Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-09
Farm and Garden.

Give Your Poultry Leme.-Do noI eX-
pect your fowls to make egg-shells
without something to do it with, any
more than you would ask mechanic
to build house with no materials.
We have seen it gravely urged that as
wild birds do not eat oyster shells or
old mortar, therefore tame ones need
not. 1t is true that the egg-shells OF
wild species appear to be always OF
normal thickness, but it must be re-
membered that they only lay normal
number. 1t will never do to reason
too closely from nature, for none OF our
| domestic animals are in a state OF nature.
We advocate for hens bone-dust, burnt
bones, raw bones crushed, or pounded
oyster or clarI shells.
| Imning Co,os to Grass.-In turning
COWS to grass, the question often arises
whether it is better to keep them con-
fined to small Enclosure, until grass
becomes so large and plenty that they
can fill themselves readily and subsist
wholly upon it, or to give them the
range of the whole pasture, or large
share of it, and let them change gradu-
ally from hay to grass, as the latter
slowly comes forward. These questions
annually occur to every dairyman, and
are answered, sometimes one way and
sometimes the other. They are ques-
tons that ought to be carefully consid-
cred. Those who favor the practice of
keeping COWS yarded and entirely away
from grass till they can live upon it
wholly, urge that the appetite of the
COWS is so much affected by taste of
grass that they will so far lose their
relish for hay as not to eat enough to
keep up their flesh and strength, and
consequently are best off not to taste it
at all, till theve is enough for them to
subsist on wholly. This is one view of
the question. Those who prefer letting
their cows run over wide range and
nip the grass as soon as it starts, say
that it is better for them, OF any other
stock, to change from dry feed to green
gradually and that the season for dry
food always too long, is stretched to its
utmost, by prohibiting taste of grass
till it is plenty enough to live upon.
There is some force in this reasoning.
A sudden and radical change of food,
| either for man or beast, is always at
tended with i'll consequences. The
; condition of the stomach and bowels,
= and the quality of the digestive agents,
4 adapt themselves to the nature OF the
food. To break up at once long
q established order of things, deranges
. all the operations of the system and i'm
pairs their functions. In turning mllct
r cows suddenly to grass, they are usually
n made sick Tor several days. They be
9 come unnerved and weak, and theil
3 milk is often SO much affected as t
e work badly in the cheese-vat, for weel
b or more. A diarrhea sets in, and thu
v loss of flesh, by securing is often create
D than that occasioned by loss of appetit
a for hay. l have always found dair
!. COWS to do better, the season through
If to make the change from dry food t
/. green a gradual one. If there shout
! be any tendency to falling away fror
e scanty food, it is better to keep ther
If up by the use of little grain than
e make too sudden change.-Live Stoc
n journal.
e ,Scours or Constipation in Young Pigs
II To cure either the scours or constip;
II ton in the young, sucking pigs, tn
re proper way is to treat the SOW, for W
d have often noticed that food may b
q given the SOW without injuring he
nedltn lH tHe ledeIj Due Bull 4hJAe IL
le health of her offspring, the bad effect
IT of improper food being very readil
he communicated through the medium {
os the milk to the pigs. This is done b
he giving the same food to the sow thu
ne you would to cure the same disease
~ herself. Care, also, should be taken
OF feeding, not to make sudden chang
n, in diet, or feed heavily one day and d
90 the very opposite the next, for til
ne young porkers invariably show the ba
ID effects of such course.
~ As to the sly, the great essentials a,
3 that it be in protected situation; tn
~ - it have good ventilation and an abu
az dance OF sun for sun is as necessary 6
y, III element to the health of a pig as it
~ of a flower or tree. 1t should be col
n,,s fortably warm and dry, with ty
NC apartments, one for the sleeping roo
70 and the other for the eating room.
lu small opening should be left, throu.
y which the little ones can pass, and CT
~ have good run whenever they wis
ing for plenty of exercise conduces to The
,ts health, rapid growth and develc
~ ment.