The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-15
FARM AND GARDEN.

as we'll as dogs, become quarrelsome if
fed on raw meat. Besides, cooking
makes it more nutritious. When raw,
it is rather harsh and crude, compared
with the mild natural diet of worms and
grubs, which are for the most part soft
and easily dissolved by digestion. Oc-
casionally, for variety, little meat may
be given raw. Fish, when plenty. is
more conveniently given boiled, because
in that state the fowls easily pick every
morsel from the bones, and no mincing
is required. Chambers scraps have the
advantage Of being already cooked, and
on that account, as well as many others,
they are excellent.-The Poultry World.
FATTENING FowLs.-No plan is so
extravagant or injurious as to throw
down heaps once or twice day. They
should have it scattered as far as posi-
Bile, that the birds may be longer and
healthier employed in finding it, and
may not accomplish in few minutes
that which should occupy them for
hours. For this reason every sort of
feeder or hopper is bad. 1t is the
nature of fowls to take grain at time,
and to pick grass and dirt with it,
which assist digestion; but if, contrary
to this, they are enabled to eat corn by
mouthfuls, their crops are soon over
filled, and they seek relief in excessive
draughts of water. Nothing is more
injurious than this; and the inactivity
that attends the discomfort caused by
it lays the foundation of many disor-
ders. While speaking of food, it may
be observed that when travelling, or any
other cause, fowl has tasted a long time
= say thirty or forty eight hours 1T
should not be allowed any hard food.
For the first three hours it should have
a small portion, say teacupful of sop
ped bread, very wet, so as to serve for
food and drink. If the bird appears
to suffer much from the journey, instead
Of bread and water give bread and ale.
-Michigan Farmer.
The GOLDEN Truth IN BREEDING.
-"An ill-bred thoroughbred is the
worst animal farmer can breed FROM"
These were the words of Mr.. Hall C.
Burleigh-the owner of one of the most
celebrated of thoroughbred Herefords
in the United States, and a gentleman
of superior judgment and large expert
ence in breeding and rearing cattle
at the recent Farmers Convention at
Winthrop. They are full of wisdom,
expressing the views now entertained
by the best breeders of the different
classes of thoroughbred stock in. the
country; and yet breeders and Others
have been long time in arriving at
and acknowledging this truth. An ILL
bred thoroughbred is described as
herd book animal devoid of desirable
points, and in consequence of the want
of these points or qualities regarded as
worthy of perpetuation, not fitted to
breed from. Such animals are as sure
to perpetuate their defects as are desir-
able ones to transmit their excellencies
and while the latter should be used
in breeding, the former should go to the
shambles We don't know whether
this practice has prevailed to any ex-
tent among our leading breeders of pure
bloods-probably it has not. But if it
is bad policy to breed from scrub ami
NAL of no character and no qualities, it
is certainly as bad if not worse to sell
for breeding purposes at high price, a
herd book animal known to possess
serious defects. Should there not be
wedding of our thoroughbred herds,
and'would not the future character of
these, as we'll as of our grade animals,
improve in consequence :-Maine Far
nler.
How TO FATTEN HoRsE.-To fat
ten horse that has fallen off in flesh
is sometimes a tedious business in
deed the work of months. The follow
ing suggestions to accomplish it, how
ever, though without paternity, looks to
us as wise and to the purpose: Many
good horses devour large quantities
of grain and hay and still continue
thin and poor; the food eaten is not
properly assimilated. If the usual food
has been unground grain and hay, moth
ing but change will cgect any desira-
BILE alteration in the appearance of the
animal. In case oatmeal can not be OBJ
tanned readily, mingle bushel of flax
seed with bushel of barley, one of
oats and another bushel of Indian corn
and let it be ground into fine meal.
This will be fair proportion for all his
food. Or the meal, Or the barley, oats
and corn, in eqnal quantities, may first
be procured and one-fourth part of oil
cake mingled with it, when the meal is
sprinkled on cut food. Feed two or
three quarts of the mixture two or three
times daily, mingled with a peck of
cut hay and straw. If the horse will
eat that greedily, let the quantity be
gradually increased until he will eat
four or six quarts at every feeding,
three times a day. So long as the an
imal will eat this allowance, the guam
tity may be increased little every day.
Avoid the practice of allowing a horse
to stand at rack well filled with hay.
In order to fatten horse that has run
down in flesh, the groom should be very
particular to feed the animal no more
than he will eat up clean and lick his
manger for more-Germantown Tele-
graph.
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