The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


yaruS. Heavy losses are always occur
ring from allowing horses, COWS, sheep,
pigs and fowls to run in one yard.
Horses in their play will kick or scare
cows, and COW near her time may lose
the calf in consequence cows will hook
sheep pigs will kill and eat lambs and
chickens ; and small stock are trodden
on by the heavier animals. In the ar
rangement of the yards for winter, this
should be thought of, and plenty of
room given each kind of stock by itself.
Colts should now be handled carefully,
and taught to lead by the halter. They
should be treated with the greatest kind
ness and gentleness, and little extra
feed be given, now that the pastures are
dry and hard. A pint of crushed oats,
or oats and rye bran daily, will be a
great help to them.
AS the pastures become poor, two
quarts of meal and bran per day should
be given to each milch COW. 1t is sup
posed to be "natural" that COWS should
shrink in their milk at this season. 1t is
"natural" that they should do this when
their food shrillzs, or when, by exposure
to cold rains or frosty nights, portion
of their food is taken from making milk
to keeping them warm, but in no other
sense. 1t is poor economy to starve
COW now, and throw away food in feeding
her up again in the spring. Old grass
has much less nutriment in it than young
fresh grass, aud the difference must be
made up by other food.
Pork is high, and must be high for
some time. But when the bulk of the
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keep it's present price. Those who turn
off their hogs quickly will probably
make the most money. At any rate,
they will make their pork cheaper. It is
the quickly fattening animal that pays,
and this is precisely where it pays to
raise pigs from pure bred boars, because
they grow and turn feed into pork
quickly.
Store pigs should be pushed ahead o
quickly as possible before cold weather.
One pound of food now is worth two in
January in making flesh, and the growth
next season will be in proportion to the
growth made now. Young pigs will be
brought on quickly by giving them a
mess of skim milk and cooked meal,
after having fed them with cooked mush
cold, without milk. This tempts them
to eat more food than they would other
wise do.
Fine wool is about forty four cents a
pound, which is lower than it has been
since 1857. Yet we would not kill off
Merino ewes. But we would, for one
season, shut up our Merino rams, and
buy or hire q Cotswold, and raise some
cross bred lambs. There are ups and
downs i'll all businesses, and the too
common disposition to discard staple
thing because it is temporarily out of
favor, is one of the great faults of our
farming. 1t is especially SO as regards
sheep keeping and wool growing.
Breeding ewes should be put to the
ram in October, for March lambs. If
lambs are not wanted SO early, the ram
should be kept apart another month.
Where focks run out the whole season,
as in parts of the West and South, it is
better for the lambs to come in April
and early in May. There are fewer
losses through cold and late storms.
The henhouse should have a thorough
cleansing and whitewashing, to get rid
of vermin, and the fowls should be well
fed, if plenty of eggs are wanted for the
holidays. 1t is too late to feed hens
just when eggs are looked for. Turkeys
and fowls for the Thanksgiving" mar
ket should be put in coops and fed with
soft food. Corn meal boiled in milk,
will produce very white and sweet flesh.
Poultry thus fed, may be made as fat as
possible in three weeks.
Everything about the granaries and
corn cribs should be made safe against
vermin. Several cats may be fed at the
cost of feeding one dog, and as they will
earn their feed far more profitably, il
will pay to encourage few cats about
the farm. Make holes where they cal
get i'll and out of the buildings and under
them, but foot or more above the
ground, that skunks may not take pos
session. Procure a safe lantern, and dc
not burn kerosene in the barn anC
stables. A candle lantern is the safest
Provide hooks upon which to hang the
lantern in safe places. Gut and grint
all the FODDER and feed when it can bt
made to pay. Give salt to the stool
regularly but sparingly. Half an ounc,
day is a safe allowance for large ami
mails. See to the water supply, and dc
not let the wash from the roofs food th,
about what you see. The result of thi
is what is called experience, and tn,
more man has, the more profitable Iii
labor ought to be.-Agric,At,wist.
y lIeuI Feeding.
Says a correspondent of the New Yorl
Times! Since 1870 have tried feedin!
with two quarts of cotton seed at feed
with two quarts of meal per day; that is
each day tour quarts seed and two quart
meal will keep COW fat if she is alread
so when the winter sets in. The winte
OF 1884 was very severe one here, an,
hay was very scarce. had fine milcl
COW whose calf had killed. kept he
up and fed her two quarts of meal twic
day, and about one gallon Of cottol
seed, all worth then say twelve cents
She gave from one and a half to two ant
a half gallons of milk through the Who'll
winter, and came out in the spring a
fat as beef. All who who try your sys
tenn with five pounds of hay with it,
the COW is in milk, will be pleased wit
it. 1t is fixed fact no hay is needed
the COW is dry. 1 write this to you S
that all may know that your system ha
been tried by others as we'll as yourself
and will succeed. also tried it on m
sheep, but l found that bran and cotto
seed and meal mixed were better tina
meal alone. My wife also said that on
COW would give more milk and les
cream when she gave her two quart
bran and two of meal, or two quarts {
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