the churn, it has the sweet cream flavor, ours afterwards it has taken on the ij<i-â . delicate aroma that is de- t tlmi i ;s that it retains it mm â i condit ions sim- ilar to lit.-- ripened cream butter it '. and 9S points. It : the j -Id of . tter Is slightly more than th< (j may be due to slightly higher moisture content. It was also found that the high qual- ity of this butter was better main- tained at a high score by pasteur:zing the milk, which was as applicable to the ripened cream butter. In this there was a great gain. The labor and attention to holding vats of cream and maintaining temperature for 24 hours or longer and care of the tanks, were wholly dispensed with, and the lia- bility of the culture going wrong in the time does not enter. It was also no- ticed that butter made early in May was taken out of storage early in June with its score up one point, a thing never known in ripe cream but- ter; in fact the experts scored the lat- ter as having an indicated fishy fla- vor. This is a matter worth the atten- tion of the creamery owners on this side of the Canadian line, and if it is a fact, save the labor and the watch- ing of the cream vats at least. The particular thing in this new method is in knowing that the cultures are true and kept pure and ascertain to a cer- tainty the amount to use. Of course th:s new plan does not apply to cream- ery establishments that use gathered cream from a thousand or so patrons, for this cream is as a rule actively ripe when received and often "wants a neutralizer instead of a starter, a matter indicated by the mixed quali- ties of general market butter, even if Elgin is stenciled on the tub head.â Rural World. SHEEP KING OF THE WORLD. Ruler over a territory of 1200 square miles, with a frontage of 270 miles of windswept sea coast, G. L. Waldron, the sheep king of the world, now in this country from Patagonia to study the meat packing industry, has arrived in Los Angeles. Mr. "Waldron, in addition to supervis- ing his little kingdom, portions of which he does not see oftener than once In three years, also has two pack- ing houses, employing 500 men and having an annual capacity of 70,000 sheep, the size of each year's slaugh- ter. The great ranch is situated on the tapering point of the Southern Con- tinent, runs along the coast of Argen- tina to face the Atlantic, borders the Straits of Magellan and on the Pa- cific- includes a portion of Chile. In addition, most of the island of Tierra del Fuego, with 40,000 acres of the Falkland Islands, is under the con- trol of this man. He is manager and largest owner in the Patagonia Sheep Raising Co., upon whose preserves three-quarters of a million sheep feed, and whose output of wool is 1,500,000 pounds annually. In all the wide stretch of territory there is not a city, but seven stations mark the places where once in thre*1 months the herders congregate. During the Boer war this company supplied the English army with its fresh meats. At the present time the cold storage method of preserving meats has been done away with and the company is now putting up its mutton in tins, to be sold in all parts of the civilized world. Mr. Waldron is on a tour of the world, having already visited England, Africa, India and Japan. From Los Angeles he goes to the Grand Canyon and from there to Chi- cago to study the methods of the great packing houses. IMPROVING OLEO WITH COW HAIRS. Concerning the mixing of cow hairs In oleomargarine for the purpose of deluding customers, John St. John, an Omaha creameryman, is ready to swear that this unholy deception has been practiced before his very eyes. 'I have long regarded the old butter story as a joke," he said, "until I vis- ited an oleo factory recently. In some states manufacturers take particular pride in making the deception com-3 plete. There was a large amount of oleo, colored a rich yellow, ready toi make into prints. The man operating the print machine went to a bench and brought over a small box with a slid- ing cover.' When he began to make the prints, he opened the box and took from it and placed in every piece of butter before it was pressed into shape two or three white hairs. They were* fine and white, and I stepped over and looked at them. There was a whole box of the hairs, laid in as straight as if they were toothpicks. They resem- bled cow hair although I do not know whether even they were genuine or not They looked too white and long and straight, but the oleo maker was putting hair into his product to de- ceive the people and make them think it had been near a cow." " If possible, select your brood sows, when the pigs are five or six months old. Turtle's Elixir Well nich infallible cure for colic, curb, splint, spavin and other common horse ail- ments. Our long-time stand- ing offer of $100 Reward for failure, where we say it will cure, has never been claimed. All druggists sell it, Tattle's Family Elixir, the great household remedy. Tattle's American Worm Powder cures. American Condition Powders, White Star and Eool Ointment. 100 page book, "Veterinary Experience," free. Be your own horse doctor. Makes plain the symp- toms, gives treatment Send for ccpy. TUTTLE'S FlTYra CO., 52 Beverly St., Boston, Mass, Hack & Co., San Francisco and F "W. Braun, Loa Angeles, California Agents.

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